An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Best Image of my self and dearer half,
The trouble of thy
thoughts
this night in sleep
Affects me equally; nor can I like
This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear;
Yet evil whence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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THE DEAD
How shall the living be
comforted
for the dead
When they are gone, and nothing's left behind
But a vague music of the words they said
And a fast-fading image in the mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Your
shoulders
are level--
they have melted rare silver
for their breadth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What now,
If with such things as these
troubled
thou wert?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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One spot on the margin of Lake Regillus was
regarded during many ages with
superstitious
awe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
"
Att the grete
mynsterr
wyndowe sat 305
The kynge ynne myckle state,
To see CHARLES BAWDIN goe alonge
To hys most welcom fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
_The Fallen Elm_
Old elm, that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem autumn ever made
And into mellow whispering calms would drop
When showers fell on thy many coloured shade
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made--
While
darkness
came as it would strangle light
With the black tempest of a winter night
That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root--
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without--while all within was mute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
'
"'Source of my life,' I cried, 'from earth I fly
To seek
Tiresias
in the nether sky,
To learn my doom; for, toss'd from woe to woe,
In every land Ulysses finds a foe:
Nor have these eyes beheld my native shores,
Since in the dust proud Troy submits her towers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Tu
mettrais
l'univers entier dans ta ruelle,
Femme impure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
They moulder, flesh and bone, _4690
Who might have made this life's
envenomed
dream
A sweeter draught than ye will ever taste, I deem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
ei gon falle,
Beforne & behynde,
Page 59
393
And bede god
Almyghty
king
// ?
| 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 |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But it's not her air, her form, her face,
Tho'
matching
beauty's fabled queen;
'Tis the mind that shines in ev'ry grace,
An' chiefly in her roguish een.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
E-meteg,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Enter: its grandeur
overwhelms
thee not;
And why?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I love to have it smirk and shine;
_'Tis sin I know, 'tis sin to
throttle
wine_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"[13]
Again, he says of the 'Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening':
"It was during a solitary walk on the banks of the Cam that I was
first struck with this appearance, and applied it to my own feelings
in the manner here expressed, changing the scene to the Thames, near
Windsor"; [14]
and of 'Guilt and Sorrow', he said,
"To obviate some distraction in the minds of those who are well
acquainted with
Salisbury
Plain, it may be proper to say, that of the
features described as belonging to it, one or two are taken from other
desolate parts of England.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yesterday
I dined with Lady
Harriet, sister to my noble patron,[172] _Quem Deus conservet_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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WAGNER:
Wie konnt Ihr Euch darum
betruben!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
) Scorn not the young pretender; noble virtues
May lie perchance in him, virtues well worthy
Of Moscow's throne, even of thy
priceless
hand--
MARINA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
You tapped the window when the
preacher
preached his sermon,
And ran along the road beside the boy going to school.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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hym to gone
crepynge
vpo{n} hys handes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
]
[Footnote Kk: The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so
exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water
carriage, were obliged to
transport
their goods by land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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the spirit flown
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
His poems form the
synthesis
of
Donne and Butler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Among Milton's poems are these lines:--
Dicite sacrorum
praesides
nemorum Deae, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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 |
|
Many of those
adventurers
were
living when this lie was printed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Your wordes ful of plesaunce and
humblesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
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: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the
innocent
Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast
Lady.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Is there one Frank, that you to hang
committeth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Naught else was talked of but her beauteous face,
And chastity that adds the highest grace;
From ev'ry quarter numbers flocked to see
This belle,
regarded
as from errors free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Enter_
ELIZABETH
_and_ SIR WILLIAM CECIL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
`Sin that thou sleest so fele in sondry wyse
Ayens hir wil, unpreyed, day and night,
Do me, at my requeste, this servyse,
Delivere now the world, so dostow right, 515
Of me, that am the
wofulleste
wight
That ever was; for tyme is that I sterve,
Sin in this world of right nought may I serve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile upstairs in the bedroom
And thought I heard him
downstairs
in the cellar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
" This must have been written about 1872, and after reading it
one would fancy that Poe and Baudelaire were
rhapsodic
wrigglers on the
poetic tripod, whereas their poetry is often reserved, even glacial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Ma s'a
conoscer
la prima radice
del nostro amor tu hai cotanto affetto,
diro come colui che piange e dice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
has never seen: he wishes to have a longer perusal
of them than the
regulations
of the library allow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Thus Rilke's monograph on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's
testament
on Life and Art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
While my eyes were
watching
the clouds that travel to the sea.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Li Po |
|
We bring thee our love and our
garlands
for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our manifold gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
His ships
There scatter'd, some to the
Cydonian
coast
Of Crete he push'd, near where the Jardan flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
[The lady to whom this epistle is
addressed
was a painter and a
poetess: her pencil sketches are said to have been beautiful; and she
had a ready skill in rhyme, as the verses addressed to Burns fully
testify.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this
agreement
by
keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
I spoke to him of garlic,
he
answered
asparagus; consulted him of marriage, he tells me of hanging,
as if they went by one and the same destiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
You were pleased to express a wish for my opinion of
the work, which so
flattered
me, that nothing less would serve my
overweening fancy, than a formal criticism on the book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Il y a, dans ce ton, _Ce qui relient Nina_, vingt-neuf strophes, plus de
cent vers, sur un [rh]ythme sautilleur avec des
gentillesse
a tout bout
de champ:
_Dix-sept ans!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
) I have
attained
the highest power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Solace and joy seem false from those
Other girls, none share her worthiness,
Her solace exceeds all others though,
Ay, alas, ill times if I do not have her,
Yet the anguish brings me joy so fair,
For
thinking
brings desire of her lustily:
God, if I might have her some other way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
If
the second copy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing
without further
opportunities
to fix the problem.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Before, behind, around the queen, her sight
Encounters
but the same blank void of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
As his the power, his were the crimes of those
Whom to
dispense
that sacred power he chose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Men,
too, he studied eagerly, the humblest and the highest,
regretting
always
that the brand of the scholar on him often silenced the men of shop and
office where he came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
"
[Illustration]
"It means the loosening all the doors,"
The Ghost replied, and laughed:
"It means the drilling holes by scores
In all the skirting-boards and floors,
To make a
thorough
draught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Children use the fist
Until they are of age to use the brain;
And so we needed Caesars to assist
Man's justice, and
Napoleons
to explain
God's counsel, when a point was nearly missed,
Until our generations should attain
Christ's stature nearer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"You'll sometimes find that one or two
Are all you really need
To let the wind come
whistling
through--
But _here_ there'll be a lot to do!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The colours of
the curtains and their fringe--the tints of crimson and gold--appear
everywhere in profusion, and determine the
_character
_of the room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"Well, what's the matter with this country is not in the least
political, but an all round entanglement of physical, social, and moral
evils and corruptions, all more or less due to the
unnatural
treatment
of women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
But I will send messengers along the coast, and bid them trace
Libya to its limits, if haply he strays
shipwrecked
in forest or town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
With the smoke of your fierce exultations
Deform and
destroy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
Pagans awhile their heads and faces on
Their breasts abase, their
polished
helmets doff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
I wish to preserve a
complete incognito, and can trust to you that,
whatever
else you do,
you will at least favour me on this point.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The Tombs of the Great_
MARMOREO
Licinus tumulo iacet, at Cato nullo,
Pompeius paruo: credimus esse deos?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
And then his style, in
its ardent and
luminous
simplicity, flexible to every bend of the spirit
which it clothes with flesh, helps him in the idiomatic translation of
dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
This whole stanza
refers to Mary's
candidacy
for the English throne and its dangers to
Protestantism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
'
"And I beheld high scaffoldings of creeds
Crumbling from round Religion's perfect Fane:
And a vast noise of rights, wrongs, powers, needs,
-- Cries of new Faiths that called `This Way is plain,'
--
Grindings
of upper against lower greeds --
-- Fond sighs for old things, shouts for new, -- did reign
Below that stream of golden fire that broke,
Mottled with red, above the seas of smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
A
complete
list of Masefield's works sent on request.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The Emperor remitted the sentence of death and changed it
to one of
perpetual
exile at Yeh-lang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
'
The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it fracture for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier,
transparent
with flights not made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
A Ram's Horn orchid seedpod for a woodchuck
Sounds
something
like.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Ask how your brave cicada on the bough
Keeps the long sweet insistence of his cry;
Ask how the Pleiads steer across the night 5
In their serene unswerving mighty course;
Ask how the wood-flowers waken to the sun,
Unsummoned save by some mysterious word;
Ask how the wandering
swallows
find your eaves
Upon the rain-wind with returning spring; 10
Ask who commands the ever-punctual tide
To keep the pendulous rhythm of the sea;
And you shall know what leads the heart of man
To the far haven of his hopes and fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
I can see nothing: the pain, the
weariness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Two swimmers
wrestled
on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
XVII
"The noble blood derived from ancient Troy,
Mingling in thee its two most
glorious
streams,
Shall be the ornament, and flower, and joy
Of every lineage on which Phoebus beams,
Where genial stars lend warmth, or cold annoy,
Where Indus, Tagus, Nile, or Danube gleams;
And in thy progeny and long drawn line
Shall marquises, counts, dukes and Caesers shine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
It has not
weakened
your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus choosing one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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The light
Coquettes
in Sylphs aloft repair, 65
And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
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"I am like thee, O, Night, silent and deep; and in the heart of
my
loneliness
lies a Goddess in child-bed; and in him who is being
born Heaven touches Hell.
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We--are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar;
Such difference without discord, as can make
Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake _145
As
trembling
leaves in a continuous air?
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Shelley |
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XXXIV
"By many names men call us;
In many lands we dwell:
Well
Samothracia
knows us;
Cyrene knows us well.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I DARE engage, two
fortresses
besiege
Leave one to Mars, and t'other to this liege.
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La Fontaine |
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So Iris on dewy saffron
pinions flits down through the sky [701-705]athwart the sun in a trail
of a thousand changing dyes, and
stopping
over her head: 'This hair,
sacred to Dis, I take as bidden, and release thee from that body of
thine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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What, are your hands still
nerveless?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Who are you, sweet boy, with cheeks yet
blooming?
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Whitman |
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I was running to help
him, when several strong
Cossacks
seized me, and bound me with their
"_kuchaks_,"[54] shouting--
"Wait a bit, you will see what will become of you traitors to the Tzar!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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1 That is, an old
embroidery
with a coherent sequence of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats |
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