Then
Aegisthus
was in fear
Lest she be wed in some great house, and bear
A son to avenge her father.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But if we hold him off, will he not grant
The meed of a brave fight,
captivity?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, is descended
from the ancient family of
Chattorajes
of Bhramangram, who were
noted throughout Eastern Bengal as patrons of Sanskrit learning,
and for their practice of Yoga.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They laughed to know the world so wide;
The
mountains
said, 'Good-day!
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Emerson - Poems |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You
neighbor
of the Danube!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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If on the foeman fell his gaze,
Him it would
straightway
blind or craze,
In the street, if he turned round,
His eye the eye 't was seeking found.
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Emerson - Poems |
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0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Howe'er rich no rarity was absent, it seemed,
Fruit blushed upon the side-boards, groaning 'neath rich meats,
With all the dainties palate ever dreamed
In lavishness to waste--for dwellers in the streets
Of cities, whether Troy, or Tyre, or Ispahan,
Consume, in point of cost, food at a single meal
Much less than what is spread before this crowned man---
Who rules his couchant nation with a rod of steel,
And whose servitors'
chiefest
arts it was to squeeze
The world's full teats into his royal helpless mouth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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An
ignorant
person would have been puzzled, and would
have said to you: "It is this, it is that.
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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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"
XXVII
Mamilius
spied Herminius,
And dashed across the way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Such things
Are in
themselves
dead, and have only life
From what lives round them.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Prayer
My
answered
prayer came up to me,
And in the silence thus spake he:
"O you who prayed for me to come,
Your greeting is but cold and dumb.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Nor can
civility
there want for tillage,
Where wisely for their court they chose a
village :
How fit a title clothes their governors.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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]
It is not necessary here to attempt to
disentangle
or explain away the
numerous amours in which he was engaged through the greater part of his
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Tes grandes visions
etranglaient
ta parole:
--Un Infini terrible effara ton oeil bleu!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But oh, the sea came
creeping
up,
And washed the name away,
And on the sand where it had been
A bit of sea-grass lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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queritor iam Seras auaros
angustum spoliare nemus Clymeneaque desse
germina nec uiridis satis inlacrimare sorores;
uellera Sidonio iam pauca
rubescere
tabo
raraque longaeuis niuibus crystalla gelari.
| 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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ai maden
Ieroboam
kyng; wel he gan hem paie;
And euere ?
| 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 |
|
Rule 42 of the Code, "_No one shall speak to the Man at
the Helm_," had been
completed
by the Bellman himself with the words "_and
the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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spread your white sails my little bark athwart the
imperious waves,
Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
This song for
mariners
and all their ships.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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I
was convinced that you could see objects
distinctly
there much
farther than here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The woodman and hunter shall be
your sextons, and the
children
shall tread upon the borders as much as
they will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
They may have some edging or
trimming
of a
scholar, a welt or so; but it is no more.
| 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 |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A month has flown already
Since,
cloistered
with his sister, he forsook
The world's affairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If they are equal, might they not have risen
In opposition to the work, and being
All hands, according to our author here,
Have still
destroyed
even as the other made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The adverse host the phantom-warrior eyed,
And first, loud-threatening, Agelaus cried:
"Mentor, beware, nor let that tongue persuade
Thy frantic arm to lend Ulysses aid;
Our force
successful
shall our threat make good,
And with the sire and son commix thy blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Wherefore
mind too, confess we must, dissolves,
Seeing, indeed, contagions of disease
Enter into the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
No more--the approaching hours of silent night
First claim refection, then to rest invite;
Beneath our humble cottage let us haste,
And here, unenvied, rural
dainties
taste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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if he norisse his corage vnto vices
{and} forlete his
p{ro}pre
bur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Why, your eyes are
shining
already!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Mark yet sees his lion where he stood
Stand, but in mockery of his
withered
power,
Over the proud place where an Emperor sued,
And monarchs gazed and envied in the hour
When Venice was a queen with an unequalled dower.
| 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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And with the gipsies there will be a king
And a thousand
desperadoes
just his style,
With all their rags dyed in the blood of roses,
Splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
CXV
Before they hence depart, the martial twain
Assemble
the inhabitants, to swear,
They to their wives the rule of that domain
Will leave, as well as every other care;
And that they will chastise, with heavy pain,
Whoever to oppose this law shall dare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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s
knowledge
of strategy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Whatever that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a freshness and vitality, which are the qualities
of
enduring
genius.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Toi qui fais au
proscrit
ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un echafaud,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite
Life unrolls its boundless space .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Quali i beati al novissimo bando
surgeran presti ognun di sua caverna,
la revestita voce alleluiando,
cotali in su la divina basterna
si levar cento, ad vocem tanti senis,
ministri
e messaggier di vita etterna.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
"He wakes--ah, maids of
Memphis!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their
pleasures
in a long immortal dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this
eBook or online at http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
tior_ BRVen:
_expolitor_
OLa1
21 _lotus_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Light from a crimson cloud
Crimsons the sluggishly creeping foams of waves;
The seaman, poised in the bow, rises and falls
As the deep forefoot finds a way through waves;
And there below him, steadily gazing westward,
Facing the wind, the sunset, the long cloud,
The goddess of the ship, proud figurehead,
Smiles inscrutably, plunges to crying waters,
Emerges streaming, gleaming, with jewels falling
Fierily from carved wings and golden breasts;
Steadily
glides a moment, then swoops again.
| 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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Why, Lonsdale, thus thy wrath on
vagrants
pour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
2744: _arduei ibi_ Haupt: _inde sibi_ Pleitner:
_numen ibi_ Ritschl: _aduena ibi_ Conington: _hic lumen_ Mowat:
_inuida enim_ Vahlen: _inuida ibi_ Nigra: _inde Venus_ Postgate,
quod et ipse olim conieceram: _hic Veneri_ Owen: _hic autem_
Kakridis: _limine_ p:
_numine_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
So,
purposing
each moment to retire,
She linger'd still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Wherefore, when once the body
Hath passed away, admit we must that soul,
Shivered in all that body,
perished
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
20
Love, now a [1]
universal
birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
--It is the hour of feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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nunc iuuat in teneris dominae
iacuisse
lacertis;
si quando, lateri nunc bene iuncta meost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
To vice and folly to confine the jest,
Sets half the world, God knows, against the rest;
Did not the sneer of more
impartial
men
At sense and virtue, balance all again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
I ran to the place, drained of
strength
and colour,
And found him lifeless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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We believe that the individuality of a poet may
often be better expressed in free-verse than in
conventional
forms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
He's hidden in the grass, Verlaine
Only to catch, naively, not drying with his breath
And without his lip
drinking
there, at peace again,
A shallow stream that's slandered, and named Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
He has come hither not in his own name
But in Queen Aoife's, and has challenged us
In challenging the
foremost
man of us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
O'er vales that teem with fruits,
romantic
hills,
(Oh that such hills upheld a free-born race!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
100
The bawsyn[53] gyaunt, hee who dyd them slee,
To telle
Gendolyne
quycklie was ysped[54];
Whanne, as he strod alonge the shakeynge lee,
The roddie levynne[55] glesterrd on hys headde:
Into hys hearte the azure vapoures spreade; 105
He wrythde arounde yn drearie dernie[56] payne;
Whanne from his lyfe-bloode the rodde lemes[57] were fed,
He felle an hepe of ashes on the playne:
Stylle does hys ashes shoote ynto the lyghte,
A wondrous mountayne hie, and Snowdon ys ytte hyghte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
By truth's own tongue,
I have no daedale heart: why is it wrung 461
To
desperation?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
"
And I was
overjoyed
at this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Cautious, hint to any captive
You have passed
enfranchised
feet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
--how
Each by his own
strength
sought his own Ideal,--
The ultimate Perfection leaning bright
From out the sun and stars to bless the leal
And earnest search of all for Fair and Right
Through doubtful forms by earth accounted real!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Go, on the Neva's bank appear,
My very latest
composition!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
O City city, I can
sometimes
hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
To try
theology
I'm almost minded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
copyright
law in creating the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
But if the brave old mould is broke,
And end in churls the
mountain
folk
In tavern cheer and tavern joke,
Sink, O mountain, in the swamp!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
So those passionate letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of
tenderness
and love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the
Dulichian
ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling mariners?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Strange that the feet so
precious
charged
Should reach so small a goal!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is not
commonly at this green age, that our young gentry have a just sense of
the immense
distance
between them and their ragged playfellows.
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Robert Burns |
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and yet I am straining my
eyesight
to scan the
sky.
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Aristophanes |
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For the stage displays the first vigorous
expression, as the natural thing and without
conspicuous
restraint, of
private individuality.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Said, _Dear, I love thee_; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
horsemen
at once dispersed at a gallop, and the steppe was
deserted.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere
Of true allegiance,
constant
Faith or Love,
Where onely what they needs must do, appeard,
Not what they would?
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Milton |
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eheu uidete:
iudicauit inclitum iudicium inter deas tris aliquis:
quo iudicio Lacedaemona mulier
Furiarum
una adueniet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Where the slow soil had mossed it to the brim,
Till after countless
centuries
it grew
Into this dell, the haunt of noontide dew.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Look up, rise up: for far above
Our palms are grown, our place is set;
There we shall meet as once we met
And love with old
familiar
love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the darkened chapel
Where
Michelangelo
made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Why could it not have been some
one less
important
to him?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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