As the
Knight of the Green Chapel I am known to many,
wherefore
if thou
seekest thou canst not fail to find me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_The Crow Sat on the Willow_
The crow sat on the willow tree
A-lifting up his wings,
And glossy was his coat to see,
And loud the ploughman sings,
"I love my love because I know
The milkmaid she loves me";
And
hoarsely
croaked the glossy crow
Upon the willow tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Lady, by God above,
Since I am yours wholly,
Willingly and humbly,
Grant me of your love,
Your mercy, and pity,
Your prayers, and loyalty,
And do yourself honour:
For I'm
burdened
by fear,
That I might not aspire
To one whom I desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Were
prisoners
Judges, 'twould seeme rigorous,
Shee sinn'd, we beare; part of our paine is, thus
To love them, whose fault to this painfull love yoak'd us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I disapprove alike
The host whose assiduity extreme 80
Distresses, and whose
negligence
offends;
The middle course is best; alike we err,
Him thrusting forth whose wish is to remain,
And hind'ring the impatient to depart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Clanking
chains and sounds of woe
Fill the forests as they go;
And the tall oaks cower low,
Bent their flaming light before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Trois pas
Et, tous, nous avons mis ta
Bastille
en poussiere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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don't throw
anything
at my head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The
mountains
have reared him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Poe, annoyed at some
misprints
in this issue, shortly
afterwards caused a corrected copy to be inserted in the "Home Journal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
]
Thou who loved Juvenal, and filed
His style so sharp to scar imperial brows,
And lent the lustre lightening
The gloom in Dante's murky verse that flows--
Muse
Indignation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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How often
did she grow
sallower
in sheen than gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Land of the willful gospel, thou worst and thou best;
Tall Adam of lands, new-made of the dust of the West;
Thou wroughtest alone in the Garden of God, unblest
Till He fashioned lithe Freedom to lie for thine Eve on thy breast --
Till out of thy heart's dear neighborhood, out of thy side,
He fashioned an
intimate
Sweet one and brought thee a Bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"Must I
complete
it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Better than any born
mountaineer
of Attica.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
* * * * * * * * *
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
--The title
"Flowers of Edinburgh," has no manner of
connexion
with the present
verses, so I suspect there has been an older set of words, of which
the title is all that remains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Occasionally, when
chestnutting
in midwinter, I
find thirty or forty nuts in a pile, left in its gallery, just under
the leaves, by the common wood mouse (_Mus leucopus_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
25707 O Frutefull Garden 434
To my Lord of
Pembroke
435
Of a Lady in the Black Masque 436
Burley MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be
resurrected
only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
He kept bits of
verse by him for years and inserted them into
appropriate
places in his
poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
It is entered in
the _Stationer's Register_ 1567-8, and mentioned by
Reginald
Scot in
1584.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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LE VOYAGE
A MAXIME DU CAMP
I
Pour l'enfant,
amoureux
de cartes et d'estampes,
L'univers est egal a son vaste appetit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Fill with it, to its utmost stretch, thy breast,
And in the
consciousness
when thou art wholly blest,
Then call it what thou wilt,
Joy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The thick-ribbed walls that o'ershadow the gate
Resound; and the
dungeons
unfold:
I pause; and at length, through the glimmering grate,
That outcast of pity behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Now, all
intelligent
men look upon me in kindness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
for aye good lasses are lauded as loyal:
Price of
themselves
they accept when they intend to perform.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
15
Pretends
to that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Hercules, hanging on rumours of those labours,
Was already resting from his, in
favouring
yours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
For surveying the building, 'twas Prat did the feat ;
But for the expense he relied on Woi'stenholm,
Who sat
heretofore
at the king's receipt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
From hence, ye
Beauties!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
ankeden god, & glade were,
And
avoweden
in ?
| 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 |
|
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying
fearless
and fleet:
That was all!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
When thou with
flattery
canst cajole me,
Till I self-satisfied shall be,
When thou with pleasure canst befool me,
Be that the last of days for me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
the
disguise
was perfect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The River Sebre before them reared its bank,
'Twas very deep,
marvellous
current ran;
No barge thereon nor dromond nor caland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
What
chemistry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
He
questioned
softly why I failed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Ich brauche wenigstens vierzehn Tag,
Nur die
Gelegenheit
auszuspuren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
th,
ffor
penaunce
?
| 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 |
|
Harley used to regret
that Pope's religion
rendered
him legally incapable of holding a
sinecure office in the government, such as was frequently bestowed in
those days upon men of letters, and Swift jestingly offered the young
poet twenty guineas to become a Protestant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Peacham's
_Compleat
Gentleman_, 1627 (p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
ing to answere
p{er}fitly
to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
545
Uncertain
thro' his fierce uncultur'd soul
Like lighted tempests troubled transports roll;
To viewless realms his Spirit towers amain,
Beyond the senses and their little reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
[b] The Digest enumerates a multitude of rules concerning _exceptions_
to persons, things, the form of the action, the
niceties
of pleading,
and, as the phrase is, motions in arrest of judgement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Pompless no life can pass away;
The
lowliest
career
To the same pageant wends its way
As that exalted here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
wyrðe
þinceað
eorla geæhtlan, _seem worthy of the
high esteem of the noble-born_, 369.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Carman's method, apparently, has been to imagine each
lost lyric as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable
flavour of the translation is maintained throughout, though accompanied by
the fluidity and freedom of purely
original
work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
But hear me further--Japhet, 'tis agreed,
Writ not, and Chartres scarce could write or read,
In all the courts of Pindus
guiltless
quite;
But pens can forge, my friend, that cannot write;
And must no egg in Japhet's face be thrown
Because the deed he forged was not my own?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Ah,
Postumus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
last she fell a heap of Ashes
Beneath the furnaces a woful heap in living death
Then were the furnaces unscald with spades & pickaxes
{Alternate
reading of "unsealed" for "unscaled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
These productions have often been
ingenious
and elegant
but we have never before seen one of them which indicated really
first-rate poetical genius, and which would have done honour to any
men that ever wrote.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The cause was brought
before the
tribunal
of Appius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
TO OUR LADY OF VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT
(BALLATA)
i
WHOare you that the whole world's song
Is shaken out beneath feet your
Leaving you comfortless, Who, that, as wheat
Is garnered, gather in The blades of man's sin And bear that sheaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I have no
precious
time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Give me a man that is not dull
When all the world with rifts is full;
But unamaz'd dares clearly sing,
Whenas the roof's a-tottering:
And, though it falls, continues still
Tickling
the cittern with his quill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
But in this view even the "metaphysical verse" of Cowley
is but evidence of the
simplicity
and single-heartedness of the man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the burnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh,
And find their
laughter
sweeter to the taste
For that brief sighing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
He represents a
reaction
against the formal prosody of
his immediate predecessors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Friday night again and all my songs
Forgotten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
My prayers shall reach the avengers of all wrong;
No
expiations
shall the curse unbind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest
wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The Peak's proud height the
Spaniards
all
admire,
Yet in their breasts carry a pride much higher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
There's stir among the serving folk;
They bustle, bustle, boy and girl;
The
flickering
flames send up the smoke
In many a curl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Fragment On Sensibility
Rusticity's
ungainly
form
May cloud the highest mind;
But when the heart is nobly warm,
The good excuse will find.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Et cependant voila des siecles innombrables
Que vous vous combattez sans pitie ni remord,
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort,
O
lutteurs
eternels, o freres implacables!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
'457'
This was
especially
true in Pope's day when literature was so closely
connected with politics that an author's work was praised or blamed not
upon its merits, but according to his, and the critic's, politics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Thou may'st restore
The son in safety to his native shore;
While the fell foes, who late in ambush lay,
With fraud
defeated
measure back their way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises
nothing, sits in calmness and light, is
positive
and composed, and knows no
discouragement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
O
beautiful
star with the crimson mouth!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I dare say I have
scarcely
touched upon the secret of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
"
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets,
probably
III or IV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
IV
Telles vous cheminez, stoiques et sans plaintes,
A travers le chaos des vivantes cites,
Meres au coeur saignant,
courtisanes
ou saintes,
Dont autrefois les noms par tous etaient cites.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
We grow cold,
Grow weary and
oppressed!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The
blessing
this a father gives his child!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
She is God's bribery to man
That he the world endure,
His wage for
carrying
the weight of being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
"The most powerful, the most finely
imaginative
Ihe most powerful" (l, e.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
and over happy, had but the keels of
Dardania
never
touched our shores!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Your
trumpets
sound, as many as ye bear!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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If I had
encouraged
him the khansamah would have wandered all through
Bengal with his corpse.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
CXIX
Swift through the field Turpin the
Archbishop
passed;
Such shaven-crown has never else sung Mass
Who with his limbs such prowess might compass;
To th'pagan said "God send thee all that's bad!
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Chanson de Roland |
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What effect
is
produced
in xxx and how?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But
trusteth
wel, I swere it yow,
That it is clene out of his thought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In either case
the origin of true
government
as of true religion was love.
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Alexander Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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