Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earth's
firmament
do shine.
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Longfellow |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Then she kissed my burning lips,
With her mouth like a scented flower,
And I
thrilled
to the finger-tips,
And I hadn't even the power
To say: "God bless you, dear!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Large and low was the roof; and on slender columns supported,
Rose-wreathed, vine-encircled, a broad and
spacious
veranda,
Haunt of the humming-bird and the bee, extended around it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
|
IV
As when the shadow of the sun's eclipse
Sweeps on the earth, and spreads a spectral air,
As if the universe were dying there,
On continent and isle the
darkness
dips
Unwonted gloom, and on the Atlantic slips;
So in the night the Belgian cities flare
Horizon-wide; the wandering people fare
Along the roads, and load the fleeing ships.
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then in the dark
hillsides
the Cherry-trees
Gleam white with loads of blossom where the gleams
Of piled snow lately hung, and richer streams
The honey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Were it not sinful then,
striving
to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
) I
Pierced him with
stiffest
staff and did him die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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She then proceeds: 'Now let our compact made
Be nor by signal nor by word betray'd,
Nor near me any of your crew descried,
By road frequented, or by
fountain
side.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
Ubii did not take this quietly, nor
hesitate
to seek reprisals from
the Germans, which they did at first with impunity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
|
The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Nor can the curved dolphins uplift
themselves
from the water;
All their struggles to rise merciless winter prevents;
And though Boreas sound with roar of wings in commotion,
In the blockaded gulf never a wave will there be;
And the ships will stand hemmed in by the frost, as in marble,
Nor will the oar have power through the stiff waters to cleave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I asked three gay young dogs from town
To join us in our folly,
Whose mirth, I thought, might serve to drown
My sister's melancholy:
The lively Jones, the sportive Brown,
And
Robinson
the jolly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The fountain sang and sang
While on the marble rim
The milk-white
peacocks
slept,
And their dreams were strange and dim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Keep this
remembrance
for thy Julia's sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
At such an hour I heav'd the human sigh,
When roar'd the sullen Arve in anger by,
That not for thee,
delicious
vale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
His account of the infancy and youth of
Romulus and Remus has been
preserved
by Dionysius, and contains a
very remarkable reference to the ancient Latin poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The celebrated Quintus Fabius Maximus, who died
about twenty years before the First Punic War, and more than
forty years before Ennius was born, is said to have been interred
with
extraordinary
pomp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up hitherto and
unconscious
till this instant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Dear my lord,
Make me
acquainted
with your cause of grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
"
He said: compassion touch'd the hero's heart
He stood, suspended with the lifted dart:
As pity pleaded for his vanquish'd prize,
Stern Agamemnon swift to
vengeance
flies,
And, furious, thus: "Oh impotent of mind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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had at that port
contracted for
military
stores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Why does the bride turn pale, and hide her face on his
shoulder?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
it tore,
And dipp'd its
feathers
in no vulgar gore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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That is my
rest, that is the
rendezvous
of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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 |
|
But, ah, thy rage
Is
insupportable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
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License terms from this work, or any files
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nevertheless, its
success was immediate and decisive, and it became
established
as a
stock piece.
| 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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But there is one circumstance which deserves
especial
notice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yet much was to survive and to emerge one day
from the
darkness
and to renew the face of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
»3
GHOSTS
By Samuel Roth
She stood half leaning in the dark doorway, Light
kindling
softly in her anxious eyes:
"I tire," she pleaded, "tire of all that's wise And witty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
At last to be
identified!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of
unlovely
eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
--who keeps thee from
replying?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
namque Ceres fertur fruges Liberque liquoris
uitigeni laticem
mortalibus
instituisse;
cum tamen his posset sine rebus uita manere,
ut fama est aliquas etiam nunc uiuere gentis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The fighting man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;
Speed with the light-foot winds to run,
And with the trees to newer birth;
And find, when fighting shall be done,
Great rest, and
fullness
after dearth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
'He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase,
Like Baal, when his
prophets
howled that name
From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
_
Duckworth
& Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
But since the doors were shut behind
me I could only wait his youthful
pleasure
and strive to keep him
in good temper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
But Morning's eye alone serene
Can gaze across yon village-green
To where the
trooping
British run
Through Lexington.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,
Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;
The violets are blooming and
nestling
their heads
In richest profusion on moss-coated beds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"
'Thus held he on in utterance, and
remained
obstinate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
fearful to offend;
The frail one's advocate, the weak one's friend:
To her, Calista proved her conduct nice;
And good
Simplicius
asks of her advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
For all that I have ever borne for love,
And still am doom'd to bear,
Till she who wounded it shall heal my heart,
Rejecting homage e'en while she invites,
Be
vengeance
done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And
flashing
adown the river, a flame of blue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
O the
trembling
fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas
across the
infinite
wastes of the ether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
And, lastly,
grandest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Who canne unplyte the wurchys heaven can doe,
Or who
untweste
the role of shappe yn twayne?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
IX
I not for this (for that were wrong) opine
That you should cease to love; for you, without
A lover, like
uncultivated
vine,
Would be, that has no prop to wind about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies
renounce
their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
)
MEPHISTOPHELES (mit
seltsamen
Gebarden):
Trauben tragt der Weinstock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
One day, the
collapse
came--as dramatically as if it had been meant to
embellish a Tract.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
e
pilegryme
yserued ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued
accompaniment
a note of gratitude for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and
struggled
in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
there are honest ways of gaining a living at
your age without all this
infamous
trickery.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
[To
ISABELLA]
Y'are welcome; what's
your will?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
"So, as I said, next morn I heard the bell,
And passing
neighbours
crossed the street, to tell
That my poor partner Jenny had been found
In the old flag-pool, on the pasture, drowned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I should be loath
To meet the rudenesse, and swill'd insolence
of such late Wassailers; yet O where els
Shall I inform my
unacquainted
feet 180
In the blind mazes of this tangl'd Wood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
" and Hamish still dangles the child, with a
wavering
will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
LX
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all
forwards
do contend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes; 10
Carve it in doves, and pomegranates,
And
peacocks
with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves, and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Of
everything
that stirs she dreameth wrong
And pipes her "tweet tut" fears the whole day long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
[429] Under the empire there were six tribunes to each legion,
and they took command on the march and on the field, acting
under the orders of the
_legatus
legionis_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The
essential
inspiration of the poem implies a
particular sense of human existence which has not yet definitely
appeared in the epic series, but which the process of life in Europe
made it absolutely necessary that epic poetry should symbolize.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Where poplar white and giant pine
Ward off the
inhospitable
beam;
Where their luxuriant branches twine,
Where bickers down its course the stream,
Here bid them perfumes bring, and wine,
And the fair rose's short-lived flower,
While youth and fortune and the twine
Spun by the Sisters, grant an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Jupiter's throne, so
dishonestly
won, it was I who secured it:
Color and ivory, marble and bronze, not to mention the poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Io stava sovra 'l ponte a veder surto,
si che s'io non avessi un
ronchion
preso,
caduto sarei giu sanz' esser urto.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
They would not
pretend that they were the only painters worthy of a public showing;
they would
maintain
that their work was, generally speaking, most
interesting to one another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
{15a} There is no horrible
inconsistency
here such as the critics
strive and cry about.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We are all abasht by thee, and only know
To worship thee with shouts and
astounded
passion.
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Say, is it Love, that was divinity,
Who hath left his godhead that his home might be The shameless rose of her
unclouded
heart?
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This takes us some little way towards
deciding
the nature of epic.
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Undue brevity
degenerates
into mere epigrammatism.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_For_ ne had
_perhaps
read_ nad.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The son of Kurbsky, nurtured in exile,
Forgetting all the wrongs borne by thy father,
Redeeming
his transgression in the grave,
Ready art thou for the son of great Ivan
To shed thy blood, to give the fatherland
Its lawful tsar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy ther
lifetime
out,
Jest scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought
Git places in Texas whar cotton would sprout
By the time you could plant it in the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But the movement
failed; and Florus is the only name that arrests the
attention
of the
student of Roman poetry between Martial and Nemesianus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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do not charge
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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