Happier that they
Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind,
At the first
mounting
of the giant stairs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_I Dreamt of Robin_
I opened the
casement
this morn at starlight,
And, the moment I got out of bed,
The daisies were quaking about in their white
And the cowslip was nodding its head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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John Clare |
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This Troilus ful ofte hir eyen two
Gan for to kisse, and seyde, `O eyen clere,
It were ye that
wroughte
me swich wo,
Ye humble nettes of my lady dere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade
one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:
Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
That she that makes me sin awards me pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And, as indeed all spring from veriest core of my bosom,
Suffer ye not the cause of grief and woe to evanish;
But wi' the Will wherewith could Theseus leave me in loneness, 200
Goddesses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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E volto al temo ch'elli avea tirato,
trasselo
al pie de la vedova frasca,
e quel di lei a lei lascio legato.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The long controversies that have raged about Pope's rank as a poet seem
at last to be drawing to a close; and it has become possible to strike a
balance between the exaggerated praise of his contemporaries and the
reckless depreciation of
romantic
critics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And twice
victorious
crossed Acheron:
Plucking from Orpheus' lyre one by one
The saintly sighs and the faerie cries.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Here a further pun is
involved, [Greek:
prokrouein]
meaning also 'to go with a woman first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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had she not better stay
Deep in the
greenwood
far away?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Said I, low voic'd: "Ah,
whither!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"_
[This blue-eyed lass was Jean Jeffry, daughter to the
minister
of
Lochmaben: she was then a rosy girl of seventeen, with winning manners
and laughing blue eyes.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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]
[Sidenote A: He was clothed
entirely
in green.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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So, borne aloft,
thy fame must fly, O friend my Beowulf,
far and wide o'er
folksteads
many.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_All repeat_ of king
_before_
Lamedon; _the words were caught from_ l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Copyright infringement
liability
can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
| 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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Let us be men that dream,
Not cowards, dabblers, waiters
For dead Time to
reawaken
and grant balm For ills unnamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
From attacking others, the poet was--in the interval between penning
these election lampoons--called on to defend himself: for this he
seems to have been quite unprepared, though in those yeasty times he
might have
expected
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Places of life and of death,
Numbered and named as streets,
What, through your channels of stone,
Is the tide that
unweariedly
beats?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nel ciel che piu de la sua luce prende
fu' io, e vidi cose che ridire
ne sa ne puo chi di la su discende;
perche
appressando
se al suo disire,
nostro intelletto si profonda tanto,
che dietro la memoria non puo ire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His enemies' spilt blood drowns out justice,
As a new trophy for his crimes does service;
We swell the pomp, and
scornful
of the law,
Follow his chariot, with two kings before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Is 't perchance
The dark
dominion
of the Tartars?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And therefore,
thuswise
must an object too
Be kindled by a thunderbolt, if haply
'Thas been adapt and suited to the flames.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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How grey they move--
Treading upon the
darkness
without feet,
And fluttering on the darkness without wings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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And as they were speaking
together I
inquired
of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives according to the Scriptures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Ecoutez l'action des
stupides
hoquets
Dechirants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Fox, the
following
illiterate Impromptu p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
nor mention I
Meats by the Law unclean, or offer'd first
To Idols, those young Daniel could refuse;
Nor proffer'd by an Enemy, though who 330
Would scruple that, with want
opprest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
[1]
Encoffined
he was laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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High above a
glittering
calm
Of sea and sky and kingly sun,
She shines and smiles, and waves a palm --
And now we wish -- Thy will be done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
IV
No War, or
Battails
sound
Was heard the World around,
The idle spear and shield were high up hung;
The hooked Chariot stood
Unstain'd with hostile blood,
The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng,
And Kings sate still with awfull eye,
As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Now all that faith, so free from care, hath vanished,
Now in the short respite I haste and gather
Of all remaining, binding leaf and blossoms;
Half
withered
marvels of my sorrowed hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
who is their
counsellor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Il ecoute chanter leurs haleines craintives
Qui
fleurent
de longs miels vegetaux et roses
Et qu'interrompt parfois un sifflement, salives
Reprises sur la levre ou desirs de baisers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"I seek the by-born spawn of one
I e'er
renounce
as brother--
Who chose to make his latest son
Caress a Moor as mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So, when I weary of praising the dawn and the sun-
set,
Let me be no more counted among the immortals; But number me amid the
wearying
ones,
Let me be a man as the herd,
And as the slave that is given in barter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The time was scarce profaned by speech;
The symbol of a word
Was needless, as at sacrament
The
wardrobe
of our Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
As Proserpine still weeps for her
Sicilian
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
And
presently
the sky is changed; O world!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
He is as remorseless and undistinguished
as some natural force, and the finest thing in his play is the way his
old companions fall out of it broken-hearted or on their way to the
gallows; and instead of that lyricism which rose out of Richard's mind
like the jet of a fountain to fall again where it had risen, instead
of that phantasy too enfolded in its own
sincerity
to make any thought
the hour had need of, Shakespeare has given him a resounding rhetoric
that moves men, as a leading article does to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
We two will search
together
for the keys,
But not to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Such boon from me
Heaven's Queen to thee kingborn,
A shepherd all thy life and yet kingborn,
Should come most welcome, seeing men, in this
Only are likest gods, who have attained
Rest in a happy place and quiet seats
Above the thunder, with undying bliss
In knowledge of their own supremacy;
The changeless calm of undisputed right,
The highest height and topmost
strength
of power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
There is no
_tertium
quid_.
| 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 |
|
THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Close up his eyes: tie up his chin:
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That
standeth
there alone,
And waiteth at the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Marseille which established itself as a
republic
during the period was at the centre of conflict for decades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
For the point pierced the yielding corslet through,
And
lifeless
he, perforce, the champaign prest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
But soon there
breathed
a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The
nightingales
sing through my head,--
The nightingales, the nightingales!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where
oleanders
scatter their ambrosial fire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
He
says — " The bonds of civility betwixt Colonel
Gilby and myself being unliappily snapped in
pieces, and in such a manner that I cannot see
how it is
possible
ever to knit them again : the
only trouble that I have is, lest by our mis-intel-
ligence your business should receive any disad-
vantage Truly, I believe, that as
to your public trust and the discharge thereof,.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Even as they died they
took care to make an
honourable
end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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'Tis represented thus I cannot doubt;
But sight of meat brings appetite about;
And if you would avoid the
tempting
bit,
'Tis better far at table not to sit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
In 1759 an
annotated
edition was published by Wang Ch'i, with six
_chuan_ of critical and biographical matter added to the thirty _chuan_
of the works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening,
grandmother
appeared at Versailles at the Queen's
gaming-table.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
I well remember that
my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it,
would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural
incarnations
of the
fiend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Did nations combat to make ONE submit;
Or league to teach all kings true
sovereignty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Dal: With doubtful feet and wavering resolution
I came, still dreading thy displeasure, Samson,
Which to have merited, without excuse,
I cannot but acknowledge; yet if tears
May expiate (though the fact more evil drew
In the
perverse
event then I foresaw)
My penance hath not slack'n'd, though my pardon
No way assur'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The sun flicks here and there like a throned tyrant,
Snapping
his whip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
'55 one single:'
the word "movement" is
understood
after "single.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Nous nous aimions a cette epoque,
Bleu laideron:
On
mangeait
des oeufs a la coque
Et du mouron!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
These are but phases of one;
"And that one is I; and I am
projected
from thee,
One that out of thy brain and heart thou causest to be--
Extern to thee nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
`And yet this is a wonder most of alle, 1100
Why thou thus sorwest, sin thou nost not yit,
Touching
hir goinge, how that it shal falle,
Ne if she can hir-self distorben it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
In kurzer Zeit ist
Gretchen
Euer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
[Sidenote A: Arthur held at Camelot his
Christmas
feast,]
[Sidenote B: with all the knights of the Round Table,]
[Sidenote C: full fifteen days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
'"]
The
Witnesses
proved, without error or flaw,
That the sty was deserted when found:
And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law
In a soft under-current of sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
), see the
_History
of the Captivity of Napoleon_, by William
Forsyth, Q.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
What
blessedness
mortals may know!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Wait, that the rebels may deliver me
In bonds to the
Otrepiev?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
_ We
perpetually
come upon this old
belief--that the souls of the murdered cannot rest in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Garmented
soft in white,
Haughty, and yet how love-imbuing and tender!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[13] 60
Through utter
weakness
pitiably dear,
As tender infants are: and yet how great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
]
XXI
But borne in spirit far away
Tattiana gazes on the moon,
And
starting
suddenly doth say:
"Nurse, leave me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Laden with shining arms the men-folk tread
By the long wagons where their goods lie hidden;
They watch the heaven with eyes grown wearied
Of
hopeless
dreams that come to them unbidden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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And one, sure enough,
tramples
up to the door,
And who but young Robin his sen?
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Haste, where gay youth
solicits
thy regard.
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Sufficient troth that we shall rise --
Deposed, at length, the grave --
To that new marriage, justified
Through
Calvaries
of Love!
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His
response
to the Airs of Tang was that ?
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[Sidenote A: Then was Gawayne glad,]
[Sidenote B: and
consents
to tarry awhile at the castle.
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And woe to
Godunov!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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subject to the trademark license,
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"The long wordy
discussions
by which he tries to reason us into
admiration of his poetry, speak very little in his favor: they are
full of such assertions as this (I have opened one of his volumes at
random)--'Of genius the only proof is the act of doing well what is
worthy to be done, and what was never done before;'-indeed?
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