Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that rebellious heart:
His first sighs
resulted
from your happy art.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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No city's towers pollute the lovely view;
Unseen is Yanina, though not remote,
Veiled by the screen of hills: here men are few,
Scanty the hamlet, rare the lonely cot;
But, peering down each precipice, the goat
Browseth: and, pensive o'er his scattered flock,
The little
shepherd
in his white capote
Doth lean his boyish form along the rock,
Or in his cave awaits the tempest's short-lived shock.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Why
do we not then persuade
husbandmen
that they should not till land, help
it with marl, lime, and compost?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Our dead lay cold and stark,
But our dying, down in the dark,
Answered as best they might--
Lifting their poor lost arms,
And
cheering
for God and Right!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"And may that be, if
different
estates
Grow not of different duties in your life?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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57:
--Ile tell you what now of the Divel;
He's no such horrid creature, cloven footed,
Black, saucer-ey'd, his nostrils breathing fire,
As these lying
Christians
make him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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For a sick Jew,
It is a very good
religion
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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What you don't feel, you'll never catch by hunting,
It must gush out
spontaneous
from the soul,
And with a fresh delight enchanting
The hearts of all that hear control.
| 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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is is
certeyne
q{uo}d.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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A FOREBODING
What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead,
Whose
briefest
absence can eclipse my day,
And make the hours that danced with Time away
Drag their funereal steps with muffled head?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
He then suggests that "passions," by
which he means vices, are as necessary a part of the moral order as
storms of the
physical
world (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The next, though distant, Menelaus succeeds;
While thus young Nestor animates his steeds:
"Now, now, my
generous
pair, exert your force;
Not that we hope to match Tydides' horse,
Since great Minerva wings their rapid way,
And gives their lord the honours of the day;
But reach Atrides!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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From this town the road
followed
along by the rugged banks of the R.
| 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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From
this search they almost immediately
returned
with the well-known
steel-bound, russet leather pocket-book which the old gentleman had been
in the habit of carrying for years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Fare-thee-weel, thou best and
dearest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Youth freshens beneath Passion's showers,
Develops and matures its powers,
And thus in season the rich field
Gay flowers and
luscious
fruit doth yield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[4] The cloak and the staff were the
insignia
of the dicasts; the poet
describes them as sheep, because they were Cleon's servile tools.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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`Nay' (so, dear Heart, thou
whisperest
in my soul),
`'Tis a half time, yet Time will make it whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
855
Lat be thy wo and turning to the grounde;
For who-so list have helping of his leche,
To him
bihoveth
first unwrye his wounde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Knopf 1916
Plays for Poem-Mimes The Others Press 1918
Plays for Merry Andrews The Sunwise Turn 1920
Blood of Things
Nicholas
L.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
That strange mood seemed to draw a cloud away,
And let her beauty pour through every vein
Sunlight
and life, part of me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
--Affliction teacheth a wicked person some time
to pray:
prosperity
never.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
Through the wild ocean plough the
dangerous
way,
And leave his fortunes and his house a prey?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Aurora
conferred
upon him
immortality without youth, hence the epithet "aged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
One spot on the margin of Lake
Regillus
was
regarded during many ages with superstitious awe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
And do you see with what
pleasure
this sickle-maker is making
long noses at the spear-maker?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
'No, such a genius never can lie still;'
And then for mine
obligingly
mistakes
The first lampoon Sir Will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
A man whose father and mother were Irish
Ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain;
He drove a covered wagon years ago,
Understood
how to handle a rifle,
Shot grouse, buffalo, Indians, in a single year,
And now was raising goats around a shanty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
More remote and buxom-brown,
The Queen of vintage bow'd before his throne;
A rich
pomegranate
gemm'd her crown,
A ripe sheaf bound her zone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
For whatever effulgence
Hath first
streamed
off, no matter where it falls,
Is lost unto the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
More
discontents
I never had, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Bearing the
sleeping
Mahaud they moved now
Silent and bent with heavy step and slow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
E'en now dull earth and
wandering
floods,
And Atlas' limitary range,
And Styx, and Taenarus' dark abodes
Are reeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom
to reach the gentle fields of air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former
pleasures
in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
344:
--You shall fry first
For a rotten piece of touchwood, and give fire
To the great fiend's nostrils, when he smokes
tobacco!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Diary (quoted
_Annals_
2.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Wherefore
again, again, there's naught for wonder
*****
In those which render from the mirror's plane
A vision back, since each thing comes to pass
By means of the two airs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
I am informed that it was through Emerson's intervention that
he obtained the
sanction
of President Lincoln for this purpose of charity,
with authority to draw the ordinary army rations; Whitman stipulating at
the same time that he would not receive any remuneration for his services.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The
question
is not very material, since conjecture alone must decide it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Yea,
Holofernes
now can bring no shame
Upon me that Ozias hath not brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
8•
Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
But waxing time and growth betrays
The blood-thirst of the lion-race,
And, for the house's fostering care,
Unbidden all, it revels there,
And bloody recompense repays--
Rent flesh of tine, its talons tare:
A mighty beast, that slays and slays,
And mars with blood the
household
fair,
A God-sent pest invincible,
A minister of fate and hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
en hy3es heruest, &
hardenes
hym sone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
But Irus and the stranger have not fought,
Urged by the suitors, and the stranger prov'd
Victorious; yes--heav'n knows how much I wish
That, (in the palace some, some in the court)
The suitors all sat vanquish'd, with their heads
Depending low, and with
enfeebled
limbs, 290
Even as that same Irus, while I speak,
With chin on bosom propp'd at the hall-gate
Sits drunkard-like, incapable to stand
Erect, or to regain his proper home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
6 _istis_ a
8 _potest a se_ (uel _ase_)
_uendicare_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Rodrigue
But the
infamous
shall not remain above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
'
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
_Who after his
transgression
doth repent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But therewithal the queenly
daughter
of Saturn puts the last touch to
war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
They sit in the
reverend
Hall: `Shall we declare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Morning at the Window
They are
rattling
breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Honour to the woods
unshorn!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Behind the
mountain
sank the moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
It has been the fashion of late days to deny Moore Imagination, while
granting him Fancy--a distinction
originating
with Coleridge--than whom
no man more fully comprehended the great powers of Moore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"What
possesses
my Ivan Kouzmitch to-day to drill his troops so long?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
_ The first
stringed
instruments were
said to be made of tortoise-shells with strings stretched across.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Keats |
|
The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
I see it all now: when I wanted a king,
'Twas the
kingship
that failed in myself I was seeking,-- 90
'Tis so much less easy to do than to sing,
So much simpler to reign by a proxy than _be_ king!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Ere long, with
melancholy
rise and swell,
The evening chimes, the convent's vesper bell,
Struck on mine ears amid the amorous flowers.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation
organized
under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Villon |
|
The Muses, still with Freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle, with matchless beauty crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair:--
Rule
Britannia!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
) 'O seer' I cry,
'To the stern
sanction
of the offended sky
My prompt obedience bows.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
proueniebant
oratores nouei, stulti adulescentuli.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Be thou me,
impetuous
one!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shelley |
|
John
Masefield
is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The Everlasting Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the
lifeless
corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields
transport
the standing corn.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Cuddie and his mother in 'Old
Mortality!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Quod si te mala mens
furorque
vecors
In tantam inpulerit, sceleste, culpam, 15
Vt nostrum insidiis caput lacessas,
A tum te miserum malique fati,
Quem attractis pedibus patente porta
Percurrent raphanique mugilesque.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"
I
straightway
rose, and show'd myself less spent
Than I in truth did feel me.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
What
historical
Authority has Mons.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Bealo-cwealm hafað
"fela feorh-cynna feorr
onsended!
| Guess: |
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Beowulf |
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Arias
Allow your
feelings
to respond to reason.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It may not be: nor even can Fancy's eye
Restore what time hath
laboured
to deface.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE
EDUCATION
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of
favorite
things I had,
Balked of much desired:
Yet farther on my road to-day,
God willing, farther on my way.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Time doth
transfix
the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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