" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy presence is
expected
in the hall
Below.
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Poe - 5 |
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Yea, man's stubborn lust
To feed his heart upon your beauty, is all
The
strength
your lives have, all that holdeth you
Safe in the world,--propt like a rotten house.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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His
vassalage
had often been proved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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[Sidenote: How empty and
transitory
are titles of nobility!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra,
freckled
like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; 50
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Now right across proud Tarquin
A corpse was Julius laid;
And Titus groaned with rage and grief,
And at
Valerius
made.
| 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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A load your Atlas
shoulders
cannot lift?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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They who figured as guests on that ultimate eve,
In their turn on the morrow were
destined
to give
To the lions their food;
For, behold, in the guise of a slave at that board,
Where his victims enjoyed all that life can afford,
Death administering stood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"
It thus began: "If any certain news
Of Valdimagra and the
neighbour
part
Thou know'st, tell me, who once was mighty there
They call'd me Conrad Malaspina, not
That old one, but from him I sprang.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My better parts
Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up
Is but a quintain, a mere
lifeless
block.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"My little boy, which like you more,"
I said and took him by the arm--
"Our home by Kilve's
delightful
shore,
"Or here at Liswyn farm?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To allow
absolute
freedom in the choice of subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It is scarcely two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but
radiantly
glad?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I never made a boast, as some men do,
Of my superior virtue, nor denied
The
weakness
of my nature, that hath made me
Subservient to the will of other men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Have you any
objection?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Or on still
evenings
when the rain falls close There comes a tremor in the drops, and fast
My pulses run, knowing thy thought hath passed That beareth thee as doth the wind a rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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If God ere then
relieves
us, well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Of sorryest Fancies your
Companions
making,
Vsing those Thoughts, which should indeed haue dy'd
With them they thinke on: things without all remedie
Should be without regard: what's done, is done
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A single stream of all her soft brown hair
Pour'd on one side: the shadow of the flowers
Stole all the golden gloss, and, wavering
Lovingly lower, trembled on her waist--
Ah, happy shade--and still went wavering down,
But, ere it touch'd a foot, that might have danced
The
greensward
into greener circles, dipt,
And mix'd with shadows of the common ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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too
transcendent
vision
To Sorrow's phantom-peopled slumber given,
When heart meets heart again in dreams Elysian,
And paints the lost on Earth revived in Heaven;
Soft, as the memory of buried love;
Pure, as the prayer which Childhood wafts above;
Was she--the daughter of that rude old Chief,
Who met the maid with tears--but not of grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
We know not when
Death or
disaster
comes,
Mightier than battle-drums
To summon us away.
| 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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Then Sight and Sound,
Then Space and Time, then Language, Mete and Bound,
And all
familiar
Forms that firmly keep
Man's reason in the road, change faces, peep
Betwixt the legs and mock the daily round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Sisterly, brotherly,
Fatherly, motherly,
Feelings
had changed:
Love, by harsh evidence,
Thrown from its eminence;
Even God's providence
Seeming estranged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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LI
Loitering with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue
standing
still.
| 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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"I've often spent ten pounds on stuff,
In
dressing
as a Double;
But, though it answers as a puff,
It never has effect enough
To make it worth the trouble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
]
[Sidenote H:
Trumpets
and nakers give forth their sounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,
She is not thou, and only thou art she,
Still, still as though some dear _embodied_ Good,
Some
_living_
Love before my eyes there stood
With answering look a ready ear to lend,
I mourn to thee and say--"Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Alive was he still,
still
wielding
his wits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
An hundred great towns are inhabited in that opulent
realm; from it our
forefather
Teucer of old, if I recall the tale
aright, sailed to the Rhoetean coasts and chose a place for his kingdom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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MARMADUKE 'Twas dark--dark as the grave; yet did I see,
Saw him--his face turned toward me; and I tell thee
Idonea's filial
countenance
was there
To baffle me--it put me to my prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Pleas'd his warmth to view,
Convinc'd his promise and his heart were true,
The
illustrious
GAMA thus his soul express'd
And own'd the joy that labour'd in his breast:
"Oh thou, benign, of all the tribes alone,
Who feel the rigour of the burning zone,
Whose piety, with Mercy's gentle eye
Beholds our wants, and gives the wish'd supply,
Our navy driven from many a barb'rous coast,
On many a tempest-harrow'd ocean toss'd,
At last with thee a kindly refuge finds,
Safe from the fury of the howling winds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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So those passionate letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of
tenderness
and love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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who
believed
not, nor would heed the
warning mouth.
| 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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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
| 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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[VIJAYA _goes_]
O Brahma, guard in sleep
The merry lambs and the complacent kine,
The flies below the leaves, and the young mice
In the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks
Of red flamingo; and my love, Vijaya;
And may no
restless
fay with fidget finger
Trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sunshine,
And crystal lakes, and over-arching forests,
And mountains, around whose
towering
summits the winds
Of Heaven untrammelled flow--which air to breathe
Is Happiness now, and will be Freedom hereafter
In days that are to come?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
At last he caught him; but no more could spell
Where he had wandered from the beaten way:
Two hundred miles he roved, 'twist hill and plain,
Ere he came up with
Rodomont
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It makes one look old, and it
spoils one's career at
critical
moments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
Are met--as if at home they could not die--
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And
fertilise
the field that each pretends to gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And how will you acquit
yourself
before
the Tzarina, my little mother?
| 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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I caught a glimpse of some such thing,
Sort of pearl
bracelet
I should think it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree
stiffens
in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are fragrant at this height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For who of us
Wondereth if some one gets into his joints
A fever, gathering head with fiery heat,
Or any other dolorous disease
Along his
members?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Each life
converges
to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Letts_
BETWEEN THE LINES
When consciousness came back, he found he lay
Between the opposing fires, but could not tell
On which hand were his friends; and either way
For him to turn was chancy--bullet and shell
Whistling and shrieking over him, as the glare
Of searchlights scoured the
darkness
to blind day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I may be wrong, and I may have told it badly,
But it struck _me_ as being
extremely
ludicrous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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1295
View it with another eye as
pardonable
error.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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It is a land of
poverty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Farm hands from the
terraces
of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny Appleseed laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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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 |
|
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active links or
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access to the full terms of the Project
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
_Versions_ based on
separate
sources are treated as new eBooks receiving
new filenames and etext numbers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
| 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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Her
Highness
is unwell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
'You must not think I
am an
ordinary
dancing-girl,' she said to him, 'I can recite Master Po's
"Everlasting Wrong.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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But upon Padus' brink shall die
Volusius
his annals
And to the mackerel oft loose-fitting jacket afford.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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While thus, from shore to cruel shore long driven,
To thee
conducted
by a guide from heaven,
We come, O monarch, of thy truth assur'd,
Of hospitable rites by Heaven secur'd;
Such rites[165] as old Alcinous' palace grac'd,
When 'lorn Ulysses sat his favour'd guest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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ei
worchipeden
him alle wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Grosart takes upon himself the
responsibility for this title; but it should not have been printed as
the title in chief, or as the
headline
to the text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Field
THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD
I know a beach road,
A road where I would go,
It runs up northward
From Cooden Bay to Hoe;
And there, in the High Woods,
Daffodils
grow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And town and friends
forgotten
quite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Some
Peculiarity
in every man, characteristic to
himself, yet varying from himself, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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creatures
full of sense!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
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Byron |
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BETWEEN the clothes in haste Camillus flew,
Without inviting
Constance
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I see before me the Gladiator lie:
He leans upon his hand--his manly brow
Consents to death, but conquers agony,
And his drooped head sinks
gradually
low--
And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow
From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,
Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now
The arena swims around him: he is gone,
Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
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Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
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And as they were speaking
together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives according to the
Scriptures?
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Their petals, red with joy, or
bleached
by tears,
Waved to and fro i' the winds of hopes and fears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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