How could such sweet and
wholesome
hours
Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers!
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| Question: |
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Golden Treasury |
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Please consult the
manuscript
page.
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Blake - Zoas |
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II
Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought
To a fever* by the moonbeam that hangs o'er,
But I will half believe that wild light fraught
With more of sovereignty than ancient lore
Hath ever told-or is it of a thought
The unembodied essence, and no more
That with a
quickening
spell doth o'er us pass
As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Uncountenanced
by his
original, Fanshaw--
"Teems with many a dead-born just.
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of China,
Whose
daughters
were Jiska and Dinah,
Amelia and Fluffy, Olivia and Chuffy,
And all of them settled in China.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And now again, since food
Augments and
nourishes
the human frame,
'Tis thine to know our veins and blood and bones
And thews are formed of particles unlike
To them in kind; or if they say all foods
Are of mixed substance having in themselves
Small bodies of thews, and bones, and also veins
And particles of blood, then every food,
Solid or liquid, must itself be thought
As made and mixed of things unlike in kind--
Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He made this somewhat ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the
troubadour
era.
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| Question: |
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Troubador Verse |
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870
But why expose them to such
confrontation?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Eager, I seized
such heap from the hoard as hands could bear
and
hurriedly
carried it hither back
to my liege and lord.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado,
forgetting
blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true constellation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
)
I look up and see / his
curtains
and bed:
I look down and examine / his table and mat.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And sin I shal no
ferthere
out of Troye
Than I may ryde ayein on half a morwe,
It oughte lesse causen us to sorwe.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The very
roughness
of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she intentionally avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Through diver passages, the world's bright lamp
Rises to mortals, but through that which joins
Four circles with the
threefold
cross, in best
Course, and in happiest constellation set
He comes, and to the worldly wax best gives
Its temper and impression.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
1225
For what new torment have I
reserved
myself?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Whatever
makes you with him disagree,
At all events, I'm full as bad as he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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this Errours den,
A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: 115
Therefore
I read beware.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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At length it comes among the forest oaks,
With sobbing ebbs, and uproar
gathering
high;
The scared, hoarse raven on its cradle croaks,
And stockdove-flocks in hurried terrors fly,
While the blue hawk hangs oer them in the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
"
The apple tree is also
mentioned
by Homer and Herodotus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he
stoppeth
one of three.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
His
everlasting
jokes about the
Commandant's family, and, above all, his witty remarks upon Marya
Ivanofna, displeased me very much.
| 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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our troop
Floats
lovingly
up
With a quick-oaring stroke
Of wings steered to the rock,
Having softened the soul of our father below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Um zu erläutern, wie
dadurch die Lichtintensität des Spectrums geändert werde,
beschränken wir unsere Betrachtung
zunächst
auf einen einzi-
gen Spalt.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
|
"So at last have
journeyed
hither,
Seeking out some better sport;
I intend to try my prowess
On the mighty Atta Troll.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
" There was simplicity, as well as strength,
in the way in which the
initials
were cut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
_ Observe the fitting
slowness
of the
first half of the line, and the sudden leap forward of the second.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Where were ye, Nymphs, when the
remorseless
deep
Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Of snow, frost, and ice,
That jagged cut, and wound, and sting;
And dead the calls, cries, trills and whistles,
Among the twigs, and
leafless
bristles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Even yet, however, he was not completely
satisfied
and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally produced the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
-- Dey's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Dey's mightily in de grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
And still within a summer's night
A
something
so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too inspecting face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Ah
luckless
poet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
"I must have stepped on
something
when I was alive and walking about and
it has bounced up and hit me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Brutus with the knife,
Rienzi with the fasces, throb beneath
Rome's stones,--and more who threw away joy's fife
Like Pallas, that the beauty of their souls
Might ever shine untroubled and entire:
But if it can be true that he who rolls
The Church's
thunders
will reserve her fire
For only light,--from eucharistic bowls
Will pour new life for nations that expire,
And rend the scarlet of his papal vest
To gird the weak loins of his countrymen,--
I hold that he surpasses all the rest
Of Romans, heroes, patriots; and that when
He sat down on the throne, he dispossessed
The first graves of some glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The
landlord
had not yet returned from the field with his men, and the
cows had yet to be milked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
But their glory shall never cease,
Nor their light be
quenched
in the light of peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
He passed through
Kiukiang
on his way,
and released the prisoners there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
ELECTRA
Right well in this too hast thou
schooled
my thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous
remuent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
We have seen the rise and
progress
of reform.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
For aught
the men knew, the enemy might be
attempting
all four sides of the square
at once.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
At eight months he
peremptorily
refused to put his signature to the
Temperance pledge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
So he sent his slaves before
To seize upon the Bank and Tower,
And was proceeding with intent
To meet his pensioned
Parliament
_85
22.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
ATOSSA
And who is shepherd of their host and holds them in
command?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
"They are all made to unscrew," said the Crabs; and forthwith they
deposited a great pile of claws close to the boat, with which Violet
uncombed all the pale pink worsted, and then made the
loveliest
mittens
with it you can imagine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Why gather the heroes, 645
All the flower of Greece, without
Hippolytus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Poems |
|
--Have you ever thrown
That
searching
glance on Louis with Fontange,
On Anne with Buckingham; and did they not
Start, with flushed cheeks, to hear your laugh ring forth
From corner of the wood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Shuttleworthy
was one of the most
respectable and, undoubtedly, he was the most wealthy man in
Rattleborough, while "Old Charley Goodfellow" was upon as intimate terms
with him as if he had been his own brother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Having completed a
scrutiny
whose exact purpose was perhaps
unintelligible to himself, he drew close to his seat a small table
covered with books and papers, and soon became absorbed in the task
of retouching a voluminous manuscript, intended for publication on the
morrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
At times when men seek most repose and rest,
I yielded, and unlock'd her all my heart,
Who with a grain of manhood well resolv'd
Might easily have shook off all her snares:
But foul
effeminacy
held me yok't 410
Her Bond-slave; O indignity, O blot
To Honour and Religion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
][30]
What dost thou here,
Katrina dear,
At
daybreak
drear,
Before thy lover's chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Ye sons of old Killie,
assembled
by Willie,
To follow the noble vocation;
Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another
To sit in that honoured station.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
When by evil lust entic'd,
Remember ye be men, not senseless beasts;
Nor let the Jew, who
dwelleth
in your streets,
Hold you in mock'ry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the Biblical Erech
mentioned
in Genesis
X.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
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.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
So
notoriously
do they degenerate not only from
a state of liberty, but even below a state of bondage.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
The Sarazin this hearing, rose amain,
And
catching
up in hast his three-square shield,
And shining helmet, soone him buckled to the field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
This has doubtless been the
practice
of many
distinguished authors of fiction whose names will readily occur to
the reader.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Forty years had I in my city seen
soldiers
parading,
Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and
turbulent city,
Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
With her million children around her, suddenly,
At dead of night, at news from the south,
Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
This step is necessary to the end;
Some lad of little worth I recommend;
But not ill made, nor
savagely
robust,
To give your lady terror nor disgust.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
What
flowers?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The great humanity which beats
Its life along the stony streets,
Like a strong and
unsunned
river
In a self-made course,
I sit and hearken while it rolls.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Tell me, pray; oh, said she, they sleep most sound;
But then between them plac'd shall I be found,
And while the one amidst Love's frolicks sports,
The other quiet lies, or
Morpheus
courts.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded
butterfly
scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Blake - Poems |
|
mountains
bare
That leap up peak by peak and catch the palls
Of purple and silver mist to rend and share
With one another, at electric calls
Of life in the sunbeams,--till we cannot dare
Fix your shapes, count your number!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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This banquet hall looks an abyss outlined
With shadowy vagueness, though indeed we find
In the far depth upon the table spread
A sudden, strong, and glaring light is shed,
Striking upon the goldsmith's
burnished
works,
And on the pheasants killed by traitor hawks.
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Even the rishi[28] had to wait
For a yellow crane to ride;
But the sailor[29] whose heart had no guile
Was
followed
by the white gulls.
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There is peace
In homeward waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long
struggle
cease.
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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When you scrape up the coals with a
delicate
sound,
You enrapture my life with delight,
Your nose is so shiny, your head is so round,
And your shape is so slender and bright!
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" The three stanzas
respectively
describe
"My First," "My Second," and "My Whole.
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No, my good lord, it is more
pleasing
stuff.
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