A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
I
answered
in a passion.
| Guess: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or, turning to the Vatican, go see
Laocoon's torture dignifying pain--
A father's love and mortal's agony
With an immortal's
patience
blending:--Vain
The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain
And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp,
The old man's clench; the long envenomed chain
Rivets the living links,--the enormous asp
Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A
princely
lodging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Note: Pound utilises an issue of translation
regarding
the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Contrast
Sansloy's rude treatment of Una with the chivalrous respect
and courtesy always shown by a true knight to woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle
thoughts
have bound thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But now, what is't that strikes thy sceptic mind,
Constraining thee to sundry arguments
Against belief that from insensate germs
The
sensible
is gendered?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Tho', when some kind,
connubial
dear,
Your but-and-ben adorns,
The like has been that you may wear
A noble head of horns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The sweet spring-flowers not always keep
Their bloom, nor
moonlight
shines the same
Each evening.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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]
[Sidenote B: I will wear it in
remembrance
of my fault.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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As nature's curtain fell
The one who bore him
tottered
in,
For this was woman's son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sam: All otherwise to me my
thoughts
portend, 590
That these dark orbs no more shall treat with light,
Nor th' other light of life continue long,
But yield to double darkness nigh at hand:
So much I feel my genial spirits droop,
My hopes all flat, nature within me seems
In all her functions weary of herself;
My race of glory run, and race of shame,
And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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That day you sent your family before,
Thither, my lord, where, under omens fell,
Your foes into a well protected seat,
Abandoning
their barks, had made retreat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_Io son dell'
aspectar
omai si vinto.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There was no Band, but they all sang "The Place
where the old Horse died" as
something
respectful and appropriate to the
occasion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All
imperfection
born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
shrieked
Enid, thinking of the prince's wound and loss of
blood, "do not kill a dead man!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Themselves had seen me from
slaughter
come
blood-flecked from foes, where five I bound,
and that wild brood worsted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be;
But that which most doth take my muse and me,
Is a pure cup of rich canary wine,
Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine:
Of which had Horace, or
Anacreon
tasted,
Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Nay, rather it is the
quietness
of power,
That knows there is no turbulence in life
Dare the least questioning hindrance set against
The onward of its going,--therefore quiet,
All gentle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
)
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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There is a little bay not far from here,
The shingle of it a
thronging
city of flies,
Feeding on the dead weed that mounds the beach;
And the sea hoards there its vain avarice,--
Old flotsam, and decaying trash of ships.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The grass was never trodden on,
The little path of gravel
Was
overgrown
with celandine;
No other folk did travel
Along its weedy surface but the nimble-footed mouse,
Running from house to house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"Houses are classed, I beg to state,
According
to the number
Of Ghosts that they accommodate:
(The Tenant merely counts as _weight_,
With Coals and other lumber).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Royalties are
payable to "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation"
the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were
legally
required
to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
periodic) tax return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The gods, it was added, vouchsafed the clearest signs
of the favor with which they regarded the enterprise, and of the
high
destinies
reserved for the young colony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No smother'd spark like mine emits a flame
To catch the public eye, as you can boast--
A leading name in Cupid's
numerous
host!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
dareðum
lācan (_to fight_), 2849.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Is't
history?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
I've
confessed
an unworthy love he'll deplore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The little God o' the world jogs on the same old way
And is as
singular
as on the world's first day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Still o'er the features, which
perforce
they cheer,
To feign the pleasure or conceal the pique;
Smiles form the channel of a future tear,
Or raise the writhing lip with ill-dissembled sneer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
With what
powerful
truths
does Una meet the arguments of Despair?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
--Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled
in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to
obtain the
tincture
of reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
for if we love one another
Nothing, in truth, can harm us,
whatever
mischances may happen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Again some fly doth sting me wretched,
Image of earth-born Argus, cover it, earth;
I fear the myriad-eyed
herdsman
beholding;
For he goes having a treacherous eye,
Whom not e'en dead the earth conceals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
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And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"Conosceste i
dubbiosi
desiri?
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Byron |
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No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But I haue spoke with one that saw him die:
Who did report, that very frankly hee
Confess'd his Treasons, implor'd your
Highnesse
Pardon,
And set forth a deepe Repentance:
Nothing in his Life became him,
Like the leauing it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Now the people of
Erech assemble about him
admiring
his godlike appearance.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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if our own hands
Have thus our weal betray'd, who shall our cause
sustain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'96'
Point out the exact meaning of this
familiar
line.
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Alexander Pope |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"Chiampa there her
fragrant
coast extends,
There Cochin-China's cultur'd land ascends:
From Anam Bay begins the ancient reign
Of China's beauteous art-adorn'd domain;
Wide from the burning to the frozen skies,
O'erflow'd with wealth, the potent empire lies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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