Heav'n guards from ill the maids and wives who fast,
Or
holiness
would very seldom last.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh in a hundred years
Not one of these blood-warm bodies
But will be
worthless
as clay.
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Sara Teasdale |
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it becomes a
joy (a bitter
enough thing) for us -
and unjust to him
who rests below, and is
in reality deprived
of all that with which
we
associate
him.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In
peaceful
times to be sent from the imperial presence to a post in the provinces would be a cause for resentment?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet he touched little
which he did not beautify: and this song, with "Rule Britannia" and a
few others, must make us regret that he did not more
seriously
apply
himself to lyrical writing.
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Golden Treasury |
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What care, though owl did fly
About the great
Athenian
admiral's mast?
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Keats |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping
blackened
jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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2 Sions fair Gates the Lord loves more
Then all the
dwellings
faire
Of Jacobs Land, though there be store,
And all within his care.
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Milton |
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I could not have
said what 'I would' have said without
provoking
every church on the face
of the earth; and I did not care for living always in boiling
water.
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
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For a long time he has been burning to have his
son know how to fight against all justice and right and to gain even the
most iniquitous causes against his
adversaries
every one.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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I walk face lowered, and I glower,
And neither song nor
hawthorn
flower,
Can please me more than winter's ice.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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My tantalized spirit
Here blandly reposes,
Forgetting, or never
Regretting
its roses--
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and roses:
For now, while so quietly
Lying, it fancies
A holier odor
About it, of pansies--
A rosemary odor,
Commingled with pansies--
With rue and the beautiful
Puritan pansies.
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Poe - 5 |
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Je croyais voir unis par un nouveau dessin
Les hanches de l'Antiope au buste d'un imberbe,
Tant sa taille faisait
ressortir
son bassin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fiercely
roared the tide of battle,
Thick the sward was heaped with slain.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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All is uneven,
And
everything
is left at six and seven.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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e dedes of men by a bonde of causes
nat able to ben
vnbou{n}den
(indissolubili).
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the
burnished
rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And for a while lie here conceal'd,
To be reveal'd
Next at that great
Platonick
year,
And then meet here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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ELECTRA
_The scene represents a hut on a desolate
mountain
side; the river Inachus
is visible in the distance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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On what
submissive
message art thou sent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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And round the humming elm, a
glimmering
scene!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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My thoughts on former
pleasures
ran;
I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,
My pleasant home, when spring began,
A long, long year before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the terrible
breakers
are silent
from this place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I watched and waited with a
steadfast
will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And he is lean and he is sick,
His body
dwindled
and awry
Rests upon ankles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sundered in warfare, immortal they meet now with wonder and yearning,
Dwelling together united, a rapt, invisible choir:
Hearken!
| 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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5 From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one
successfully
got back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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2
I would be a merman bold;
I would sit and sing the whole of the day;
I would fill the sea-halls with a voice of power;
But at night I would roam abroad and play
With the
mermaids
in and out of the rocks,
Dressing their hair with the white sea-flower;
And holding them back by their flowing locks
I would kiss them often under the sea,
And kiss them again till they kiss'd me
Laughingly, laughingly;
And then we would wander away, away
To the pale-green sea-groves straight and high,
Chasing each other merrily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough;
None has ever yet adored or
worshipped
half enough;
None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the
future is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Can you imagine the ragings of Juno if in love's skirmish
Poisonous
weapons on her by her own spouse had been turned?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I am come,
Fresh from the
cleansing
of Apollo, home
To Argos--and my coming no man yet
Knoweth--to pay the bloody twain their debt
Of blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"
They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
On the top of a
neighbouring
crag,
Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Without is
everything
that I feel within myself, and without
and within myself everything is immeasurable, illimitable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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He shall stay the Roman State, reeling
beneath the invading shock, shall ride down Carthaginian and insurgent
Gaul, and a third time hang up the
captured
armour before lord
Quirinus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Five score
thousand
Franks had such great dolour
There was not one but sorely wept for rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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All the sunken armadas pressed to powder
By weight of
incredible
seas!
| 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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"I've sought that cub in every hole,
'Midland, and coast, and islet,
For he's the thief who came and stole
Our
sheathless
jewelled stilet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They
employed
against it every means
ever devised for the storming of the most strongly fortified towns, a
'tortoise',[223] artillery, earthworks, firebrands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lady, I shall have much honour
If ever the privilege is granted
Of
clasping
you beneath the cover,
Holding you naked as I've wanted;
For you are worth the hundred best,
And I'm not exaggerating either.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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There long time sad at heart he stayed:
"Poor Yorick,"
mournfully
he said,
"How often in thine arms I lay;
How with thy medal I would play,
The Medal Otchakoff conferred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The trees were a little separated from each other, and at the foot of
one of them, a
beautiful
poplar, was a hillock of moss, such as the
poet of Grasmere has described in the motto to our chapter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ride you this
afternoone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Poets have
whitened
at your high renown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
War
One night a feast was held in the palace, and there came a man and
prostrated himself before the prince, and all the
feasters
looked
upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that
the empty socket bled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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As melts the iceberg in the seas,
As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze,
As snow-banks thaw in April's beam,
The solid
kingdoms
like a dream
Resist in vain his motive strain,
They totter now and float amain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
'133 Ixion':
according to
classical
mythology Ixion was punished for his sins by
being bound forever upon a whirling wheel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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crude_ GVen et
sic R, in quo tamen _crude_ recentius
exaratum
uidetur ||
_lucei_ Scaliger: _lucet_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems
appeared
first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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_Wild Bees_
These children of the sun which summer brings
As pastoral
minstrels
in her merry train
Pipe rustic ballads upon busy wings
And glad the cotters' quiet toils again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
This woman's warfare
Degrades
the very conqueror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Some desperate attempts were made
To start a conversation;
"Madam," the sportive Brown essayed,
"Which kind of recreation,
Hunting or fishing, have you made
Your special
occupation?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
FRANCISCAE
MEAE LAUDES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I fill'd this cup to one made up
Of
loveliness
alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon--
Her health!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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at uos, deductae quibus est
fallacia
lunae
et labor in magicis sacra piare focis,
en agedum dominae mentem conuertite nostrae,
et facite illa meo palleat ore magis!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Justly the rogue was whipped in Porter's den,
And Jei*main
straight
has leave to come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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These wild-wood flowers I've pu'd, to deck
That
spotless
breast o' thine:
The courtier's gems may witness love--
But 'tis na love like mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
all that I behold
Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a brooding Fear
Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
So waild she trembling before her own Created Phantasm*
{These 10 lines circled and lightly struck out as a block,
restored
in Erdman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
His
range of
sympathy
is wider.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Erewhile
I saw thee, glowing with chaste flame,
Thy feet 'mid violets and verdure set,
Moving in angel not in mortal frame,
Life-like and light, before me present yet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
how smooth and easy to
descend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
After long rainy afternoons an hour
Comes with its shafts of golden light and flings
Them at the windows in a radiant shower,
And rain drops beat the panes like
timorous
wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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This said, they both betook them several wayes, 610
Both to destroy, or unimmortal make
All kinds, and for destruction to mature
Sooner or later; which th' Almightie seeing,
From his
transcendent
Seat the Saints among,
To those bright Orders utterd thus his voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
ALLOBROGES, a people of Narbon Gaul, situate between the
Rhodanus
and
the Lacus Lemanus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Infanta
I know it well; though virtue seems to fade,
How love
flatters
the heart it does invade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Seated in
companies
they sit, with radiance all their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
--when it ascribed
Unto
divinities
such awesome deeds,
And coupled thereto rigours of fierce wrath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
But what art thou, who deedless look'st around,
While
unrevenged
thy Lycians bite the ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Huius
aequalis
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Les tout petits enfants ont le coeur si
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Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be
resurrected
only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.
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brōden mǣl is now
regarded
as a comp.
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Beowulf |
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1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The Macmillan Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the
Floating
World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'Tis Teucer leads, 'tis Teucer
breathes
the wind;
No more despair; Apollo's word is true.
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As love and duty shall drive you on,
Live, and don't allow that child of a Scythian, 210
Crushing your
children
in despised embrace,
To command the gods' and Greece's noblest race.
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