That will not be, if she
torments
me,
Peace and a truce are all I'm asking,
For it grieves me to exit limply,
And lose the good of all this suffering.
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Troubador Verse |
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That will not be, if she
torments
me,
Peace and a truce are all I'm asking,
For it grieves me to exit limply,
And lose the good of all this suffering.
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Troubador Verse |
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That will not be, if she
torments
me,
Peace and a truce are all I'm asking,
For it grieves me to exit limply,
And lose the good of all this suffering.
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Troubador Verse |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then the
crowding
madness,
Wild and keen and tender,
Trembles with the burden
Of great joy.
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Sappho |
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Is it not
possible
he hate the need?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
THE GALAXY
Torrent of light and river of the air,
Along whose bed the
glimmering
stars are seen
Like gold and silver sands in some ravine
Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My soul, which sleep expels from his abode,
The body leaves, and, from its
trammels
free,
Seeks her whose mien so often menace show'd.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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My soul, which sleep expels from his abode,
The body leaves, and, from its
trammels
free,
Seeks her whose mien so often menace show'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
ancient lays,
unjustly
despised by the learned and polite, linger
for a time in the memory of the vulgar, and are at length too
often irretrievably lost.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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tior_ BRVen:
_expolitor_
OLa1
21 _lotus_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The thing is a fact, and told by one of the first physicians
of the present day, as having
happened
in the south of England, 'and
which has, a short time since', been turned by a _lyric poet_ into
that excellent ballad.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Behind every
exquisite
thing that exists there is something tragic.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For it were neither skile ne right 3120
Of the roser ye broke the rind,
Or take the rose aforn his kind;
Ye ar not
courteys
to aske it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Whose life is all
A simpering
pretence
of modesty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Even now
I see some
bondmaid
there, her death-shorn brow
Bending beneath its freight of well-water.
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Euripides - Electra |
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A
distinguished
Scandinavian
writer has pronounced _Das Stunden-Buch_ one of the supreme literary
achievements of our time and its deepest and most beautiful book of
prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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dauncing all around,
Whilst
freshest
Flora?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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On this side the Tuscan river
shuts us in; on that the Rutulian drives us hard, and
thunders
in arms
about our walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His first patron was
Viscount
Eble III of Ventadorn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be reckoned sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death
prevails
not yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and director of nature, by far
the most
enviable
is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
No
general error evinces a more thorough confusion of ideas than the
error of
supposing
Donne and Cowley metaphysical in the sense wherein
Wordsworth and Coleridge are so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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We here have found
hosts to our heart: thou hast
harbored
us well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" Now the rich sound of leaves,
Turning in air to sway their heavy boughs,
Burns in his heart, sings in his veins, as spring
Flowers in veins of trees;
bringing
such peace
As comes to seamen when they dream of seas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das
Sprichwort
sagt: Ein eigner Herd,
Ein braves Weib sind Gold und Perlen wert.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O, wha is it but
Findlay?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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He fears nor kris nor assegai,
He gazes at man, with no cares at all,
And smiles at the sepoy's musket-ball,
That merely
rebounds
from his hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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But so it was, none answer'd for a space,
Save one whom none regarded, Clymene;
And yet she answer'd not, only complain'd,
With hectic lips, and eyes up-looking mild, 250
Thus wording timidly among the fierce:
"O Father, I am here the
simplest
voice,
And all my knowledge is that joy is gone,
And this thing woe crept in among our hearts,
There to remain for ever, as I fear:
I would not bode of evil, if I thought
So weak a creature could turn off the help
Which by just right should come of mighty Gods;
Yet let me tell my sorrow, let me tell
Of what I heard, and how it made me weep, 260
And know that we had parted from all hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt,
inflamed
by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
IX
He scarce
impassions
champions now;
They do and dare, but tensely--pale of brow;
And would they fain uplift the arm
Of that faint form they know not how.
| 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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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
{20a} He surmises
presently
where she is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
One of the
boundary
lines was a stream flowing into
Long Island Sound, between the present city of New London and the
Connecticut River.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
A God hath
counselled
ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Et c'est depuis ce temps que Lesbos se
lamente!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
ilke
agamenon
desired[e] to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
'Valiant she was, and comradely, and bold;
High-mettled; all her
thoughts
a challenge, like gay ships
Adventurous, with treasure in the hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Thy father and mother both--'tis strange to tell--
Had failed thee, though for them the deed was well,
The years were ripe, to die and save their son,
The one child of the house: for hope was none,
If thou
shouldst
pass away, of other heirs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
I went running off; the
poor woman who summoned me begged me to come,
whatever
might betide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
I went running off; the
poor woman who summoned me begged me to come,
whatever
might betide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
In the
treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely
precious
things, that
may not be taken from you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
I am so sore bounde him til,
From his servyse I may not fleen; 4595
For lyf and deth,
withouten
wene,
Is in his hand; I may not chese;
He may me do bothe winne and lese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Forerunner of a valiant race,
His
voiceless
spirit still reminds us
Of ever-waiting, silent duty:
The bond of faith wherewith he binds us
Shall hold us ready hour by hour
To serve the sacred, guiding power
Whene'er it calls, where'er it finds us,
With loyalty that, like a folded flower,
Blooms at a touch in proud, full-circled beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Four limped fountains from the clefts distil:
And every
fountain
pours a several rill,
In mazy windings wandering down the hill:
Where bloomy meads with vivid greens were crown'd,
And glowing violets threw odours round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
FAUST:
Ein Blick von dir, ein Wort mehr unterhalt
Als alle
Weisheit
dieser Welt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene;
Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells,
Whose walls more awful nod
By thy
religious
gleams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
It is
somewhat
as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were
pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a
refined and rather pathetic comedy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The Nightingale that in the
Branches
sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I particularly hope
you'll like the Angel's song, where I have endeavored to convey,
in one line each, the
philosophies
of Art, of Science, of Power,
of Government, of Faith, and of Social Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Our trav'ller glad, an appetite displayed;
The lady
carefully
her guest surveyed,
And anxious seemed to gratify his wish,
By helping what appeared his favourite dish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
What secret
Gives wisdom to her
purpose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Housman's 'A
Shropshire
Lad'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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_; her
white robe (_Revelation_, vii, 9); the sacramental cup filled with wine and
water according to the custom of the early Christians (_John_, xix, 34);
the serpent
symbolical
of healing power (_Numbers_, xxi, and _Mark_, xiv,
24); the book sealed with the blood of the Lamb (_Revelation_, v, 1, and
_II Corinthians_, v, 7).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[First
published
_Murray's Magazine_, March, 1887,
vol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
[First
published
_Murray's Magazine_, March, 1887,
vol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
WERE it much to implore thee,
If devoutly, once,
I might kneel before thee
After
suffering
long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The poet who is not also
a
philosopher
is like a flower without a root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
"
Envoi
Fair is this damsel and right courteous,
And many watch her beauty's
gracious
ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I'll love my
Ipsithilla
sweetest,
My desires and my wit the meetest,
So bid me join thy nap o' noon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where
blossomed
many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
His long experience secured for him the
confidence of his companions, and his
hospitality
and genial humor
conciliated society.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
bēo (bīo) þū on ofeste,
_hasten!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
His long experience secured for him the
confidence of his companions, and his
hospitality
and genial humor
conciliated society.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
A fuller
bibliography
will be found in Cordier's "Bibliotheca Sinica.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
A fuller
bibliography
will be found in Cordier's "Bibliotheca Sinica.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
A fuller
bibliography
will be found in Cordier's "Bibliotheca Sinica.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
WELLBORN: Well, sir, and what
follows?
| 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 |
|
nec tamen illa mihi dexstra deducta paterna
fraglantem
Assyrio uenit odore domum,
sed furtiua dedit mira munuscula nocte, 145
ipsius ex ipso dempta uiri gremio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Who could have
supposed
I should meet you in Town?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The
trembling
priest along the shore return'd,
And in the anguish of a father mourn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
| 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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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Whitman, wisely suppressed:
Said we then--we two, then--"Ah, can it
Have been that the woodlandish ghouls--
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls--
To bar up our path and to ban it
From the secret that lies in these wolds--
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls--
This sinfully scintillant planet
From the Hell of the
planetary
souls?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nought list myn auctor fully to declare 575
What that she thoughte whan he seyde so,
That Troilus was out of town y-fare,
As if he seyde ther-of sooth or no;
But that, with-outen awayt, with him to go,
She
graunted
him, sith he hir that bisoughte 580
And, as his nece, obeyed as hir oughte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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She was as
ignorant
as a bird;
and her distorted versions of the rumors from the outside world that had
reached her in her room, amused Trejago almost as much as her lisping
attempts to pronounce his name--"Christopher.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In quel che s'appiatto miser li denti,
e quel
dilaceraro
a brano a brano;
poi sen portar quelle membra dolenti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And were you saved,
And I
condemned
to be
Where you were not,
That self were hell to me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Came, too, on Agamemnon's hall
A lion-pair, twin
swordsmen
strong.
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Aeschylus |
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Then was laughter of
liegemen
loud resounding
with winsome words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We paused beside the pools that lie
Under the forest bough;
Each seemed as 'twere a little sky
Gulf'd in a world below;
A firmament of purple light
Which in the dark earth lay,
More
boundless
than the depth of night
And purer than the day--
In which the lovely forests grew
As in the upper air,
More perfect both in shape and hue
Than any spreading there.
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Golden Treasury |
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Those I once would seek to cheer
Leave them
cheerless
now I must.
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Troubador Verse |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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