Rude boy, he flies like lightning o'er the heath
Past wither'd trees like you; you're
wrinkled
now;
The white has left your teeth
And settled on your brow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Arthur's kingdom was the most
unpeaceful
of all.
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Tennyson |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Is my own son
In
complicity
with my enemies then?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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= '"_Borachio_ (says
Min-shieu) is a bottle commonly of a pigges skin, with the hair
inward, dressed inwardly with rozen, to keep wine or liquor
sweet:"--Wines preserved in these bottles
contract
a peculiar
flavour, and are then said _to taste of the borachio_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There are poems in _The Book of Pilgrimage_ of the stillness of a
whispered prayer in a great Cathedral and there are others that carry in
their
exultation
the music of mighty hymns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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No suns on earth
Unclouded
glitter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a
thousand
deaths that threaten pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
e
debonaire
force of god disposed[e]
hem so as it was wor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Into the sky,
the red earthenware and the
galvanised
iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Why, it takes a sharpshooter to bring down even such trivial game as
snipes and woodcocks; he must take very
particular
aim, and know what
he is aiming at.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The four-gill chap, we'se gar him clatter,
An' kirsen him wi' reekin water;
Syne we'll sit down an' tak our whitter,
To cheer our heart;
An' faith, we'se be
acquainted
better
Before we part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They
launched
the burning ship!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
And yet
Those
backward
steps through pain I cannot view
Without regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Who heard her flight with
imprecations
dire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Les deux
trafiquants
achetaient
des ames pour le demon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by
mysterious
sleights a hundred thirsts appease?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
1200 for
the work and agreed to supply the
subscription
copies free of charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
You must haue
patience
Madam
Wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Education was
practically
synonymous with the
study of the poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
By four
unpitying
walls environed there
The homesick students pace the pavements bare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
"
He said, and, seconding the kind request,
With friendly step
precedes
his unknown guest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Hippolyte
Phaedra accuse
Hippolytus
of a guilty passion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
But neither in ships, nor going on foot,
Couldst thou find the wonderful way to the
contests
of the
Hyperboreans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Or haunted Garpal draws his feeble source,
Aroused by blustering winds an' spotting thowes,
In mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes;
While crashing ice, borne on the rolling spate,
Sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate;
And from Glenbuck,^5 down to the Ratton-key,^6
Auld Ayr is just one lengthen'd,
tumbling
sea--
Then down ye'll hurl, (deil nor ye never rise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
), has been illuminatingly
developed
in an
unpublished monograph by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The bells they sound on Bredon,
And still the
steeples
hum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
At
Candlemas
you called this poetry
One of the fragile, mighty things of God,
That die at an insult.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Down at the foot of the mountain
Two
Japanese
families had flower farms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Therefore a bad
poet would, I grant, make a false critique, and his self-love would
infallibly bias his little judgment in his favor; but a poet, who is
indeed a poet, could not, I think, fail of making-a just critique;
whatever should be deducted on the score of self-love might be replaced
on account of his
intimate
acquaintance with the subject; in short,
we have more instances of false criticism than of just where one's own
writings are the test, simply because we have more bad poets than good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
_Love and
Madness_
by Sir Herbert Croft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
I'm so weak--my
throbbing
breast!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
er enforceden
hem to go rauische
eueryche
man for his part ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
PARVENU:
Wir waren wahrlich auch nicht dumm
Und taten oft, was wir nicht sollten;
Doch jetzo kehrt sich alles um und um,
Und eben da wir's fest
erhalten
wollten.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
One recalls the broad, solidly-built figure of Rodin with his rugged
features and high, finely chiselled forehead, moving slowly among the
white
glistening
marble busts and statues as a giant in an old legend
moves among the rocks and mountains of his realm, patient, all-enduring,
the man who has mastered life, strong and tempered by the storms of
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Admiring Nature in her wildest grace,
These
northern
scenes with weary feet I trace;
O'er many a winding dale and painful steep,
Th' abodes of covey'd grouse and timid sheep,
[Footnote 1: These are rhymes of dubious authenticity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
And so to meet the approaching lady went,
And showed the cave, and prayed her to ascend;
And said that in its bottom he had seen
A gentle damsel of
bewitching
mien.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And it is love kindles the burning of it,
The
quivering
flame of spoken-forth desire,
Which man hath made his place within the world,--
Love, learnt of Sappho!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump
They dropp'd down one by one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
I send the lilies given to me;
Though long before thy hand they touch,
I know that they must withered be,
But yet reject them not as such;
For I have cherished them as dear,
Because they yet may meet thine eye,
And guide thy soul to mine e'en here,
When thou behold'st them drooping nigh,
And know'st them
gathered
by the Rhine,
And offered from my heart to thine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Were ye such,
Ye would have
honoured
her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
von (Robert), p39 1887,
Internet
Book Archive Images
Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one,
settling
a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
1560
Saying: 'From me, Heaven claims an
innocent
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's
dateless
night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
See the open park
Lying below us with a million lamps
Scattered in wise
disorder
like the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
When now the hero, humbled in the dust,
His crime aton'd, confess'd that Heaven was just,
Again in splendour he the throne ascends:
Again his bow the Moorish
chieftain
bends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
]
As life wanes on, the passions slow depart,
One with his
grinning
mask, one with his steel;
Like to a strolling troupe of Thespian art,
Whose pace decreases, winding past the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Und immer zirkuliert ein neues,
frisches
Blut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
No
proceedings
take place, perhaps one hard word is not
spoken; but he is regarded with loathing by the old and the devout; he
is looked on by all with cold and reproachful eyes--sorrow is foretold
as his lot, sure disaster as his fortune; and is these chance to
arrive, the only sympathy expressed is, "What better could he expect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
But Arno wins us to the fair white walls,
Where the
Etrurian
Athens claims and keeps
A softer feeling for her fairy halls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
There are unlighted torches in
brackets
on the walls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Still he recalls with emotion his Father's
manifold
mansions,
Thinks of the land of his fathers, where blossomed more freshly the flowerets,
Shone a more beautiful sun, and he played with the winged angels.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Many consider that the policy of all the Flavian
generals was rather to
threaten
the city than to attack it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But one there is, [8] the
loveliest
of them all,
Some sweet lass of the valley, looking out
For gains, and who that sees her would not buy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Moke moe thanne deathe in
phantasie
I feele;
See!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Arethusa arose
From her couch of snows
In the
Acroceraunian
mountains,--
From cloud and from crag,
With many a jag, _5
Shepherding her bright fountains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
corrupt data,
transcription
errors, a copyright or other intellectual
property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplght gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er,
_She_ shall press, ah,
nevermore!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
e last[e] day 984
of a ma{n}nis lijf is a
man{er}e
dee?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Then,
untouched
by slavery,
We had heard as from afar
Deaths of those who should have died
'Mid the chance of war.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Oberon, the beauteous God
Here, to-night
perceive
I!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
XXX
THAT way he went with no will of his own,
in danger of life, to the dragon's hoard,
but for
pressure
of peril, some prince's thane.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Thou would'st be great,
Art not without Ambition, but without
The
illnesse
should attend it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
O waving trees, O forest
liberty!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
He drew new music from our tongue,
A music subtly wrought,
And moulded words to his desire,
As wind doth mould a wave of fire;
From
strangely
fashioned harps slow golden tones he wrung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The host
received
us near the entrance, holding a lantern beneath
the skirt of his caftan, and led us into a room, small but prettily
clean, lit by a _loutchina_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
The sunbeam that plays on the
porchstone
wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
_nicht_: nē
hīe hūru wine-drihten wiht ne lōgon (_did not blame their
friendly
lord
aught_), 863; so, ne wiht = _naught, in no wise_, 1084, 2602, 2858; nō
wiht, 541; instr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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By promise fair and artful flattery
Me Love
contrived
in prison old to snare,
And gave the keys to her my foe in care,
Who in self-exile dooms me still to lie.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whose fate inquiring through the world we rove;
The last, the
wretched
proof of filial love.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But, tell me, what advantage has accrued to your city
from those who now
introduce
among you a new religion?
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Tacitus |
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_ What squeezing and pushing, what rustling and
hustling!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It happened thus: One day, long
before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all
my masks were stolen,--the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in
seven lives,--I ran
maskless
through the crowded streets shouting,
"Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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IGNIS-FATUUS:
Well,
I see you are the master of the house;
I will
accommodate
myself to you.
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Shelley |
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Vigorously
he cantered onward thence.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ein kleines reinliches Zimmer
Margarete
ihre Zopfe flechtend und aufbindend.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: "Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our
immortal
day.
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blake-poems |
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Should you
lay ear to these lines--
you will not catch
a distant drum of hoofs,
cavalcade of Arabians,
passionate horde bearing down,
destroying
your citadel--
but maybe you'll hear--
should you just
listen at the right place,
hold it tenaciously,
give your full blood to the effort--
maybe you'll note the start
of a single step,
always persistently faint,
wavering in its movement
between coming and going,
never quite arriving,
never quite passing--
and tell me which it is,
you or I
that you greet,
searching a mutual being--
and whether two aren't closer
for the labor of an ear?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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