S'io potessi ritrar come assonnaro
li occhi
spietati
udendo di Siringa,
li occhi a cui pur vegghiar costo si caro;
come pintor che con essempro pinga,
disegnerei com' io m'addormentai;
ma qual vuol sia che l'assonnar ben finga.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
Oh, gipsies, proud and stiff-necked and perverse,
Picking the brains and pockets of mankind,
You will go
westward
for one-half hour yet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A youth should not be made to hate
study before he know the causes to love it, or taste the bitterness
before the sweet; but called on and allured,
entreated
and praised--yea,
when he deserves it not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But, like Flaubert, on his return home
Baudelaire was seized with the
nostalgia
of the East; over there he had
yearned for Paris.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There, weary of ocean, the wall along
they set their bucklers, their broad shields, down,
and bowed them to bench: the
breastplates
clanged,
war-gear of men; their weapons stacked,
spears of the seafarers stood together,
gray-tipped ash: that iron band
was worthily weaponed!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Maremma non cred' io che tante n'abbia,
quante bisce elli avea su per la groppa
infin ove
comincia
nostra labbia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'
Lovely in dye and fan,
A-tremble in
shimmering
grace,
A moth from her winter swoon
Uplifts her face:
Stares from her glamorous eyes;
Wafts her on plumes like mist;
In ecstasy swirls and sways
To her strange tryst.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Minutely limned on a foot of painting silk--
What can I do with a
portrait
such as _that_?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There beams our sun of life, whose genial ray
With
brighter
verdure thy left shore adorns;
Perchance (vain hope!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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His
large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach
of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a
sanctity
of
deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw
not altogether unworthy of a dog.
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Poe - 5 |
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They
battered
the door with their rifle-butts, crashed it in:
She faced them gentle and bold.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"--And no marvel
If in those times the
thunderbolts
prevail
And storms are roused turbulent in heaven,
Since then both sides in dubious warfare rage
Tumultuously, the one with flames, the other
With winds and with waters mixed with winds.
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Lucretius |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed
fragrance
and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane |
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OSWALD (as if to himself, yet
speaking
aloud)
The truth is hideous, but how stifle it?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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75
The
_Diuell_
was wont to carry away the euill; [166]
But, now, the Euill out-carries the _Diuell_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But a celestial brightness--a more ethereal beauty--
Shone on her face and
encircled
her form, when, after confession,
Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her.
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Longfellow |
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Thus
happiness
hath root
In seeing, not in loving, which of sight
Is aftergrowth.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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At first, the elf-like laughter of a
streamlet
roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which hastened onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till unobserved its sobbing echoes died.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He uses
identically
the same words in writing his
last, deeply moved letter to Mary Evans, and in relating the matter to
Southey.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I have be negligent, in good fey, 3900
To chastise him;
therfore
now I
Of herte crye you here mercy,
That I have been so recheles
To tamen him, withouten lees.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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Remember now thy glory among the living,
And let the beauty of thy renown endure
In a firm people knitted like the stone
Of hills, no
mischief
harms of frost or fire;
But now dust in a gale of fear they are.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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>>
Que diras-tu ce soir, pauvre ame solitaire,
Que diras-tu, mon coeur, coeur autrefois fletri,
A la tres belle, a la tres bonne, a la tres chere,
Dont le regard divin t'a soudain
refleuri?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Get thee back:
And tell the King 'tis time his
judgment
fell.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Too many
strangers
in the house.
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Yeats |
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According
to them also the Healing
Power of Jesus resided in his Breath.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This translation or rather adaptation
contains
many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
But
O O O O that
Shakespeherian
Rag--
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And yet give I him respite,
A
twelvemonth
and a day;
Now haste and let see tite (soon)
Dare any here-in ought say.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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Whitman |
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to the van, before the sons of fame
Whom Troy sent forth, the
beauteous
Paris came:
Livy introduces Sextus in a similar manner: "Ferocem juvenem
Tarquinium, ostentantem se in prima exsulum acie.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away One
Trillion
Etext
Files by December 31, 2001.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Whose verse in manhood's pride sublimely flows,
Yet vilest
reptiles
in their begging prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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A timid thing to drop a life
Into the purple well,
Too plummetless that it come back
Eternity
until.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Of friends and acquaintances more than two-thirds
Have
suffered
change and passed to the Land of Ghosts.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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That a
passionate
intense
Love be sired,
One by my body well-desired,
Yet I'd rather of you demand
A kiss than any other woman,
So why does my love refuse me
When she knows I need her truly?
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto
unknown portion of the epic, henceforth to be
assigned
to the second
book.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Who'll let ye by their fire sit,
Although
ye have a stock of wit,
Already coin'd to pay for it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Cupid sagaciously led past those
palazzos
so fine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent
manuscript
is exceedingly quaint and
strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But we neo-pagans may not after all be abandoned entirely:
Yet there is speeding a god
mercifully
over the earth,
Quick and assiduous.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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So with the spell of all the Powers of Sense
That e'er have swayed the
savagery
of hot blood
Raying from her whole body beautiful,
She held the eyes and wills of all the crowd.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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e seke
gladlich
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Who can have patience with a man
That's got no more
discretion
than
An idiotic goose?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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It is characterized by
much of the
coarseness
which was so prevalent
in that age, and from which Marvell was by no
means free ; though, as we shall endeavour here-
after to show, his spirit was far from partaking
of the malevolence of ordinary satirists.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Hunchbacked
and broken, crooked though they be,
Let us still love them, for they still have souls.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
)
8
Now
trumpeter
for thy close,
Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet,
Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future,
Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy
husbandry?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Li Po |
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Before Marsile aloud has he shouted:
"To
Rencesvals
my body shall be led;
Find I Rollanz, then is he surely dead,
And Oliver, and all the other twelve;
Franks shall be slain in grief and wretchedness.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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deprendi
modo pupulum puellae 5
trusantem: hunc ego, si placet Dionae,
protelo rigida mea cecidi.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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WHILE I MAY
WIND and hail and veering rain,
Driven mist that veils the day,
Soul's
distress
and body's pain,
I would bear you while I may.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Hitherto Jalaam, though in soil, climate, and geographical
position as highly
qualified
to be the theatre of remarkable historical
incidents as any spot on the earth's surface, has been, if I may say it
without seeming to question the wisdom of Providence, almost maliciously
neglected, as it might appear, by occurrences of world-wide interest in
want of a situation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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At _any_
season, such remains may be discovered by looking down into the
transparent lake, and at such distances as would argue the existence of
many
settlements
in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But better still, our couple's chief delight,
Was mutual love and
pleasure
to excite.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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M'Swiney
rather than in that of her own
governess
Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Many kinds are called bird cherries,
and they
appropriate
many more kinds, which are not so called.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of shipwreck or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid
imagination
by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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nec spreuit regina deum uel matris honore
uel iusto uatis ducta fauore pii,
qui sibi carminibus totiens lustrauerat aras
Iunonis blanda numina uoce canens
proeliaque
altisoni referens Phlegraea mariti,
Titanum fractas Enceladique minas.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Gualter it is, who conquered Maelgut,
And nephew was to hoary old Drouin;
My
vassalage
thou ever thoughtest good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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These but deprive my sweet boy of his most
opportune
times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This second volume, while open to the same
criticism
as to
form with its predecessor, shows also the same shining beauties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"Tell us, ye dead,
Will none of you in pity
disclose
the secret,
What 'tis you are, and we must shortly be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The
Essenians
drink no wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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von (Robert), p39 1887,
Internet
Book Archive Images
Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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at it is
diu{er}s
from [hym] by wenyng
resou{n}.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The kestrel
hovering
by day,
And the little owls that call by night,
Bid him be swift and keen as they,
As keen of ear, as swift of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Might there not be
sometimes
too much of alms
About his love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Charles Farish was the author of 'The
Minstrels
of Winandermere'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The fierce
Achilles
wrapt our walls in fire,
Laid Thebe waste, and slew my warlike sire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I am in
earnest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
A
specimen of his
sentimental
poetry will be found on p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And the Jehovah--the indulgent Lord,
And bounteous planter of barred Paradise--
He, too, looks
smilingly
on Abel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"A moment,--I pray your
attention!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But wilt thou measure all thy road,
See thou lift the
lightest
load.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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still
enlivens
his cheek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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CHANDLER ROBBINS
We love the
venerable
house
Our fathers built to God;--
In heaven are kept their grateful vows,
Their dust endears the sod.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Her brothers
wondered
why she was done
so quickly.
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Yeats |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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A good man
brenneth
in his thought
For shame, whan he axeth ought.
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_ Palmer
7-10 qui in
codicibus
post LXXVIII.
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her lord returns no more;
Unbathed
he lies, and bleeds along the shore!
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Iliad - Pope |
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A ready banquet on the turf is laid,
Beneath an ample oak's
expanded
shade.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Is it such great
misfortune
to cease to be?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Do not call it sin in me
That I am
forsworn
for thee:
Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear
Juno but an Ethiope were,
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.
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Golden Treasury |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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