Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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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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Besides, he was a husband, which is worse
With these each sin
receives
a double curse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him,
redeemed
by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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'
"I ceased, when affable the goddess cried:
'Observe, and in the truths I speak confide;
The oracular seer frequents the Pharian coast,
From whose high bed my birth divine I boast;
Proteus, a name tremendous o'er the main,
The
delegate
of Neptune's watery reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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This
dreadful
monster won't escape: believe me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Why wiltow me fro Ioye thus
depryve?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Farinata
e 'l Tegghiaio, che fuor si degni,
Iacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo e 'l Mosca
e li altri ch'a ben far puoser li 'ngegni,
dimmi ove sono e fa ch'io li conosca;
che gran disio mi stringe di savere
se 'l ciel li addolcia o lo 'nferno li attosca>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Is your cause against us
legitimate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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my pack is now unslung--
To classicism I've homage paid,
Though late, have a
beginning
made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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His son rode fast as he got off
That day on the enemy's hook,
When _I_ had an
epaulette
shot off.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Fine poetry, like other arts called fine,
springs from "strange places," as the flower in the fable said, when
it bloomed on the dunghill; nor is Burns more to be blamed than was
Raphael, who painted Madonnas, and Magdalens with dishevelled hair and
lifted eyes, from a loose lady, whom the pope, "Holy at Rome--here
Antichrist," charitably
prescribed
to the artist, while he laboured in
the cause of the church.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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A narrow wind
complains
all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the
earliest
bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of
Reckoning
shall read.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
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: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The Scylding queen spoke:
"Quaff of this cup, my king and lord,
breaker of rings, and blithe be thou,
gold-friend of men; to the Geats here speak
such words of
mildness
as man should use.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
660
Ah,
desperate
mortal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Even meat does not _taste_ tough: and it is not of meat
that Donne is
thinking
but of wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Who is the
landlord?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
'Rivers to the Sea', her
latest volume of lyrics, possesses the
delicacy
of imagery, the inward
illumination, the high vision that characterize the poetry that will
endure the test of time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
315
XXXVI
But they him layd full low in dungeon deepe,
And bound him hand and foote with yron chains
And with
continual
watch did warely keepe:
Who then would thinke, that by his subtile trains
He could escape fowle death or deadly paines?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
[Samuel Brown was brother to the poet's mother: he seems to have been
a joyous sort of person, who loved a joke, and
understood
double
meanings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Of forty, ten, with pain,
Swimming
aboard the bark in safety rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
They have sent us five
thousand
troops, and driven along ten thousand horses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Say, would you change for all the wealth possest
By rich Achaemenes or Phrygia's heir,
Or the full stores of Araby the blest,
One lock of her dear hair,
While to your burning lips she bends her neck,
Or with kind cruelty denies the due
She means you not to beg for, but to take,
Or
snatches
it from you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Taken from men this morning,
Carried by men to-day,
Met by the gods with banners
Who
marshalled
her away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And having given
ourselves
all to amazement,
We are made like a prophesying song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Have you so little knowledge of his heart's
reality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
My heart replied: It's never enough,
It's never enough to love one's mistress;
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past delights dearer and
sweeter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Now therefore, spare thy own, 60
Thy people; public reparation due
Shall sure be thine, and to appease thy wrath
For all the waste that, eating,
drinking
here
We have committed, we will yield thee, each,
Full twenty beeves, gold paying thee beside
And brass, till joy shall fill thee at the sight,
However just thine anger was before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
To tak't again
perforce!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Sed tu horum magnos vicisti sola furores,
Vt semel es flavo
conciliata
viro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
during my night
I, having become lusty,
wandered
about
in the midst of omens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
O 't is old Dame
Jeannette
that kept the hall,
I knew she would die at the autumn fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"I know thou
labourest
on the hill of fire,
In sweat and pain beneath a flaming sun,
To give the life and soul my vines desire,
And I am grateful for thy labours done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Wherin I should much commend the Tragical part, if
the Lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in
your Songs and Odes, wherunto I must plainly confess to have
seen yet nothing
parallel
in our Language: Ipsa mollities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
enne,
1384 "For by a-corde of
couenaunt
3e craue hit as your awen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Nay, Shuisky, swear not, but reply; was it
Indeed
Dimitry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Here, from the mountain to the surgy main,
Fair as a garden, spreads the smiling plain:
And lo, the empress of the Indian powers,
Their lofty Calicut, resplendent towers;
Hers ev'ry fragrance of the spicy shore,
Hers ev'ry gem of India's countless store:
Great Samoreem, her lord's
imperial
style,
The mighty lord of India's utmost soil:
To him the kings their duteous tribute pay,
And, at his feet, confess their borrow'd sway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
" she said,
In
springtime
ere the bloom was old:
The crimson wine was poor and cold
By her mouth's richer red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
He had an intuitive and a perfectly trained eye for the
character and beauty of distant mountain lines, the solemnity of rocky
gorges, the majesty of a single mountain rising from a base of plain or
sea; and he was equally exact in rendering the true forms of the middle
distances and the specialties of foreground detail
belonging
to the various
lands through which he had wandered as a sketcher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
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 |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Dibdin's excellent songs, and the air to which it is sung
by the Boors is
remarkably
sweet and lively.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
XXXIX
Having abjured the haunts of men,
Like him renouncing vanity,
His friendship I acquired just then;
His
character
attracted me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
I've seen a hundred fine
squadrons
shattered
By his valour, to the four winds scattered;
More than a brave soldier, a great captain,
He is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
true
daughter
of Old Time thou art!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
O wild and dismal night storm, with wind--O
belching
and desperate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"That thither it is
perilous
to wend,
Exiles (he said) are warned by Pompey's end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Endless and deep shall be my grief;
LNae ray of comfort shall I see,
But this most precious, dear belief,
That thou wilt still
remember
me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
read fāgum
sweordum
(no ic þæs fela gylpe!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
But more the oxen live by
tranquil
air,
Nor e'er doth smoky torch of wrath applied,
O'erspreading with shadows of a darkling murk,
Rouse them too far; nor will they stiffen stark,
Pierced through by icy javelins of fear;
But have their place half-way between the two--
Stags and fierce lions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
'
Criseyde
un-to that purpos nought answerde,
But seyde, `Y-wis, it wol be night as faste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough;
None has ever yet adored or
worshipped
half enough;
None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the
future is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Ist es das erstemal in eurem Leben,
Dass Ihr falsch Zeugnis
abgelegt?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
6 _eterne_ O:
_aternum_
D m pr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Why, if thou cause thy folk to crop some villein's ears,
So, evil falls, and a fool
foretells
the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
before we part,
The poet's
blessing
take,
Ere bleeds that aged heart,
Or child the woman make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
There was a high place at the end of the house, and
on it there was sitting in a high chair a woman, the most
beautiful
the
world ever saw, having a long pale face and flowers about it, but she
had the tired look of one that had been long waiting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Hitherto all things fast abide,
And
anchored
in the tempest ride.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
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: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
These two were such good friends that the most
gossiping
townspeople
had given them up with a sigh.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Poi ch'io potei di me fare a mio senno,
trassimi
sovra quella creatura
le cui parole pria notar mi fenno,
dicendo: <
quel sanza 'l quale a Dio tornar non possi,
sosta un poco per me tua maggior cura.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Twas not always these;
'Twas not the bursting shell, the iron sleet,
The whirlwind rush of battle 'neath his feet,
Through twice ten years ago,
When at his beck, upon that sea of steel
Were launched the rustling banners--there to reel
Like masts when
tempests
blow.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Mutandast
ratio modusque vobis,
Siquid proficere amplius potestis,
'Pudica et proba, redde codicillos.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Tnou'st heard the knave, abusing those in power,
Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free;
Thou'st
sheltered
hypocrites in many a shower,
That when in power would never shelter thee.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Nor was Minerva absent from the rite,
She view'd her honours, and enjoyed the sight,
With reverend hand the king
presents
the gold,
Which round the intorted horns the gilder roll'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Oh, no, I am
perfectly
well,
Only a little tired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Come then--solicit at the dawn of day
Thy royal father, that he send thee forth
With mules and carriage for
conveyance
hence
Of thy best robes, thy mantles and thy zones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
V
We all of us of education
A
something
somehow have obtained,
Thus, praised be God!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Can you bring
yourself
to hate her innocent charms?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Ma rivolgiti omai inverso altrui;
ch'assai
illustri
spiriti vedrai,
se com' io dico l'aspetto redui>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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, AND IS
PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF
ILLINOIS
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE
WITH PERMISSION.
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Shakespeare |
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The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though
they may not
recommend
themselves to the sense which is most common
among Englishmen and Americans to-day.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that everything beneath the moon
Is
corruptible
and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He speaks,
The
Minister
of State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ay, that was in her hour of joy; there will be
plenty to sunder and
unsister
them again: this Gardiner for one, who
is to be made Lord Chancellor, and will pounce like a wild beast out
of his cage to worry Cranmer.
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Tennyson |
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I turned my face
Without repining from the coves and heights 10
Clothed in the sunshine of the withering fern; [B]
Quitted, not both, the mild magnificence
Of calmer lakes and louder streams; and you,
Frank-hearted maids of rocky Cumberland,
You and your not unwelcome days of mirth, 15
Relinquished, and your nights of revelry,
And in my own
unlovely
cell sate down
In lightsome mood--such privilege has youth
That cannot take long leave of pleasant thoughts.
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William Wordsworth |
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Theseus
Yes, you're
condemned
for that same cowardly pride.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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