The curse is come on me, which makes no haste
And doth not tarry,
crushing
both the proud
Hard man and him the sinner double-faced.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Only to be twin
elements
of joy
In this extravagance of Being, Love,
Were our divided natures shaped in twain;
And to this hour the whole world must consent.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O
wandering
graves!
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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The struggle appears to have been the fiercest
that every in any
community
terminated without an appeal to arms.
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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As the
Knight of the Green Chapel I am known to many,
wherefore
if thou
seekest thou canst not fail to find me.
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| Question: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Have mercy, brother; no
mockery!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Aristophanes |
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'T is beggars banquets best define;
'T is
thirsting
vitalizes wine, --
Faith faints to understand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Quendam municipem meum de tuo volo ponte
Ire praecipitem in lutum per caputque pedesque,
Verum totius ut lacus putidaeque paludis 10
Lividissima maximeque est
profunda
vorago.
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And every motion, odour, beam and tone,
With that deep music is in unison:
Which is a soul within the soul--they seem _455
Like echoes of an
antenatal
dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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| Question: |
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Appoloinaire |
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I hear a haggard student turn and sigh:
I hear men begging Heaven to let them die:
And,
drowning
all, a wild-eyed woman's cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The weapon bright
Taking
advantage
of his open jaw,
Ran through his mouth with so importune might, 475
That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw,
And back retyrd,?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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His poor fingers aimlessly and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and
laughable
enough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To him the other
continents arrive as contributions: he gives them
reception
for their sake
and his own sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Journalism is
unreadable and
literature
is unread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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XLV
He stoops upon the weapon which he strains,
Whole and collected for the martial game:
Then to his horse
abandoning
the reins,
And goading with both spurs the courser, came.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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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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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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needful in work so long, 20
Thrice needful to the
argument
which now
Awaits us!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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There was nothing for it but to pray
for good
emperors
and put up with bad ones.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Wherever
am I to stow myself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Her golden tresses on the wind she threw,
Which twisted them in many a
beauteous
braid;
In her fine eyes the burning glances play'd,
With lovely light, which now they seldom show:
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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--we will stay 65
Together
here this one half day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The base degree to which I now am fall'n,
These rags, this grinding, is not yet so base
As was my former servitude, ignoble,
Unmanly, ignominious, infamous,
True slavery, and that
blindness
worse then this,
That saw not how degeneratly I serv'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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What a tale their terror tells
Of
Despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees--some living soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
II
Dusk
The city's street, a roaring blackened stream
Walled in by granite, thro' whose thousand eyes
A thousand yellow lights begin to gleam,
And over all the pale
untroubled
skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"
"Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder
fellows than your friend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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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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`What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte,
Though that a man, for
feblesse
of his yen,
May nought endure on it to see for brighte?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights
to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As to your long account of a
Canadian
tour, I don't know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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With futile hands we seek to gain
Our inaccessible desire,
Diviner summits to attain,
With faith that sinks and feet that tire;
But nought shall conquer or control
The
heavenward
hunger of our soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Ja, den ganzen Berg entlang
Stromt ein wutender
Zaubergesang!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stephen Crane |
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430
Erie Ethelbert then hove, with clinie just,
A launce, that stroke Partaie upon the thighe,
And pinn'd him downe unto the gorie duste;
Cruel, quod he, thou
cruellie
shalt die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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What slender youth,
besprinkled
with perfume,
Courts you on roses in some grotto's shade?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The few who any thing thereof have learned,
Who out of their heart's fulness needs must gabble,
And show their
thoughts
and feelings to the rabble,
Have evermore been crucified and burned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Knopf 1917
The
Solitary
B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than
senseless
things!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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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 |
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Day after day, up early and down late,
From hill to vale we dropped, from vale to hill 495
Mounted--from province on to province swept,
Keen hunters in a chase of fourteen weeks, [u]
Eager as birds of prey, or as a ship
Upon the stretch, when winds are blowing fair:
Sweet coverts did we cross of pastoral life, 500
Enticing
valleys, greeted them and left
Too soon, while yet the very flash and gleam [v]
Of salutation were not passed away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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at 3e of speken;
To reche to such
reuerence
as 3e reherce here
1244 I am wy3e vn-wor?
| 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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'
BOOK SECOND
THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY
All were hushed, and sate with
steadfast
countenance; thereon, high from
his cushioned seat, lord Aeneas thus began:
'Dreadful, O Queen, is the woe thou bidst me recall, how the Grecians
pitiably overthrew the wealth and lordship of Troy; and I myself saw
these things in all their horror, and I bore great part in them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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" But here, in a
letter from Hyderabad, bidding one "share a March morning" with
her, there is, at the mere contact of the sun, this outburst:
"Come and share my exquisite March morning with me: this
sumptuous blaze of gold and
sapphire
sky; these scarlet lilies
that adorn the sunshine; the voluptuous scents of neem and
champak and serisha that beat upon the languid air with their
implacable sweetness; the thousand little gold and blue and
silver breasted birds bursting with the shrill ecstasy of life in
nesting time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It is not difficult to trace the process by which the old songs
were
transmuted
into the form which they now wear.
| 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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Thou needst never die;
Thou canst find alway
somewhere
some fond wife
To die for thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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VII
When smoke stood up from Ludlow,
And mist blew off from Teme,
And blithe afield to ploughing
Against the morning beam
I strode beside my team,
The blackbird in the coppice
Looked out to see me stride,
And hearkened as I whistled
The
tramping
team beside,
And fluted and replied:
"Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
What use to rise and rise?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with
inviolable
voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They fawn upon me, all the lusts of the world,
Bewildering my steps with
straining
close,
And breathe their horrible spittle against me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Qu'on
patiente
et qu'on s'ennuie,
C'est si simple!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Though only too
convinced
of her enmity,
You owe her tears some semblance of pity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas
Meas esse aliquid putare nugas,
Iam tum cum ausus es unus
Italorum
5
Omne aevum tribus explicare chartis
Doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Has the red
waistcoat
thy respect no more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
With
covetous
eyes I looked again at the marbles,
The precious agates, the pee-wees, the chinies--
Then I passed on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Like Hippocrene it
scatters
light,
Its ebullition foaming white
(Like other things I could relate)
My heart of old would captivate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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= _In rerum natura_ is a
phrase used by
Lucretius
1.
| 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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Not without secret trouble
Our bravest saw the foe;
For girt by threescore thousand spears,
The thirty
standards
rose.
| 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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My LORD,
This Poem, which receiv'd its first occasion of Birth from your
Self, and others of your Noble Family, and much honour from
your own Person in the performance, now returns again to
make a finall
Dedication
of it self to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
"By day, if he should be alone--
At home or on a walk--
You merely give a hollow groan,
To
indicate
the kind of tone
In which you mean to talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The old gardner's most dissolute crow has
Left on this day
unscathed
nice little garden and niece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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heard words that have been
So nimble and so full of subtle flame,
As if that any one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And has
resolved
to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Kipling won the Nobel Prize for
Literature
in
1907.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| 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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_Accursed ground
Henceforth
I hold thy flower-enamelled shore,
O hyacinthine isle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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So clings to her, is fixed as with a nail,
My heart, as the bark cleaves to the rod,
She is of joy my tower, palace, chamber;
And I love her more than brother, or uncle:
And twice the joy in
Paradise
for my soul,
If any man there through true loving enters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Wordsworth himself quotes the lines given in this
footnote in the first section of his 'Guide through the
District
of the
Lakes'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
is
tokenyng
bifalle, so doo?
| 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 |
|
Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that
credulity
which ties the mind
Firmly to notional creature as to real.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
He's donned his white hauberk, with broidery,
Has laced his helm,
jewelled
with golden beads,
Girt on Joiuse, there never was its peer,
Whereon each day thirty fresh hues appear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
For years I cannot hum a bit,
Or sing the
smallest
song;
And this the dreadful reason is,--
My legs are grown too long!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Sir Childe, I'm not so weak;
But
thinking
on an absent wife
Will blanch a faithful cheek.
| 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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but a year ago,
I stood and watched the crimson sunset glow
From the lone chapel on thy marshy plain:
The sky was as a shield that caught the stain
Of blood and battle from the dying sun,
And in the west the
circling
clouds had spun
A royal robe, which some great God might wear,
While into ocean-seas of purple air
Sank the gold galley of the Lord of Light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
A union then of honest men,
Or union
nevermore
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Two
circumstances
may
serve to bring this home to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet not of these I muse
In this
ancestral
place,
But of a kindred face
That never joy or hope shall here diffuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
_ True, mortals I made cease
foreseeing
fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
In this last, we suspect, does the
peculiarity of his
religion
consist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Though martial songs have banish'd songs of love,
And
nightingales
forsake the village grove, 1827.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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But on we must, and thither tend,
Where Ancus and rich Tullus blend
Their sacred seed;
Thus has
infernal
Jove decreed;
We must be made,
Ere long a song, ere long a shade.
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Jordan was turn'd back;
And a less wonder, then the refluent sea,
May at God's pleasure work
amendment
here.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When thus thou hast propitiated with pray'r 640
All the
illustrious
nations of the dead,
Next, thou shalt sacrifice to them a ram
And sable ewe, turning the face of each
Right toward Erebus, and look thyself,
Meantime, askance toward the river's course.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" It was
composed
by Burns on the battle of
Killiecrankie, and sent in his own handwriting to Johnson; he puts it
in the mouth of a Whig.
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Robert Forst |
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But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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After an age of longing had we missed
Our meeting and the dream, what were the good
Ofweavingclothofwords?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a
Cranberry
Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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My breeding was, sir, as
Your
Highness
knows.
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Shakespeare |
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Then took
Telemachus
a loaf entire 410
Forth from the elegant basket, and of flesh
A portion large as his two hands contained,
And, beck'ning close the swine-herd, charged him thus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XLVI
And the great Lord of Luna
Fell at that deadly stroke,
As falls on Mount Alvernus
A thunder smitten oak:
Far o'er the
crashing
forest
The giant arms lie spread;
And the pale augurs, muttering low,
Gaze on the blasted head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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L'anime, che si fuor di me accorte,
per lo spirare, ch'i' era ancor vivo,
maravigliando
diventaro
smorte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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