"
At this, from every side they hurried in,
Rubbing their sleepy eyes with lazy wrists,
And doubling over head their little fists 510
In
backward
yawns.
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Keats |
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According to these
Gentlemen, the four
Elements
are inhabited by Spirits, which they call
Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders.
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Alexander Pope |
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e
myrye fortune ne
corrumpe
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Mirthful gold of a cymbal beaten with fists,
The sun all at once strikes the pure nakedness
That breathed itself out of my coolness of nacre,
Rancid night of the skin, when you swept over me,
Not knowing,
ungrateful
one, that it was, this make-up,
My whole anointing, drowned in ice-water perfidy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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or the beautiful
maternal
cares?
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Whitman |
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Non va co' suoi fratei per un cammino,
per lo furto che
frodolente
fece
del grande armento ch'elli ebbe a vicino;
onde cessar le sue opere biece
sotto la mazza d'Ercule, che forse
gliene die cento, e non senti le diece>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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-
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Rather stout blows with Durendal I'll lay,
With my good sword that by my side doth sway;
Till
bloodied
o'er you shall behold the blade.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And forthe went the sextayne, 203
And fownde
alexknelyng
In ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" Sir Brunello cries,
"Ladies and cavaliers, the
enchanter
sties.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'd thy infant thought,
Of all the Nurse and all the Priest have taught; 30
Of airy Elves by
moonlight
shadows seen,
The silver token, and the circled green,
Or virgins visited by Angel-pow'rs,
With golden crowns and wreaths of heav'nly flow'rs;
Hear and believe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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an uncouth shape,
Shown by a sudden turning of the road,
So near that,
slipping
back into the shade
Of a thick hawthorn, I could mark him well, 390
Myself unseen.
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William Wordsworth |
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The
animadversions
of the Board of Excise
CCXXVII.
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Robert Burns |
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vn
Because of the beautiful white
shoulders
and the rounded breasts
1 can in no wise forget my beloved of the peach-
trees,
And the little winds that speak when the dawn is
unfurled
And the rose-colour in the grey oak-leaf's fold
When it first comes, and the glamour that rests On the little streams in the evening; all of these Call me to her, and all the loveliness in the world Binds me to my beloved with strong chains of gold.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now you're
eternally
bound.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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' His conduct is a golden augury of the success of
his future career--may the
unextinguished
Spirit of his illustrious
friend animate the creations of his pencil, and plead against Oblivion
for his name!
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Shelley |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lang_
Have You Nothing to Say for
Yourself?
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Hugo - Poems |
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You complain of a yoke imposed long ago:
Even the gods of Olympus, those gods, we know,
Who
frighten
criminals with thunderous action, 1305
Have sometimes burned with an illicit passion.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--First, we require in our poet or maker (for that
title our language affords him
elegantly
with the Greek) a goodness of
natural wit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Not a grave of the
murdered
for freedom but grows seed for freedom, in its
turn to bear seed,
Which the winds carry afar and resow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
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Whitman |
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terni 56
tunc_ O
61
_bachantis_
GOR || _eheu_ Bergk: _heue_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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scenes in strong
remembrance
set!
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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is free from care;
This juice, possessing virtues so divine,
Has also pow'rs that prove the most malign:
Whoe'er receives the patient's first embrace;
Too fatally the dire effects will trace;
Death oft succeeds the momentary joy;
We
scarcely
good can find without alloy.
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La Fontaine |
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Youth and the Pilgrim
Gray pilgrim, you have
journeyed
far,
I pray you tell to me
Is there a land where Love is not,
By shore of any sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was Cassandra Salviati, the
daughter
of an Italian banker.
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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And what is it to you,
When strangely shudders the fabric of your navy
To feel the thrilling tide beneath it grieving;
Or when its timber drinks the river's mood,
The mighty mood of man's Despair, which runs
Like subtle electric blood through all the hulls,
And tips each
masthead
with a glimmering candle
Blue pale and flickering like a ghost?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For they've been to the Lakes, and the
Torrible
Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I spurn the Past, my mind
disdains
its nod,
Nor kneels in homage to so mean a God.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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e
wedenysday
a ni?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Redistribution
is subject to the trademark license, especially
commercial redistribution.
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Stephen Crane |
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{and} cause of
to{ur}ment
to
shrewes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Pain turned to
pleasure
at his call,
Health lived and issued from his voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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--Mid savage rocks and seas of snow that shine
Between
interminable
tracts of pine, 645
Round a lone fane the human Genii mourn,
Where fierce the rays of woe collected burn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
200
XXVI
She turned and saw him, but she felt no dread,
Her purity, like
adamantine
mail.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Two Truths are told,
As happy
Prologues
to the swelling Act
Of the Imperiall Theame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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His geneml tone is that of broad laughing banter,
taken as to the persons I mention, I will assure the reader
that I intend not Hudibras; for he is a man of the other robe,
and his excellent wit hath taken a flight fur above these
ivhifficrs ; that whoever dislikes his subject cannot but com-
mend his
performance
of it, and calculate if on so barren a
theme he were so copious, what admirable sport he would
have made of an ecclesiastical politician.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I'll have no adulteries,
No eyes but mine
enjoying
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the Heaven
And Enion
desolate
where art though Tharmas O return
Three days she waild & three dark nights sitting among the Rocks
While the bright spectre hid himself among the ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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This favour'd region of the Cyprian queen
Received
its freight--a heaven-abandon'd scene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Upon soft verdure saw, one here, one there,
Cupids a
slumbering
on their pinions fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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It was
composed
in front of the house of Alfoxden, in the
spring of 1798.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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;
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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per text is nominally
estimated
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Charles was
provided
with five thousand francs for his
expenses, instead of twenty--Du Camp's version--and he never was a
beef-drover in the British army, for a good reason--he never reached
India.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
e
prophetes
wilned hym forto see; & many kynges also,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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As when a shipwright, with Palladian art,
Smooths the rough wood, and levels every part;
With equal hand he guides his whole design,
By the just rule, and the
directing
line:
The martial leaders, with like skill and care,
Preserved their line, and equal kept the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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More blest the life of godly eremite,
Such as on lonely Athos may be seen,
Watching
at eve upon the giant height,
Which looks o'er waves so blue, skies so serene,
That he who there at such an hour hath been,
Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot;
Then slowly tear him from the witching scene,
Sigh forth one wish that such had been his lot,
Then turn to hate a world he had almost forgot.
| 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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Sometimes
I kissed you,
And you were always glad to kiss me;
But I was afraid--I was only fourteen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Within, some Goddess or some woman wove
An ample web,
carolling
sweet the while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty, which became
A funeral dower of present woes and past,
On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame,
And annals graved in
characters
of flame.
| 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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masterest
thou some thirty acres of grass-land
Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two
failures
or any number of failures, or from
the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
He had due rites and
tendance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
the figure is not drawn correctly;
One of the angles, 'tis the outer one,
Is somewhat open, dost
perceive
it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
I will have shown, in the Poem below, more than a sketch, a 'state' which yet does not entirely break with tradition; will have furthered its presentation in many ways too, without offending anyone;
sufficing
to open a few eyes (This applies to the 1897 printing specifically: translator's note).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
e hersum
euensong
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
'
And checks his song to execrate Godoy,
The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day
When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy,
And gore-faced Treason sprung from her
adulterate
joy.
| 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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`And over al this, your fader shal despyse
Us alle, and seyn this citee nis but lorn;
And that
thassege
never shal aryse, 1480
For-why the Grekes han it alle sworn
Til we be slayn, and doun our walles torn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
(4)
Of this day's
glorious
feast and revel
The pleasure and delight are difficult to describe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Youre eyne, alyche a baulme, wylle staunche hys bloode, 960
Holpe oppe hys woundes, & yev hys harte alle cheere;
Uponne your eyne he holdes hys lyvelyhode[109];
You doe hys spryte, & alle hys
pleasaunce
bere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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ne god ne may nat ben
desseiuid
in no manere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Farewell
those forms that in thy noon-tide shade,
Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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[_During the last few lines_
HERACLES
_has entered, unperceived by
the_ SERVANT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
"Tell him to read further,"
rejoined
Saveliitch, quite unmoved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
2
Heathcote,
Katherine
Sophia Manners, Lady, vii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Affter kyng
Salomons
de?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
46
_amisit_
R, _s_ super rasuram
48 _Kymeneo kymene?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
>>
Plonge tes yeux dans les yeux fixes
Des
Satyresses
ou des Nixes,
La Dent dit: << Pense a ton devoir!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The plains began to sink, and windy slopes
Of the high
mountains
to increase; for rocks
Could not subside, nor all the parts of ground
Settle alike to one same level there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Certeynely
q{uod} I ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Who else had power stern Hera's craft to stay,
Her
vengeful
curse to loose_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Petronius
has given a lively
description of the rhetoricians of his time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have
consisted
of at
least nine books of odes, together with _epithalamia_, epigrams,
elegies, and monodies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
And now the
bickering
storm, with sudden start,
In flirting fits of anger carps aloud,
Thee urging to thine end,
Sore wept by troubled skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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critical
which both
challenge
and affirmation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O, my fine
_Ingine_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
,
_protector
of the people, prince_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Stage above stage the
imperial
structure stands,
Holds the chief honours, and the town commands:
High walls and battlements the courts inclose,
And the strong gates defy a host of foes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
[Illustration]
The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which
was so entirely full of fishes that the boat could go on no farther: so
they
remained
there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the
fishes, which were soles, and all ready-cooked, and covered with
shrimp-sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
490
But now, paraunter, som man wayten wolde
That every word, or sonde, or look, or chere
Of Troilus that I
rehersen
sholde,
In al this whyle un-to his lady dere;
I trowe it were a long thing for to here; 495
Or of what wight that stant in swich disioynte,
His wordes alle, or every look, to poynte.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
In misero hoc nostro, hoc perdito amore fore,
Quod te cognossem bene
constantemve
putarem
Aut posse a turpi mentem inhibere probro,
Sed neque quod matrem nec germanam esse videbam 5
Hanc tibi, cuius me magnus edebat amor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The circles of the stormy moon
Slide
westward
toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
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T.S. Eliot |
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for, close upon his flight,
A little falcon dashed in winged pursuit,
Plucking
with claws the eagle's head, while he
Could only crouch and cower and yield himself.
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Aeschylus |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He who writes a new _De
Amicitia_ must find a niche for them, and praise them in
Tusculan
prose.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I hear huge
Pestilence
draw his vaporous breath:
"Beware, prepare, or else ye die," he saith.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Borne by four horses and brandishing a torch, he rode
in triumph midway through the
populous
city of Grecian Elis, and claimed
for himself the worship of deity; madman!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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