46--Omitted with the
majority
of the best MSS.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It was probably a vast mound of
earth with a
declivity
outwards.
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Iliad - Pope |
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There
receiving
the sweet
forgiveness of the queen, he became a true knight of the Round Table,
and at the last died in battle while he fought for his king.
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Tennyson |
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So
encloistered
had Mdlle.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the
weighing
of fate and the sad discussion of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or if bare arses yet were tax'd;
The news o' princes, dukes, and earls,
Pimps, sharpers, bawds, and opera-girls;
If that daft buckie, Geordie Wales,
Was
threshing
still at hizzies' tails;
Or if he was grown oughtlins douser,
And no a perfect kintra cooser:
A' this and mair I never heard of;
And, but for you, I might despair'd of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears,
Nor tongue to tell me who hath martyr'd thee;
Thy husband he is dead, and for his death
Thy
brothers
are condemn'd, and dead by this.
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Shakespeare |
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'Twas AEneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
especially
where he speaks of Priam's slaughter.
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Shakespeare |
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Veronensi,
incertum
quo
anno, qua regione terrarum, codex qui fons uidetur esse eorum qui nunc
extant omnium.
| Guess: |
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Latin - Catullus |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Qu'on
patiente
et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
may each
domestic
bliss be thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The sun, that flar'd behind, with ruddy beam
Before my form was broken; for in me
His rays
resistance
met.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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 web page at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And we shall be dead, Guy
dear--dead and cast into the outer
darkness
where there is--
HE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And 'tis a
twelvemonth
now since her, in quest
Of my French kin, I left with grief opprest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To his guard king
Norandino
spake the word,
And bade them enter, and the duel stay:
They part the knight, whom they asunder bear,
And much the king is lauded for his care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
LVIII
Passes the night and opens the clear day;
That
Emperour
canters in brave array,
Looks through the host often and everyway;
"My lords barons," at length doth Charles say,
"Ye see the pass along these valleys strait,
Judge for me now, who shall in rereward wait.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"And when I also claim a nook,
And your feet tread me in,
Bestow me, under my old name,
Among my kith and kin,
That
strangers
gazing may not dream
I did a husband win.
| 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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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry should
be asked to name the most
precious
of the priceless things which time has
wrung in tribute from the triumphs of human genius, the answer which would
rush to every tongue would be "The Lost Poems of Sappho.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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GOETZ: Have the gate
barricaded
with beams and stones.
| 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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The dragon
discovers
the loss and exacts
fearful penalty from the people round about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Scarcely was heard to float some
gentlest
sound,
Scarcely some low breathed word,
As in a forest fallen asleep, is found
Just one belated bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Superb-faced
Manhattan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
what a
terrible
state we are in!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
deserves
not this thy care,
Our troops to hearten, and our toils to share?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
In some respects it was stupid, in
some respects it was unjust, but of one thing there can be no doubt--it
had a most
salutary
effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, when, in June,
Tall
chesnuts
keep away the sun and moon:--
I rush'd into the folly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
, _throne_,
figuratively
for _rule_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Is it only over you that love has
triumphed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The passage in Mungo Park's
_Journal
of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
His inclinations, however, pointed so
decisively
in the direction of the
finer arts of life that he left the Military Academy after a very short
attendance to devote himself to the study of philosophy and the history
of art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Men died with love on
entering
her room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
copyright law in
creating
the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
And then I knew that Love is worth its pain
And that my heart was richer for his sake,
Since lack of love is
bitterest
of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
In those brave days our fathers stood firmly side by side;
They faced the Marcian fury; they tamed the Fabian pride:
They drove the
fiercest
Quinctius an outcast forth from Rome;
They sent the haughtiest Claudius with shivered fasces home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
'Twixt woe and woe I dwell--
I dare not like a recreant fly,
And leave the league of ships, and fail each true ally;
For
rightfully
they crave, with eager fiery mind,
The virgin's blood, shed forth to lull the adverse wind--
God send the deed be well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
or if you must offend
Against the precept, ne'er transgress its End;
Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; 165
And have, at least, their
precedent
to plead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Wilbur, through the
medium of a young man at present
domiciled
in my family.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more
sensitive
than we
are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Yonder's the
criminal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
In 1824 he once more fell under the
imperial
displeasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping
from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
There is none but he,
Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,
My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said
Mark
Anthonies
was by Caesar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The King caresses him, and, it is said,
Has
promised
help.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The
world of wits, and _gens comme il faut_ which I lately left, and with
whom I never again will
intimately
mix--from that port, Sir, I expect
your Gazette: what _Les beaux esprit_ are saying, what they are doing,
and what they are singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The
description
which you give of the state
of our country during the plague, appeared to me most true and most
pathetic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Cynthius, pluck ye by the ear,
That ye may good
doctrine
hear;
Play not with the maiden-hair,
For each ringlet there's a snare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
THE NIGHTINGALE
A
CONVERSATION
POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL 1798
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip
Of sullen light, no obscure trembling hues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Who fears the Parthian or the
Scythian
horde,
Or the rank growth that German forests yield,
While Caesar lives?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
How bless'd,
delicious
Scene!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
She ran to Hector, and with her, tender of heart and hand,
Her son borne in his nurse's arms; when, like a heavenly sign
Compact of many golden stars, the
princely
child did shine.
| 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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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Did you
grate out to the
soldiers
what was given you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
But, lady fair,
What if Enipeus please
Your
listless
eye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
In the social satires of Pope's great admirer,
Byron, we are at no loss to
perceive
the ideal of personal liberty which
the poet opposes to the conventions he tears to shreds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
18 _menti_(_ci_ La1)_ens_ OLa1
21 _scis
quecumque
tibi placent al.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
--The brief style is that which
expresseth
much in little; the
concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be
understood; the abrupt style, which hath many breaches, and doth not seem
to end, but fall.
| 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 |
|
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the
sparkling
waves in glee:--
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Seu chlamys artifici nimium
succuiTerit
auso,
Sicque imperfectum fugerit impar opus ;
Sive tribus spemat victrix certare Deabus,
Et pretium formse, nee spoiliata, ferat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing,
intricately
drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Now martial law commands us to forbear;
Hereafter
we shall meet in glorious war,
Some future day shall lengthen out the strife,
And let the gods decide of death or life!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
The things one feels
absolutely
certain about are never true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Crag jutting forth to crag, and rocks that seem'd 10
Ever as if just rising from a sleep,
Forehead to forehead held their
monstrous
horns;
And thus in thousand hugest phantasies
Made a fit roofing to this nest of woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
THE corn has turned from grey to red,
Since first my spirit
wandered
forth
From the drear cities of the north,
And to Italia's mountains fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands
to take them up to town for the
advantage
of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Some news is
brought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Piso had
conspired
against Nero, A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
[19] This is to my
knowledge
the first occurence of the infinitive
of this verb, _paheru_, not _paharu_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
I
marvelled
at your height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
"This child," he says, "had a singular
resemblance to me,
insomuch
that any one who had not seen its mother
would have taken me for its father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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With the error that regards Herrick as a careless singer is closely
twined that which ranks him in the school of that master of elegant
pettiness who has usurped and abused the name Anacreon; as a mere
light-hearted writer of pastorals, a gay and
frivolous
Renaissance
amourist.
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Robert Herrick |
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Behold, within the leafy shade,
Those bright blue eggs
together
laid!
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William Wordsworth |
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But on the third of grove and mead
He took no more the slightest heed;
They made him feel inclined to doze;
And the
conviction
soon arose,
Ennui can in the country dwell
Though without palaces and streets,
Cards, balls, routs, poetry or fetes;
On him spleen mounted sentinel
And like his shadow dogged his life,
Or better,--like a faithful wife.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ESTRANGEMENT
The path from me to you that led,
Untrodden long, with grass is grown,
Mute carpet that his lieges spread
Before the Prince Oblivion
When he goes
visiting
the dead.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The first is raised of men from Butenrot,
The next, after, Micenes, whose heads are gross;
Along their backs, above their spinal bones,
As they were hogs, great
bristles
on them grow.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Your
wretched
towns shall be grated
like this cheese.
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Aristophanes |
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'75'
With this line Arbuthnot is
supposed
to take up the conversation.
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Alexander Pope |
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is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe,
And a
colorless
outline, but full, round, and clear;--
To the men he thinks worthy he frankly accords
The design of a white marble statue in words.
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James Russell Lowell |
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