Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where
Amaryllis
lies in state;
O Singer of Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Foundation
makes no
representations concerning the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"I have been wondering
frequently
of late
(But our beginnings never know our ends!
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
And another cried, "In what cause dost thou sacrifice
thyself?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rodrigue
But the
infamous
shall not remain above.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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"In the matter of Treason the pig would appear
To have aided, but
scarcely
abetted:
While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear,
If you grant the plea 'never indebted.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In the
morning, Ulysses, Telemachus, the
herdsman
and the swine-herd depart into
the country.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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at he sitte
[Sidenote: In both cases there is a necessity--in the latter that
the person sits--in the former, that the opinion
concerning
the
other is true.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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His brother Alcanor runs up and
sustains
with his
right arm his sinking brother; through his arm the spear passes speeding
straight on its message, and holds its bloody way, and the hand dangles
by the sinews lifeless from the shoulder.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[_During the last words_ ADMETUS _and_
ALCESTIS
_have entered_.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[II] Had I the Choice
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
Homer with all his wars and warriors--Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello--Tennyson's fair ladies,
Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme,
delight of singers;
These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
Would you the
undulation
of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
And leave its odor there.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Light will still rise from it;
millions
of bright
Facets of brilliance, shaming the white
Glass of the moon, inflaming the night.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But when I assail a third spearshaft with a
stronger
effort, pulling
with knees pressed against the sand; shall I speak or be silent?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For sports, for pageantry and plays
Thou hast thy eves and holidays;
On which the young men and maids meet
To exercise their dancing feet;
Tripping the comely country round,
With
daffodils
and daisies crown'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
She
says, that after the affair of Pylos[319] she came to you
unbidden
to
bring you a basket full of truces and that you thrice repulsed her by
your votes in the assembly.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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And thus, o'erpower'd in that first attack,
She had nor vigour left enough, nor room
Even to arm her for my pressing need,
Nor to the steep and painful mountain back
To draw me, safe and
scathless
from that doom,
Whence, though alas!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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We have washed our swords in the surf of Indian seas;
We have
pastured
our horses among the snows of T'ien Shan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"--
"Yet
mournful
wreaths no less the victors crown'd;
In deep despair our valour oft they own'd.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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But as she sat allone and thoughte thus, 610
Thascry aroos at
skarmish
al with-oute,
And men cryde in the strete, `See, Troilus
Hath right now put to flight the Grekes route!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
2216
[Sidenote: Do you prefer a
voluptuous
life?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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This Castle hath a
pleasant
seat,
The ayre nimbly and sweetly recommends it selfe
Vnto our gentle sences
Banq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Lone mother of dead
empires!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
It becomes intelligible as
soon as we observe that Sophocles was
deliberately
seeking what he
regarded as an archaic or "Homeric" style (cf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Tell your
jhampanis
not to hurry so, dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
His health was failing rapidly at this time, and
he died a month or so after the
appearance
of this 'Epistle'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Where they shall dwell secure, when time shall be
Of Tempter and
Temptation
without fear.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
[Sidenote: These changes give life and growth to all that breathe;
and at last by death efface
whatever
has had birth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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" It is a book of that kind, that
no
Christian
can peruse it without wishing him-
self to have been the author, and almost imagin-
ing that he is so ; the conceptions therein being
of so eternal an idea, that every man finds it to
be but a copy of the original in his own mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The family
returned
to
Europe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And my lord he loves me well;
But, when first he
breathed
his vow,
I felt my bosom swell--
For the words rang as a knell,
And the voice seemed _his_ who fell
In the battle down the dell,
And who is happy now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The Writer of the following lines died at Florence, as he was
preparing for a voyage to one of the wildest of the Sporades, which he
had bought, and where he had fitted up the ruins of an old building,
and where it was his hope to have realised a scheme of life, suited
perhaps to that happier and better world of which he is now an
inhabitant, but hardly
practicable
in this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The grass so little has to do, --
A sphere of simple green,
With only
butterflies
to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the sunshine in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine, --
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Why doe we hold our tongues,
That most may clayme this
argument
for ours?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
--
The People's Law, the bulwark of their reign,
And vigilant Liberty, of ancient might,
And Brotherhood, that can alone lead to the
loftiest
height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then jealousy shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he languishd till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los
reviving
him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Your souls, that should have noble lodging here,
Have crept like peasants into huts that have
No force within their walls, but must be shored
With
borrowed
firmness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
{
{_The
Canavans_
(new version), by Lady Gregory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue,
When
Flattery
sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And repent of your
murderous
vow:
Be fearful, my Lord, fearful lest heaven's rigour 1435
Hates you enough to execute your desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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]
[Variant 4: Lines 13 and 14 were
introduced
in 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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After driving the Moors from our coast,
Marring their plans,
answering
their boast,
Go, wage war on them in their own country,
Command my army, ravage the enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Some old volcanic upset must
Have rent the crust and
blackened
the crust;
Wrenched and ribbed it beneath its dust
Above earth's molten centre at seethe,
Heaved and heaped it by huge upthrust
Of fire beneath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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One gallant steed is
stretched
a mangled corse;
Another, hideous sight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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When thus Duke Willyam to a Monke dyd saie,
Prepare
thyselfe
wyth spede, to Harolde haste awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
WHAT has the
princess
done?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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He too sat there, with the divining-rod of Quirinus, girt
in the short augural gown, and
carrying
on his left arm the sacred
shield, Picus the tamer of horses; he whom Circe, desperate with amorous
desire, smote with her golden rod and turned by her poisons into a bird
with patches of colour on his wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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As I ran through the leaves of my poor little book, to take a fond
author's first tremulous look, it was quite an
excitement
to hunt the
_errata_, sprawled in as birds' tracks are in some kinds of strata (only
these made things crookeder).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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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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And
alderlast
of everichoon, POVERT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
[384] For
_cottabos_
see note above, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
So
perhaps whatever beauty of life still remains to me is
contained
in some
moment of surrender, abasement, and humiliation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
his corpus tremulum
complectens
undique uestis
candida purpurea talos incinxerat ora,
at roseo niueae residebant uertice uittae,
aeternumque manus carpebant rite laborem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Leonor
You wish to remain here in
reverie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
For passions are
spiritual
rebels, and
raise sedition against the understanding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to
Court;
Described
as "an offering of natural products from the land of
Tao-chou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Can he write a letter
concisely
clear
Without a speck or a smudge or smear or BLOT,
The Akond of Swat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The
beauties
round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The
strength
of his pride arose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Except my ardent and just esteem for
your sense, taste, and worth, every
sentiment
arising in my breast, as
I put pen to paper to you, is painful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of
gladness
and so full of pain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
to
affright
withal
By cursing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Where goes the
swineherd
with that ill-look'd guest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Now adieu my dear -- [Hattie] I'm sure I must tire, _65
For if I do, you may throw it into the fire,
So accept the best love of your cousin and friend,
Which brings this
nonsensical
rhyme to an end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
But
good Aeneas seeks the fortress where Apollo sits high enthroned, and the
lone mystery of the awful Sibyl's cavern depth, over whose mind and soul
the prophetic Delian
breathes
high inspiration and reveals futurity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
"
Swift through the valves the
visionary
fair
Repass'd, and viewless mix'd with common air.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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PORTRAITS
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THE POEMS.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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To save them from the wrath of Gaul's
unsparing
lord.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the
startled
ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
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Poe - 5 |
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Part must be kept wherewith to teend
The Christmas log next year,
And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend
Can do no
mischief
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A tower stood on the sheer brink, its roof
ascending high into heaven, whence was wont to be seen all Troy and the
Grecian ships and Achaean camp: attacking it with iron round about,
where the joints of the lofty
flooring
yielded, we wrench it from its
deep foundations and shake it free; it gives way, and [466-498]suddenly
falls thundering in ruin, crashing wide over the Grecian ranks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When arriv'd,
Where underneath the gaping arch lets pass
The
scourged
souls: "Pause here," the teacher said,
"And let these others miserable, now
Strike on thy ken, faces not yet beheld,
For that together they with us have walk'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Heaðo-lāfe, 460), a
Wylfingish
warrior.
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Beowulf |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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