Ainsi dans la foret ou mon esprit s'exile
Un vieux
Souvenir
sonne a plein souffle du cor!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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(Note: The septet may indicate the
constellation
of Ursa Major in the north.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Your husband
is
recommending
me to get married.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Idly he wandered on the Stygian shore,
Nor now
preserved
the walls he loved to shield before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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is still the cause
unfound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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'You do not do any of these things at all well,'
he went on, with an
insolence
peculiar to him when excited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"He wakes--ah, maids of
Memphis!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of
happiness
by hope supplied,
And each vacuity of sense by pride:
These build as fast as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup still laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect lost, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is given in vain;
Even mean self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others' wants by thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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It forms
scenes and stories; it puts questions, and answers them itself, all the
time believing that the
responses
come from those whom it interrogates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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On a
table in the centre of the room were
evangelistic
books with gilded
covers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Ideas of equity and literature were now
diffused
by this great
prince,[39] who was himself a polite scholar, and a most accomplished
gentleman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ist's nicht genug, dass mein
gesprochnes
Wort
Auf ewig soll mit meinen Tagen schalten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The second purpose of the notes is to set forth the
evidence
of the
manuscripts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
LI
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And
brooding
on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
| 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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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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That page is now before me, and on mine
HIS country's ruin added to the mass
Of perished states he mourned in their decline,
And I in desolation: all that WAS
Of then
destruction
IS; and now, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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HENIOCHIANS, a people
dwelling
near the Euxine Sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Why didst render not
Back unto us, the
children
of the dead,
Our father's portion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"We would see a sign":
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled
with darkness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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difficile est longum subito
deponere
amorem?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child-
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues-
And she
respects
me as her only son.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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O for the dropping of
raindrops
in a song!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Theme of much thought, and muse of many a rhyme,
Believe me, life to me was far less sweet
Than thus a
merciful
mild death to meet,
The blessed hope, to mortals rarely given:
And such joy smooth'd my path from earth to heaven,
As from long exile to sweet home I turn'd,
While but for you alone my soul with pity yearn'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The
world
revolves
from right to left.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
at,
And
hardeliche
a-doun stap,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
See the
fourteenth
book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
She was going to nurse that
Englishman
until he was well enough
to marry her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
"Why should the strong--
"The beautiful strong--
"Why should they not have the
flowers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is
virtually
lost in current policy debates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
A wider space, an
ornamented
grave?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
]
XIII
Him a disquietude did seize,
A wish from place to place to roam,
A very
troublesome
disease,
In some a willing martyrdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Comme un parasite a la table
De quelque monstrueux Cresus,
Nous avons, pour plaire a la brute,
Digne vassale des Demons,
Insulte ce que nous aimons
Et flatte ce qui nous rebute;
Contriste, servile bourreau,
Le faible qu'a tort on meprise;
Salue l'enorme Betise,
La Betise au front de taureau;
Baise la stupide Matiere
Avec grande devotion,
Et de la putrefaction
Beni la
blafarde
lumiere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And we
sometimes
walked together in the pleasant summer weather;
--"Please to tell us what his name was?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
as to justify the publication of that number of the magazine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Yet none could say of wrong he did,
And scorn was ever standing bye;
Accusers by their
conscience
chid,
When proof was sought, made no reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
4 The Qiang were a Tibetan people who
inhabited
the region.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
--
Wandering
exiles
sought him o'er seas, the sons of Ohtere,
who had spurned the sway of the Scylfings'-helmet,
the bravest and best that broke the rings,
in Swedish land, of the sea-kings' line,
haughty hero.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Wilt overtread
The eternal judgment, and abate
And spoil the
portions
of the dead?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
As the old lady sat
swaying to and fro,
seemingly
oblivious to her surroundings, Herman
crept out of his hiding-place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Hung up in honour mine are flowery firstlings of spring-tide, 10
Wreaths with their ears still soft the tender stalklets a-crowning;
Violets pale are mine by side of the poppy-head pallid;
With the dull yellow gourd and apples sweetest of savour;
Lastly the blushing grape
disposed
in shade of the vine-tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
And which of you
complains
of loss by them,
For whose delight and use ye have your life
And honour in creation?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Thus we know,
That
moisture
is dispersed about in bits
Too small for eyes to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lucretius |
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from
beneath the mound is heard a
pitiable
moan, and a voice is uttered to my
ears: "Woe's me, why rendest thou me, Aeneas?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A gentle rain comes
stealing
up from the east
And a sweet wind bears it company.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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.
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Appoloinaire |
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Indessen konnt Ihr ganz allein
An aller Hoffnung kunft'ger Freuden
In ihrem
Dunstkreis
satt Euch weiden.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Whichever first a favour might obtain,
Should tell his
happiness
to t'other swain.
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La Fontaine |
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When milder planets, warmer skies
O'er winter's frozen reign prevail;
When groves are tinged with vernal dyes,
And violets scent the wanton gale;
Those flowers, the verdure, then recall that day,
In which my Laura stole this
heedless
heart away.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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Keats |
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What are you going to do with
him,
assuming
that you've got him?
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Kipling - Poems |
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uel poena in tempus mortis dilata fuisset,
uel
praecepisset
mors properata fugam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Far off he stands
In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears
The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth,
Whose top is heaven, and its
ponderous
load
Too great for any grasp.
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Aeschylus |
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