And, though I have grown serene
And strong since then, I think that God has willed
A still
renewable
fear .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I
accepted with pleasure; we sat down to table; Zourine drank a great
deal, and pressed me to drink, telling me I must get
accustomed
to the
service.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Of diverse voices is sweet music made:
So in our life the
different
degrees
Render sweet harmony among these wheels.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow--
'Shadow,' said he,
'Where can it be--
This land of
Eldorado?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They need a music that can mix itself
Into imagination, but not break
The steady
thinking
that the hard game needs.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
]
How shall I note thee, line of
troubled
years,
Which mark existence in our little span?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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I
charge my comrades with
Ascanius
and lord Anchises, and the gods of
Teucria, hiding them in the winding vale.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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In a few pages we find him
praising
the continence of Don
Henry de Meneses, whose victory over his passions he calls the highest
excellence of youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
--
The Latian band, with
sympathising
woe,
At last I spied amid the moving show:
Bologna's poet first, whose honour'd grave
His relics hold beside Messina's wave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Thou seest this
maystrie
of a human hand,
The pride of Brystowe and the Westerne lande, 10
Yet is the Buylders vertues much moe greete,
Greeter than can bie Rowlies pen be scande.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e
rycheste
of that cette.
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--Other information about
Hrōðgār's reign for the most part only suggested: his expiation of the
murder which Ecgþēow, Bēowulf's father, committed upon Heaðolāf, 460, 470;
his war with the Heaðobeardnas; his adjustment of it by giving his
daughter, Frēaware, in
marriage
to their king, Ingeld; evil results of this
marriage, 2021-2070.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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19-22); and
multiplying
a poor woman's oil, 226-233 (2 Kings iv.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Scarecrow
Once I said to a scarecrow, "You must be tired of
standing
in this
lonely field.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And you were heard to utter cries of joy,
When Drama gripped Paris in its teeth,
When spring chased ancient winter away,
When the wondrous star of new ideals,
Suddenly
glittered
in the burning sky,
And the Hippogriff stole Pegasus' place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
From very sorrow you drink away what is
left; a real
calamity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
HERNANI (_in a wild, loud voice_): What man
Wishes to gain ten
thousand
golden crowns?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A demon wishing to
interrupt
her prayers extinguished the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Vanished
quite
Is all that tender vision now;
And, like lost snow-flakes in the night,
Mute are the lovers as their vow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Et mon coeur et ma chair par ta chair embrassee
Fourmillent
du baiser putride de Jesus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Star that
bringest
home the bee,
And sett'st the weary labourer free!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Se prima fu la possa in te finita
di peccar piu, che
sovvenisse
l'ora
del buon dolor ch'a Dio ne rimarita,
come se' tu qua su venuto ancora?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As
laughter
was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a travelling show,
Or who died yesterday!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I
have altered and added, but have
retained
as much as possible of the
original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
That was in May, first summer of the year,
All of his hosts he
launched
upon the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
For forty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
| 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 he was hire owe; 1002
And hou his fader
sergeauntz
alle,
veyn glorie gonne hym calle,
And gorre on hym gonne ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
We'll go
forthwith
and learn what is resolved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
On both of the above subjects, namely, the insane crusades and the more
feasible
restoration
of the papal court to Rome, Petrarch wrote with
devoted zeal; they are both alluded to in his twenty-second sonnet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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TITYRUS
Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand,
Germans and
Parthians
shift their natural bounds,
And these the Arar, those the Tigris drink,
Than from my heart his face and memory fade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Blessed, blessed evermore,
With her virgin lips she kiss'd,
With her arms, and to her breast,
She
embraced
the babe divine,
Her babe divine the virgin mother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Great were the deeds their thund'ring arms display'd,
And still their
foremost
swords the battle sway'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The
changeless
regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in friendship with the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Form is half their art and
crucially
their poems were set to music, a large amount of which survives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and
smoothly
pass
Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Unauthenticated
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Why, its
salvation
hangs on a poor thread then!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
I have sent you a proof impression of Beugo's work[171] for me, done on
Indian paper, as a trifling but sincere
testimony
with what heart-warm
gratitude I am, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
the steady towers in Heaven did shine _3615
As they were wont, nor at the
priestly
call
Left Plague her banquet in the Ethiop's hall,
Nor Famine from the rich man's portal came,
Where at her ease she ever preys on all
Who throng to kneel for food: nor fear nor shame, _3620
Nor faith, nor discord, dimmed hope's newly kindled flame.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
875
`Lo, nece, I trowe ye han herd al how
The king, with othere lordes, for the beste,
Hath mad
eschaunge
of Antenor and yow,
That cause is of this sorwe and this unreste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The brackish water that we drink
Creeps with a
loathsome
slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And call the house-bride,
homewards
bring
Maid yearning for new married fere,
Her mind with fondness manacling,
As the tough ivy here and there
Errant the tree enwinds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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'Twas not for fiction chose Rousseau this spot,
Peopling
it with affections; but he found
It was the scene which passion must allot
To the mind's purified beings; 'twas the ground
Where early Love his Psyche's zone unbound,
And hallowed it with loveliness: 'tis lone,
And wonderful, and deep, and hath a sound,
And sense, and sight of sweetness; here the Rhone
Hath spread himself a couch, the Alps have reared a throne.
| 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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They shout and catch it and then off they start
And chase for
cowslips
merry as before,
And each one seems so anxious at the heart
As they would even get them all and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems of American Patriotism
by Brander
Matthews
(Editor)
Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_Nay then_, _farewell_, _my duckling roast_,
_Farewell_, _farewell_, _my tea and toast_,
_My meerschaum and
cigars_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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And thou, O Gaul,[443] with gaudy
trophies
plum'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
In this context Du Fu asked for and was granted
permission
to visit his family in Fuzhou, several hundred miles from Fengxiang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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By Me
created?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
ON DONNE'S POETRY
With Donne, whose muse on
dromedary
trots,
Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots;
Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue,
Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at beholding me,
Thinking
me dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
All Lempriere's fables blur together
In cloudy symbols of the weather,
And Aphrodite rose from frothy seas
But to
illustrate
such hypotheses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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ALLWORTH
(_to_ MARGARET): Nay, weep not, dearest,
though't express your pity.
| 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 |
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At last, one fine day,
Saveliitch
came into my room with a letter in his
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In sooth,
Also the door of the mouth is scraped against
[By air blown
outward]
from distended [cheeks].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Describe
his closing hours to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Meantime
the townsmen, arm'd with silent care,
A secret ambush on the foe prepare:
Their wives, their children, and the watchful band
Of trembling parents, on the turrets stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Thou wanton baggage with
unblushing
face,
Thee on the spot I'll instantly chastise,
And then thy husband of the fact advise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life
explodes
everywhere?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
It is not the wall of stone without
That makes the building small or great
But the soul's light shining round about,
And the faith that
overcometh
doubt,
And the love that stronger is than hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
II
Unconquerably there must
As my hope hurls itself free
Burst on high and be lost
In silence and in fury
A voice alien to the wood
Or
followed
by no echo,
The bird one never could
Hear again in this life below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
What soft, cherubic creatures
These
gentlewomen
are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
7989:
_sublamina_
O: _sublimia al.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I am
touching
your face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Perhaps some saints in glory guess the truth,
Perhaps some angels read it as they move,
And cry one to another full of ruth,
"Her heart is
breaking
for a little love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
servil mind
Rewarded
well with servil punishment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Here, by devoted comrades laid away,
Along our lines they slumber where they fell,
Beside the crater at the Ferme d'Alger
And up the bloody slopes of La Pompelle,
And round the city whose cathedral towers
The enemies of Beauty dared profane,
And in the mat of
multicolored
flowers
That clothe the sunny chalk-fields of Champagne,
Under the little crosses where they rise
The soldier rests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
I have studied myself, and
know what ground I occupy; and, however a friend or the world may
differ from me in that particular, I stand for my own opinion, in
silent resolve, with all the
tenaciousness
of property.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
CHORUS
Alack, and is
Pharnuchus
slain,
And Ariomardus, brave in vain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of
elemental
brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He ended, and his words thir drooping chere
Enlightn'd, and thir
languisht
hope reviv'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
_ This line both adds to our
picture of Porphyro and vividly brings before us the
character
of the
place he was entering--unsuited to the splendid cavalier.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
Envoi
Fair is this damsel and right courteous,
And many watch her beauty's
gracious
ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
to maken
alliaunce
wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and
compelled
to the chaste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
" she cried at last, "you are
behaving
like a child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Solace and joy seem false from those
Other girls, none share her worthiness,
Her solace exceeds all others though,
Ay, alas, ill times if I do not have her,
Yet the anguish brings me joy so fair,
For
thinking
brings desire of her lustily:
God, if I might have her some other way!
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Troubador Verse |
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consurgite
contra;
nimirum Oetaeos ostendit noctifer ignes.
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Latin - Catullus |
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CHORUS
That is not blood
outpoured
by kindred hands.
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Aeschylus |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Daring all, their goal to win,
Men tread forbidden ground, and rush on sin:
Daring all, Prometheus play'd
His wily game, and fire to man convey'd;
Soon as fire was stolen away,
Pale Fever's stranger host and wan Decay
Swept o'er earth's
polluted
face,
And slow Fate quicken'd Death's once halting pace.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[48]
The blade that quivers behind me,
Quivers at every neck with
convulsive
shock;
Dumb lies the world as the grave!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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Title: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
Author: Alexander Pope
Posting Date:
December
8, 2011 [EBook #9800]
Release Date: January, 2006
First Posted: October 18, 2003
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAPE OF LOCK AND OTHER POEMS ***
Produced by Clytie Siddall, Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany
Vergon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
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Alexander Pope |
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Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
conceal!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The COUNT'S palace
Enter
COUNTESS
and CLOWN
COUNTESS.
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Shakespeare |
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