Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto
dishonour?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And all whereat the
generous
soul revolts,[df]
Which the stern dotard deemed he could encage,
Have passed to darkness with the vanished age.
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Byron |
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'O Lord, O
everlasting
Governor of men and things--for what else may we
yet supplicate?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Nithsdale
and Edinburgh
LXXIV.
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Robert Burns |
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the
spelling
_souo_ = _suo_
in 44.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_e_) D:
_confutere_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Leonor
By keeping your noble rank in mind;
Heaven owes you a king, you love a
subject!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I
recognise
this blade, tool of his madness,
I armed him with it for a nobler purpose.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Tense and still like one who to sing must rise
Before a throng on a festal night
She lifted her head, and her bright glad eyes
Were like pools which
reflected
light.
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Rilke - Poems |
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They reduced to the simplest standard their houses, apparel, and food;
and discarded the load of book-learning which
Confucianism
imposed on
its adherents.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What immortal grief hath touched thee
With the poignancy of sadness,--
Testament
of tears?
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Sappho |
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But my soul wanders; I demand it back
To meditate amongst decay, and stand
A ruin amidst ruins; there to track
Fall'n states and buried greatness, o'er a land
Which WAS the mightiest in its old command,
And IS the loveliest, and must ever be
The master-mould of Nature's
heavenly
hand,
Wherein were cast the heroic and the free,
The beautiful, the brave--the lords of earth and sea.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He
conversation
would have led--
But could not.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'--
'Or did you spy a ruddy hound,
Sister fair and tall,
Went
snuffing
round my garden bound,
Or crouched by my bower wall?
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Christina Rossetti |
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A smell of
scorching
enters in our frame
Where the bright colour from the dye goes not;
And colour in one way, flavour in quite another
Works inward to our senses--so mayst see
They differ too in elemental shapes.
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Lucretius |
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O rough-hewn
god of the orchard,
I bring you an offering--
do you, alone unbeautiful,
son of the god,
spare us from loveliness:
these fallen hazel-nuts,
stripped
late of their green sheaths,
grapes, red-purple,
their berries
dripping with wine,
pomegranates already broken,
and shrunken figs
and quinces untouched,
I bring you as offering.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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God,
Wondrously having moved thee to this deed,
Hath shown the Jews a wondrous
favouring
love.
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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War, death, cataclysm like this, America,
Take deep to thy proud
prosperous
heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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So through the
moonlight
lanes they go,
And far into the moonlight dale,
And by the church, and o'er the down,
To bring a doctor from the town,
To comfort poor old Susan Gale.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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BUT still the lady anxious was to view,
Again those
precious
relicks, and pursue,
E'en in the tomb what yet her soul held dear
No aliment she took her mind to cheer;
The gate of famine was the one she chose,
By which to leave this nether world of woes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Tout le jour il suait d'obeissance; tres
Intelligent; pourtant des tics noirs, quelques traits,
Semblaient
prouver en lui d'acres hypocrisies.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Straightway
I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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que n'ai-je mis bas tout un noeud de viperes,
Plutot que de nourrir cette
derision!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XI
--Not a creature cares in Lodi
How Napoleon swept each arch,
Or where up and
downward
trod he,
Or for his memorial March!
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and
raptures
holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Little
by little Turnus drew away from the fight towards the river, and the
side encircled by the stream: the more bravely the Teucrians press on
him with loud shouts and
thickening
masses, even as a band that fall on
a wrathful lion with levelled weapons, but he, frightened back, retires
surly and grim-glaring; and neither does wrath nor courage let him turn
his back, nor can he make head, for all that he desires it, against the
surrounding arms and men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Mourn ye, O ye Loves and Cupids and all men of
gracious
mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"--
The prince's eye
Oneguine
seeks:
"Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The nearer I
approach
my life's last day,
The certain day that limits human woe,
I better mark, in Time's swift silent flow,
How the fond hopes he brought all pass'd away.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Whispering
in midnight silence, said the youth,
"Sure some sweet name thou hast, though, by my truth,
I have not ask'd it, ever thinking thee
Not mortal, but of heavenly progeny,
As still I do.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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What cunning hast thou found to fill
Thy
purpose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The
enclosed
will show you partly what I have been doing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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What a filthy
Presidentiad!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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O valley safe in Fancy's land,
Not tramped to mud yet by the
million!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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There is a penny for thee;
remember
me in
thy prayers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Let him smile in triumph gay,
True heart, victorious over lavish hand,
By the Alban lake that day
'Neath citron roof all marble shalt thou stand:
Incense there and fragrant spice
With odorous fumes thy
nostrils
shall salute;
Blended notes thine ear entice,
The lyre, the pipe, the Berecyntine flute:
Graceful youths and maidens bright
Shall twice a day thy tuneful praise resound,
While their feet, so fair and white,
In Salian measure three times beat the ground.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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' This old
woman meant no more than some
beautiful
bright colour by the colour of
silver, for though I knew an old man--he is dead now--who thought she
might know 'the cure for all the evils in the world,' that the Sidhe
knew, she has seen too little gold to know its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And, when assured that he is there alone,
Gives
utterance
to his grief in shriek and groan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Still, Nature, ever just, to him imparts
Joys only given to
uncorrupted
hearts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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When fevers burn, or argues freezes,
Rheumatics gnaw, or colics squeezes,
Our neibor's
sympathy
can ease us,
Wi' pitying moan;
But thee--thou hell o' a' diseases--
Aye mocks our groan.
| 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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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer,
marvelling
why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A year passed, during which the
scarecrow
turned philosopher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
references were found to be
incorrect
in innumerable instances, and had to
be verified in every individual case so far as this was possible, a few
only, which resisted all efforts at verification, having to be indicated by
an interrogation point (?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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That
Emperour
does with the morning rise;
Matins and Mass are said then in his sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Her fingers fumbled at her work, --
Her needle would not go;
What ailed so smart a little maid
It puzzled me to know,
Till
opposite
I spied a cheek
That bore another rose;
Just opposite, another speech
That like the drunkard goes;
A vest that, like the bodice, danced
To the immortal tune, --
Till those two troubled little clocks
Ticked softly into one.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But this, at best, tells as
much one way as another; nay, the Sufi, who may be considered the
Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, would be far more likely than
the
careless
Epicure to interpolate what favours his own view of the
Poet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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at we han
p{ur}posed
her-byforn.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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That woman's one of nature's picking
For
pandering
and gipsy-tricking!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So may the power, atoned by fervent prayer,
Our wives, our infants, and our city spare;
And far avert Tydides'
wasteful
ire,
Who mows whole troops, and makes all Troy retire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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First march the bold Epirotes,
Wedged close with shield and spear
And the ranks of false Tarentum
Are
glittering
in the rear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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BRAVE infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
When the
prodigious
Hannibal did crown
His cage, with razing your immortal town.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It's so unkind of science
To go and
interfere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_ Munro:
_sciuntque
Galliae
ultimam et Britanniae_ Birt: fort.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a toilsome way
Set
bleeding
feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
550
He spake; then raged
Antinous
still the more,
And in wing'd accents, louring, thus replied.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Introduced
to the governor's wife and daughter, Khlestakov addresses
them in the manner of a gallant from the metropolis, and chatters
boastfully of his influence, his position, and his connections.
| 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 |
|
Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestined
Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
'
Woe him that cunning trades in hearts
contrives!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
VII
The pervert world with icy chill
Had not yet
withered
his young breast.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then rise to withstand them:
Doubtless the night-fraught Star
displays
his splendour Oetean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine,
Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides,
And
surround
me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and
resume the way;
Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
His old master, however was sharp
enough to
overreach
him in the matter of borrowing and lending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Your lights are but dank shoals,
slate and pebble and wet shells
and seaweed
fastened
to the rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the lilies grow,
And yon-side where was woe, was woe,
-- Where the rabble of souls,' cried Sense,
`Did shrivel and turn and beg and burn,
Thrust back in the
brimstone
from above --
Is banked of violet, rose, and fern:'
`How?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Yet since this bittersweet ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault,
rejecting
the allure,
It will bring peace to your troubled mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
at
conioigned
so many[e 2896
diu{er}se] ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
polygonic In their amazing
fructifying
hard subdued course in the vast deep
PAGE 34
And Los & Enitharmon were drawn down by their desires
Descending sweet upon the wind among soft harps & voices [Laughing and mocking ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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_ To whom when they told the
dreadful
tidings, "And I," he replies
"am sacrificing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
She's
promised
to me,
Fortuitously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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But should this arm prepare to wreak our hate
On thy loved realms, whose guilt demands their fate;
Presume not thou the lifted bolt to stay,
Remember
Troy, and give the vengeance way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Yes, looking with
dreaming
eyes, I have found them sitting
under the olives, in their grave, strong, antique beauty--Etruscan
gods!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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It seemeth him but the
skeleton
of a ship.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'Tis the
chronicle
of art.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its
wavering
fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning Curtains to shut me from God.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth:
Beware Macduffe,
Beware the Thane of Fife:
dismisse
me.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Cestius in life, maybe,
Slew,
breathed
out threatening;
I know not.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The health of the young teacher suffered from too ascetic a life, and
unmistakable danger-signals began to appear,
fortunately
heeded in time,
but disappointment and delay resulted, borne, however, with sense and
courage.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Minnehaha proved another
blessing
to the people.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But it is threaded with gold and
powdered
with scarlet beads.
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Imagists |
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From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus originally did not know
his guest, and
received
not so much the reward of exceptional virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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