how appears he in your eyes
This stranger, graceful as he is in port,
In stature noble, and in mind
discrete?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And in matters of this nature it must be confessed
that
adequate
events are as necessary as the _vates sacer_ to record
them.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Hugo - Poems |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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Byron |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Gleams like a pool the ballroom floor--
A
burnished
solitude.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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Beowulf |
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How much awaits him
of lief and of loath, who long time here,
through days of warfare this world
endures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O happy port that spied the sail
Which wafted
Lafayette!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
K said, "A
Kangaroo
is here,--this picture let him see.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Richardson indeed might perhaps be excepted; but unhappily, _dramatis
personae_ are beings of another world; and however they may captivate
the unexperienced,
romantic
fancy of a boy or a girl, they will ever,
in proportion as we have made human nature our study, dissatisfy our
riper years.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Fine poetry, like other arts called fine,
springs from "strange places," as the flower in the fable said, when
it bloomed on the dunghill; nor is Burns more to be blamed than was
Raphael, who painted Madonnas, and Magdalens with dishevelled hair and
lifted eyes, from a loose lady, whom the pope, "Holy at Rome--here
Antichrist," charitably prescribed to the artist, while he
laboured
in
the cause of the church.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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on
previendra
les reflux d'incendie,
Voila les quais!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[The above was
addressed
to the poet's mother-in-law, Mrs.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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We gallop along
Alert and penetrating,
Roads open about us,
Housetops
keep at a distance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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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: |
Li Po |
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With beams
December
planets dart
His cold eye truth and conduct scanned,
July was in his sunny heart,
October in his liberal hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Solace and joy seem false from those
Other girls, none share her worthiness,
Her solace exceeds all others though,
Ay, alas, ill times if I do not have her,
Yet the anguish brings me joy so fair,
For
thinking
brings desire of her lustily:
God, if I might have her some other way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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XCVII
And as he
fastened
his on her fair eyes,
His Bradamant he called to mind again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As if confusing
darkness
came 1819.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With silence-sandalled Sleep she comes to me,
(But softer-footed, sweeter-browed, than she,)
In motion
gracious
as a seagull's wing,
And all her bright limbs, moving, seem to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at
blushing
shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown 110
Had not a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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It
commands
a view of both roads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Then said the lady--and her word
Came distant, as wide waves were stirred
Between her and the ear that heard,--
"_World's use_ is cold, _world's love_ is vain,
_World's
cruelty_
is bitter bane,
But pain is not the fruit of pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Each bird sat singing to his mate
Soft-cooing notes among the trees:
The
nightingale
herself were cold
To such as these.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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He
afterwards
married successively Miss Lin, Miss Lu, and Miss Sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He becomes
Mere fool, since energy of mind and soul
Confounded
is, and, as I've shown, to-riven,
Asunder thrown, and torn to pieces all
By the same venom.
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Lucretius |
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This from Amyntor, rich Ormenus' son,
Autolycus
by fraudful rapine won,
And gave Amphidamas; from him the prize
Molus received, the pledge of social ties;
The helmet next by Merion was possess'd,
And now Ulysses' thoughtful temples press'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(That large reprisal he might justly claim,
For prize defrauded, and insulted fame,
When Elis' monarch, at the public course,
Detain'd his chariot, and
victorious
horse.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning
at him from a green place.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To the sons and daughters of labour
and poverty they are matters of the most serious nature: to them the
ardent hope, the stolen interview, the tender farewell, are the greatest
and most
delicious
parts of their enjoyments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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What
business
have I in the woods, if I am thinking of
something out of the woods?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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So smooth, so sweet, so silv'ry is thy voice,
As, could they hear, the damn'd would make no noise,
But listen to thee, walking in thy chamber,
Melting
melodious
words to lutes of amber.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were spousyde in goddys laue;
Atte here
spousyng
I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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All that comyn thyder ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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they
have
beggared
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Fra me pensava: 'Forse questa fiede
pur qui per uso, e forse d'altro loco
disdegna
di portarne suso in piede'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere
la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il ecoutait grouiller les galeux espaliers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I have not translated the vidas, or biographical lives of the poets, which are highly unreliable, though
charming
as legend, but have referred to them where relevant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet
niveos percussae virginis artus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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assistance they need, is critical to
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Deep the edge
Enter'd, and
senseless
on the floor he fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
And repent of your
murderous
vow:
Be fearful, my Lord, fearful lest heaven's rigour 1435
Hates you enough to execute your desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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s dust, how soon will we stop the
training
of troops?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And then if it hits
And every thing fits,
We've
thoughts
for our winning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There, in a long series of fine actions,
He would see how men conquer nations,
Takes a position,
organise
an army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He paid no
attention
to this, but soon he
heard the vestibule door open.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Now when, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray;
When hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 85
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine;
When merchants from th' Exchange return in peace,
And the long labours of the toilet cease,
The board's with cups and spoons, alternate, crowned,
The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; 90
On shining altars of Japan they raise
The silver lamp, and fiery spirits blaze:
From silver spouts the
grateful
liquors glide,
While China's earth receives the smoking tide.
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Aeneas,
wrathful
at their mad
onslaught, rushes on them, towering high with levelled spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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and all processions moving along the
streets!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Hrōðgār grētan:
Þā wæs be feaxe on flet boren
Grendles hēafod, þǣr guman druncon,
1650
egeslīc
for eorlum and þǣre idese mid:
wlite-sēon wrǣtlīc weras onsāwon.
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Beowulf |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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* * * * *
NOTE: The Old English "yogh" characters have been
translated
both
upper and lower-case yoghs to digit 3's.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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