There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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'In exitu Israel de Aegypto'
cantavan
tutti insieme ad una voce
con quanto di quel salmo e poscia scripto.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Beyond the haunt of man
Unto this rock, with fetters grimly forged,
I must transfix and shackle up thy limbs,
Where thou shalt mark no voice nor human form,
But,
parching
in the glow and glare of sun,
Thy body's flower shall suffer a sky-change;
And gladly wilt thou hail the hour when Night
Shall in her starry robe invest the day,
Or when the Sun shall melt the morning rime.
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Aeschylus |
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How happy go the rich fair-weather days
When on the roadside folk stare in amaze
At such a honeycomb of fruit and flowers
As mellows round their threshold; what long hours
They gloat upon their
steepling
hollyhocks,
Bee's balsams, feathery southernwood, and stocks,
Fiery dragon's-mouths, great mallow leaves
For salves, and lemon-plants in bushy sheaves,
Shagged Esau's-hands with five green finger-tips.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men
remember
us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?
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Sappho |
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_Glo'ster_: Gilbert de Clare, son-in-law to Edward; _Mortimer_: one of
the Lords
Marchers
of Wales.
| Guess: |
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Golden Treasury |
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[3] Pay a
trademark
license fee to the Project of 20% of the
net profits you derive calculated using the method you
already use to calculate your applicable taxes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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1715
In suffisaunce, in blisse, and in singinges,
This Troilus gan al his lyf to lede;
He spendeth, Iusteth, maketh festeynges;
He yeveth frely ofte, and
chaungeth
wede,
And held aboute him alwey, out of drede, 1720
A world of folk, as cam him wel of kinde,
The fressheste and the beste he coude fynde;
That swich a voys was of hym and a stevene
Thorugh-out the world, of honour and largesse,
That it up rong un-to the yate of hevene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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in yon
brilliant
window-niche
How statue-like I me thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"It seems to me, thank heaven,"
murmured
he, "the child was washed,
combed, and fed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He who of those
delights
can judge, and spare
To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Keats has, no doubt, in his mind Titian's
picture of Bacchus and Ariadne in the
National
Gallery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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213) to the days of his great success when his 'Homer'
was the talk of the town, he asserts his ignorance of all the arts of
puffery and his independence of mutual
admiration
societies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
|
[589] An altar in the form of a column in the front vestibule of houses
and
dedicated
to Apollo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet
Have
shattered
armies and stamped empires dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now was hir herte warm, now was it cold,
And what she
thoughte
somwhat shal I wryte,
As to myn auctor listeth for to endyte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| 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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His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, by Anonymous
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
)
But the shapes of men that pass
Are as ghosts within a glass,
Woven with whiteness of the swan,
Pale, sad memories,
gleaming
wan
From the garment's purple fold
Where Troy's tale is twined and told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In gowany glens thy burnie strays,
Where bonie lasses bleach their claes,
Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes,
Wi'
hawthorns
gray,
Where blackbirds join the shepherd's lays,
At close o' day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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160
XXI
Deep in the forest was a little dell
High
overarched
with the leafy sweep
Of a broad oak, through whose gnarled roots there fell
A slender rill that sung itself to sleep,
Where its continuous toil had scooped a well
To please the fairy folk; breathlessly deep
The stillness was, save when the dreaming brook
From its small urn a drizzly murmur shook.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
)
Two days ago with dancing
glancing
hair,
With living lips and eyes:
Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;
So pale, yet still so fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
What's got by justice is
established
sure:
_No kingdoms got by rapine long endure_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And
debauchee
of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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)
7
Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
The young
maturity
of brood and bloom,
To realms of budding bibles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No dial more could with the sun agree ;
The speaker,
summoned
to the Lords, repairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I with leave of speech implor'd,
And humble
deprecation
thus repli'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
_ Taken almost
entirely
from Seneca, _de
Provid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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As when the pilgrim, who with weary pace
Thro' lonely wastes untrod by human race,
For many a day
disconsolate
has stray'd,
The turf his bed, the wild-wood boughs his shade,
O'erjoy'd beholds the cheerful seats of men
In grateful prospect rising on his ken:
So GAMA joy'd, who many a dreary day
Had traced the vast, the lonesome, wat'ry way,
Had seen new stars, unknown to Europe, rise,
And brav'd the horrors of the polar skies:
So joy'd his bounding heart when, proudly rear'd,
The splendid city o'er the wave appear'd,
Where Heaven's own lore, he trusted, was obey'd,
And Holy Faith her sacred rites display'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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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 |
|
"
The voice of grief and fury till then had not been loud;
But a deep sullen murmur wandered among the crowd,
Like the moaning noise that goes before the
whirlwind
on the
deep,
Or the growl of a fierce watch-dog but half aroused from sleep.
| 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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To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee,
And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss,--
This, it should seem, was not
reserved
for me
Yet this was in my nature:--As it is,
I know not what is there, yet something like to this.
| 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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Further, since the seeds
Are different,
difference
must there also be
In intervening spaces, thoroughfares,
Connections, weights, blows, clashings, motions, all
Which not alone distinguish living forms,
But sunder earth's whole ocean from the lands,
And hold all heaven from the lands away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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it swept along,
A muffled noise--a
rumbling
sound!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
But give one thought to Stuart, two for
yourself!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
III
--"And how explains thy Ancient Mind her crimes upon her creatures,
These fallings from her fair beginnings, woundings where she loves,
Into her would-be perfect motions, modes, effects, and features
Admitting cramps, black humours, wan decay, and baleful blights,
Distress
into delights?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
]
[hg] _Where
Beelzebub
upon duty_----.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For mighty stroke
he swung his blade, and the blow
withheld
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And saw himself
confined
lik'' -hrep in pen,
Daniel then thought he was in lion's den.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Panthus, eluding the Achaean weapons, Panthus son of Othrys,
priest of Phoebus in the citadel, comes
hurrying
with the sacred vessels
and conquered gods and his little grandchild in his hand, and runs
distractedly towards my gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a desperate sun
that
struggles
through sea-mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou Diminutive husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art
polluted
know that I am pure*
And unpolluted & will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
OSWALD See, they come,
Two
Travellers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Her little lips, more made to kiss
Than to cry bitterly for pain,
Are
tremulous
as brook-water is,
Or roses after evening rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
VII
Happily now on
classical
soil I feel inspiration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
The father-in-law agrees to keep his daughter for some time after the
marriage; for which the son-in-law binds himself to give him the
profits of the first
Michaelmas
moon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So well had weened the wisest Scyldings
that not ever at all might any man
that bone-decked, brave house break asunder,
crush by craft, -- unless clasp of fire
in smoke
engulfed
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The horror and pity which he excites
as he sits by the river in the storm and darkness, rejoicing in the
consummation of his scheme of revenge, have something of that awfulness
which is the note of
veritable
tragedy.
| 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 |
|
We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons,
together
with all those
Containing rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with centuries of snows;
Infinite rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
| 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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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
That he might not, however, offend his
friend Roberto Bardi and the
University
of Paris, he despatched a
messenger to Cardinal Colonna, asking his advice upon the subject,
pretty well knowing that his patron's opinion would coincide with his
own wishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The
pedigree
of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Falstaff,
Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have
already waylaid;
yourself
and I will not be there; and when they
have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off
from my shoulders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Is there no other
entrance
to the chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
'But stay, here comes Tityrus Griswold, and leads on
The flocks whom he first plucks alive, and then feeds on,--
A loud-cackling swarm, in whose
leathers
warm drest,
He goes for as perfect a--swan as the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that
abhorred
abode
Where hope and he part company, --
For he is grasped of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
"
His
cleverness
and the acuteness of his sense of smell alike astonished
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Jupiter denies thee the
Dictaean
fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Swallows
were flying about us, and the
chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
)
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
Brought safely for a
thousand
miles o'er land and tide,
Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,
A bunch of orange buds by mall from Florida.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
"Sir, it is the
greatest
movement of modern times, and one in which all
educated men like us must join.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
If you
received
this etext on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
vociferated
the
metaphysician, as his eye fell upon something which lay stretched at
full length upon the bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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2: 'Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds
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Israel.
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Even here, amid the sweep of endless woods,
Blue pomp of lakes, high cliffs and falling floods,
Not undelightful are the
simplest
charms, 145
Found by the grassy [34] door of mountain-farms.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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þāra þe þis līf
ofgeaf,
gesāwon
sele-drēam (referring to the joy of heaven?
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Beowulf |
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at
fulfilde
were ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_ It is in truth
An easy thing to stand aloof from pain
And lavish
exhortation
and advice
On one vexed sorely by it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Why an Ear, a
whirlpool
fierce to draw creations in?
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blake-poems |
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We see only a
little part in which are many details that have
purposes
beyond our ken.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a
Periodical
so courageous, gracious and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Iliad alone, in epic conduet (as already
observed)
bears
a strong resemblance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Say, if my spouse maintains her royal trust;
Though tempted, chaste, and
obstinately
just?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There, aping Gulnare's bard, he spanned
His Hellespont from bank to bank,
And then a cup of coffee drank,
Some
wretched
journal in his hand;
Then dressed himself.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_Sudden Shower_
Black grows the southern sky, betokening rain,
And humming hive-bees
homeward
hurry bye:
They feel the change; so let us shun the grain,
And take the broad road while our feet are dry.
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John Clare |
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" "That is enough in New Year," says the groom in green,
"if I tell thee when I have
received
the tap.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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