Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where
oleanders
scatter their ambrosial fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He
says — " The bonds of civility betwixt Colonel
Gilby and myself being unliappily snapped in
pieces, and in such a manner that I cannot see
how it is
possible
ever to knit them again : the
only trouble that I have is, lest by our mis-intel-
ligence your business should receive any disad-
vantage Truly, I believe, that as
to your public trust and the discharge thereof,.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Even as they died they
took care to make an
honourable
end.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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'Tis represented thus I cannot doubt;
But sight of meat brings appetite about;
And if you would avoid the
tempting
bit,
'Tis better far at table not to sit.
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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In 1759 an
annotated
edition was published by Wang Ch'i, with six
_chuan_ of critical and biographical matter added to the thirty _chuan_
of the works.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening,
grandmother
appeared at Versailles at the Queen's
gaming-table.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I well remember that
my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it,
would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural
incarnations
of the
fiend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Did nations combat to make ONE submit;
Or league to teach all kings true
sovereignty?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Dal: With doubtful feet and wavering resolution
I came, still dreading thy displeasure, Samson,
Which to have merited, without excuse,
I cannot but acknowledge; yet if tears
May expiate (though the fact more evil drew
In the
perverse
event then I foresaw)
My penance hath not slack'n'd, though my pardon
No way assur'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The sun flicks here and there like a throned tyrant,
Snapping
his whip.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'55 one single:'
the word "movement" is
understood
after "single.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Nous nous aimions a cette epoque,
Bleu laideron:
On
mangeait
des oeufs a la coque
Et du mouron!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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These are but phases of one;
"And that one is I; and I am
projected
from thee,
One that out of thy brain and heart thou causest to be--
Extern to thee nothing.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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`And yet this is a wonder most of alle, 1100
Why thou thus sorwest, sin thou nost not yit,
Touching
hir goinge, how that it shal falle,
Ne if she can hir-self distorben it.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In kurzer Zeit ist
Gretchen
Euer.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[Sidenote A: Arthur held at Camelot his
Christmas
feast,]
[Sidenote B: with all the knights of the Round Table,]
[Sidenote C: full fifteen days.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'"]
The
Witnesses
proved, without error or flaw,
That the sty was deserted when found:
And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law
In a soft under-current of sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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), see the
_History
of the Captivity of Napoleon_, by William
Forsyth, Q.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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What
blessedness
mortals may know!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Wait, that the rebels may deliver me
In bonds to the
Otrepiev?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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_ We
perpetually
come upon this old
belief--that the souls of the murdered cannot rest in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Garmented
soft in white,
Haughty, and yet how love-imbuing and tender!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[13] 60
Through utter
weakness
pitiably dear,
As tender infants are: and yet how great!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
]
XXI
But borne in spirit far away
Tattiana gazes on the moon,
And
starting
suddenly doth say:
"Nurse, leave me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Laden with shining arms the men-folk tread
By the long wagons where their goods lie hidden;
They watch the heaven with eyes grown wearied
Of
hopeless
dreams that come to them unbidden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"
And one, sure enough,
tramples
up to the door,
And who but young Robin his sen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Haste, where gay youth
solicits
thy regard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sufficient troth that we shall rise --
Deposed, at length, the grave --
To that new marriage, justified
Through
Calvaries
of Love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the
Foundation
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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His
response
to the Airs of Tang was that ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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[Sidenote A: Then was Gawayne glad,]
[Sidenote B: and
consents
to tarry awhile at the castle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And woe to
Godunov!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"The long wordy
discussions
by which he tries to reason us into
admiration of his poetry, speak very little in his favor: they are
full of such assertions as this (I have opened one of his volumes at
random)--'Of genius the only proof is the act of doing well what is
worthy to be done, and what was never done before;'-indeed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
--Of this spilt water there is a little to be
gathered up: it is a
desperate
debt.
| 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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My pangs are of the mind, and of the heart, _65
And of the soul; ay, of the inmost soul,
Which weeps within tears as of burning gall
To see, in this ill world where none are true,
My kindred false to their
deserted
selves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
They turn the frost upon their chemic heap,
They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,
They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,
And, on cheap summit-levels of the snow,
Slide with the sledge to
inaccessible
woods
O'er meadows bottomless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Then you are
Countess
Cathleen: you and yours
Are ever welcome under my poor thatch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Deep the hoofs of their
neighing
roans
sink into the fallen leaves;
The riders see, for a moment pause,
and are gone with a pang at heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
We have no friends spiked on the
Scottish
Gate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Les roses des roseaux des
longtemps
devorees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
A chorus of colors came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was
elsewhere
a silence,
When the chorus of colors came over the
water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me,
Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea
By rose-breaths
shrining
maidens like to thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Guillaume
Apollinaire
'Guillaume Apollinaire'
Guillaume Apollinaire - Wybor Poezji", Zak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"The Battle," his one thoroughly intelligible poem, has
hitherto
been
only very imperfectly translated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
But Hawthorne worked in his
laboratory of evil wearing mask and gloves; he never
descended
into the
mud and sin of the street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
| 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 FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
_insert_
euer _after_ that, _which_ Sh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
XLIX
After there came a pagan, Climorins,
Smiling and clear to Guenelun begins:
"Take now my helm, better is none than this;
But give us aid, on Rollant the marquis,
By what device we may
dishonour
bring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Your
Children
shall be Kings
Banq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
A mist-rain
thickens
the gloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"
Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Beauty and strength,
The riches of a
spotless
memory,
The eloquence of truth, the wisdom got
By searching of a clear and loving eye
That seeth as God seeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
XLVI
Zerbino, who the Paladin pursues,
And loath would be to lose the cavalier,
To his Scottish
squadron
of himself sends news,
Which for its captain well might stand in fear;
Almonio sends, and many matters shews,
Too long at full to be recited here;
Almonio sends, Corebo next; nor stayed
Other with him, besides the royal maid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
AUTUMNAL
DAY
Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
_25 sea edition 1862; sense
editions
1824, 1839.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"--
Tattiana blushed, her heart beat quick--
"He
promised
here this day to ride,"
Lenski unto the dame replied,
"The post hath kept him, it is like.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
XXVIII
My
letters!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
_1633-54:_ womankinde:
_1669_]
[43 relies, _Ed:_ relies _1633:_ relies; _1635-69_]
[44 give,] give; _1635-69_]
[46
Statesmen]
Tradesmen _Cy_, _P_]
[47 grounds: _Ed:_ grounds, _1633-69_]
[49 'tis, one] 'tis on _1669_]
[53 their nothing _1635-54_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_,
_H49_, _JC_ (nothings), _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_ (_but
the MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The Bellman
perceived
that their spirits were low,
And repeated in musical tone
Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe--
But the crew would do nothing but groan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The
murmurous
haunt of flies on summer eves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
While the hands are busy, the heart cannot understand;
When there are no Scriptures, then
Doctrine
is sound.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Yet not
unrecompensed
the man shall roam,
Who at the call of summer quits his home, 10
And plods through some wide realm o'er vale and height,
Though seeking only holiday delight; [3]
At least, not owning to himself an aim
To which the sage would give a prouder name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
While Hector,
checking
at the Scaean gates
His panting coursers, in his breast debates,
Or in the field his forces to employ,
Or draw the troops within the walls of Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
They were very
excited, and kept up the
discussion
until near twelve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Beowulf took
cup in hall: {15b} for such costly gifts
he
suffered
no shame in that soldier throng.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Li T'ai-po was, I am afraid,
a bit of a Bohemian (laughter), and his Bacchanalian experiences have
been
repeated
in later days even with the great poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Behold, the flakes rush thick and fast;
Or are they years, that come between,--
When, peering back into the past,
I search the
legendary
scene?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
AT length, a second time the bottle failed;
The hostess' fear of ghosts again prevailed,
And mistress Alice now for escort went,
Though much she wished the other to have sent;
With
Simonetta
she was forced to change,
And leave the painter at his ease to range.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
There can be any number of supremes--one does not countervail
another any more than one eyesight
countervails
another, or
one life countervails another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
1813) Gifford advanced the
theory that the _bullion_ was 'a piece of finery, which derived
its denomination from the large
globular
gilt buttons, still in
use on the continent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
And Heptarchy
patriotisms
must follow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
From my own fate,
From out the
darkness
wherein long I fared
Worshipping stars and morsels of the light,
Through doors of golden morning now I pass
Into the great whole light and perfect day
Of shining Beauty, open to me at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
We must
dethrone
him.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
O then, the heart alarming,
And all resistless charming,
In Love's
delightful
fetters she chains the willing soul!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Nor less was my alarm,
When next my frame white down was seen to shroud,
While, 'neath the deadly leven, shatter'd lay
My first green hope that soar'd, too proud, in air,
Because, in sooth, I knew not when nor where
I left my latter state; but, night and day,
Where it was struck, alone, in tears, I went,
Still seeking it alwhere, and in the wave;
And, for its fatal fall, while able, gave
My tongue no respite from its one lament,
For the sad snowy swan both form and
language
lent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
--
Manasses, my Manasses, lost to me,
Gone where my love can nothing search, and hidden
Behind the vapours of these worldly years,
The many years between me and thy death;
Thine ears are sealed with
immortal
blessedness
Against our miserable din of living;
Through thy pure sense goeth no soil of grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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ODE
_To the
Immortal
Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair_, _Sir Lucius
Cary and Sir Henry Morison_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O may'st thou, favour'd by some
guardian
power,
Far, far be distant in that deathful hour!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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CXXVIII
Through force or skill, so fell the Moorish lord,
He stood his match, I rather ought to say
Fell on his feet; because Rogero's sword
Gave him, 'twas deemed,
advantage
in the fray.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Tacitus |
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] Again has witchcraft
triumphed
o'er me?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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Li Po |
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Certain it is, our end is near at hand,
Beyond this day shall no more live one man;
But of one thing I give you good warrant:
Blest
Paradise
to you now open stands,
By the Innocents your thrones you there shall have.
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Chanson de Roland |
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We may study the laws of matter at and for our
convenience, but a
successful
life knows no law.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But tell me; in the time of your sweet sighs,
By what, and how love granted, that ye knew
Your yet
uncertain
wishes?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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stand erect and without fear,
And for our foes let this suffice--
We've bought a
rightful
sonship here,
And we have more than paid the price.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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