Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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Si tibi non cordi fuerant conubia nostra,
Saeva quod horrebas prisci
praecepta
parentis,
At tamen in vostras potuisti ducere sedes, 160
Quae tibi iocundo famularer serva labore,
Candida permulcens liquidis vestigia lymphis
Purpureave tuum consternens veste cubile.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And prayer-book next, much worn though
strongly
bound,
Proves him a churchman orthodox and sound.
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John Clare |
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in my head
Many
thoughts
of trouble come,
Like to flies upon a plum.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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dryhten sīnne
drīorigne
fand, 2790.
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Beowulf |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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One is the understanding of the persons to whom you are
to write; the other is the coherence of your sentence; for men's capacity
to weigh what will be
apprehended
with greatest attention or leisure;
what next regarded and longed for especially, and what last will leave
satisfaction, and (as it were) the sweetest memorial and belief of all
that is passed in his understanding whom you write to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so fragrant with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of imaginative
wizardry
of exultation,
even when the immediate subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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And how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Expect no more
Sanction of warning voice or sign from me,
Free of thy own
arbitrement
to choose,
Discreet, judicious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Our God is
marching
on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
437_; _Concerning the
Relations
of
Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal_, ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
To-day, even from the
summit of High Crag, only the head and ears of a pony could be seen as
it passed up the Water Barngates Road; but at the end of last century
many of the roads were only
partially
walled off from the moorlands
they passed over in the Lake Country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Can I, said she, the paths of honour quit,
And in my bed a
loathsome
brute permit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
How great my
pleasure
too,
When I can see her face;
I cease to know the place,
Her love-filled eyes in view;
I'm tangled then, and won,
Conquered and so undone,
Can't turn my eyes away,
Nor ever from her stray,
And when I can see her
All is joy for me there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as
Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect
henceforth
to see
my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's
and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the battle of
Bothwell bridge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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discover
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
As the manuscript is fast fading, I am glad that the
existence
of the Early
English Text Society has enabled us to secure a wider diffusion of its
contents before the original shall be no longer legible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
A journal or
register
of news started at
Cologne in 1598.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
On dirait qu'ils
penetrent
le verre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
My will fulfilled shall be,
For, in daylight or in dark,
My
thunderbolt
has eyes to see
His way home to the mark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high,
Or roll the planets thro' the
boundless
sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
^1
Dearest of
distillation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
_ O
12
_istius_
GORVen (sed _-?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
The offence
which the remark has caused is due, no doubt, to
injudicious
use of the
word "hero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"
Then thus the god: "O
restless
fate of pride,
That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide;
Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr'd,
Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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AT matins they so very often met,
Some awkward
indications
caused regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For we were nursed upon the self-same hill,
Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill:
Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd
Under the opening eye-lids of the morn,
We drove a-field, and both
together
heard
What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,
Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night,
Oft till the star that rose at evening bright
Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
"
So he told his
sorrowful
tidings,
and little {39d} he lied, the loyal man
of word or of work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And whoever walks along there
Stops short and sees,
By the moist tree-roots
In a
clearing
of the trees,
Yellow great battalions of them,
Blowing in the breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Yet Mafra shall one moment claim delay,
Where dwelt of yore the Lusians' luckless queen;
And church and court did mingle their array,
And mass and revel were alternate seen;
Lordlings
and freres--ill-sorted fry, I ween!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
For the first six or seven years of my life, my father was
gardener to a worthy gentleman of small estate in the
neighbourhood
of
Ayr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
--
The little
children
of men go hungry all,
And stiffen and cry with numbing cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that
rebellious
heart:
His first sighs resulted from your happy art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
" My Sheikh, whose
knowledge
flows in from all quarters,
writes to me--
"Apropos of old Omar's Pots, did I ever tell you the sentence I found
in 'Bishop Pearson on the Creed'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken,
Christoph
Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
In greet mischeef than shall thou be,
For than agayn shal come to thee
Sighes and pleyntes, with newe wo,
That no icching
prikketh
so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
--My dear Babe,
Who, capable of no articulate sound,
Mars all things with his imitative lisp,
How he would place his hand beside his ear,
His little hand, the small
forefinger
up,
And bid us listen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
]
King Arthur and his men welcomed the chance and went at once into the
Land of
Cameliard
to drive away the heathen marauders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Pines mourn in the cold of Tianshui, 12 sands roil in the clarity of the
Mountains
of Snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The wicked magistrate, in defiance
of the
clearest
proofs, gave judgment for the claimant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
5720
Phisiciens
and advocates
Gon right by the same yates;
They selle hir science for winning,
And haunte hir crafte for greet geting.
| Guess: |
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[Footnote J: The reader, who has made the tour of this country, will
recognize, in this description, the features which characterize the
lower
waterfall
in the gardens of Rydale.
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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We have to
do here with a
confusion
of myth and history in which the real facts
are disengaged only by conjecture.
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Sidenote: Beauty and
swiftness
give glory and fame; and health
gives delight.
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Then the words are
chosen, their sound ample, the
composition
full, the absolution
plenteous, and poured out, all grave, sinewy, and strong.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And also
merueylen
we on ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The moonlight
streaming
through a range of
windows on the wall opposite_.
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