They weep:--from off their delicate stems
Perennial
tears descend in gems.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,
Beneath thy morning star advance,
Pleasure with her siren air
May delude the
thoughtless
pair;
Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptur'd sip, and sip it up.
| 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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to live content with only one husband,
Praise is and truest of praise ever
bestowed
upon wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Some say that bright majority
Of
vanished
dames and men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"
He put on his spectacles and read as follows:--
"_To the
Commandant
of Fort Belogorsk,
"Captain Mironoff, these.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, _he who is
connected
with another, relation, companion_:
gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Here was this atom in full breath,
Hurling defiance at vast death;
This scrap of valor just for play
Fronts the north-wind in
waistcoat
gray,
As if to shame my weak behavior;
I greeted loud my little savior,
'You pet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
We want nothing but an increased supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally
interesting
record of Early
English minds.
| 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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King of this happy land, Troezen's his destiny:
And he knows that the law will grant to your son
Those proud
ramparts
of Minerva's creation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Behold where Dryden's less
presumptuous
car
Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear
Two coursers of ethereal race
With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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7a _uinctos_ BLa1Aah et sic Benoist, Giri: _uictos_ O
9a
_langoribus_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ich halt es
wenigstens
fur reichlichen Gewinn,
Dass ich nicht Kaiser oder Kanzler bin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
And why
Doth he himself allow it, nor spare the same
Even for his
enemies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Respondi id quod erat, nihil neque ipsis
Nec praetoribus esse nec cohorti, 10
Cur
quisquam
caput unctius referret,
Praesertim quibus esset inrumator
Praetor, non faciens pili cohortem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious
thunderings
the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
| 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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I read
in every face I meet a standing
advertisement
of information wanted in
regard to A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Derriere les rochers une chienne inquiete
Nous regardait d'un oeil fache,
Epiant le moment de
reprendre
au squelette
Le morceau qu'elle avait lache.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius
germanum
amittere crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An
interloper
own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former husbandmen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet carillon of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no
companions
else
Than ghostly kilometer posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"--This story of Omar reminds me of another so naturally--and when
one
remembers
how wide of his humble mark the noble sailor aimed--so
pathetically told by Captain Cook--not by Doctor Hawkworth--in his
Second Voyage (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
De Beranger has wrought innumerable
things, pungent and spirit-stirring, but in general they have been too
imponderous to stamp
themselves
deeply into the public attention, and
thus, as so many feathers of fancy, have been blown aloft only to be
whistled down the wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
The minstrel harp, for the
strained
string?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes suddenly altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a
startled
face that penetrates my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
HYMN
AT morn--at noon--at
twilight
dim--
Maria!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"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 |
|
Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
The sky with burning towns flared red,
Nearer the noise of
fighting
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Linquantur
Phrygii, Catulle, campi
Nicaeaeque ager uber aestuosae: 5
Ad claras Asiae volemus urbes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Was reitst du so
schnelle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
, Munro
8 _derecta_ Statius:
_detecta_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
Better be jocund with the
fruitful
Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new
politeness
took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their curtains by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
O fearful
meditation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Whoever, in attempting to describe their sublime features, should
confine himself to the cold rules of painting would give his reader but
a very imperfect idea of those
emotions
which they have the irresistible
power of communicating to the most impassive imaginations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Her conscious tail her joy declared:
The fair round face, the snowy beard,
The velvet of her paws,
Her coat that with the
tortoise
vies,
Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes--
She saw, and purr'd applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
A new
acquaintance
we must scan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Ich schau in diesen reinen Zugen
Die
wirkende
Natur vor meiner Seele liegen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Phantom
assigned
to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed uselessly by his cold dream of defiance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
CXIX
Nor
Rodomont
to Nimrod yields in might,
Proud and untamed; and who would not forbear
To scale the lofty firmament till night,
Could he in this wide world descry the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
The quiet nonchalance of death
No
daybreak
can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
YOU did not come,
And
marching
Time drew on, and wore me numb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Now these same films I name are borne about
And tossed and
scattered
into regions all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Wherefore
they washed their horses
In Vesta's holy well,
Wherefore they rode to Vesta's door,
I know, but may not tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
FAUST:
Verruchter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical
Latitude
of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to
his own Country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Was never wight yit half so wo
As that hir semed for to be,
Nor so
fulfilled
of ire as she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Did I call him
heretic?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
"Or if, by happy chance, thy soul might flee
Thy victims, after, thou
shouldst
surely see
And hear thy crimes relate;
Streaked with the guileless gore drained from their veins,
Greater in number than the reigns on reigns
Thou hopedst for thy state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Pennant:
Come up here, bard, bard,
Come up here, soul, soul,
Come up here, dear little child,
To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the
measureless
light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
As when AEneas hangs up and
consecrates
the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais victoribus arma.
| 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 |
|
Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of Dalmatic field
By Triumph crown'd with
deathless
bay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Laud 740, in the
Bodleian
Library; Gg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short 1798.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
]
VI
Into the district then to boot
A new proprietor arrived,
From whose
analysis
minute
The neighbourhood fresh sport derived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
I flee, I confess, from young Aricia, 50
Last of a deadly race that
conspires
against me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
DIRGE
Death alone
has
sympathy
for weariness:
understanding
of the ways
of mathematics:
of the struggle
against giving up what was given:
the plus one minus one
of nitrogen for oxygen:
and the unequal odds,
you a cell
against the universe,
a breath or two
against all time:
Death alone
takes what is left
without protest, criticism
or a demand for more
than one can give
who can give
no more than was given:
doesn't even ask,
but accepts it as it is,
without examination,
valuation,
or comparison.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
An illness which has long hung about me, in all probability will
speedily send me beyond that _bourn whence no
traveller
returns.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I took my bath of scented milk,
delicately
waited on,
They burned sweet things for my delight, cedar and cinnamon,
They lit my shaded silver lamp, and left me there alone.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Appears
Suddenly
in their midst, wild, pale with rage,
Judas Bityagovsky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Project Gutenberg
volunteers
and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
A second arch is a wall
To
separate
our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Imagists |
|
_Virgilium vidi tantum_,--I have seen
But as a boy, who looks alike on all,
That misty hair, that fine Undine-like mien,
Tremulous as down to feeling's
faintest
call;--
Ah, dear old homestead!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The theatre grows more elaborate, developing the player at the expense
of the poet, developing the scenery at the expense of the player,
always increasing in importance whatever has come to it out of the mere
mechanism of a building or the interests of a class, specialising more
and more, doing whatever is easiest rather than what is most noble,
and creating a class before the footlights as behind, who are stirred
to excitements that belong to it and not to life; until at last life,
which knows that a specialised energy is not herself, turns to other
things, content to leave it to
weaklings
and triflers, to those in
whose body there is the least quantity of herself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
'At certe tamen, inquiunt, quod illic
Natum dicitur esse, conparasti 15
Ad
lecticam
homines.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do
hopeless
hang,
That 'heaven' is, to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
It is also in keeping that the contest should
have a half-grotesque and half-ghastly touch, the grapple amid the graves
and the
cracking
ribs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Behold, the flakes rush thick and fast;
Or are they years, that come between,--
When, peering back into the past,
I search the
legendary
scene?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of
Contemporary
Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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But Christabel in dizzy trance
Stumbling on the unsteady ground
Shuddered aloud, with a hissing sound;
And
Geraldine
again turned round,
And like a thing, that sought relief,
Full of wonder and full of grief,
She rolled her large bright eyes divine
Wildly on Sir Leoline.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Keats |
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Our guilty head
We turn'd to flight; the
gathering
vengeance spread
On all parts round, and heaps on heaps lie dead.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Alfred de Musset, 1904-7
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart:
It's enough surely to love one's
mistress?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And well she knew, to herself
bitterly
smiling,
How the King seated amid his fellow-kings
Devised his grievous rage, feeling himself
Insulted in his dearest mind, his rule
Over the precious pleasure of his women
Wounded: how the man's wrath would hiss and swell
Like gross spittle spat into red-hot coals.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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On, on would I fly, till a charm stopped my way,
A charm that would lead to the bower;
Where the
daughter
of Araby sings to the day,
At the dawn and the vesper hour.
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Hugo - Poems |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
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One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
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or man
dead child
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Mallarme - Poems |
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