Drab
habitation
of whom?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I'm wife; I've
finished
that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He passed them by with hurried tread
Silently, nor raised his head,
He who looked up
Drinking
all beauty from his birth
Out of the heaven and the earth
As from a cup.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Flying
through the depth of air on winged oarage, the fleet
messenger
alights
on the Libyan coasts.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It must have been conceived and coddled first
By some old shopkeeper in Nuremberg,
His slippers warm, his children amply nursed,
Who, with his lighted meerschaum in his hand,
His
nightcap
on his head, one summer night
Sat drowsing at his door.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I Tiresias, old man with
wrinkled
dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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then in his grave lie down,
Be his in death, desert him
nevermore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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How my heart beats in
coupling
those two words!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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, were with us (as similar
creatures
have been with others) the
symbols, or media, through which we offered worship to the Creator too
august to be more directly approached.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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Your cause in my heart struck spurs;
I swept such
warnings
aside for you:
My very child's eyes, and Hers,
Grew like my brother's who died for you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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21 Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad1 In years of your prime Your Excellency has met with perilous times, running the state depends indeed on the
qualities
of a hero.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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No Saint's, I swear; and--let me see
Tonight what names your
programme
fill--
We drift asunder merrily,
As drifts the mist on Jakko Hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And listened to the silent
secrecy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In plains that room for shadows make
Of
skirting
hills to lie,
Bound in by streams which give and take
Their colors from the sky;
Or on the mountain-crest sublime,
Or down the oaken glade,
O what have I to do with time?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The hope that
hitherto
I have denied
Imperious comes to me as from your side
Serious, unfaltering and swift and strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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2:
_homoque_
RVenAC
Laurentiani: _homo_ GO: _homo sed_ D Bod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The
carriage
held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not protected by
copyright
in
the U.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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They would be
reprehended
while they are looked on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The first word that he
uttered was, "Where is the
govenour
of this gang?
| 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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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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GABRIEL:
Und schnell und unbegreiflich schnelle
Dreht sich umher der Erde Pracht;
Es
wechselt
Paradieseshelle
Mit tiefer, schauervoller Nacht.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Pope says himself that it had its effect in the two
families;
certainly
nothing more is heard of the feud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
It
is curious, that, as gunpowder made armour useless on shore, so armour
is having its revenge by baffling its old enemy at sea; and that, while
gunpowder robbed land warfare of nearly all its picturesqueness to give
even greater
stateliness
and sublimity to a sea-fight, armour bids fair
to degrade the latter into a squabble between two iron-shelled turtles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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For-thy
ensample
taketh of this man,
Ye wyse, proude, and worthy folkes alle,
To scornen Love, which that so sone can
The freedom of your hertes to him thralle; 235
For ever it was, and ever it shal bifalle,
That Love is he that alle thing may binde;
For may no man for-do the lawe of kinde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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" His wonted phrase
And voice did then
discover
what he was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Thus Boileau, in the guise of invective,
eulogizes
Louis XIV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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RAPHAEL:
Die Sonne tont, nach alter Weise,
In Bruderspharen Wettgesang,
Und ihre
vorgeschriebne
Reise
Vollendet sie mit Donnergang.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If the critic can write himself, he hates the
author as a rival; if he cannot, he entertains against him the deep
grudge an incapable man so often
cherishes
toward an effective worker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Full fifty more from Athens stem the main,
Led by
Menestheus
through the liquid plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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CHORUS
Nay, tell not that unto our loathed lord,
But speed to him, put on the mien of joy,
Say, _Come along, fear nought, the news is good:_
A bearer can tell
straight
a twisted tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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throw, throw
Yourselves
into _that main, in the full_ flow
Of _the_ white pride, and drown
The _stars_ with you in floods of down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"[222] What you
think a defect, I esteem as a
positive
beauty; so you see how doctors
differ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Carnehan
is sober, and so am I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Broad is his breast, his shoulders larger spread,
Though great Atrides
overtops
his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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in meiner Brust,
Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;
Die eine halt, in derber Liebeslust,
Sich an die Welt mit
klammernden
Organen;
Die andre hebt gewaltsam sich vom Dust
Zu den Gefilden hoher Ahnen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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King of this happy land, Troezen's his destiny:
And he knows that the law will grant to your son
Those proud
ramparts
of Minerva's creation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
3
Americanos!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And, though I have grown serene
And strong since then, I think that God has willed
A still
renewable
fear .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And on these barren rocks, with juniper,
And heath, and thistle, thinly
sprinkled
o'er.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And
princely
giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected largesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Famine can smile
On him who brings it food, and pass, with guile
Of thankful falsehood, like a
courtier
gray, _4005
The house-dog of the throne; but many a mile
Comes Plague, a winged wolf, who loathes alway
The garbage and the scum that strangers make her prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Have the Gods to four
increased
us
Who were only three?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Satin
housings
shall be thine,
Shoes of gold, O Kyrat mine,
O thou soul of Kurroglou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
America,
superiorities
of, 220-224.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
It
is like the
Saturnian
Reign, which Virgil sings in the Eclogue "Pollio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Dionysus becomes a convert to the superior merits of the old school of
tragedy, and
contemptuously
dismisses Euripides, to take Aeschylus back
with him to the upper world instead, leaving Sophocles meantime in
occupation of the coveted throne of tragedy in the nether regions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Here the children straying
westward
so long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Quick visions of celestial grace,--
Hither they waft, from earth's broad space,
Kind
thoughts
for all humanity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The
broadest
land that grows
Is not so ample as the breast
These emerald seams enclose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
What marvel, when at those sweet airs
The hundred-headed beast spell-bound
Each black ear droops, and Furies' hairs
Uncoil their
serpents
at the sound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
But Dido,
fluttered and fierce in her awful purpose, with bloodshot restless gaze,
and spots on her
quivering
cheeks burning through the pallor of imminent
death, bursts into the inner courts of the house, and mounts in madness
the high funeral pyre, and unsheathes the sword of Dardania, a gift
asked for no use like this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
for we are
betrayed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Be
niggards
of advice on no pretence;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
& not
As Garments woven subservient to her hands but having a will
Of its own
perverse
& wayward Enion lovd & wept*
{written vertically up the right margin LFS}
Nine days she labourd at her work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Happy art thou, Vashti, to have wedded
One who so dearly rates
possession
of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day,
I watch'd the Potter
thumping
his wet Clay:
And with its all obliterated Tongue
It murmur'd--"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Down plumbed the shuttled ledger, and the quill
On the
quicksilver
water lay dead still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
On that low
thatched
cottage stop,
In the sooty chimney pop,
Where thy wife and family
Every evening wait for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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 MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Through the
divinity of
themselves
shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be
interpreters of men and women and of all events and things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
e Lyouns;
forswelewed
hem vchone;
And so oure lorde euer among; take?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
MENALCAS
You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
I shall be with you; only let us have
For auditor- or see, to serve our turn,
Yonder
Palaemon
comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
See the poor
remnants
of this slighted hair!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
How
magnificently
God
supported him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
160
And nowe Duke Willyam mareschalled his band,
And
stretchd
his armie owte a goodlie rowe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Uncertain
of my state, I weep and sing,
I hope and tremble, and with rhymes and sighs
I ease my load, while Love his utmost tries
How worse my sore afflicted heart to sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Possibly
the passage refers to Teresa Blount whom Pope
suspected
of having
circulated slanderous reports concerning his relations with her sister.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Not on his lofty brow, nor in his looks
May one peruse his secret thoughts; always
The same aspect; lowly at once, and lofty--
Like some state Minister grown grey in office,
Calmly alike he contemplates the just
And guilty, with
indifference
he hears
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
If
Maclagan
had know that much
about his business he might have done better.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
He, by my
submission
moved,
Deliver'd me, and to his chariot-seat
Raising, convey'd me weeping to his home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Till the
watchman
on the tower
Cries loudly: Lovers, now arise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
But as Mark hath tarnished the great name of king,
As Mark would sully the low state of churl:
And, seeing he hath sent us cloth of gold,
Return, and meet, and hold him from our eyes,
Lest we should lap him up in cloth of lead,
Silenced for ever--craven--a man of plots,
Craft,
poisonous
counsels, wayside ambushings--
No fault of thine: let Kay the seneschal
Look to thy wants, and send thee satisfied--
Accursed, who strikes nor lets the hand be seen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
In Li Po it results only in endless
restatement
of
obvious facts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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Defeat
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a
thousand
triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
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The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications
of the Babylonian Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--fears it, perhaps, to stay,
Pent in a
crumbled
body?
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Lucretius |
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Bean fields in blossom almost reached the wall;
A garden with its
hawthorn
hedge was all
The space between.
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John Clare |
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Keats |
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To gloomy care my
thoughts
alone are free;
Ill the gay sorts with troubled hearts agree;
Sad from my natal hour my days have ran,
A much-afflicted, much-enduring man!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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TRIBOULET
(_lifting the sack on the parapet, to push
it over_): Go down!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dead calm
succeeded
to the fuss,
As when the loaded omnibus
Has reached the railway terminus:
When, for the tumult of the street,
Is heard the engine's stifled beat,
The velvet tread of porters' feet.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Cog, a wooden
drinking
vessel, a porridge dish, a corn measure for
horses.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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