'
And Gareth
answered
her with kindling eyes,
'Nay, nay, good mother, but this egg of mine
Was finer gold than any goose can lay;
For this an Eagle, a royal Eagle, laid
Almost beyond eye-reach, on such a palm
As glitters gilded in thy Book of Hours.
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Tennyson |
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Soon as the noise
of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls
and
enwreathe
the wine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And in another corner wide were strowne 435
The antique ruines of the
Romaines
fall:
Great Romulus?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I boast not when I say that, given occasion,
No penalty
affrights
me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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' he gan to syke wonder sore,
And seyde, `Freend, though that I stille lye,
I am not deef; now pees, and cry no more;
For I have herd thy wordes and thy lore;
But suffre me my mischef to biwayle, 755
For thy
proverbes
may me nought avayle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But when his arrows fail'd the royal Chief,
His bow
reclining
at the portal's side
Against the palace-wall, he slung, himself,
A four-fold buckler on his arm, he fix'd
A casque whose crest wav'd awful o'er his brows
On his illustrious head, and fill'd his gripe
With two stout spears, well-headed both, with brass.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The claw of the tender bird
Finds lodgment here;
Dye-winged
butterflies
poise;
Emmet and beetle steer
Their busy course; the bee
Drones, laden, near.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet I, when young and lusty,
Have gone through
stirring
scenes,
For I went down with Carroll
To fight at New Orleans.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
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Latin - Catullus |
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She sees them already house-building, already
trusting
in the
land, their ships left empty.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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True
mourning
in
rooms
- not the cemetery -
to find only
absence -
- in presence
of things
60.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of
Creation
wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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190
Whose honours with increase of ages grow,
As streams roll down,
enlarging
as they flow;
Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound,
And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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And heeste certeyn, in no wyse, 4475
Withoute
yift, is not to pryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This verse I'll say to you is worth
More if you'll
comprehend
it first,
And praise the words, I gave them birth
Consistently,
I too will praise, as finest on earth,
Its melody.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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You are always asking, do I remember, remember
The
buttercup
bog-end where the flowers rose up
And kindled you over deep with a coat of gold?
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Imagists |
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A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings,
meanings;
The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women are sayings
and
meanings
also.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Generals
and statesmen
played whist; young men lounged on sofas, eating ices or smoking.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Strait is the spot and green the sod
From whence my sorrows flow;
And soundly sleeps the ever dear
Inhabitant
below.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Each sound is mute, each harsh
sensation
stilled.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Leonor
To what can you
pretend?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Virtus, repulsae nescia sordidae,
intaminatis fulget honoribus,
nec sumit aut ponit securis
arbitrio popularis aurae:
Virtus, recludens inmeritis mori
caelum, negata temptat iter uia
coetusque uolgaris et udam
spernit humum
fugiente
penna.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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in every clime a flying ray 590
Is all we have to chear our wintry way,
Condemn'd, in mists and
tempests
ever rife,
To pant slow up the endless Alp of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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'
The
_Alcestis_
is a very clear instance of this Pro-satyric class of
play.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He
is the very basis of
civilised
society.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_
"Like to a bull, that with
impetuous
spring
Darts, at the moment when the fatal blow
Hath struck him, but unable to proceed
Plunges on either side.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Yon isle
conceals
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The heart
resolves
this matter in a thrice,
"Men only feel the smart but not the vice.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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So when that Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river-brink,
And,
offering
his Cup, invite your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
Fathomless
has care for meaner things
Than thou canst dream, and has made pride for those
Who would be what they may not, or would seem _765
That which they are not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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MAIDENS,
Daughters
of TRYGAEUS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A
different
figure one would make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
I could not weep:
The sources whence such
blessings
flow _225
Were not to be approached by me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oh, to shoot
My soul's full meaning into future years,
That they should lend it utterance, and salute
Love that endures, from life that
disappears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thou knowest
There is naught else:
therefore
thou art Despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
De
rheumatiz
done bit my bones; you hear 'em crack and crack?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
That page is now before me, and on mine
HIS country's ruin added to the mass
Of perished states he mourned in their decline,
And I in desolation: all that WAS
Of then
destruction
IS; and now, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
It seemed the
loveliness
of things
Did teach him all their use,
For, in mere weeds, and stones, and springs,
He found a healing power profuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
In his endless accumulation of
ludicrous
images and allusions, the untiring exhaustive ridi-
cule with which he will play upon the same topics,
he is unique; yet this peculiarity not seldom
leads him to drain the generous wine even to the
dregs — to spoil a series of felicitous railleries by
some far-fetched conceit or unpardonable extra-
vagance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Or noble wind-tones
chanting
free
Through morning-skies across the sea
Wild hymns to some strange majesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Di vil
ciliccio
mi parean coperti,
e l'un sofferia l'altro con la spalla,
e tutti da la ripa eran sofferti.
| 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 had been to the play
With my pearl of a Peri--
But, for all I could say,
She
declared
she was weary,
That "the place was so crowded and hot, and
she couldn't abide that Dundreary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
These
wretched
men were skilled to plead,
with a superficial but plausible set of sophisms, in favour of that
contempt for virtue which is the portion of slaves, and that faith in
portents, the most fatal substitute for benevolence in the
imaginations of men, which, arising from the enslaved communities of
the East, then first began to overwhelm the western nations in its
stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
"They are buying your work, not your
insurance
policies, dear child,"
said the Nilghai.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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FROM 'THE GARDEN OF EROS'
[_In this poem the author laments the growth of
materialism
in the
nineteenth century_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
How
many
pickerel
are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Beneath the sun
reflecting
back his rays!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Harmony]
While thy mild voice fills all these Caverns with sweet harmony
O how thy our Parents sit & weep mourn in their silent secret bowers *
PAGE 1O
But Enitharmon answerd with a dropping tear & smiling frowning*
[[Bright]]Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears *
To make us happy how they let them weary their immortal powers *
While we draw in their sweet delights while we return them scorn *
On scorn to feed our discontent; for if we
grateful
prove
They will withhold sweet love, whose food is thorns & bitter roots.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Long stood I there
And wondered, of all men what man had gone
In
mourning
to that grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"
That
provoking
Young Lady of Parma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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in foribus pugnam ex auro solidoque elephanto
Gangaridum
faciam uictorisque arma Quirini,
atque hic undantem bello magnumque fluentem
Nilum ac nauali surgentis aere columnas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Through what dark tree
Glimmers
thy crescent?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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But around her are her chosen comrades, maiden Larina,
Tulla, Tarpeia brandishing an axe inlaid with bronze, girls of Italy,
whom Camilla the bright chose for her own escort, good at service in
peace and war: even as Thracian Amazons when the streams of Thermodon
clash beneath them as they go to war in painted arms, whether around
Hippolyte, or while martial
Penthesilea
returns in her chariot, and the
crescent-shielded columns of women dance with loud confused cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[12]
[11] The
opposite
of a parting by death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
" Upon
That word, they're fled, an hundred
thousand
gone;
Call them who may, they'll never more come on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The minds which Heaven abandons to thy reign,
Haply are bound in many times and ways,
But mine one only chain,
Its wisdom
shielding
me from more, obeys;
Yet freedom brings no joy, though that he burst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Will ye
Be
stubborn
without reason, and in pride
Flee from his kindness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The wasps flourish greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A
necklace
of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
_I once pierced the flesh
of the wild-deer,
now am I afraid to touch
the blue and the gold-veined
hyacinths?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The oath
they gave in this manner: he that was to be sworn did put his dagger
into a pottle of wine, and held his hand upon the pommel thereof, and
then was to make oath that he would aid and assist all other of his
fellowship and not
disclose
their council.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
To
Theophile
Gautier
Friend, poet spirit, you have fled our night,
You left our noise, to penetrate the light;
Now your name will shine on pure summits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
1390
Il ot par leus cleres fontaines,
Sans barbelotes et sans raines,
Cui li arbres
fesoient
umbre;
Mes n'en sai pas dire le numbre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The orchard sparkled like a Jew, --
How mighty 't was, to stay
A guest in this
stupendous
place,
The parlor of the day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
oute soioure
To
Eufeniens
?
| 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 |
|
He sate his horse, which he called Gramimond,
Never so swift flew in the air falcon;
He's pricked him well, with sharp spurs he had on,
Going to strike e'en that rich Duke, Sanson;
His shield has split, his hauberk has undone,
The ensign's folds have through his body gone,
Dead from the hilt out of his seat he's dropt:
"Pagans, strike on, for well we'll
overcome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
They gave him
entrance
free to bear me thence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Verginius
(L.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
E quel baron che si di ramo in ramo,
essaminando, gia tratto m'avea,
che a l'ultime fronde appressavamo,
ricomincio: <
con la tua mente, la bocca t'aperse
infino a qui come aprir si dovea,
si ch'io approvo cio che fuori emerse;
ma or convien
espremer
quel che credi,
e onde a la credenza tua s'offerse>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Thou
Tyndarid
woman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
XXXVIII
Beatrice who believes the
highminded
fair
Is at her hest, exhorts her to reply,
Rather than she will be constrained to pair
With a poor knight, she is resolved to die;
Nor, if this wrong she from Rinaldo bear
Will she regard her with a mother's eye:
Let her refuse and keep her stedfast course;
For her free will Rinaldo cannot force.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He did so and won a
complete
success.
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Alexander Pope |
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O Love, I err, and I mine error own,
As one who burns, whose fire within him lies
And aggravates his grief, while reason dies,
With its own
martyrdom
almost o'erthrown.
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Petrarch |
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Never did
worthier
lads break English bread; 280
The very brightest Sunday Autumn saw [32]
With all its mealy clusters of ripe nuts,
Could never keep those [33] boys away from church,
Or tempt them to an hour of sabbath breach.
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William Wordsworth |
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But trust the muse--she saw it upward rise,
Though marked by none but quick poetic eyes:
(Thus Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, 170
To
Proculus
alone confessed in view)
A sudden star, it shot through liquid air,
And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
The Bodleian
Quatrain
pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
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Stephen Crane |
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We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,
Untaught
that soon such anguish must ensue,
Our hopes such harvest of affliction reap,
That we the mercy of the waves should rue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you
uncovered
'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
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Kipling - Poems |
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However, profounder as a poet, he was no
match for Poe in what might be termed
intellectual
prestidigitation.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Our more modern
Scholiasts
are
equally acute.
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Poe - 5 |
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Sarojini
Chattopadhyay
was born at Hyderabad on February 13,
1879.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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