Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats - Lamia |
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deinde animi
ingratam
naturam pascere semper
atque explere bonis rebus satiareque numquam,
quod faciunt nobis annorum tempora, circum
cum redeunt fetusque ferunt uariosque lepores,
nec tamen explemur uitai fructibus umquam,
hoc, ut opinor, id est, aeuo florente puellas
quod memorant laticem pertusum congerere in uas,
quod tamen expleri nulla ratione potestur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The one in black disgraceful weeds is Toil;
She sows with never-ending gesture all
The path before his feet, cursing the way
She drags him on with growth of flouting crops,
Urchin thistles, and rank
flourishing
nettles.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O'er high deep seas in speedy ship his voyage Atys sped
Until he trod the Phrygian grove with hurried eager tread
And as the gloomy tree-shorn stead, the she-god's home, he sought
There sorely stung with fiery ire and madman's vaguing thought,
Share he with
sharpened
flint the freight wherewith his form was fraught.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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how your door is
creaking!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In Anna's wars, a soldier poor and old
Had dearly earned a little purse of gold;
Tired with a tedious march, one
luckless
night,
He slept, poor dog!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Reapers are now going home, back from
harvesting
grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He who had brought me went in to
announce
my arrival.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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_alad_,
protecting
genius, 154, 18.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Hither I steer; and it
welcomes
my weary crew to
the quiet shelter of a safe haven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
The night's
performance
was "King John.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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No more the
adulterous
guest can charm
The Spartan queen: the house forsworn
No more repels by Hector's arm
My warriors, baffled and outworn:
Hush'd is the war our strife made long:
I welcome now, my hatred o'er,
A grandson in the child of wrong,
Him whom the Trojan priestess bore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sine his
Ecclesia
non vocatur; de
quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Say, to what issue is the vote made sure,
And how
prevailed
the people's crowding hands?
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Aeschylus |
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Tu te plais a plonger au sein de ton image;
Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras, et ton coeur
Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur
Au bruit de cette plainte
indomptable
et sauvage.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with
peaceful
citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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MARMADUKE And he was
famished?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He ate a little, and came out of
Sandhurst
not so high as he went
in.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_10
Then thus the Spirit spoke:
'It is a wild and
miserable
world!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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do I not see my love
fluttering
out among the breakers?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Just gods, who see the grief that
overwhelms
me, 1165
How could I ever engender a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Wailing her Itys in that sad, sad strain,
Builds the poor bird, reproach to after time
Of Cecrops' house, for bloody vengeance ta'en
On foul
barbaric
crime.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e
prophete
went for?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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for Rome's short broadsword
That through the thick array
Of
levelled
spears and serried shields
Hews deep its gory way.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[18] These queens were the daughters of the Emperor Yao, who gave them
in
marriage
to Shun, and abdicated in his favour.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Say, to what issue is the vote made sure,
And how prevailed the people's
crowding
hands?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Like a bird
that flies low,
skirting
the sea about the craggy shores of its fishery,
even thus the brood of Cyllene left his mother's father, and flew,
cutting the winds between sky and land, along the sandy Libyan shore.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs,
And weekly markets for to sell his wares:
Meantime
that he from place to place does roam,
His wife her own ware sells as fast at home.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Water dashed on the coals
suddenly
smothers their glow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As at Thy Portals Also Death
As at thy portals also death,
Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,
To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,
To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
(I see again the calm
benignant
face fresh and beautiful still,
I sit by the form in the coffin,
I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks,
the closed eyes in the coffin;)
To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth,
life, love, to me the best,
I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,
And set a tombstone here.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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seitis felices et tu simul et tua uita, 155
et domus in qua olim lusimus et domina,
et qui
principio
nobis ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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THE AULD FARMER'S
NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS
AULD MARE MAGGIE,
ON GIVING HER THE ACCUSTOMED RIPP OF CORN TO HANSEL IN THE NEW YEAR
["Whenever Burns has occasion," says Hogg, "to address or mention any
subordinate being, however mean, even a mouse or a flower, then there
is a gentle pathos in it that awakens the finest
feelings
of the
heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_, sic enim ex codice
transcripsit
Rhys Roberts p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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) yet by death,
the soule fals from that, for which it was infused, and poured into
man at first; that is to be the forme of that body, the King of that
Kingdome; and therefore, when in the generall Resurrection, the soule
returns to that state, for which it was created, and to which it hath
had an affection, and a desire, even in the fulnesse of the Joyes of
Heaven, then, when the soule returns to her office, to make up
the man, because the whole man hath, therefore the soule hath a
Resurrection: not from death, but from a
deprivation
of her former
state; that state which she was made for, and is ever enclined to.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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'Wretched boy,
How saw you not the
inscription
on the gate,
LET NO MAN ENTER IN ON PAIN OF DEATH?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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factio me sibi non, non
coniuratio
iunxit:
sincero colui foedere amicitias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watchful
while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
| 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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Palladis
arbor
inclinat uarias pondere nigra comas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
Like lightning it le'pt forth half
startled
at itself,
Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats
of kings.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Say, Muse, their Names then known, who first, who last,
Rous'd from the slumber, on that fiery Couch,
At thir great Emperors call, as next in worth
Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,
While the
promiscuous
croud stood yet aloof?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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BIRTHA, Mastre
_Edwarde
Canynge_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The
bibliographical
history of "The Bells" is curious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now moles take burrowing jaunts abroad, and ply
Their
shovelling
hands in earth
As nimbly as the strokes
Of a swimmer in a long dive under water.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'648
Maeonian
Star:'
Homer.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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still who guidest my way,
Where, dim and dark, the shade of fame invites,
Not of that fount we speak, which, full each hour,
Ever with larger power
O'erflows, when Taurus with the Sun unites;
So are my eyes with
constant
sorrow wet,
But in that season most when I my Lady met.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But there is one thing that belongs here--shall I tell you what it is,
gentlemen
of Boston?
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Whitman |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare
superfetation
(second conception during gestation) is possible.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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sē wæs
fīftiges
fōtgemearces lang (_fifty feet long_), 3043.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The pent-up anguish of the loyal wife,
The sobs of those who, nearest in this life,
Still hold him closely in the life beyond;--
These first, with
threnody
of memories fond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"O
WHOLESOME
DEATH"
O wholesome Death, thy sombre funeral-car
Looms ever dimly on the lengthening way
Of life; while, lengthening still, in sad array,
My deeds in long procession go, that are
As mourners of the man they helped to mar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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My former satire for this verse forget,
My fault against my
recantation
set
I single did against a nation write.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A singular
circumstance
occurred in this town on the
20th October, in the family of Deacon Pelatiah Tinkham.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Mostrava
ancor lo duro pavimento
come Almeon a sua madre fe caro
parer lo sventurato addornamento.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Flying
through the depth of air on winged oarage, the fleet
messenger
alights
on the Libyan coasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The mother poison'd the well-head,
The daughters here corrupt us, Rivolets;
No
smalnesse
scapes, no greatnesse breaks their nets; 95
She thrust us out, and by them we are led
Astray, from turning, to whence we are fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I sought long days amid the cliffs
thinking
to find The body-house of him, and then
There at the blue cave-mouth my joy
Grew pain for suddenness, to see him 'live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Everything
else
I'll keep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Its hundred leaves tossed wildly round and round
Beneath a thousand waves are whelmed and drowned;
It was a
foundering
fleet you might have said;
And the duenna with her face of shade,--
"Madam," for she had marked her ruffled mind,
"All things belong to princes--but God's wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I, pondering what means might fittest prove
To save from instant death, (if save I might)
My people and myself, to ev'ry shift
Inclined, and various counsels framed, as one
Who strove for life,
conscious
of woe at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Said the Shovel, "I'll
certainly
hit you a bang!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose bleating ceases to repeat,
Whose
wandering
is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
That Keats was a master of both ways of obtaining a romantic effect is
shown by his _La Belle Dame Sans Merci_,
considered
by some people his
masterpiece, where the rich detail of _The Eve of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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A lord might dare to lift the hat
To such a modest clay,
Since that my Lord, "the Lord of lords"
Receives
unblushingly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
However, there is no cue from the
manuscript
about exactly where these lines should be inserted, so Erdman's placement of them is conjectural.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He so defet was, that no maner man
Unneth mighte him knowe ther he wente; 1220
So was he lene, and ther-to pale and wan,
And feble, that he walketh by potente;
And with his ire he thus
himselven
shente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The smallest scale upon his tail
Could hide six
dolphins
and a whale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And Johnny burrs and laughs aloud,
Whether in cunning or in joy,
I cannot tell; but while he laughs,
Betty a drunken
pleasure
quaffs,
To hear again her idiot boy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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All good thoughts be near,
For thee to speak and me to
understand!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Du furchtest, sie
wiederzusehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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After you shall have once heard
that muffled rattle of clods on the coffin-lid of an irreparable loss,
you will grow
acquainted
with a pathos that will make all elegies
hateful.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Did you so,
_Diuell_?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Leaving the weapon planted in his spine
Back flew Telemachus, lest, had he stood
Drawing it forth, some enemy, perchance,
Should either pierce him with a sudden thrust
Oblique, or hew him with a
downright
edge.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Is yonder squalid peasant all
That this proud nursery could breed
For God's
vicegerency
and stead?
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Emerson - Poems |
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As I have tried to show
in my notes he composed by separate paragraphs, and when he chances upon
a topic that appeals to his imagination or touches his heart, we get an
outburst of poetry that shines in
splendid
contrast to the prosaic
plainness of its surroundings.
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Alexander Pope |
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They
watching
stood the door, from which, at length,
Forth came Melanthius, bearing in one hand
A casque, and in the other a broad shield 210
Time-worn and chapp'd with drought, which in his youth
Warlike Laertes had been wont to bear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So cried the watchers surly,
Stern to his pretty rage
And golden hair so curly--
"Methinks your satin cloak
Masks
something
bulky under;
I take this as no joke--
Oh, thief with stolen plunder!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the
climbing
briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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His
strength
surpassed his luck,--the test--
In one short night ten times he'd blessed
A dame who gratefully expressed
Her thanks with corresponding zest.
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La Fontaine |
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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The person or entity that provided you
with the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in
lieu of a refund.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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