XLIII
He smiled on those bold Romans
A smile serene and high;
He eyed the
flinching
Tuscans,
And scorn was in his eye.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Conquered so often now they will no more
Chance
themselves
against the conqueror.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O
children
of the light, now in our grief Give us again the solace of belief.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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TO THE LADY
MAGDALEN
HERBERT, &c.
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John Donne |
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THE nephew here his precious charge resigned,
For fear the king should be displeased to find,
His
daughter
guarded by a youthful swain:--
The tutor only with her could remain.
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La Fontaine |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Here he
provides
me with ev'rything, sees that I get what I call for;
Each day that passes he spreads freshly plucked roses for me.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Those enemies of Timon's and mine own,
Whom you
yourselves
shall set out for reproof,
Fall, and no more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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To aid thy mind's development,--to watch
Thy dawn of little joys,--to sit and see
Almost thy very growth,--to view thee catch
Knowledge
of objects, wonders yet to thee!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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]
[Sidenote I: My head flew to my foot, yet I never fled,]
[Sidenote J:
wherefore
I ought to be called the better man.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Your most
affectionate
son,
R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That
endeavour
and dispute?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XLIII
"Whence woe, so direful and so strange, ensued
Cannot by me to you be signified:
I saw on earth his sword and armour strewed,
Doffed by that peer, and scattered far and wide;
And I a pious knight and
courteous
viewed
Those arms collecting upon every side,
Who, in the guise of trophy, to a tree
Fastened that fair and pompous panoply.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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With
specimens
of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Music once more and
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the
shatterd
bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And we do more than just kiss; we
prosecute
reasoned discussions
(Should she succumb to sleep, that gives me time for my thoughts).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
Governor
was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Pope, for example, is
preeminently
the poet of
his time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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With idle force did faine them to withstand,
And often
semblaunce
made to scape out of their hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Therefore
strike on, the Emperour's love to gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Here for those busy crews
Green leaves and pale-stemmed
clusters
of green strong flowers
Build heavy-perfumed, cool, green-twilight bowers
Whence, load by load, through the long summer days
They fill their glassy cells
With dark green honey, clear as chrysoprase,
Which housewives shun; but the bee-master tells
This brand is more delicious than all else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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If man be
therefore
man, because he can
Reason, and laugh, thy booke doth halfe make man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is not
seriously
treated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And as he walked he looked from side to side
To find some pleasant nook for his repast,
Since appetite was come to munch at last
The
princely
morsel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Let
Neighbor
Belly that way go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And now she's at the doctor's door,
She lifts the knocker, rap, rap, rap,
The doctor at the casement shews,
His
glimmering
eyes that peep and doze;
And one hand rubs his old night-cap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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methinks
her lips move, her eyes open!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
To most Germans
Schiller
is still a great poet;
but to the rest of Europe hardly one at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
]
[Sidenote E: He has no men with mails containing
precious
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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' He ends, and throws the
spear whistling from far; it flies on,
glancing
from the shield, and
pierces illustrious Antores hard by him sidelong in the flank; Antores,
companion of Hercules, who, sent thither from Argos, had stayed by
Evander, and [781-814]settled in an Italian town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful Jollity,
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and Wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek; 30
Sport that wrincled Care derides,
And
Laughter
holding both his sides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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the Gods to thee have giv'n
Of all thy sex, the most
obdurate
heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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_ Henry
Lawes (1595-1662), the friend of Milton, admitted a
Gentleman
of the
Chapel Royal, 1625.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Wouldst thou go on before me, and say, Look,
This is the woman which I told you of,
You kings; does she not, as I said, stir up
Quaking desire through all your
muscles?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But Jove (for so it pleas'd him) hath reduced
My all to nothing,
prompting
me, in league
With rovers of the Deep, to sail afar
To AEgypt, for my sure destruction there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Could mortal lip divine
The
undeveloped
freight
Of a delivered syllable,
'T would crumble with the weight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I am sure you
will all join with me in
expressing
a hearty vote of thanks to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
If he by Taro, and in Naples' reign,
('Tis said), from Gauls
delivered
Italy,
'Twill be replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay;
For when we rage, advice is often seen
By
blunting
us to make our wills more keen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
To three heads all three proofs are reduceable--their form of
government, which, till the conquest of the Tartars in 1644, bore the
marks of the highest antiquity; their
astronomical
observations; and
their history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
at wat3 comen his
compeyny
noble,
Alle ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
ince _Loue_ hath the honour to approach
_He grows more
familiar
in his Court-?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"That men with knowledge merely play'd,
I told thee--hardly nigher made,
Tho' scaling slow from grade to grade;
"Much less this dreamer, deaf and blind,
Named man, may hope some truth to find,
That bears
relation
to the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Now let me crunch you
With full weight of
affrighted
love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
) I can tell you that the
Szechwan
Road as
described in the poem that Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
[5]
A Moralist
perchance
appears; 25
Led, Heaven knows how!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I know perfectly well my own egotism,
Know my
omnivorous
lines and must not write any less,
And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
| 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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Then the Liars and
Swearers
are Fools: for there
are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men,
and hang vp them
Wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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LOVE THAT LIVES
Dear face--bright,
glinting
hair;
Dear life, whose heart is mine--
The thought of you is prayer,
The love of you divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Maggot
frequents
those houses of good cheer, 391.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Low lies the pall,
Lowly the
mourners
all
Their passage grope;
No sable hue
Mars the serene blue
Of heaven's cope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
[Enter] The
attendant
Spirit habited like a Shepherd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"O bed, whereon my
laughing
girlhood's knot
Was severed by this man, for whom I die,
Farewell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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For he saw, how
warring round the Trojan citadel here the Greeks fled, the men of Troy
hard on their rear; here the Phrygians, plumed
Achilles
in his chariot
pressing their flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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literature, but occurs
abundantly
in translations
from the Latin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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UNKNOWN COUNTRY
Here, in this other world, they come and go
With easy dream-like
movements
to and fro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
816 the poet Po
Chu-i wrote as follows (he is discussing Tu Fu as well as Li Po): "The
world
acclaims
Li Po as its master poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
They that were once lords of a
thousand
hosts
Are now become the dust of the hills and ridges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Bring forth Men-Children onely:
For thy
vndaunted
Mettle should compose
Nothing but Males.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
On these the princes of Phaeacia sat,
Holding perpetual feasts, while golden youths
On all the
sumptuous
altars stood, their hands
With burning torches charged, which, night by night, 120
Shed radiance over all the festive throng.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
King Marsilies hath
bargained
for us cheap;
At the sword's point he yet shall pay our meed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
It can ne be I should behight the rest, 355
That by the myghtie arme of Alfwolde felle,
Paste bie a penne to be counte or expreste,
How manie Alfwolde sent to heaven or helle;
As leaves from trees shook by derne Autumns hand,
So laie the
Normannes
slain by Alfwold on the strand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
No, not if the blow
Is as the lightning
blasting
a tree,
I fear you not, puffing braggart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
But when the
quarried
means were piled,
All is waste and worthless, till
Arrives the wise selecting will,
And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
Draws the threads of fair and fit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
I must fight always and die fighting
With fear an
unhealing
wound in my breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
XXVIII
My
letters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
I saw a vapour in the sky,
Thin, and white, and very high;
I ne'er beheld so thin a cloud:
Perhaps the breezes that can fly
Now below and now above,
Have
snatched
aloft the lawny shroud
Of Lady fair--that died for love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
e marchal,
In
stretfor?
| 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 |
|
I keep my countenance, I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano,
mechanical
and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling things that other people have desired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
O'er Tagus' waves the
youthful
hero pass'd,
And bleeding hosts before him shrunk aghast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Methinks no face so
gracious
is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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John Donne |
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The man who spoke
When we were at the
Scottish
Gate that day.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Les soirs
illumines
par l'ardeur du charbon,
Et les soirs au balcon, voiles de vapeurs roses;
Que ton sein m'etait doux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou lay'st unspotted souls to rest;
Thy golden rod pale
spectres
know;
Blest power!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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Two
workmen are
covering
the gap with a vast black cloth.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CHORUS
Nay, tell not that unto our loathed lord,
But speed to him, put on the mien of joy,
Say, _Come along, fear nought, the news is good:_
A bearer can tell
straight
a twisted tale.
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Aeschylus |
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" Ulysses' sire, you see,
Had been at
Appomattox
near the famous apple-tree;
And "Patrick Michael Casey!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely
softly in His hands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Tis a Madonna of Vandyk,
An oval
countenance
and pink,
Yon silly moon upon the brink
Of the horizon she is like!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But
sometimes
when you hear blown back to you
My wistful, far-off singing touched with tears,
Know that I sang for you alone to hear,
And that I wondered if the wind would bring
To him who tuned my heart its distant song.
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Sara Teasdale |
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