Men loved
unkindness
then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Don't laugh at my advice; 'twere like the boys,
Who better might amuse
themselves
with toys.
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La Fontaine |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Your message we
delivered
to Charlun,
Both his two hands he raised against the sun,
Praising his God, but answer made he none.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To whom the great
Creatour
thus reply'd.
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Milton |
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Or not those in
Commission
yet return'd?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Oh, there is sweetness in the
mountain
air
And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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My ancestor perished on
the scaffold for
conscience
sake,[71] my father fell with the martyrs
Volynski and Khuchtchoff,[72] but that a '_boyar_' should forswear his
oath--that he should join with robbers, rascals, convicted felons,
revolted slaves!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Saguenay
River, 91, 94.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What war could ravish,
commerce
could bestow,
And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended somewhat beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are
luminous
pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy blossoming of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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at it ne haue no
necessite
of hys
owen nature.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
methought
she said,
"These eyes not yet from thee withdraw their light.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Quand tu vas
balayant
l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau vaisseau qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
DOBCHINSKI: A
startling
announcement!
| 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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'254'
John Gay, the author of some very
entertaining
verses, was an intimate
friend of Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air,
That blows here from
Provence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Though all we knew depart,
The old
commandments
stand:
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand,"
Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:
"No law except the sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"
Once more it knits mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
immediate
cause of the
downfall of this execrable government was said to have been an
attempt made by Appius Claudius upon the chastity of a beautiful
young girl of humble birth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She heard of servant-maids the note,
Who in the orchards
gathered
fruit,
Singing in chorus all the while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hailie the bordeleire, who lyves to reste,
Ne ys att nyghtys flemynge hue dysmayde;
The starres doe scantillie[110] the sable brayde; 1010
Wyde ys the sylver lemes of comforte wove;
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte
afrayde?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I cannot guess why Rome will not allow
Exchange in wedlock, and its leave avow;
Not ev'ry time such wishes might arise,
But, once in life at least, 'twere not unwise;
Perhaps one day we may the boon obtain;
Amen, I say: my sentiments are plain;
The
privilege
in France may yet arrive
There trucking pleases, and exchanges thrive;
The people love variety, we find;
And such by heav'n was ere for them designed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The long struggle of the
Servians
against the Ottoman
power was recorded in lays full of martial spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Unmindful of the roses,
Unmindful of the thorn,
A reaper tired reposes
Among his
gathered
corn:
So might I, till the morn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Straight yonder, where
Aegisthus
makes his prayer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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ALCESTIS,
_daughter
of Pelias, his wife_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"The King of Plagues, the Chosen of Sinai,
Is he that, o'er the rushing waters driven,
A
vigorous
hand hath rescued for the sky;
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Strict Pastoral Poetry was first written or perfected by the Dorian
Greeks settled in Sicily: but the
conventional
use of it, exhibited more
magnificently in _Lycidas_ than in any other pastoral, is apparently of
Roman origin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"The
bustling
fates
"Heap his hands with corpses
"Until he stands like a child,
"With surplus of toys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
[33]
Down through stones, through mosses flowing,
See the brook and
brooklet
springing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Pugatchef was seated in an
armchair
on the threshold of the Commandant's
house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Ne li gravo vilta di cuor le ciglia
per esser fi' di Pietro Bernardone,
ne per parer dispetto a maraviglia;
ma
regalmente
sua dura intenzione
ad Innocenzio aperse, e da lui ebbe
primo sigillo a sua religione.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My voice, a lioness that mourns
Her darling cubs'
undoing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
When
those disabilities were removed, she rapidly became more than a
match for
Carthage
and Macedon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--He is insensibly subdued
To settled quiet: he is one by whom
All effort seems forgotten; one to whom
Long
patience
hath [1] such mild composure given, 10
That patience now doth seem a thing of which
He hath no need.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And of the needle-seller's[749] with
Pamphilus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The young lambs ran a pretty race;
The morning sun shone bright and warm;
"Kilve," said I, "was a
pleasant
place,
"And so is Liswyn farm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The
speaker in the Dialogue is aware of this distinction, and, subject to
it, the various
branches
of poetry are with him so many different
modes of eloquence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Note: Pound utilises an issue of
translation
regarding the last line of verse 1, E jois le grans, e l'olors d'enoi gandres in Canto XX.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
_The Plot_: The Redcross Knight reaches the Brazen Tower in which Una's
parents, the King and Queen of Eden, are
besieged
by the Dragon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
If but e'en now thou fall
into this blind world, from that
pleasant
land
Of Latium, whence I draw my sum of guilt,
Tell me if those, who in Romagna dwell,
Have peace or war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
e
consequence
of resou{n}.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Stand forth reveal'd; with him thy cares employ
Against thy foes; be valiant and
destroy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
'Is there a man whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the way to steer,
Yet runs himself life's mad career,
Wild as the wave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The mass of
fighting
men is hardly mentioned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At first Zourine willingly
listened, then his words became fewer and more vague, and at last he
replied to one of my questions by a
vigorous
snore, and I then followed
his example.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
I ne'er refused to say
You're a good
creature
in your way;
Nay, I could write a book myself,
Would fit a parson's lower shelf,
Showing how very good you are.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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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 |
|
While in sweet cadence rising small and still
The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill,
As the last
bleating
of the fold expires,
Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
But I didn't think he'd
frighten
me so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
If all, united, thy
ambition
call,
From ancient story learn to scorn them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Give me to live yet--yet a little while:
'Tis I who pray for life--I who so late
Demanded
but to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
But
remember
the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with
perfect trust, no matter how long,
And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as
for all lands,
And I send these words to Paris with my love,
And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be
drowning all that would interrupt them,
O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
It reaches hither, it swells me to Joyful madness,
I will run transpose it in words, to justify
I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thy care is fixt and
zealously
attends
To fill thy odorous Lamp with deeds of light,
And Hope that reaps not shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
A Friar, who
gathered
simples in the wood,
A grey-haired man--he loved this little boy,
The boy loved him--and, when the Friar taught him,
He soon could write with the pen: and from that time,
Lived chiefly at the Convent or the Castle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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adscriptos putauit, esse tamen Catulli
334 _umquam tales
contexit_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
And I wonder how they should have been
together!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
[17] Manchurian,
Mongolian
and Turkestan frontiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
But Servian
history before all this has many glories, which, one would think, would
serve the turn of heroic song better than
appalling
defeat and, indeed,
enslavement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"Of the
remarkable
man," was the reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
by stars
malignant
crossed,
The life I got I quickly lost;
But yet a way there doth remain
For me embalm'd to live again,
And that's to love me; in which state
I'll live as one regenerate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
If you
received
this etext on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
O
pleasure
whence my wing'd ideas start
To that bless'd vision which no eye, unharm'd,
Created, may approach--thy name, if rhyme
Could bear to Bactra and to Thule's coast,
Nile, Tanais, and Calpe should resound,
And dread Olympus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Let him be so
entertained
amongst you as
suits with gentlemen of your knowing to a stranger of his
quality.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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They glided past, they glided fast,
Like travellers through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The
phantoms
kept their tryst.
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Wilde - Poems |
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SCHULER:
Ich wunschte recht gelehrt zu werden,
Und mochte gern, was auf der Erden
Und in dem Himmel ist, erfassen,
Die
Wissenschaft
und die Natur.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I have
directed
my solicitor to apply to
Chancery for an injunction to restrain the sale; but, after the
precedent of Mr.
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Shelley |
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eue him
strength
& mygh[t]e 69
A?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This fatal marriage I both wish and fear:
I dare expect only
imperfection
here.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then came the
Ausonian
clan and the tribes of Sicania, and
many a time the land of Saturn put away her name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Then says the count: "I will not have them, me I
Confound
me God, if I fail in the deed!
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Chanson de Roland |
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But rage and mad thirst of
slaughter
drive him like fire on
the foe.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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