So he lies
Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence,
hopelessly
deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been
gathered
this evening,
Tomorrow would be scattered on the ground.
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Ronsard |
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And far away across the lengthening wold,
Across the willowy flats and
thickets
brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What horror spreading through this place
Makes my
distraught
family flee my face?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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e sonne may seen comyng
from his
outerest
arysyng til he hidde his bemes vndir ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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{31b} Chattuarii, a tribe that dwelt along the Rhine, and took part
in
repelling
the raid of (Hygelac) Chocilaicus.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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* * *
The little needle always knows the North,
The little bird
remembereth
his note,
And this wise Seer within me never errs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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see her
hovering
feet,
More bluely vein'd, more soft, more whitely sweet
Than those of sea-born Venus, when she rose
From out her cradle shell.
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Keats |
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Then he
brought his
embroidered
coat and covered me with it, and I slept with
my head on his lap.
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Li Po |
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But
wherefore
all night long shine these?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Come ye to transact
concerns
90
Commercial, or at random roam the Deep
Like pirates, who with mischief charged and woe
To foreign States, oft hazard life themselves?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"--She said it from the sea,
The English
minstrel
in her minstrelsy,
While, under brighter skies than erst she knew,
Her heart grew dark, and groped there as the blind
To reach across the waves friends left behind--
"Do you think of me as I think of you?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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--how
solemnly
it falls
Into my heart of hearts!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the
windflower
playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who knows but this chance wild fruit, planted by a cow or a bird on
some remote and rocky hillside, where it is as yet
unobserved
by man,
may be the choicest of all its kind, and foreign potentates shall hear
of it, and royal societies seek to propagate it, though the virtues of
the perhaps truly crabbed owner of the soil may never be heard of,--at
least, beyond the limits of his village?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
]
I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals
streaming
in their veils,
Within the fane past altar rails,
Green palms in hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And only not to
desperation
driven,
Because not altogether of such clay
As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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In a minute there is time
For
decisions
and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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GD}
They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick sporting thro' the sky
With winged radiance scattering joys thro the ever changing light
[The shades of]But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate
suspended
in blood
Descend they could not.
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Blake - Zoas |
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) Then the
wrinkles
I express,
Of the heart, smile into emptiness.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
If you received it
on a
physical
medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I only wish to use the power given me in accordance with
your wishes; for, in the market-place, in the midst of the shouts and
danger, I appreciated your
indomitable
courage.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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And what is their rump looking at in the
heavens?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Say, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,
And I
upgathered
and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,
Fashioned and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order,
Glowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Deny me this,
And an
eternall
Curse fall on you: Let me know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Stewart, 'tis well; if not, I hope you will forgive this liberty, and
I have at least an
opportunity
of assuring you with what truth and
respect,
I am, Sir,
Your great admirer,
And very humble servant,
R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_gloom-bird_, the owl, whose cry is
supposed
to
portend death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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A very short poem,
while now and then producing a
brilliant
or vivid, never produces a
profound or enduring effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Ellison
and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading
Team.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly
blowing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Proud Marsilies this message bids me say:
Much hath he sought to find salvation's way;
Out of his wealth meet presents would he make,
Lions and bears, and
greyhounds
leashed on chain,
Thousand mewed hawks, sev'n hundred dromedrays,
Four hundred mules his silver shall convey,
Fifty wagons you'll need to bear away
Golden besants, such store of proved assay,
Wherewith full tale your soldiers you can pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then said another--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
from the common Earth was ta'en,
That He who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It is not you; why
disguise
yourself
Against me, to break my heart,
You evader?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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e
donkande
dewe drope3 of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nor can all the
vanities
that vex the world alter one whit the measure
that night has chosen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Canst thou be thus
incredulous?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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I no longer love Rodrigue the gentleman;
No my love names him to another plan;
If I love, I love he who wrought fine things,
The valorous Cid who has
mastered
kings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Can we
suppress
the old Remorse
Who bends our heart beneath his stroke,
Who feeds, as worms feed on the corse,
Or as the acorn on the oak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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God grant you may dwell there
Ever as
faithful
subjects, a happy and peaceable people!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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I find the meaning of their gentle look
More
difficult
than any learned book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Only Immortality_
_i_
HAEC urbem circa stulti monumenta laboris
quasque uides molis, Appia, marmoreas,
pyramidasque ausas uicinum attingere caelum,
pyramidas, medio quas fugit umbra die,
et Mausoleum, miserae solacia mortis,
intulit externum quo
Cleopatra
uirum,
concutiet sternetque dies, quoque altius exstat
quodque opus, hoc illud carpet edetque magis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the darkened chapel
Where
Michelangelo
made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Flee, I say, and set out without returning,
Rid all my lands of your
dreadful
being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Fallen so deep,
Against the sides of this prodigious pit
I cry--cry--dashing out the hands of wail
On each side, to meet anguish everywhere,
And to attest it in the ecstasy
And
exaltation
of a woe sustained
Because provoked and chosen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"My poor little
darling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Do the corpulent
sleepers
sleep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Only you, Yuan;
So hard it is to bind
friendships
fast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So saying, his tatter'd wallet o'er his back
He threw suspended by its leathern twist,
And tow'rd the
threshold
turning, sat again,
They laughing ceaseless still, the palace-door
Re-enter'd, and him, courteous, thus bespake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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--
An anthem for the
queenliest
dead that ever died so young--
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:--
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund
company!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance
must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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n'est
la brume qu'exhale
ce
nocturne
effet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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When
mushrooms
they were fairy bowers,
Their marble pillars overswelling,
And Danger paused to pluck the flowers
That in their swarthy rings were dwelling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And mine is all like one rapt faculty,
As it were
listening
to the love in thee,
My whole mortality trembling to take
Thy body like heard singing of thy spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And so many
children
poor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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One is the understanding of the persons to whom you are
to write; the other is the coherence of your sentence; for men's capacity
to weigh what will be apprehended with greatest attention or leisure;
what next regarded and longed for especially, and what last will leave
satisfaction, and (as it were) the
sweetest
memorial and belief of all
that is passed in his understanding whom you write to.
| 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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Explain the
Latinisms
in ll.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
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agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in
abundance
addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large will more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His
sacrilegious
train, who dared to prey
On herds devoted to the god of day,
Were doom'd by Jove, and Phoebus' just decree,
To perish in the rough Trinacrian sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And for an inn to
entertain
Its Lord awhile, but not remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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What wizard, what
Thessalian
spell,
What god can save you, hamper'd thus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It had no waste but some
memorial
lent _895
Which strung me to my toil--some monument
Vital with mind; then Cythna by my side,
Until the bright and beaming day were spent,
Would rest, with looks entreating to abide,
Too earnest and too sweet ever to be denied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
`How doon this folk that seen hir loves wedded
By
freendes
might, as it bi-tit ful ofte, 345
And seen hem in hir spouses bed y-bedded?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Fierce was the pain of my wound,
But I saw it was death to stir,
For fifty paces away
Their
trenches
were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
What shy
entreaty
for a heart in your hands!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
And the mighty nations would have crowned
me, who am crownless now and without name,
And some orient dawn had found me kneeling
on the
threshold
of the House of Fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
A man, a prince, by him so
benefited!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
"
And
sweetness
filled her brave
With a vision of understanding beyond the hour
That knelled to the waiting grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Could
Laureate
Dryden pimp and friar engage,
Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Livy would at a
glance distinguish the bold strokes of the forgotten poet from
the dull and feeble narrative by which they were surrounded,
would retouch them with a delicate and
powerful
pencil, and would
make them immortal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
'Mid the deep holds of Solway's mossy waste,
Your single virtue has transformed a Band
Of fierce
barbarians
into Ministers
Of peace and order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The English
groat was coined 1351(2)-1662, and was
originally
equal to four
pence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Or why was the
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flame in all her
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enwreathed in smoke and lurid light, she scattered fire over all the
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
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Paul Eluard
Twenty-Four Poems
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Immediate
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Lovely And Lifelike
The Season of Loves
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
Barely Disfigured
In A New Night
Fertile Eyes
I Said It To You
It's The Sweet Law Of Men
The Curve Of Your Eyes
Liberty
Ring Of Peace
Ecstasy
Our Life
Uninterrupted Poetry
Index of First Lines
Absence
I speak to you over cities
I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear
The two sides of the walls face
my voice which acknowledges you.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For sure God's love hath
wandered
to strange nations;
His pleasure in the breasts of Jerusalem
Is a delight grown old.
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Leave him to God's
watching
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Trust him to the hand that made him.
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Where we, my Friend, to happy [98] days shall rise,
'Till our small share of hardly-paining sighs
(For sighs will ever trouble human breath) 355
Creep hushed into the
tranquil
breast of death.
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