A cunning sound
In that wing-music held me: down I lay
In amber shades of many a golden spray,
Where looping low with languid arms the Vine
In wreaths of ravishment did overtwine
Her kneeling Live-Oak, thousand-fold to plight
Herself unto her own true
stalwart
knight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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What god shall echo's voice repeat
In mocking game
To Helicon's sequester'd shade,
Or Pindus, or on Haemus chill,
Where once the hurrying woods obey'd
The minstrel's will,
Who, by his mother's gift of song,
Held the fleet stream, the rapid breeze,
And led with blandishment along
The
listening
trees?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Pleasure never is at home:
At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,
Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;
Then let winged Fancy wander
Through the thought still spread beyond her:
Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and
cloudward
soar.
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Golden Treasury |
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Wilde - Poems |
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John Freeman and the
_Westminster
Gazette_:--"The Return.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then the priest bent
likewise
to the sod
And thanked the Lord of Love,
And Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
And all the saints above.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The dreamy
butterflies
bestir,
Lethargic pools resume the whir
Of last year's sundered tune.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Obey thy Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_ But
suffering
more grievous still than this he may inflict.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and
massacred, it was
beautiful
early summer,
The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Such a favour
tarnishes
his glory:
Let him not blush now for his victory.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Morning there,
Here eve was by almost such passage made;
And whiteness had o'erspread that hemisphere,
Blackness the other part; when to the left
I saw
Beatrice
turn'd, and on the sun
Gazing, as never eagle fix'd his ken.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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So weary am I of this wet land of theirs,
And every soul of man that
breathes
therein.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
This is _monte potiri_, to get
the hill; for no perfect
discovery
can be made upon a flat or a level.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_"The Lass With The Delicate Air"_
Timid and smiling,
beautiful
and shy,
She drops her head at every passer bye.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Ne chaungeth nat for fere so your hewe;
For hardely the werste of this is do;
And though my tale as now be to yow newe, 305
Yet trist alwey, ye shal me finde trewe;
And were it thing that me
thoughte
unsittinge,
To yow nolde I no swiche tales bringe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
e
welcomest
wy3e of ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Con cagne magre,
studiose
e conte
Gualandi con Sismondi e con Lanfranchi
s'avea messi dinanzi da la fronte.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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BUBBLES
You had best be very
cautious
how
you say, I love you.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
He said, 'Ay, ay,' but did not come: he threw himself down on
some loose sheaves, and lay looking at the sky, and
particularly
at a
large, bright star, which shone like another moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Darkness
and Hell _40
Have swallowed up the vapour they sent forth
To blacken the sweet light of life.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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It is descriptive of the first
manifestation
of
doubt and cynicism in his youthful mind, allegorically as the
visits of a "demon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Tune--"Come rouse, Brother
Sportsman!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep;
But a day or two more--for see, the frame all wasted and sinking,
And the yellow-blue
countenance
see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The Poems, which make the principal part of this Collection, have
for some time excited much curiosity, as the supposed
productions
of
THOMAS ROWLEY, a priest of Bristol, in the reigns of Henry VI.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In 1647 he headed a
conspiracy
to place the
Ming prince Lu on the throne.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Still, the final test of poems or any
character
or work
remains.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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For whan he saugh that she ne mighte dwelle,
Which that his soule out of his herte rente, 1700
With-outen more, out of the
chaumbre
he wente.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
[44] A
quotation
from one of Hsieh's poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I called myself Dimitry, and deceived
The
brainless
Poles.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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280
Willyam agayne ymade his bowe-ends meet,
And hie in ayre the arrowe wynged his waie,
Descendyng like a shafte of thunder sleete,
Lyke thunder rattling at the noon of daie,
Onne Algars sheelde the arrowe dyd assaie, 285
There throghe dyd peerse, and stycke into his groine;
In grypynge
torments
on the feelde he laie,
Tille welcome dethe came in and clos'd his eyne;
Distort with peyne he laie upon the borne,
Lyke sturdie elms by stormes in uncothe wrythynges torne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Others have contented themselves (more modestly) with inventing a title
when
Wordsworth
gave none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Such songs have power to quiet
The
restless
pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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As one who long in populous City pent,
Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire,
Forth issuing on a Summers Morn, to breathe
Among the pleasant
Villages
and Farmes
Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight,
The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine, 450
Or Dairie, each rural sight, each rural sound;
If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass,
What pleasing seemd, for her now pleases more,
She most, and in her look summs all Delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
For ash, however, the actual character 'æ'
represents
the long
vowel.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Why did your impious lips
Dare to blacken his life by
accusing
him?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Thus far we've gone; the order of my plan
Hath brought me now unto the point where I
Must make report how, too, the universe
Consists of mortal body, born in time,
And in what modes that congregated stuff
Established
itself as earth and sky,
Ocean, and stars, and sun, and ball of moon;
And then what living creatures rose from out
The old telluric places, and what ones
Were never born at all; and in what mode
The human race began to name its things
And use the varied speech from man to man;
And in what modes hath bosomed in their breasts
That awe of gods, which halloweth in all lands
Fanes, altars, groves, lakes, idols of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
) What didst thou say,
Jacinta?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Thereafter will I in a sheltering cloud bear body and armour of the
hapless girl
unspoiled
to the tomb, and lay them in her native land.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Perfect
alchemists
I keep who can transmute substances
without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible
treasure-chest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
A pregnant
experiment towards something like this has already been seen--in George
Meredith's
magnificent
set of _Odes in Contribution to the Song of the
French History_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
ye come, ye come
From the Sea-Mother's teeming home--
Children of Tethys and the sire
Who around Earth rolls, gyre on gyre,
His
sleepless
ocean-tide!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
He had
often thought so before, for their strong
friendship
was founded in a
great measure on mutual contempt, but now immediately added, being in
good-humour with the world, 'He is much cleverer than I am.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
THIS EBOOK IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen,
Contending with the grass,
Near kinsman to herself,
For
privilege
of sod and sun,
Sweet litigants for life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Do you see
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Rather, instantly
Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should,
Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare,
And let these bands of greenery which insphere thee,
Drop heavily down,--burst,
shattered
everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Thy beautiful
daughter
is safe and free--
Sir Leoline greets thee thus through me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
It was money for freight, and the sea captain,
not daring to face his owners,
committed
suicide in mid-ocean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
suggests
heafu, = _seas_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The Spartan's Shield_
MATER Lacaena clipeo
obarmans
filium
'cum hoc', inquit, 'aut in hoc redi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
--For me, as Thomson in his Winter says of the storm--I shall
"Hear astonished, and
astonished
sing"
The whistle and the man; I sing
The man that won the whistle, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Which occasion
suggested
the
idea of the following lines:
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Just as before
The
miserable
bard to meet,
As hope uncertain and as sweet,
Olga ran skipping from the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If I knew
Only the herbs and simples of the wood,
Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony,
Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras,
Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sundew,
And rare and virtuous roots, which in these woods
Draw untold juices from the common earth,
Untold, unknown, and I could surely spell
Their fragrance, and their chemistry apply
By sweet affinities to human flesh,
Driving the foe and stablishing the friend,--
O, that were much, and I could be a part
Of the round day, related to the sun
And planted world, and full executor
Of their
imperfect
functions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
,
according
to March, _A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
--If Thought and Love desert us, from that day
Let us break off all
commerce
with the Muse:
With Thought and Love companions of our way--
Whate'er the senses take or may refuse,--
The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews
Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Note the
Euphuistic
balance and
antithesis in xxix and xlv.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
320
He ceas'd: they gnawing, sat, their lips, aghast
With wonder that
Telemachus
in his speech
Such boldness used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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A pretty burgh, and such as Fancy loves
For bygone grandeurs, faintly
rumorous
now
Upon the mind's horizon, as of storm 190
Brooding its dreamy thunders far aloof,
That mingle with our mood, but not disturb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
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 |
|
EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in
darkning
Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Ye may wend your way in war-attire,
and under helmets
Hrothgar
greet;
but let here the battle-shields bide your parley,
and wooden war-shafts wait its end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Albans
straight
is sent to, to forbear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She lock'd her lips: she left me where I stood:
"Glory to God," she sang, and past afar,
Thridding
the sombre boskage of the wood,
Toward the morning-star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Another scene are wise Etruria knew
Its second ruin through
internal
strife _10
And tyrants through the breach of discord threw
The chain which binds and kills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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For the Reader
cannot be too often reminded that Poetry is passion: it is the history
or science of feelings: now every man must know that an attempt is
rarely made to
communicate
impassioned feelings without something of
an accompanying consciousness of the inadequateness of our own powers,
or the deficiencies of language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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whanne hir
blysfulnesse
dure?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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All our lone journey laughs for joy, the hours
Like honey-bees go home in new-found light
Past the cow pond amazed with
twinkling
flowers
And antique chalk-pit newly delved to white,
Or idle snow-plough nearly hid from sight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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345
Even now she decks for me a distant scene,
(For dark and broad the gulf of time between)
Gilding that cottage with her fondest ray,
(Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my way; 350
How fair its lawns and
sheltering
[97] woods appear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
honesties
of love with ease I doe, 75
But am no porter for a tedious woo.
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John Donne |
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It is easy then to
guess how much I was gratified with the
countenance
and approbation of
one of my country's most illustrious sons, when Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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Time,
scarcely
noticed, turns his hair to grey,
Yet leaves him happy as a child at play.
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John Clare |
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multa quidem scripsi, sed quae uitiosa putaui
emendaturis
ignibus ipse dedi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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19
From a gully of the jaded city
Drunken laughter
filtered
through the night
Where I knelt, and toward the open window Reached my hands before me as in prayer.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Tydides, fiercer than his sire,
Pursues you, all aglow;
Him, as the stag forgets to graze for fright,
Seeing the wolf at
distance
in the glade,
And flies, high panting, you shall fly, despite
Boasts to your leman made.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And
Beatrice
wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But the Church of England never made the appeal
to Donne's heart and
imagination
it did to George Herbert:
Beautie in thee takes up her place
And dates her letters from thy face
When she doth write.
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John Donne |
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Envious day
Shall not give out that I have made thee stay,
And
foundered
thy hot team, to tune my lay.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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