throw out questions and
answers!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ich halt es wenigstens fur
reichlichen
Gewinn,
Dass ich nicht Kaiser oder Kanzler bin.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Tristan, when Iseult the Fair, his lover,
Granted his love, he could do no less,
And by such
covenant
I so love her,
I cannot escape it: she's my mistress.
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Troubador Verse |
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Full in their face the lifted bow he bore,
And quiver'd deaths, a
formidable
store;
Before his feet the rattling shower he threw,
And thus, terrific, to the suitor-crew:
"One venturous game this hand hath won to-day,
Another, princes!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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e
maryners
hadden
by ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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to Phoebus' awful dome
A suppliant I from great Atrides come:
Unransom'd, here receive the spotless fair;
Accept the
hecatomb
the Greeks prepare;
And may thy god who scatters darts around,
Atoned by sacrifice, desist to wound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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I know that Parny's tender pen(42)
Is no more
cherished
amongst men.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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His people erected a
wonderful
statue
to his memory, which uttered a melodious sound at dawn, when the sun
fell on it.
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Keats |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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e cloude of
ignoraunce {and} ben
troubled
by felonous talent?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yes, the slavish chain that bound him
Suddenly
hath rent asunder
Atta Troll.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Rouze all thie honnoure, Birtha; look attoure
Thie bledeynge countrie, whych for hastie dede
Calls, for the rodeynge of some
doughtie
power,
To royn yttes royners, make yttes foemenne blede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Each Ajax, Teucer, Merion gave command,
The valiant leader of the Cretan band;
And Mars-like Meges: these the chiefs excite,
Approach
the foe, and meet the coming fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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How you've revered the
formative
will of those ancient artists!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may
threaten
its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap--'"
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
"That's exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Thou felle in mischeef thilke day,
Whan thou didest, the sothe to say,
Obeysaunce and eek homage; 4645
Thou
wroughtest
no-thing as the sage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of
currants
210
C.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Longingly--I think of my friends,
But neither boat nor
carriage
comes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And some played curious viols, shaped like hearts
And stringed with loves, to light and ribald tunes,
And other hands slit throats with knives,
And others patted all the painted cheeks
In reach, and others stole what others had
Unseen, or boldly
snatched
at alien rights,
And some o' the heads did vie in a foolish game
OF WHICH COULD HOLD ITSELF THE HIGHEST, and
OF WHICH ONE'S NECK WAS STIFF THE LONGEST TIME.
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Sidney Lanier |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| 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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According to
that sentence fathered upon Solon, [Greek: Onto
daemosion
kakon erchetai
oikad ekasto] This unclean spirit is skilful to assume various shapes.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Yes,
Sigismond
a kaiser is, and you
A king, O Ladislaus!
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Strength is derived from spirits and from blood,
And those augment by generous wine and food:
What
boastful
son of war, without that stay,
Can last a hero through a single day?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
Paraphrase
of Jeremiah, 15th Chap.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He nears a spacious mansion's gate,
By many a lamp illuminate,
And through the lofty windows views
Profiles of lovely dames he knows
And also
fashionable
beaux.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Catching him up (for that was easy amid the rout), she
runs him through, and thus cries above her enemy: 'Thou wert hunting
wild beasts in the forest,
thoughtest
thou, Tyrrhenian?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unrevised
Early Poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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'Twill murmur on a
thousand
years
And flow as now it flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Fool was I to dream
It ever could be
otherwise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The fear of me is the
conscience
of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
For forty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Over him years had no power; he was not changed, but transfigured;
He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent;
Patience and abnegation of self, and
devotion
to others,
This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
[Sidenote: When in the circus you
satisfied
the expectant
multitude with a triumphal largess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
XXIX
Approaching nearer and yet nearer, now
He fronts the weeping warrior, face to face,
Greets with a brother's love, and stooping low,
His neck
encircles
with a fast embrace.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"They cast me living in a dreary tomb,
Never mine eyes saw
sunlight
pierce the gloom,
Only ye, brother angels, used to sweep
Down from your heaven, and visit me in sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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of Ulysses seems
Passing magnificent, and to be known
With ease for his among a
thousand
more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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_It's rais'd, to be the Raisers
instrument
and food.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And if so be it happe thee
That thou thy love ther mayst see,
In siker wyse thou hir salewe, 2525
Wherwith thy colour wol transmewe,
And eke thy blood shal al to-quake,
Thyn hewe eek
chaungen
for hir sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Hesitated so
This side the
victory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
THE
CONTENTS
OF THIS VOLUME.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--
Our noonday path over the
sanguine
foam _505
Was beaconed,--and the glare struck the sun pale,--
By our consuming transports: the fierce light
Made all the shadows of our sails blood-red,
And every countenance blank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Scarcely has any
modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect:
the magic, in a continuous glow saturating the
substance
of every
picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then,
beauteous
niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Countess
Cathleen must not be disturbed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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conceyued
in hys
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a
stricken
bird
That cannot reach the south.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O
Hymenaeus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
O something
ecstatic
and undemonstrable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
They objected to his way of
conducting
the services.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e
souereyne
good q{uo}d she ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
So Luther thought the
Paternoster
long,
When doomed to say his beads and even-song;
But having cast his cowl, and left those laws,
Adds to Christ's prayer, the Power and Glory clause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
I remember
The first time ever Caesar put it on;
'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,
That day he
overcame
the Nervii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
My Lord, I have seen your
unfortunate
son
Dragged by the horses nourished by his hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The Fathers of the City,
They sat all night and day,
For every hour some
horseman
come
With tidings of dismay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In the
evenings they often talked of Margaret--Sherman frankly and carefully,
as though in all anxiety to
describe
her as she was; and Howard with
some enthusiasm: 'She has a religious vocation,' he said once, with a
slight sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Paradiso
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The order of God's creatures in
themselves is not only admirable and glorious, but eloquent: then he who
could apprehend the
consequence
of things in their truth, and utter his
apprehensions as truly, were the best writer or speaker.
| 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 |
|
es are
Silent
petitions
?
| 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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Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly
because there are fit
incidents
for song which no poet has fitly
sung as yet.
| 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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For great and popular
men feign
themselves
to be servants to others to make those slaves to
them.
| 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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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your
blandishment?
| 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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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il
ecoutait
grouiller les galeux espaliers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
For
example an eBook of
filename
10234 would be found at:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
(1)
Pronounced
Breedon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And yet
methinks
was ne'er in any wood,
So wild a denizen, by night or day,
As she whom thus I blame in shade and sun:
Me night's first sleep o'ercomes not, nor the dawn,
For though in mortal coil I tread the earth,
My firm and fond desire is from the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Nor does this seem far from true, since his
surrender
followed
in a few days' time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Wherefore again, again, since seeds of things
Exist by nature, nor were wrought with hands
After a fixed pattern of one other,
They needs must flitter to and fro with shapes
In types
dissimilar
to one another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Thou huntest taverns while she works for life;
But
necessary
'tis for her to act,
When thou art out, or naught would be exact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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High in the air the tree its boughs display'd,
And o'er the dungeon cast a
dreadful
shade;
All unsustain'd between the wave and sky,
Beneath my feet the whirling billows fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers,
Unless she tapped time with her feet,
Or squeezed it with her fingers;
Her clear
unstudied
notes were sweet
As many a practised singer's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
5
And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
She had expected to find the young officer there, but
she felt
relieved
to see that he was not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There is in it a literal spell, not
acting along any logical lines, not attacking the nerves, not terrifying,
not intoxicating, but like a slow,
enveloping
mist, which blots out the
real world, and leaves us unchilled by any "airs from heaven or blasts from
hell," but in the native air of some middle region.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
| 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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Even in your infancy I prophesied and
foretold
your future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
What is my future? |
| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In flint and marble beats a heart,
The kind Earth takes her children's part,
The green lane is the school-boy's friend,
Low leaves his quarrel apprehend,
The fresh ground loves his top and ball,
The air rings jocund to his call,
The
brimming
brook invites a leap,
He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.
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Emerson - Poems |
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SPIRITUAL LAWS
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's
rejected
hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"Tell me, was Werther
authentic?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yes, all "await the inevitable hour;"
The
downward
journey all one day must tread.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To fair and dance
parading!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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