| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| as a wave-line may wait to fall yet (waiting for its falling) | as a wave-line may wait to fall yet (waiting for its falling) | 100%
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| I know not what to do:
my mind is divided.
—Sappho | I know not what to do:
my mind is divided.
—Sappho | 100%
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| I know not what to do: each strives with each as two white wrestlers standing for a match, | I know not what to do: each strives with each as two white wrestlers standing for a match, | 100%
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| I know not what to do, my mind is reft: | I know not what to do, my mind is reft: | 100%
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| I know not what to do, now sleep has pressed weight on your eyelids. | I know not what to do, now sleep has pressed weight on your eyelids. | 100%
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| I know not what to do: strain upon strain, sound surging upon sound makes my brain blind; | I know not what to do: strain upon strain, sound surging upon sound makes my brain blind; | 100%
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| I know not what to do: to turn and slake the rage that burns, with my breath burn and trouble your cool breath? | I know not what to do: to turn and slake the rage that burns, with my breath burn and trouble your cool breath? | 100%
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| I know not what to do: will the sound break,rending the night with rift on rift of rose and scattered light? | I know not what to do: will the sound break, rending the night with rift on rift of rose and scattered light? | 100%
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| Is love's gift best?—shall I turn and slake all the wild longing? | Is love's gift best?—shall I turn and slake all the wild longing? | 100%
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| is song's gift best? is love's gift loveliest? | is song's gift best? is love's gift loveliest? | 100%
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| My mind is quite divided, my minds hesitate, so perfect matched, | My mind is quite divided, my minds hesitate, so perfect matched, | 100%
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| nay, song's the loveliest: yet were you lost, what rapture could I take from song? what song were left? | nay, song's the loveliest: yet were you lost,what rapture could I take from song? what song were left? | 100%
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| O I am eager for you! as the Pleiads shake white light in whiter water so shall I take you? | O I am eager for you! as the Pleiads shake white light in whiter water so shall I take you? | 100%
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| press lips to lips that answer not, press lips to flesh that shudders not nor breaks? | press lips to lips that answer not, press lips to flesh that shudders not nor breaks? | 100%
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| ready to turn and clutch yet never shake muscle nor nerve nor tendon; | ready to turn and clutch yet never shake muscle nor nerve nor tendon; | 100%
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| Shall I break your rest, devouring, eager? is love's gift best? | Shall I break your rest, devouring, eager? is love's gift best? | 100%
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| Shall I turn and take comfortless snow within my arms? | Shall I turn and take comfortless snow within my arms? | 100%
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| so my mind hesitates above my mind, listening to song's delight. | so my mind hesitates above my mind, listening to song's delight. | 100%
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| so my mind hesitates above the passion quivering yet to break, | so my mind hesitates above the passion quivering yet to break, | 100%
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| so my mind waits to grapple with my mind, yet I lie quiet, I would seem at rest. | so my mind waits to grapple with my mind, yet I lie quiet, I would seem at rest. | 100%
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| so shall I turn and take snow in my arms? (is love's gift best?) | so shall I turn and take snow in my arms? (is love's gift best?) | 100%
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| still the wind may take from off its crest, white flake on flake of foam, that rises, seeming to dart and pulse and rend the light, | still the wind may take from off its crest, white flake on flake of foam, that rises, seeming to dart and pulse and rend the light, | 100%
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| will the sound break at last as the wave hesitant, or will the whole night pass and I lie listening awake? | will the sound break at last as the wave hesitant, or will the whole night pass and I lie listening awake? | 100%
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| yet flake on flake of snow were comfortless, did you lie wondering, wakened yet unawake. | yet flake on flake of snow were comfortless, did you lie wondering, wakened yet unawake. | 100%
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