And thou, O
prophetess most holy, foreknower of the future, grant (for no unearned
realm does my destiny claim) a resting-place in Latium to the Teucrians,
to their
wandering
gods and the storm-tossed deities of Troy.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unlock the furthest line
Of guest-chambers; and bid the
stewards
there
Make ready a full feast; then close with care
The midway doors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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LADY:
Peace,
perturbed
heart!
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Shelley |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Stephen Crane |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If she decide upon the fourth fair nest
Each of the three to dwindle will begin,
And she alone the fame of beauty win,
Nor e'en in the fifth circle may she rest;
Thence higher if she soar, I surely trust
Jove with all other stars in
darkness
will be thrust.
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Petrarch |
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From Tripolis, from Mexico, and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessel scape the
dreadful
touch
Of merchant-marring rocks?
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Shakespeare |
|
Where was it that the famous Flower
Of Yarrow Vale lay
bleeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Golden Treasury |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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]
* * * * *
ONE HUNDRED
NONSENSE
PICTURES AND RHYMES.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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STEWART: The
Messines
Road
PRIVATE A.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She's gone into the West,
To dazzle when the sun is down,
And rob the world of rest;
She took our
daylight
with her,
The smiles that we love best,
With morning blushes on her cheek,
And pearls upon her breast.
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Poe - 5 |
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Was it not
On
yesterday
we were speaking of the Earl?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Son pareil le suivait: barbe, oeil, dos, baton, loques,
Nul trait ne distinguait, du meme enfer venu,
Ce jumeau centenaire, et ces spectres baroques
Marchaient
du meme pas vers un but inconnu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Who shames a
scribbler?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The following form
Was he that often raised the factious storm--
Bold Catulus, and he whom fortune's ray
Illumined still with beams of
cloudless
day;
Yet fail'd to chase the darkness of the mind,
That brooded still on loftier hopes behind.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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alle
fut{ur}es
{and} clepe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Next you should sit and I would sing
Through
lengthening
days of sunny spring:
Till, if you wearied of the task,
I'd sit; and you should spread your wing
From bough to bough; I'd sit and bask.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Beautiful things
Have but one spring
With roses let's sow
Time's
footprints!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is
endeared
with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Merchants reckon up their gold,
Their letters come, their ships arrive, their
freights
are glories: The profits of their treasures sold,
They tell and sum ;
Their foremen drive
, Their servants, starved to half-alive,
"
Whose labors do but make the earth a hive
THE GHOST
By Marjorie Allen Seiffert
Quiet dust is every vow We have spoken,
All alike forgotten now, Kept or broken.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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And should I then
presume?
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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e clamberande clyffes hade
clatered
on hepes;
[B] Here he wat3 halawed, when ha?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
The high command goes to the dragon spawn,2 the
Minister
of Works clasps the ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Shall I never miss
Home-talk and
blessing
and the common kiss
That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,
When I look up, to drop on a new range
Of walls and floors, another home than this?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When, young and glowing, I was but in part
The man I am become in later days;
Ye who have mark'd the changes of my style
From vain
despondency
to hope as vain,
From him among you, who has felt love's pain,
I hope for pardon, ay, and pity's smile,
Though conscious, now, my passion was a theme,
Long, idly dwelt on by the public tongue,
I blush for all the vanities I've sung,
And find the world's applause a fleeting dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
<< Puisque tu m'as choisie entre toutes les femmes
Pour etre le degout de mon triste mari,
Et que je ne puis pas rejeter dans les flammes,
Comme un billet d'amour, ce monstre rabougri,
<< Je ferai
rejaillir
la haine qui m'accable
Sur l'instrument maudit de tes mechancetes,
Et je tordrai si bien cet arbre miserable,
Qu'il ne pourra poussa ses boutons empestes!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Alarm'd, Bolonia's warlike Earl[241] awakes,
And from his
listless
brother's minions takes
The awful sceptre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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While dust
reanimate
begins to stir
Here, there, beyond, beyond, reach beyond reach;
While every wave refashions on the beach
Alive or dead-in-life some seafarer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
From windows in my father's house,
Dreaming
my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city's lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
The great city is that which has the
greatest
man or woman;
If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the
whole world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude
Forefathers
of the hamlet sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
So spake the
Universal
Lord, and seem'd
So ordering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The handsome and substantial stone
quay which stretches a mile along the riverside and protects the
street from the ice was
thronged
with the citizens who had turned out
on foot and in carriages to welcome or to behold the Yankees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
They 're here, though; not a
creature
failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He took a roll of bank-bills from his pocket
and counted out the
required
sum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands,
The artist and his ape, to teach and tell
How well his connoisseurship understands
The
graceful
bend, and the voluptuous swell:
Let these describe the undescribable:
I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream
That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I am the pool of gold
When sunset burns and dies--
You are my
deepening
skies;
Give me your stars to hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
ELECTRA
Like unto those my father's
children
wear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
" On the other hand, he assures us,
speaking of that _magnum opus_ which weighed upon him and supported
him to the end of his life, "the very object
throughout
from the first page
to the last [is] to reconcile the dictates of common sense with the
conclusions of scientific reasoning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
But here's the happiest light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of
daffodils!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Straight
into the snare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
During these bewildering
intervals
the
ship usually sailed backwards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
This is the grass that grows
wherever
the land is and the water is,
This the common air that bathes the globe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
VI
Calais, in song where word and tone keep tryst Behold my heart, and hear mine
hardihood
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
How many
grandest
rulers in his day
Chrem plucked down, there are now none can say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Everywhere
treason ripens; what shall I do?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Lass in den Tiefen der Sinnlichkeit
Uns gluhende Leidenschaften
stillen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Der Luft, dem Wasser wie der Erden
Entwinden
tausend Keime sich,
Im Trocknen, Feuchten, Warmen, Kalten!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The Garden of Valerius Cato_
SI quis forte mei domum Catonis,
depictas
minio assulas, et illos
custodis uidet hortulos Priapi,
miratur quibus ille disciplinis
tantam sit sapientiam assecutus,
quem tres cauliculi, selibra farris,
racemi duo tegula sub una
ad summam prope nutriant senectam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the
blindworm
battens on the root,
And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
To a modern
romantic
reader her insistence that her husband
shall not marry again seems hardly delicate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
'75'
With this line Arbuthnot is
supposed
to take up the conversation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By
plunging
deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
It has been found necessary to
omit a few of the less important verses in the earlier edition to
make room for the most
significant
of the lyric commemorations of
events almost contemporary, and therefore appealing to us more
immediately, and perhaps more poignantly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
My skin flie has
wounded!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Prague,
Whose language was
horribly
vague;
When they said, "Are these caps?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
He's grown sae weel
acquaint
wi' Buchan^4
And ither chaps,
The weans haud out their fingers laughin,
An' pouk my hips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
In
"The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid,"
"The Holy Fair," and others, he manifested sympathy with the protest of
the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to
the extreme
Calvinism
and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
sez he, "I guess,
John
preaches
wal," sez he;
"But, sermon thru, an' come to _du_,
Why, there's the old J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
We go down,
overwhelmed
by
numbers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
They are marching, stern and solemn; we can see each massive column
As they near the naked earth-mound with the
slanting
walls
so steep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Let his tormenter Conscience find him out, 130
For him I was not sent, nor yet to free
That people victor once, now vile and base,
Deservedly
made vassal, who once just,
Frugal, and mild, and temperate, conquer'd well,
But govern ill the Nations under yoke,
Peeling thir Provinces, exhausted all
By lust and rapine; first ambitious grown
Of triumph that insulting vanity;
Then cruel, by thir sports to blood enur'd
Of fighting beasts, and men to beasts expos'd, 140
Luxurious by thir wealth, and greedier still,
And from the daily Scene effeminate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
This man is
quickened
so with grief,
He wanders god-like or like thief
Inside and out, below, above,
Without relief seeking lost love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Now I know--
For all my speculation soareth up,
A bird taking
eternity
for air,--
Now being mixt with thee, in the burning midst
Of Beauty for my sense and mind and soul,--
That life hath highest gone which hath most joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
All is hot and fierce and passionate, ardent and
unashamed in its exulting and
importunate
desire for life and
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
If you a goddess love, advance she'll make;
Our belle the same
advantages
would take.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Sones fell Gue into perdition black;
All his sinews were
strained
until they snapped,
And all the limbs were from his body dragged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Soon as due vows on every part were paid,
And sacred wheat upon the victim laid,
Strong
Thrasymed
discharged the speeding blow
Full on his neck, and cut the nerves in two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Our wight then asked their names and
business
there;
And why he was retained in such a snare?
| Guess: |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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wīg
Hengeste
wiht
gefeohtan (_could by no means offer Hengest battle_), 1084.
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Beowulf |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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There's grief of want, and grief of cold, --
A sort they call 'despair;'
There's
banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Oh what a soveraigne
Plaister
will shee bee,
If thy past sinnes have taught thee jealousie!
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John Donne |
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To you, Madam, on our
humble
Dumfries
boards, I have been more indebted for entertainment
than ever I was in prouder theatres.
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Robert Forst |
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With mop and mow, we saw them go,
Slim shadows hand in hand:
About, about, in ghostly rout
They trod a saraband:
And the damned
grotesques
made arabesques,
Like the wind upon the sand!
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Wilde - Poems |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The purple pride
Which on thy soft cheek for
complexion
dwells
In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Pray
therefore
allow me to defer your business until I have
brought opportune aid to this gentleman's distresses at a time when
his fortunes are in a hazardous condition.
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And with these words he
returns the words of the monarch: 'For me, my praise shall even now be
in the lordly spoils I win, or in
illustrious
death: my father will bear
calmly either lot: away with menaces.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thou then, who hast rais'd
The covering, which did hide such
blessing
from me,
Whilst much of this ascent is yet to climb,
Say, if thou know, where our old Terence bides,
Caecilius, Plautus, Varro: if condemn'd
They dwell, and in what province of the deep.
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