The first part was a tissue of hugged lies;
The second was its ruin fraught with pain:
Why raise the fair
delusion
to the skies
But to be dashed again?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Although
we fought the banded world alone,
We swear to guard our own.
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Tennyson |
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none forgoes
The leap,
attaining
the repose.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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With cares harsh, sodaine
horinesse
o'rspread.
| Guess: |
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John Donne |
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The
staunchest
Whig Glenriddell was,
Quite frantic in his country's cause;
And oft was Reynard's prison passing,
And with his brother-Whigs canvassing
The Rights of Men, the Powers of Women,
With all the dignity of Freemen.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting
state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Warton's
_History
of English Poetry_, in Volume II of
which there is an account of Chatterton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Diegue
The king, if so,
measures
it by my courage.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were elected
Censors at a
momentous
crisis.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Je suis le
soufflet
et la joue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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EVIL ANGEL: Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art
Wherein all nature's
treasure
is contained;
Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky,
Lord and commander of these elements.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It perseveres if grief be all its view,
And
squanders
gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
ploughman
would turn from his plough in the day
And wonder what being had come in his way,
To lie on a molehill and read the day long
And laugh out aloud when he'd finished his song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Consort revered of
Laertiades!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Though their
injunction
be to bar my doors
And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out
And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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These talismans had
perchance sprung from America at first, and
returned
to it with
unabated force.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For men say
She
dwelleth
in these hills, no more a maid
But wedded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Not far aloof,
Slipped from his head, the garlands lay, and there
By its worn handle hung a
ponderous
cup.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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She is contemporary with the other persons, but I have no strict warrant for
dragging
her name into this particular affair.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Each life
converges
to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Pope's argument was attacked with
violence
my M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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6 His blood
relations
revered the ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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"Now, dear knave,
Be kind and tell me -- tell me quickly, too, --
Some proper reasonable ground or cause,
Nay, tell me but some shadow of some cause,
Nay, hint me but a thin ghost's dream of cause,
(So will I thee absolve from being whipped)
Why I, Lord Raoul, should turn my horse aside
From riding by yon pitiful villein gang,
Or ay, by God, from riding o'er their heads
If so my humor serve, or through their bodies,
Or miring fetlocks in their nasty brains,
Or doing aught else I will in my
Clermont?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Despite being fragments the pieces
communicate
some part of the loss suffered, and the thoughts engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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14
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I
listening
close,
Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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If there they are,
It cannot justly be immortal deemed,
Since, shorn of some parts lost, 'thas gone away:
But if, borne off with members uncorrupt,
'Thas fled so absolutely all away
It leaves not one remainder of itself
Behind in body, whence do cadavers, then,
From out their putrid flesh exhale the worms,
And whence does such a mass of living things,
Boneless
and bloodless, o'er the bloated frame
Bubble and swarm?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
THYRSIS
"The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
In the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
His vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
Green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
Descend in floods of
fertilizing
rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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So far from caring,
I laughed inside, and only cranked the faster,
(It ran as if it wasn't greased but glued);
I welcomed any moderate disaster
That might be
calculated
to postpone
What evidently nothing could conclude.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He
vnneiled
his honden two,
And seide, 'wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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One
circumstance
the lawyer led to doubt:
Some talents had the student pointed out,
Which she had never to her husband shown,
And this relief administered alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The
eagerness
of the Moors now contributed to the safety of Gama.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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These lesser mountain ranges, as well as the
Alleghanies, run from northeast to southwest, and parallel with these
mountain streams are the more fluent rivers,
answering
to the general
direction of the coast, the bank of the great ocean stream itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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All these things, O God, are conceived with forethought, born with
determination, nursed with exactness, governed by rules, directed
by reason, and then slain and buried after a
prescribed
method.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She felt the chaplet round her maiden locks
And fillets, fluttering down on either cheek,
And at the altar marked her
grieving
sire,
The priests beside him who concealed the knife,
And all the folk in tears at sight of her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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But thou shalt do as do the gods
In their
cloudless
periods;
For of this lore be thou sure,--
Though thou forget, the gods, secure,
Forget never their command,
But make the statute of this land.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I sent a copy of it with my best prose
letter to the son of the great man, the theme of the piece, by the
hands of one of the noblest men in God's world,
Alexander
Wood,
surgeon: when, behold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
'
"That's the right way to cure a Sprite
Of such-like goings-on--
But
gracious
me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Guillaume de
Poitiers
(1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ Thy brows grow grander with a
forecast
woe,--
Diviner, with the possible of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have
uncommended
died.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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But than fel to this Troylus such wo,
That he was wel neigh wood; for ay his drede
Was this, that she som wight had loved so, 500
That never of him she wolde have taken hede;
For whiche him
thoughte
he felte his herte blede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It would be peculiarly
interesting to the great Posthumian House, which numbered among
its many images that of the
Dictator
Aulus, the hero of Regillus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
And the old Cats said, "Be
particularly
careful not to meddle with a
clangle-wangle if you should see one.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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There is no pause (the knack
Is
perfect)
while his left hand pulls from out a stack
Leather —I think —the track
Curves sharp, and will not let me see
Just what the task .
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_
_seaming
lace_: 'A narrow openwork braiding,
gimp, or insertion, with parallel sides, used for uniting two
breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the
other; used for garments in the 17th c.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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E segui: <
tratto
leggendo
del magno volume
du' non si muta mai bianco ne bruno,
solvuto hai, figlio, dentro a questo lume
in ch'io ti parlo, merce di colei
ch'a l'alto volo ti vesti le piume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not
ourselves
the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
| 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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The King of Poland was but simple knight,
Yet now, for once, had strange unwonted right,
And, as exception to the common state,
This one
Sarmatian
King was held as great
As German Emperor; and each knew how
His evil part to play, nor mercy show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
ere
Ne
woldestou
noman tellen here
?
| 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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In his own hills each labours down the day,
Teaching
the vine to clasp the widow'd tree:
Then to his cups again, where, feasting gay,
He hails his god in thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Thus Rilke's monograph on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's
testament
on Life and Art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Tests
All submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to
analysis in the soul,
Not traditions, not the outer
authorities
are the judges,
They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves,
and touches themselves;
For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far
and near without one exception.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
By the bed my two young daughters 68 have a
patchwork
that goes just below their knees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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They
delighted
to describe him as Gawayne the good, a man matchless
on mould, the most gracious that under God lived, the hardiest of hand, the
most fortunate in arms, and the most polite in hall, whose knowledge,
knighthood, kindly works, doings, doughtiness, and deeds of arms were known
in all lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
At this point not only the 35
populace and the inexperienced mob but many of the knights and
senators as well broke out into applause and
unbridled
enthusiasm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Castiatz is possibly Raimond V, Count of Toulouse (1148-1194)
Vierna is probably Alazais de Rocamartina, wife of Barral of Marseille, from whom the kiss was stolen
according
to the vida.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
It was the death of the most
virtuous
gentlewoman
that ever nature had praise for creating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Good-morning to this
primrose
too,
Good-morrow to each maid
That will with flowers the tomb bestrew
Wherein my love is laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
[12] This scene not
improbably
illustrates the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For these, and nobler numbers can
Ne'er please the
supercilious
man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Our task be now thy treasured stores to save,
Deep in the close
recesses
of the cave;
Then future means consult.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
]
[Footnote 5: Wilson
believed
that Chatterton never sent the _Ryse_,
&c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But now she's gone:--girls, shun deceitful men,
The worst of
stumbles
ye can fall agen;
Be deaf to them, and then, as twere, ye'll see
Your pleasures safe as under lock and key.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
But amid his utterance a quick
shudder
overruns
his limbs; his eyes are fixed in horror; so thickly
hiss the snakes of the Fury, so vast her form expands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
When sight of lessening Ithaca was lost
Their sail directed for the Samian coast
A small but verdant isle appear'd in view,
And Asteris the
advancing
pilot knew;
An ample port the rocks projected form,
To break the rolling waves and ruffling storm:
That safe recess they gain with happy speed,
And in close ambush wait the murderous deed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Open mouth of my soul
uttering
gladness,
Eyes of my soul seeing perfection,
Natural life of me faithfully praising things,
Corroborating forever the triumph of things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the families connected with
the
institution
and by the leading people of the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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TO
AURELIUS
AND FURIUS IN DEFENCE OF HIS MUSE'S HONESTY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
In 1226, while at the court of Richard of
Bonifazio
in Verona, he abducted his master's wife, Cunizza, at the instigation of her brother, Ezzelino da Romano.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
' Without a word of
farewell
he
went out, almost groping his way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
For that (with pain I find)
Not Nature's poor
endowments
may alone
Render me worthy of a look so kind,
I strive to raise my mind
To match with the exalted hopes I own,
And fires, though all engrossing, pure as mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a
thousand
errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_ Who so hard-hearted
Of the gods, to whom these things are
pleasant?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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heu
querulae
iam sponte fores!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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and stem
A tide of suffering, rather than forego
Such feelings for the hard and worldly phlegm
Of those whose eyes are only turned below,
Gazing upon the ground, with
thoughts
which dare not glow?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Puella nam mi, quae meo sinu fugit,
Amata tantum quantum
amabitur
nulla,
Pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
Consedit istic.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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e
co{m}paignie
of myn honeste frendis.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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London, Rome, the
Mediterranean countries generally, Ceylon and India, are still all dotted
with survivors among his generation who will mourn for him affectionately,
although his latter years were spent in
comparatively
close retirement.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'Twas all in vain, a useless matter,
And
blankets
were about him pinn'd;
Yet still his jaws and teeth they clatter,
Like a loose casement in the wind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
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Li Po |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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See, I lie here
extending
my arms toward your knees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In the
sixteenth century _the_ was frequently placed before _which_, which was
also the
equivalent
of _who_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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NOTES:
_32 itself
divine]it
is divine B.
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Shelley |
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