Faith is a fine invention
For
gentlemen
who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Is not this great power indeed,
which allows even wealth to be
disdained?
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Aristophanes |
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"Origias,
farewell!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Within 'twas full
of wire-gold and jewels; a jealous warden,
warrior trusty, the
treasures
held,
lurked in his lair.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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40
VI
Oh, what a face was hers to
brighten
light,
And give back sunshine with an added glow,
To wile each moment with a fresh delight,
And part of memory's best contentment grow!
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James Russell Lowell |
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He lay as one who lies and dreams
In a pleasant meadow-land,
The
watchers
watched him as he slept,
And could not understand
How one could sleep so sweet a sleep
With a hangman close at hand.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--
though thou wast the bane {9a} of thy
brethren
dear,
thy closest kin, whence curse of hell
awaits thee, well as thy wit may serve!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In this new book we have followed a slightly
different
arrangement to that
of the former Anthology.
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Imagists |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If I could flatter myself that this Essay has
any merit, it is in
steering
betwixt the extremes of doctrines seemingly
opposite, in passing over terms utterly unintelligible, and in forming a
_temperate_ yet not _inconsistent_, and a _short_ yet not _imperfect_
system of Ethics.
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Alexander Pope |
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_sa-bar; sa-sud-da_,
liturgical
note, 182, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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shrink you not from crime whose punishment
Falls on your
innocent
children?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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stat chaos densum tenebraeque turpes
et color noctis malus ac silentis
otium mundi
uacuaeque
nubes.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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qui natam possis
complexu
auellere matris,
complexu matris retinentem auellere natam,
et iuueni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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261-270),
he goes on to speak of the
babbling
friends who insist that he is always
meditating some new satire, and persist in recognizing some wretched
poetaster's lampoon as his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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the only sound,
The
dripping
of the oar suspended!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy
pregnant
lips for more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But my track
I home to Athelhall must take
To hinder
household
wrack!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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So now the
daughter
beguiles the naive and bedazzles the foolish,
Teases you while you're asleep; when you awaken, she's flown.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ronsard |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Nae mair ungenerous wish I hae,
Nor
stronger
in my breast,
Than, if I canna make thee sae,
At least to see thee blest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I love and fear naught more than her,
I would receive the
bitterest
dart,
If only it gave my lady pleasure;
For it seems like Christmas Day
If her sweet spiritual eyes should stray
Towards me: yet so infrequently,
That each day's like a hundred to me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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_Mercury_, god of eloquence and
inventor
of the lyre.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What do the
strangers
seem to thee?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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She's torn from her bed by
sorrowful
unquiet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He saw in dreams a drawing-room,
Where thirteen wretches sat in gloom,
Waiting--he thought he knew for whom:
He saw them drooping here and there,
Each feebly huddled on a chair,
In
attitudes
of blank despair:
Oysters were not more mute than they,
For all their brains were pumped away,
And they had nothing more to say--
Save one, who groaned "Three hours are gone!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
130
And when the Sun begins to fling
His flaring beams, me Goddes bring
To arched walks of twilight groves,
And shadows brown that Sylvan loves
Of Pine, or
monumental
Oake,
Where the rude Ax with heaved stroke,
Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt,
Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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But dash the tear-drop from thine eye,
Our ship is swift and strong;
Our
fleetest
falcon scarce can fly
More merrily along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Upward he looks--"and calls it luxury:" [E]
Kind Nature's charities his steps attend; 25
In every babbling brook he finds a friend;
While [7]
chastening
thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed
By wisdom, moralise his pensive road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Torture me not,
Charming
Marina; say not that 'twas my rank
And not myself that thou didst choose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I love to l'iter there while night grows still,
An' in the twinklin'
villages
about,
Fust here, then there, the well-saved lights goes out, 30
An' nary sound but watch-dogs' false alarms,
Or muffled cock-crows from the drowsy farms,
Where some wise rooster (men act jest thet way)
Stands to 't thet moon-rise is the break o' day;
(So Mister Seward sticks a three-months' pin
Where the war'd oughto eend, then tries agin:
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
_Don't never prophesy--onless ye know_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"The language," we are told in an introductory
note, "was intended to be dramatic; that is, suited to the narrator; and
the metre corresponds to the
homeliness
of the diction.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Je goute a votre insu des
plaisirs
clandestins:
Je vois s'epanouir vos passions novices;
Sombres ou lumineux, je vis vos jours perdus;
Mon coeur multiplie jouit de tous vos vices!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ah, thou
mistrustful
angel, thou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ye
terrible
Towns, ne'er claim the trembling soul
That, craftless all to buy or hoard or sell,
From out your deadly complex quarrel stole
To company with large amiable trees,
Suck honey summer with unjealous bees,
And take Time's strokes as softly as this morn
Takes waving of the corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Above a sombre cliff
Their heads appear'd, and up their stature grew
Till on the level height their steps found ease:
Then Thea spread abroad her
trembling
arms
Upon the precincts of this nest of pain, 90
And sidelong fix'd her eye on Saturn's face:
There saw she direst strife; the supreme God
At war with all the frailty of grief,
Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge,
Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Sur ce teint fauve et brun le fard etait
superbe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
His
constituents
con-
sented ; he sailed in July, and appears to have
been absent rather more than a year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
CI
To other Tremizen he posts, where bred
As well the people are in Mahound's style;
For other
Aethiops
then his pinions spread,
Which face the first, and lie beyond the Nile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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quine fugit lentos
incuruans
gurgite remos?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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praeterea nullo litus, sola insula, tecto,
nec patet egressus pelagi
cingentibus
undis: 185
nulla fugae ratio, nulla spes: omnia muta,
omnia sunt deserta, ostentant omnia letum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I have often mentioned to you a superb publication of
Scottish songs which is making its appearance in your great
metropolis, and where I have the honour to preside over the Scottish
verse, as no less a
personage
than Peter Pindar does over the English.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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With futile hands we seek to gain
Our inaccessible desire,
Diviner summits to attain,
With faith that sinks and feet that tire;
But nought shall conquer or control
The
heavenward
hunger of our soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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aux
premieres
heures bleues
Se detruira-t-elle comme les fleurs feues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But thou, exulting and
abounding
river!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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closing on the gates,
He peals his vaunting and
appalling
cry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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These are the spoils of a haughty king, the first-fruits won from him;
my hands have set
Mezentius
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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suddenly arose, and in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner hurried off towards the setting sun, his steps
supported by two
superincumbent
confidential cucumbers .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Experts even denied that the two
priapeia
(I
& XXIV) were by Goethe at all, although they are in the same hand as the
rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
To what base uses we may return,
Horatio!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
They may have some edging or
trimming
of a
scholar, a welt or so; but it is no more.
| 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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For I heard of few heroes, in
heartier
mood,
with four such gifts, so fashioned with gold,
on the ale-bench honoring others thus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
e
loueloker
he lappe3 a lyttel in arme3,
[C] He kysses hir comlyly, & kny3tly he mele3;
?
| 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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Ah, deadly thought, as I speak, at this moment, here,
They brave the fury of a
maddened
lover!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--No fault: in women, to confess
How tedious they are in their dress;
--No fault in women, to lay on
The
tincture
of vermilion;
And there to give the cheek a dye
Of white, where Nature doth deny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The village maid, with hand on brow
The level ray to shade,
Upon the
footpath
watches now
For Colin's darkening plaid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
How changed since Nature's summer form
Had last the power my grief to charm,
Since last ye soothed my spirit's sadness, _120
Strange chaos of a mingled
madness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don't know,
And through a riddle, at the last,
Sagacity
must go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
He deems it sin to sing, yet not to say
A song--a mighty
difference
in his way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
O chalice of all common
miseries!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the innocent lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all
contagious
taints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Are the jay, and owl, and pewit
All awake and loudly
calling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
_ See
Introduction
to the _Ode to Psyche_,
p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
In the course of
the next year some one told Byron that a rumour had reached England that
he and Shelley "had formed a league of incest with two sisters," and
that Southey and
Coleridge
were the authors of the scandal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
>>
Et les moins sots, hardis amants de la Demence,
Fuyant le grand troupeau parque par le Destin,
Et se
refugiant
dans l'opium immense!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
'Tis like a truant child
To fear that others know what thou hast done,
Even from thine own strong consciousness, and thus
Write on
unsteady
eyes and altered cheeks
All thou wouldst hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Though our love pleads now in your favour,
My soul must equal yours in honour:
Though
offending
me, you prove worthy too;
I must, by your death, prove worthy yet of you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
If thou wilt say that I shall live with thee,
Here shall my endless tabernacle be:
If not, as banish'd, I will live alone
There where no
language
ever yet was known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
I would submit that
your Majesty is ill-advised in
allowing
him to follow you into the
Queen's apartments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--Bahram of the Wild Ass--a Sassanian Sovereign--had also
his Seven Castles (like the King of
Bohemia!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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bisshopes
hem alle among
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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On as we move a softer
prospect
opes,
Calm huts, and lawns between, and sylvan slopes.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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All lovely colours there you see,
All colours that were ever seen,
And mossy network too is there,
As if by hand of lady fair
The work had woven been,
And cups, the darlings of the eye,
So deep is their
vermilion
dye.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Meredith - Poems |
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my soul, which has no rest beside,
Speeds back to those angelic lights again;
And I, though but of wax, turn to their flame,
Planting my mind's best aim
Where less the watch o'er what I love is sure:
As birds i' th' wild wood green,
Where less they fear, will sooner take the lure,
So on her lovely mien,
Now one and now another look I turn,
Wherewith
at once I nourish me and burn.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--a question that
tended even more than the
waistcoat
to fasten the terrible crime upon
the young man.
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Poe - 5 |
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All at
once my driver looked round, and
addressing
himself to me--
"Sir," said he, taking off his cap, "will you not order me to turn
back?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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1075
[_Fyghte al
anenste_
Celmonde, _meynte Danes he fleath,
and faleth to_ Hurra.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
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Keats |
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Philocleon is a bigoted devotee of the malady of
litigiousness so typical of his
countrymen
and an enthusiastic attendant
at the Courts in his capacity of 'dicast' or juryman.
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Aristophanes |
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