Not with insolence or precept; but as the prince were already furnished
with the parts he should have,
especially
in affairs of state.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dost thou not know, my Queen,
That, when I taught thee songs, thou
taughtest
me
The divine secret, Beauty?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Amphitriten_
Postgate: _illa rudi cursu
proram i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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You may use this eBook
for nearly any purpose such as
creation
of derivative works, reports,
performances and research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Here, where the
view of the ocean
inspired
his hopes, he erected his arsenals, and built
and harboured his ships.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Tis thy
message?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_Nam si regitur
providentiâ
mundus,
administranda certè bonis viris erit respublica.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Not
sleeping
for pain
Is a small thing to bear,
Compared with the joy of being alive when all the rest are dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Who the high, exalted,
virtuous
dames were,
to whom the Poem refers, we are not told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You count yourself as
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
If
glorious
deeds afford thy soul delight,
Behold me plunging in the thickest fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And if we're light, we'll soon
surmount
the sphere;
I give thee hearty joy in this thy new career.
| 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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olicitous, when it not
concernes
thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Were there women in the ways of Atlantis:
Foolish women, who loved, as I do,
Dreaming that mortal love was
deathless?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in
abundance
addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large will more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
But come here, that I may teach you; I will tell you
something very
necessary
to know to be a man; but you will not repeat it
to anybody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
We
worshipped
inland--
we stepped past wood-flowers,
we forgot your tang,
we brushed wood-grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
]
REMEMBER
THEE!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
So I can see whole volumes
dispatched
by the
umbratical doctors on all sides: but draw these forth into the just
lists: let them appear _sub dio_, and they are changed with the place,
like bodies bred in the shade; they cannot suffer the sun or a shower,
nor bear the open air; they scarce can find themselves, that they were
wont to domineer so among their auditors: but indeed I would no more
choose a rhetorician for reigning in a school, than I would a pilot for
rowing in a pond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
La gente che per li
sepolcri
giace
potrebbesi veder?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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mallit_
GRVen a
2 _Catule_ R
4
_notorum_
O: _not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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_
Constable
& Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
The Catos, the wise
patriots
of Rome,
Shall flock to you and tarry by your side,
And comfort you with their high company.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
in truth, we groan
Impatiently
to be alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
'
You wrung your hands; while I like lead
Crushed
downwards
through the sodden earth:
You smote your hands but not in mirth,
And reeled but were not drunk with wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Lord, how they picked off our men, from the
treacherous
vantage-ground of the wood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The eggs of
pheasants
wry-nosed Tooly sells, 393.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
It
has its place, too, in the story of Pope's life, since the bitter
criticism which it received, all the more unpleasant to the poet since
it was in the main true, was one of the
principal
causes of his writing
the 'Dunciad'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
| 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 |
|
The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
It was not chastity that made me wild but fear
that my weapon,
tempered
in different heat,
was over-matched by yours, and your hand
skilled to yield death-blows, might break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
glaube, was man so
verstandig
nennt,
Ist oft mehr Eitelkeit und Kurzsinn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
When sober evening chases the bright day,
And this our
darkness
makes for others dawn,
Pensive I look upon the cruel stars
Which framed me of such pliant passionate earth,
And curse the day that e'er I saw the sun,
Which makes me native seem of wildest wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
In
that holy but horrible cavern, as Petrarch calls it, they remained three
days and three nights, though Petrarch
sometimes
gave his comrades the
slip, and indulged in rambles among the hills and forests; he composed a
short poem, however, on St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
In the _Alcestis_, as it stands, the
famous act of
hospitality
is a datum of the story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Whatever
comprehends less than that--whatever is less than the laws of light and of
astronomical motion--or less than the laws that follow the thief, the liar,
the glutton, and the drunkard, through this life, and doubtless afterward--
or less than vast stretches of time, or the slow
formation
of density, or
the patient upheaving of strata--is of no account.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Some, when the
resinous
torch of burning wood
Flares in lost pagan caverns dark and deep,
Call thee to quench the fever in their blood,
Bacchus, who singest old remorse to sleep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
And there she sang tumultuous songs,
By
recollection
of her wrongs,
To fearful passion rouzed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Though stern I
sometimes
be,
To thee, thou know'st, I was not so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
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: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Piangevisi
entro l'arte per che, morta,
Deidamia ancor si duol d'Achille,
e del Palladio pena vi si porta>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
" The Romans of the age of
Cincinatus
were
probably quite as credulous as the Spanish subjects of Charles
the Fifth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Wherefore halts this tongue of mine,
So
eloquent
once, so faltering now and weak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
They are the
glorying
of Nebuchadnezzar's
Heart of fury against our God, sent here
Like insolent shouting into his holy quiet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
With thee
conversing
I forget all time,
All seasons and thir change, all please alike.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
never wed another--
Zuleika!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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And he upon whom it was
conferred
honoured it evermore after.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Here in the midmost
struggle
combining--
Flags immingled and weapons crossed--
Still in union your States troop shining:
Never a star from the lustre is lost!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
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I therefore, I alone first undertook
To wing the desolate Abyss, and spie
This new created World, whereof in Hell
Fame is not silent, here in hope to find
Better abode, and my afflicted Powers
To settle here on Earth, or in mid Aire; 940
Though for possession put to try once more
What thou and thy gay Legions dare against;
Whose easier business were to serve thir Lord
High up in Heav'n, with songs to hymne his Throne,
And practis'd
distances
to cringe, not fight.
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