But sudden, in seeming triumph, the enemy host
Was
stricken
with death; and still the city stayed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Criseyde was this lady name a-right;
As to my dome, in al Troyes citee 100
Nas noon so fair, for passing every wight
So aungellyk was hir natyf beautee,
That lyk a thing immortal semed she,
As doth an hevenish parfit creature,
That doun were sent in
scorning
of nature.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Bear back your
spectral
Brutus
From robber Bonaparte;
Time rarely will refute us
Who doom the hateful heart.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He
wondered
why it was so
hard to write so simple a thing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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THE SWORD DHAM
"How shall we honor the man who
creates?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All her
pretence
about being tired and
wanting to go home broke down, and she rocked herself to and fro in the
saddle as she sobbed, and the hot wind blew her black hair to leeward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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[116] They
occupied
a large district of the north of England,
from the Trent to the Tyne.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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Give me Broadway, with the
soldiers
marching--give me the sound of
the trumpets and drums!
| 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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nam me diligit ille proximumque
Turni
nobilibus
leget libellis.
| 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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The robin is the one
That
overflows
the noon
With her cherubic quantity,
An April but begun.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Under
the influence of the good wine, however, the
conversation
then became
general.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Ask you what
provocation
I have had?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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On Glenriddell's Fox
Breaking
His Chain
A Fragment, 1791.
| 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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Thus the use of arms, which is at all times
honorable
to the brave, now offers the only safety even to cowards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"
--"Deeds of home; that live yet
Fresh as new--deeds of fondness or fret;
Ancient words that were kindly
expressed
or unkindly,
These, these have their heeds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
e
ordinaunce
of destine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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One discerns things
one never
discerned
before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
To this the king: "Fly, mighty
warrior!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Love's
orchards
climbed to the heavens of the West,
And snowed the earthly sod with flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
--
Semiramis, and Byblis (famed of old)
Her mother's rival there you next behold;
With many a warrior, many a lovely dame
Of old, ennobled by
romantic
fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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In this
Hotel Pimodan a dilettante,
Ferdinand
Boissard, held high revel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Þā hine sōna frægn folces hyrde,
hū þā wīgend hyra wunda genǣson
oððe
hwæðer
þǣra hyssa .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare
superfetation
(second conception during gestation) is possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
'
`Than nedeth,' quod Deiphebus, `hardely, 1425
Na-more to speke, for trusteth wel, that I
Wol be hir
champioun
with spore and yerde;
I roughte nought though alle hir foos it herde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I learnt more from her in a flash,
Than in my
brainpan
were an empty hull,
And every Muse tumbled a science in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
253) with the idea of doing for Germany what Shakespeare had
done for
mediaeval
England.
| 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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Lastly this, from whom
Thy look on me reverteth, was the beam
Of one, whose spirit, on high musings bent,
Rebuk'd the ling'ring
tardiness
of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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A
coolness
of twilight takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
XXII
"Now hearken, Caius Cossus:
Spring on thy horse's back;
Ride as the wolves of Apennine
Were all upon thy track;
Haste to our
southward
battle:
And never draw thy rein
Until thou find Herminius,
And bid hime come amain.
| 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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`Have I thee nought
honoured
al my lyve,
As thou wel wost, above the goddes alle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This should be a privacy,
Not even your lover near, this hour of first
Strange
knowledge
that you have accepted love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Tenniel's designs are
masterpieces
of wise absurdity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Who hath
displaced
my bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Through every rift it foamed in vain,
About its earthly prison,
Seeking some unknown thing in pain,
And sinking
restless
back again,
For yet no moon had risen:
Its only voice a vast dumb moan,
Of utterless anguish speaking,
It lay unhopefully alone,
And lived but in an aimless seeking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
the
crucifix
is all that's left
To her, of freedom and her sons bereft;
And on her royal robe foul marks are seen
Where Russian hectors' scornful feet have been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you
discover
a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Who knows but this chance wild fruit, planted by a cow or a bird on
some remote and rocky hillside, where it is as yet unobserved by man,
may be the choicest of all its kind, and foreign potentates shall hear
of it, and royal societies seek to
propagate
it, though the virtues of
the perhaps truly crabbed owner of the soil may never be heard of,--at
least, beyond the limits of his village?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
CHORUS
Even as a
swaddled
child, she lull'd the thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The willows droop,
The alders stoop,
The
pheasants
group
Beneath the snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Then echoed through the palace dark-bedimm'd
With evening shades the suitors boist'rous roar, 460
For each the royal bed burn'd to partake,
Whom thus Telemachus
discrete
address'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
I have
therefore
tried to produce regular
rhythmic effects similar to those of the original.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Here is a miracle, only
believe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Instead of going out of the small door
behind the screen, however, he
concealed
himself in a closet to await
the return of the old Countess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The snakes whisper softly;
The whispering, whispering snakes,
Dreaming
and swaying and staring,
But always whispering, softly whispering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
ANDERE HALFTE:
Wir nehmen das nicht so genau,
Mit tausend
Schritten
macht's die Frau;
Doch wie sie sich auch eilen kann,
Mit einem Sprunge macht's der Mann.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
'
And therwithal he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and
sorwfully
he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
We know who once, and in what shrine with you-
The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed-
MENALCAS
Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash
Micon's young vines and trees with
spiteful
hook.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
This tells me your
daughter
is dumb.
| 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 |
|
The
attacking
party
carried nothing but swords, and it seemed a long business to send for
siege-engines and missiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Your
brunstane
devilship, I see,
Has got him there before ye;
But haud your nine-tail cat a wee,
Till ance you've heard my story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Have you
more genius than
Chateaubriand
and Wagner?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The last two lines are a comment on the whole incident, the making of
the will and the poet's
inability
to implement it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Though true it be that none with surer seat
O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
Nor any swims so fleet
Adown the Tuscan tide,
Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
And though he call you hard,
Remain
obdurate
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in
blissful
sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
And thus from earth to heaven the spirit soars,
Whilst
Philomel
her tale of woe repeats
Amid the sympathising shades of night,
Thus through man's breast love's current sweetly pours:
Yet still thine absence half the joy defeats,--
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
This did ye expect,
When in
simplicity
ye wrote
Your innocent and charming note
With so much warmth and intellect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
_mainly,
corrected
by_ Gg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
'
IX
Meanwhile, the Unco' Guid had ta'en
Their place to watch the process,
Flattening in vain on many a pane
Their
disembodied
noses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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obuia_ GRVen: _omnia_
ACDa
111 _ne quidquam nauis_ O
114
_laberintheis_
GCD: _laberi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
pallida Mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
regumque
turris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
"To bend thy being to a bone
Clothed in a
radiance
not its own!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
I lyche thys songe, I lyche ytt myckle well;
And there ys monie for yer
syngeynge
nowe;
Butte have you noone thatt marriage-blessynges telle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
This close
connection between purely external events and
literary
masterpieces is
especially marked in a study of the Elizabethan Age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Would earth-worm
poultice
cure a sprain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
SEMYON
NIKITICH
GODUNOV, secret agent of Boris Godunov.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
What
wretched
errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Pale fireflies pulsed within the meadow-mist
Their halos, wavering
thistledowns
of light;
The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst,
Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright,
Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Tarry a while, till I am satisfied
Of love and grief, of earth and
altering
sky;
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled,
O Death, I cannot die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
For me hath he swich
hevinesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Pres d'un ruisseau sans eau la bete ouvrant le bec,
Baignait
nerveusement
ses ailes dans la poudre,
Et disait, le coeur plein de son beau lac natal:
<< Eau, quand donc pleuvras-tu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
I saw the man among his little sons,
His lips were warm with kisses while he swore;
And I, because I am a woman--I,
Who felt my own child's coming life before
The
prescience
of my soul, and held faith high,--
I could not bear to think, whoever bore,
That lips, so warmed, could shape so cold a lie.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Or some dream sound
Of voices shaketh me, as underground
God's thunder
shuddering?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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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.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thus they shouted one and all as their
indignation
urged them.
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Tacitus |
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Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croit et se
fortifie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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when from one
Of the two brightest eyes which ever were,
Beholding
it with pain dis urb'd and dim,
Moved influence which my own made dull and weak.
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Petrarch |
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Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad
Grim squatting on a
twilight
road.
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Sidney Lanier |
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if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a grace,
Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face,
Like Citron-waters matrons cheeks inflame,
Or change complexions at a losing game; 70
If e'er with airy horns I planted heads,
Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds,
Or caus'd
suspicion
when no soul was rude,
Or discompos'd the head-dress of a Prude,
Or e'er to costive lap-dog gave disease, 75
Which not the tears of brightest eyes could ease:
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin,
That single act gives half the world the spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But raging still, amidst his navy sat
The stern Achilles,
stedfast
in his hate;
Nor mix'd in combat, nor in council join'd;
But wasting cares lay heavy on his mind:
In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll,
And scenes of blood rise dreadful in his soul.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We grant no
dukedoms
to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;--
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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