She is in
mourning
garb,
and carries a large pitcher on her head.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Teeming with
monsters
dread
And plagues on every hand!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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1473 hoc modo _cui ego quasi eadem totidem mox
deprecor
illi ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thou know'st her grace in moving, Thou dost her skill in loving,
Thou know'st what truth she proveth, Thou knowest the heart she moveth, O song where grief
assoneth
!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Aucun
jongleur
ne vous en dira une meilleure.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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All sweet
emotions
e'er
By happy lovers felt in every clime,
Together all, may not with mine compare,
When, as from time to time,
I catch from that dark radiance rich and deep
A ray in which, disporting, Love is seen;
And I believe that from my cradled sleep,
By Heaven provided this resource hath been,
'Gainst adverse fortune, and my nature frail.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XERXES
Smite, smite thy bosom, groan aloud for my
calamity!
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| Question: |
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Aeschylus |
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--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy
raiments
and thy ebony cross affright me!
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden [1] daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 5
Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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It was long
before our frontiers reached their
settlements
in the West.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and
stranger
than
the strangeness of my madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Attention
held them mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She had dreams all yesternight
Of her own betrothed knight;
And she in the
midnight
wood will pray
For the weal of her lover that's far away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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1340
Should I in making a
statement
all too sincere,
Cover with shameful blushes the brow of a father?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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e best;
[J] To
trystors
vewters 3od,
Couples huntes of kest,
1148 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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All down the hills of Habersham,
All through the valleys of Hall,
The rushes cried `Abide, abide,'
The willful waterweeds held me thrall,
The laving laurel turned my tide,
The ferns and the fondling grass said `Stay,'
The
dewberry
dipped for to work delay,
And the little reeds sighed `Abide, abide,
Here in the hills of Habersham,
Here in the valleys of Hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Antidotes
Of medicated music,
answering
for
Mankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pour
From thence into their ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Both the war of Troy and the war of
Regillus
were caused by the
licentious passions of young princes, who were therefore
peculiarly bound not to be sparing of their own persons on the
day of battle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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260
Ay--this is well--The villain leads the vile--
Thus
evermore
the Gods join like to like.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The wayside
blossoms
open to the blaze.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Oneguine his excuses says;
"But," cried
Zaretski
in amaze,
"Your second you have left behind!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Down their broad shoulders falls a length of hair;
Their hands dismiss not the long lance in air;
But with protended spears in fighting fields
Pierce the tough
corslets
and the brazen shields.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Gode ic þanc secge,
"þæs þe ic þē
gesundne
gesēon mōste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
GD}
He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke,
And
reverence
what I said:
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That he, Castiglione' not being aware
Of any feud existing, or any cause
Of quarrel between your
lordship
and himself,
Cannot accept the challenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
On
festal
occasions
in the country the whole party is usually
accommodated for the night, or indeed for as many nights
as desired, within the house of the entertainer.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My
memories
freeze
Like birds' cry
In hollow trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
During this time he had an
unrequited love affair with an unknown beauty whom he celebrated in the
_Shepheards
Calender_
under the name of Rosalind, "the widow's daughter of
the glen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the
shepherds
changing ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Then Doullie myghte his bowestrynge drewe, 115
Enthoughte
to gyve brave Tosslyn bloudie wounde,
But Harolde's asenglave stopp'd it as it slewe,
And it fell bootless on the bloudie grounde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
what darkness of
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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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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There is a
buccaneerish
air
About that garb outlandish-- 70
Just then the ghost drew up his chair
And said, 'My name is Standish.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
The last stage of
collapse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The sea returning day by day
Restores
the world-wide mart;
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart,
Till these echoes be choked with snows,
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
THE SWORD DHAM
"How shall we honor the man who
creates?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Of fancies fair, and milder hours of youth, 20
Hybloean murmurs of poetic thought
Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens
Native or outland, Lakes and famous Hills;
Or on the lonely high-road, when the stars
Were rising; or by secret mountain streams, 25
The guides and the
companions
of thy way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Lord Cardinal, will your Grace
Persuade
the Queen to send the Duke of York
Unto his princely brother presently?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
by the hues
Of heaven on the
spiritual
air begot:
Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot,
While yet our England was a wolfish den;
Before our forests heard the talk of men;
Before the first of Druids was a child;--
Long didst thou sit amid our regions wild
Rapt in a deep prophetic solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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That's why Faustina as my
companion
in bed makes me happy:
Loving she always remains faithful, as I am to her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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upon all things, substance,
shadow,
Of the sheep that browsed the grasses, of the reapers in the corn,
Of the little
children
from the schools, seen winding through the
meadow,
Of the poor rich world beyond them, still kept poorer by its scorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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E un ch'avea perduti ambo li orecchi
per la freddura, pur col viso in giue,
disse: <
specchi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The clouds their backs together laid,
The north begun to push,
The forests
galloped
till they fell,
The lightning skipped like mice;
The thunder crumbled like a stuff --
How good to be safe in tombs,
Where nature's temper cannot reach,
Nor vengeance ever comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
" The Pilot then replied,
"It cannot be--she is a human Maid--
Her low voice makes you weep--she is some bride, _3215
Or
daughter
of high birth--she can be nought beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
And now my conclusion I'll tell,
For faith I'm
confoundedly
dry;
The chiel that's a fool for himsel',
Guid Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The sickness--the nausea--
The
pitiless
pain--
Have ceased, with the fever
That maddened my brain--
With the fever called "Living"
That burned in my brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"
In the evening
The far valleys were
sprinkled
with tiny lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
the only sound,
The dripping of the oar
suspended!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
But should any dream of licence, there's a lesson may be read,
How 'twas wine that drove the Centaurs with the
Lapithae
to fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then of Aelis I'll demand
Her adroit and
charming
tongue
Which must surely aid my suit,
That it be not dull or mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
When Li Yang-ping became
Governor
of T'ang-tu, Po went to live near him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was
stillness
as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the Volscians were coming o'er the wall.
| 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 guard was set that he might not flee--
A score of
bayonets
ringed the tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| 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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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The laughter and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and
sorrowful
things.
| 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 am always
displeased by
circumstances
for which I cannot account.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive
If
Salisbury
wants mercy at thy hands!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
We hear the warlike
clarions
we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in indolence reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
"
"To trim" was not a phrase I could
Remember
having heard:
"Perhaps," I said, "you'll be so good
As tell me what is understood
Exactly by that word?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The voice of my
education
said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are
venomous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in pleasant places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its
loveliness
become unto me
a thing of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
But this
is not to say that
investigation
of the "authentic" epic poet's_ milieu
_may not be extremely profitable; and for settling the preliminaries of
this essay, I owe a great deal to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a
floating
spirit's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Your
Children
shall be Kings
Banq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Garzo left three sons, one of whom was the
grandfather
of Petrarch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
To do this, he takes some great story
which has been
absorbed
into the prevailing consciousness of his people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A month has flown already
Since,
cloistered
with his sister, he forsook
The world's affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| 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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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les
convives
mastiquaient a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
When such was the prevailing sentiment, any man who chose
to declare that, in the midst of the confusion and slaughter, he
had seen two godlike forms on white horses
scattering
the
Latines, would find ready credence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 140
O Hymen Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
He had
set out so confidently; had boasted not a little of his powers, and
had
satirized
all the good people in Bristol _de haut en bas_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
'Twas even so with this
Dew-dropping melody, in the Carian's ear;
First heaven, then hell, and then
forgotten
clear,
Vanish'd in elemental passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
12
_concinens_
ACD: _continens_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
O houses full of
peacefulness
and sleep,
Far better were it to awake no more
Than wake to look upon such scenes again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Infanta
I know it well; though virtue seems to fade,
How love
flatters
the heart it does invade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
David to thy
distillage
went,
Keats, and Gotama excellent,
Omar Khayyam, and Chaucer bright,
And Shakespeare for a king-delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
My
Faenzetta
has my heart!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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the bloody tale he found,
All steep'd in blood, all gasping on the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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<>, disse,
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ogne vergogna diposta, s'affisse;
e li, per trar l'amico suo di pena,
ch'e' sostenea ne la prigion di Carlo,
si
condusse
a tremar per ogne vena.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The loss of those three lords
torments
my heart.
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Shakespeare |
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On the
Fairfacian
oak does grow.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It
breathes
no more, its heart has no pulsation;
In the dark places with the dead of old
It lies forever cold!
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Longfellow |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm,
Forth she went
bounding
to the school, nor dreamed of shame or
harm.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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