I think of you,
faithful
soldiers;
Your service shall not be forgotten.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Tyranny, superstition,
commerce, and inequality were then first known, when reason vainly
attempted to guide the wanderings of
exacerbated
passion.
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Shelley |
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There is scarce any style so compressed that
superfluous
words may not
be detected in it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And now the golden moon had turned
To shining white, white as our souls that burned
With vision of our
prophecy
assured:
Suddenly white was the moon; but she
At once did on a woven modesty
Of cloud, and soon went in obscured:
And we were dark, and vanisht that strange hill.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Being a man of resource, and
anything
but pleased
in that he had been called both old and fat, he gave Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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er
faltered
ne fel ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In China, also, they soon
rendered
themselves insufferable.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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An exile have I told, with weeping eyes,
Full twenty annual suns in distant skies;
At length return'd, some god
inspires
thy breast
To know thy king, and here I stand confess'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Stephen Crane |
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Carfrae, I shall
advise him rather to try one of his
deceased
friend's English pieces.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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If I indeed am thine, and if thou boast
Thyself my father, grant that never more
Ulysses,
leveller
of hostile tow'rs,
Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair,
Behold his native home!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
So while I lay
entranced
a curtain seemed
To shrivel with crackling from before my face;
Across mine eyes a waxing radiance beamed
And showed a certain place.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Prose Works were
collected
by Dr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Resolved
am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek;
I will follow thee alone,
Thou
animated
torrid-zone!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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--
To seek them here were
bootless
industry.
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Petrarch |
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following, _but_: būton
hit wæs māre þonne ǣnig mon ōðer tō beadulāce
ætberan
meahte, _but it_ (the
sword) _was greater than any other man could have carried to battle_, 1561.
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
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Vers le ciel quelquefois, comme l'homme d'Ovide,
Vers le ciel ironique et cruellement bleu,
Sur son cou convulsif tendant sa tete avide,
Comme s'il adressait des
reproches
a Dieu!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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30
ignosces
igitur, si, quae mihi luctus ademit,
haec tibi non tribuo munera, cum nequeo.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ach, die
Erinnrung
totet mich
Vergab sie mir nur noch in diesem Leben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This whoso robs,
This whoso plucks, with
blasphemy
of deed
Sins against God, who for his use alone
Creating hallow'd it.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O
Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg(TM)
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Stephen Crane |
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Li Po |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
,
but in matters of
punctuation
these are not a very safe guide.
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John Donne |
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And
cracking
frieze and rotten metope
Express, as though they were an open tome
Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome;
"Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Let me die, as atoms die,
(If that they die), or know ye in your might
And
knowledge!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Immediately lamps were lighted and
servants
began moving about.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[2] Honor the etext refund and replacement
provisions
of this
"Small Print!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In _HN_
also it bears no title
indicating
the subject of the poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Augur and lord of silver bow,
Apollo, darling of the Nine,
Who heal'st our frame when
languors
slow
Have made it pine;
Lov'st thou thine own Palatial hill,
Prolong the glorious life of Rome
To other cycles, brightening still
Through time to come!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Some plucked the palm-boughs within reach,
And others leapt up high to catch
The upper boughs and shake from each
A rain of dew till, wetted so,
The child who held the branch let go
And it swang
backward
with a flow
Of faster drippings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And then, maybe, if you have dreamed enough, If there are strange old terrors in your eyes
And wild new fancies singing prophecies,
You may bring tribute to the king of dreams; And -he will read your eyes' weird
mysteries
And give you stranger terrors of your own, And chant you wilder fancies — 'til you know The vague old magic of the haunted wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But I must not omit to tell you, that I now onely owe you
thanks for
intimating
unto me (how modestly soever) the true
Artificer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
h
175
_puelle_
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And then to dwell in
sovereign
barns,
And dream the days away, --
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Long may the Spring,
Quietly as a
sleeping
infant's breath,
Send up cold waters to the traveller
With soft and even pulse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Art thou content with my
confession?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If I should fail, what
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The Bright and the
Thoughtful
aspects
of Nature are their subjects: but each is preceded by a mythological
introduction in a mixed Classical and Italian manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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g
2220
slǣpende
be fȳre, fyrena hyrde
þēofes cræfte, þæt sie .
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Beowulf |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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Are those _her_ Sails that glance in the Sun
Like restless
gossameres?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I had recourse to the consolation of all who suffer, and,
after tasting for the first time the sweetness of a prayer from an
innocent heart full of anguish, I
peacefully
fell asleep without giving
a thought to what might befall me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I call it troubling you,--because I want only,
BOOKS; the
cheapest
way, the best; so you may have to hunt
for them in the evening auctions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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This morn the
sacrifice
of Fraud I stood,
But hark, there lives the brother of my blood,
And lives the friend, whose cares conjoin'd control
These floating towers, both brothers of my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
This is, of course, only a passing mood, as
the
extempore
character of the poetry indicates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats |
|
XXX
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more
mischief
than they durst:
If in the breathless night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is not so marked in the
manuscript
text.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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By the goddesses, you will not laugh
presently
over your crime
and your impious speech.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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In human interest,
however, none
surpassed
his first success.
| 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 |
|
In books, not authors, curious is my lord;
To all their dated backs he turns you round:
These Aldus printed, those Du Sueil has bound,
Lo, some are vellum, and the rest as good
For all his
lordship
knows, but they are wood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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So the men rush like clouds,
They strike their iron edges on the Bishop's chair
And fling down the
lanterns
by the tower stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
You, too, the twins
Larides and Thymber, fell on the
Rutulian
fields, children of Daucus,
indistinguishable for likeness and a sweet perplexity to your parents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
This stanza shows Spenser's
wonderful
technique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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There is a flower that bees prefer,
And
butterflies
desire;
To gain the purple democrat
The humming-birds aspire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
And, soth to seyne, therwith-al
She had a wit so general, 990
So hool
enclyned
to alle gode,
That al hir wit was set, by the rode,
Withoute malice, upon gladnesse;
Therto I saw never yet a lesse
Harmful, than she was in doing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
110
Then
doubtful
stood Ulysses toil-inured,
Whether to strike him lifeless to the earth
At once, or fell him with a managed blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
How your
impudence
excites my passion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languish'd for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was us'd in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she alter'd with an end,
That
followed
it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
IX I look for ghosts; but none will force
Their way to me: 'tis falsely said
That there was ever intercourse
Between [3] the living and the dead; 60
For, surely, then I should have sight
Of him I wait for day and night,
With love and
longings
infinite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Chor: Doubtless the people
shouting
to behold
Thir once great dread, captive, & blind before them,
Or at some proof of strength before them shown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Cosi parlando il percosse un demonio
de la sua scuriada, e disse: <
ruffian!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
' I confess that I was never
satisfied
with this answer,
because the accent was different, and because the word might here be
reckoned a substantive quite as well as a verb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Chimene
complains
he has killed her father,
Yet I'd have done so, if I'd been younger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
_come off_: (in
imperative
as a call of
encouragement to action) Come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with
alabaster
wool
The wrinkles of the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"
THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise on a summer morn,
When birds are singing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
Oh what sweet
company!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
These
ministers
in that same cedar sweet
Where thou art laid will lay me, feet to feet,
And head to head, oh, not in death from thee
Divided, who alone art true to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
What
promises
hast thou for Poets' eyes,
A-weary of the turmoil and the wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
"
Answered
that count: "God, let me him avenge!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Din filled the room; the Danes were bereft,
castle-dwellers and
clansmen
all,
earls, of their ale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made,
strongly
into deliberate death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
_--Don Pedro
Fernando
de Castro, injured by
the family of Lara, and denied redress by the King of Castile, took the
infamous revenge of bearing arms against his native country.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Cui nec
lapillos
praeferas Erythraeos, .
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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So dear to me at first was the sweet light,
That
willingly
I pass'd o'er difficult hills,
But to be nearer those beloved boughs;
Now shortening life, the apt place and full time
Show me another path to mount to heaven,
And to make fruit not merely flowers and leaves.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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ai
schullen
also; whan ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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How many bullets
bearest?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thus Juno pleaded; and all the
heavenly
people murmured in diverse
consent; even as rising gusts murmur when caught in the forests, and
eddy in blind moanings, betraying to sailors the gale's approach.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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