Of
detected
persons--To me, detected persons are not, in any respect, worse
than undetected persons--and are not in any respect worse than I am
myself.
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Whitman |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now is he vanished: the bewildered skies
Flame out a
desperate
and last surmise;
Then yield to Night, their sudden conqueror.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And this
delightful
Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yonder,
gathering
driftwood for her fire.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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speak again,
"Thy soft
response
renewing--
"What makes that ship drive on so fast?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--
To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Free us, for we perish
In this ever-flowing
monotony
Of ugly print marks, black Upon white parchment.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Michael then
ascending
a hill with Adam shows him a vision of the
world's history, while Eve sleeps.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Says Chemubles "My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And
Durendal
I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I
immolate
the victim.
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Aristophanes |
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That giant-glutton,
dreadful
at a feast!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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' And Drayton was not far wrong in affirming that
'Tis
possible
to climb,
To kindle, or to slake,
Although in Skelton's rhyme.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He wrote to President Van Buren against the wrong done to
the Cherokees, dared speak against the idolized Webster, when he
deserted the cause of Freedom,
constantly
spoke of the iniquity of
slavery, aided with speech and money the Free State cause in Kansas,
was at Phillips's side at the antislavery meeting in 1861 broken up by
the Boston mob, urged emancipation during the war.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
Ah, what
sagacity
perished here!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here in an endless flow,
Sandhills of golden glow,
Where'er the
tempests
blow,
Like a great flood are spread.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Happy old man, who 'mid
familiar
streams
And hallowed springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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" echoed he; no sooner said,
Than with a
frightful
scream she vanished:
And Lycius' arms were empty of delight,
As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an
adjoining
room.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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There is
something finely
feminine
in this speech of Wealhtheow's, apart from
its somewhat irregular and irrelevant sequence of topics.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
And all they foul that thy
complexion
lack.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then a Spectre enters: it is an usher who comes to torture me in the
name of the Law; an
infamous
concubine who comes to cry misery and to
add the trivialities of her life to the sorrow of mine; or it may be the
errand-boy of an editor who comes to implore the remainder of a
manuscript.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Whan thys man chyllde was borne,
Fayne were here frendys therforne;
Theye bare the chylde to chirche A none, 41
And
crystenyd
hyt in the Font stone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Tennyson |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the
thousand
wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Healthy she
triumphs
over wickedness,
Over dark slander; but if in her be found
A single casual stain, then misery.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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These eyes behold
The
deathful
scene, princes on princes roll'd!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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It was his friend Gautier,
with the plastic style, who attempted the well-nigh impossible feat of
competing in his verbal
descriptions
with the certitudes of canvas and
marble.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy raiments and thy ebony cross
affright
me!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Umsonst, dass
trocknes
Sinnen hier
Die heil'gen Zeichen dir erklart:
Ihr schwebt, ihr Geister, neben mir;
Antwortet mir, wenn ihr mich hort!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break
enchanted
ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,--
When shall that sun arise?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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200
So did the men of war at once advaunce,
Linkd man to man, enseemed one boddie light;
Above a wood, yform'd of bill and launce,
That noddyd in the ayre most
straunge
to syght.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Ein
uberirdisches
Vergnugen.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I knew my heart would never treat you harshly:
I knew my days could not disturb you long;
And then the daughter of my
earliest
friend, 330
His worthy daughter, free to choose again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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such the period of many worlds
Others
triangular
their right angled course maintain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Unferth the spokesman
at the
Scylding
lord's feet sat: men had faith in his spirit,
his keenness of courage, though kinsmen had found him
unsure at the sword-play.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His horse he spurs, gallops with great effort,
Wields Durendal, was worth fine gold and more,
Goes as he may to strike that baron bold
Above the helm, that was
embossed
with gold,
Slices the head, the sark, and all the corse,
The good saddle, that was embossed with gold,
And cuts deep through the backbone of his horse;
He's slain them both, blame him for that or laud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Fitzdottrel
says sarcastically:
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--
Nae man can tether Time nor Tide,
The hour
approaches
Tam maun ride;
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane,
That dreary hour he mounts his beast in;
And sic a night he taks the road in,
As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Look how the rainbow doth appear
But in one only hemisphere;
So
likewise
after our decease
No more is seen the arch of peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Arrived at her door, we left her
With a drippingly hurried adieu,
And our wheels went
crunching
the gravel
Of the oak-darkened avenue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Through his broad
shoulders
the quivering spear runs
piercing him through, and doubles him up with pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Before therefore discussing the
relative value of the different editions, and the use that may be made
of the manuscripts, it will be well to give a short
description
of the
manuscripts which the present editor has consulted and used, of their
relation to one another, their comparative value, and the relation of
_some_ of them to the editions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Our history speaks of opinions and
discoveries, but in ancient times when, as I think, men had their eyes
ever upon those doors, history spoke of
commandments
and revelations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Winter with cold and snows,
With violets and roses spring is rife,
And thus if I obtain
Some few poor aliments of else weak life,
Who can of theft
complain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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These are pieces without which no anthology of Latin
poetry would be anything but
grotesquely
incomplete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What a storm of
emotions
keen
Raged round him and of balked desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na iluGilgamis ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish
id-[ ]na-an(?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Woe is me, oh, lost one,
For that love is now to me
A
supernal
dream,
White, white, white with many suns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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that covered was,
Did loose his vele by chaunce, and open flew:
The light whereof, that heavens light did pas, 165
Such blazing
brightnesse
through the aier threw,
That eye mote not the same endure to vew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
I'd fashion thy ensemble
including
body and soul,
I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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That way we turn'd our steps; nor was it long,
Ere making ready
comments
on the sight
Which then we saw, with one and the same voice
We all cried out, that he must be indeed
An idle man, who thus could lose a day 1800.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The long _u_ is
due to analogy with _namassu_ a
Sumerian
loan-word with nisbe ending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e;
& hor play wat3
passande
vche prynce gomen,
in vayres;
1016 [H] Trumpe3 & nakerys,
Much pypyng ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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226) quotes from chapter 12, 'Del baile y cantar llamado
Zarabanda,' of the _Tratado contra los Juegos
Publicos_
('Treatise
against Public Amusements') of Mariana (1536-1623): 'Entre las otras
invenciones ha salido estos anos un baile y cantar tan lacivo en las
palabras, tan feo en las meneos, que basta para pegar fuego aun a las
personas muy honestas' ('amongst other inventions there has appeared
during late years a dance and song, so lascivious in its words, so
ugly in its movements, that it is enough to inflame even very modest
people').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not
in towns and cities, but in the
impervious
and quaking swamps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
incident
of the
picture is not in the 1640 _Life_, but was added in 1658.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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" Here ceas'd the
lamentable
sound;
And I continu'd thus: "Still would I learn
More from thee, farther parley still entreat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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With
associate
step the bards
Drew near the plant; and from amidst the leaves
A voice was heard: "Ye shall be chary of me;"
And after added: "Mary took more thought
For joy and honour of the nuptial feast,
Than for herself who answers now for you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of
sevenbranched
candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I gained it so,
By
climbing
slow,
By catching at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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for that--I love them;
I love to watch them in the deep blue vault,
And to compare them with my Myrrha's eyes;
I love to see their rays redoubled in
The tremulous silver of Euphrates' wave,
As the light breeze of
midnight
crisps the broad
And rolling water, sighing through the sedges
Which fringe his banks: but whether they may be
Gods, as some say, or the abodes of Gods, 260
As others hold, or simply lamps of night,
Worlds--or the lights of Worlds--I know nor care not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
34
Retaking
the Capital I The immortal Guard left the Cinnabar Pole Star,1 demon stars shone on the steps of jade He was compelled to leave the palace and run, 4 he could not just stay, clinging to his mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And he that next held sway,
By
stronger
grasp o'erthrown
Hath pass'd away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
They have numberless
University
towns
each with its own character and with an academic life animated by a
zeal and by an imagination unknown in these countries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
On the
wretched
poor black Mumma
Falls this much-enraged one's fury
Doubly down at last; he beats her,
Then he calls her Queen Christina.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[Illustration]
When awful
darkness
and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;
When the angry breakers roar
As they beat on the rocky shore;
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore,--
Then, through the vast and gloomy dark
There moves what seems a fiery spark,--
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night,--
A Meteor strange and bright:
Hither and thither the vision strays,
A single lurid light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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When departs
The fierce soul from the body, by itself
Thence torn asunder, to the seventh gulf
By Minos doom'd, into the wood it falls,
No place assign'd, but
wheresoever
chance
Hurls it, there sprouting, as a grain of spelt,
It rises to a sapling, growing thence
A savage plant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
The
skeletons
and pre-existing ghosts 1800.
| Guess: |
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But in his heart Telemachus that blow
Resented, anguish-torn, yet not a tear
He shed, but silent shook his brows, and mused
Terrible
things.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So they
wrestled
there together
In the glory of the sunset,
And the more they strove and struggled,
Stronger still grew Hiawatha;
Till the darkness fell around them,
And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
From her nest among the pine-trees,
Gave a cry of lamentation,
Gave a scream of pain and famine.
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Longfellow |
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The quiet nonchalance of death
No
daybreak
can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yea,
Orestes too doth move me, far away,
Mine unknown
brother!
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Euripides - Electra |
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What country boast 70
The mariners with whom he here
arrived?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The bohemian glass on the
_étagère_
is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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Condensed
mythological references abound.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give
invention
light?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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499) was thus very
effectively
set.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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29 _A25_ has
obviously
interchanged 'thine'
and 'mine'.
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John Donne |
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Then cling to her;
And say if thou hast found a guest of grace
In God's son,
Heracles!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The deep, the low, the pleading tone
With which I sang another's love,
Interpreted
my own.
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Golden Treasury |
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An old man bending, I come among new faces,
Years, looking backward, resuming, in answer to children,
"Come tell us, old man," (as from young men and maidens that love me, Years
hence) "of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
Of
unsurpassed
heroes--(was one side so brave?
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Whitman |
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, whose
surpassing
value it was difficult to
calculate.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Nay, still my
trembling
hands are fain, are fain
Cut the good letters though they lap again;
Perchance such folk as mark the blur and stain
Will say, `It was the beating of the rain;'
Or, haply these o'er-woundings of the stem
May loose some little balm, to plead for them.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now [hear] how easy and how swift they be
Engendered, and
perpetually
flow off
From things and gliding pass away.
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Lucretius |
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By clocks 't was morning, and for night
The bells at
distance
called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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