Do you think that he,
conscious
of Theseus' honour, 845
Will conceal what I am burning with, this ardour?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Pero, la onde vegna lo 'ntelletto
de le prime notizie, omo non sape,
e de' primi
appetibili
l'affetto,
che sono in voi si come studio in ape
di far lo mele; e questa prima voglia
merto di lode o di biasmo non cape.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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at noon--from the bath--
As I came--it was noon, my lords--
And your sister had then, as she
constantly
hath,
Drawn her veil close around her, aware that the path
Is beset by these foreign hordes.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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_The Sad
Shepherd_ and the masque are far more akin to each other in their
treatment of
witchcraft
than is either to _The Devil is an Ass_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs
Bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you,
Plucking pale violets and poppy-heads,
Now the fair Naiad, of narcissus flower
And
fragrant
fennel, doth one posy twine-
With cassia then, and other scented herbs,
Blends them, and sets the tender hyacinth off
With yellow marigold.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Though with a good deal of vigour and imagination, it is," says
Moore, "for the most part rather clumsily executed, wanting the point
and condensation of those clever verses of Coleridge and Southey, which
Lord Byron,
adopting
a notion long prevalent, has attributed to Porson.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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The three `Hymns of the Marshes' which open this collection
are the only written portions of a series of six `Marsh Hymns'
that were designed by the author to form a
separate
volume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Mary_; go on
with _Moses_'--each calling for his
favourite
tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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Strong,
Governor
Caleb, a patriot.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Whose fault has foiled her fond
endeavor?
| 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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"
So upon
Agramant
this counsel wrought,
That king pressed forward without further thought.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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larrons, pechies mortez,
Et erre par voie torte,
Esperance
me conforte
Qui a toy hui me raporte 20
A ce que soie deportez.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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God
vanished
long ago, iwis,
A mere subjective synthesis; 140
A doll, stuffed out with hopes and fears,
Too homely for us pretty dears,
Who want one that conviction carries,
Last make of London or of Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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As when a lion, rushing from his den,
Amidst the plain of some wide-water'd fen,
(Where numerous oxen, as at ease they feed,
At large expatiate o'er the ranker mead)
Leaps on the herds before the herdsman's eyes;
The trembling herdsman far to
distance
flies;
Some lordly bull (the rest dispersed and fled)
He singles out; arrests, and lays him dead.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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'
'If we could kiss our
daughter!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore;
Others will watch the run of the flood-tide;
Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights
of
Brooklyn
to the south and east;
Others will see the islands large and small;
Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour
high;
A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see
them,
Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back
to the sea of the ebb-tide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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plus in amore ualet Mimnermi uersus Homero:
carmina
mansuetus
lenia quaerit Amor.
| 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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Canto XXXII
S'io avessi le rime aspre e chiocce,
come si converrebbe al tristo buco
sovra 'l qual pontan tutte l'altre rocce,
io
premerei
di mio concetto il suco
piu pienamente; ma perch' io non l'abbo,
non sanza tema a dicer mi conduco;
che non e impresa da pigliare a gabbo
discriver fondo a tutto l'universo,
ne da lingua che chiami mamma o babbo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Your hot blood taught you
carelessness
of death
With every breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O
bounteous
seas that never fail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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--There is a great
variation
between him that is raised to the
sovereignty by the favour of his peers and him that comes to it by the
suffrage of the people.
| 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 |
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Let me first finish the opening verse: "Oeneus in the fields
one day, having made an abundant harvest and
sacrificed
the first-fruits
to the gods .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The sea all water, yet receives rain still,
And in
abundance
addeth to his store,
So thou being rich in will add to thy will
One will of mine to make thy large will more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward;
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us;
We use you, and do not cast you aside--we plant you permanently within us;
We fathom you not--we love you--there is
perfection
in you also;
You furnish your parts toward eternity;
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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coniugis
ut quondam flagrans aduenit amore
Protesilaeam Laudamia domum
inceptam frustra, nondum cum sanguine sacro 75
hostia caelestis pacificasset heros.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And thus,
unnoticed
and apart,
And more by accident than choice,
I listened to that single voice
Until the chambers of my heart
Were filled with it by night and day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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ALCESTIS _is supported by her Handmaids and
followed
by her
two children.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Not far now shall it be,
The
sacrifice
God asks of me and thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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He held in his right hand a flagon
containing
a luminous red fluid, and
inscribed with a legend in these singular words:
"DRINK OF THIS MY BLOOD: A PERFECT RESTORATIVE";
and in his left hand held a violin that without doubt served to sing his
pleasures and pains, and to spread abroad the contagion of his folly
upon the nights of the Sabbath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Seven of these he
restored
in printing his
second edition, as noted on p.
| 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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Solid and square to the world
the houses stand,
their windows blocked with
venetian
blinds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
work or any other work
associated
with Project Gutenberg-tm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Naimes the Duke, Oger that Danish Prince,
Geifrei d'Anjou,
Willalme
of Blaive therewith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
ye seek!
| 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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count it to thy fame
That thither many times the Painter came;-- 230
One elm yet bears his name, a
feathery
tree and tall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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He was executed by order of
Catherine
II.
| 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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The water lives so far,
Like
neighbor
from another world
Residing in a jar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Cruel Dawn_
IAM super oceanum uenit a seniore marito
flaua
pruinoso
quae uehit axe diem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The next is his
adoptive
son, whose love
May seem more just, but doth no better prove;
For though he did his loved Livia wed,
She was seduced from her husband's bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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o
Such fleas, ere they
approach
the eye,
In multiplying glasses lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Sappho was at the height
of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric
poetry was
peculiarly
esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But
wherefore
not?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And
plenipotentiaries
sent into France,
With an addle-headed knight, and a lord without
brains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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But they,
Who in Oppression's darkness caved had dwelt,
They were not eagles,
nourished
with the day;
What marvel then, at times, if they mistook their prey?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But he can sleep with her for nothing; I intend that women
shall belong to all men in common, and each shall beget
children
by any
man that wishes to have her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Besides, were all the space
Of the totality and sum shut in
With fixed coasts, and bounded everywhere,
Then would the abundance of world's matter flow
Together by solid weight from everywhere
Still
downward
to the bottom of the world,
Nor aught could happen under cope of sky,
Nor could there be a sky at all or sun--
Indeed, where matter all one heap would lie,
By having settled during infinite time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
What profit will thy dead wife gain
thereby?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
There's stir among the serving folk;
They bustle, bustle, boy and girl;
The
flickering
flames send up the smoke
In many a curl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I have no pride to live for; and why else
Should one stay living, if not
joyfully
proud?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
I am
tolerably
pleased with these verses, but as I have only a sketch
of the tune, I leave it with you to try if they suit the measure of
the music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
France is
tranquil
in the
enjoyment of a partial exemption from the abuses which its unnatural
and feeble government are vainly attempting to revive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
In my jealous wings
I
evermore
will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they contended?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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No more of
wailing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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On roars the flood, all restless to be free,
Like Trouble
wandering
to Eternity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Unless another,
As like
Hermione
as is her picture,
Affront his eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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These shall conduct me forth, for well I know
That evil threatens you, such, too, as none
Shall 'scape of all the suitors, whose delight
Is to insult the unoffending guest
Received beneath this
hospitable
roof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Gie me o' wit an' sense a lift,
Then turn me, if Thou please, adrift,
Thro'
Scotland
wide;
Wi' cits nor lairds I wadna shift,
In a' their pride!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
De quel droit payes-tu des
experiences
comme moi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
]
I see I
interrupt
you;
I shall have business with you, Marmaduke;
Follow me to the Hostel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
450
LI
The joyous day gan early to appeare,
And faire Aurora from the deawy bed
Of aged Tithone gan herselfe to reare
With rosy cheekes, for shame as blushing red;
Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed 455
About her eares, when Una her did marke
Clymbe to her charet, all with flowers spred;
From heaven high to chase the
chearelesse
darke,
With merry note her loud salutes the mounting larke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Comest thou driven on
ocean wanderings, or by
promptings
from heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Thou tellest of an excellent parent
marvellous
in piety, who himself urined
in the womb of his son!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Let thy scant
knowledge
find increase.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
But now, all
ignorant
of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
)
Red, from
mainmast
to bitts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
_al-bi_,
compound
verb, 189 n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[577]
_The orange here
perfumes
the buxom air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
And there
Redcastle
drew his sword,
That ne'er was stain'd wi' gore,
Save on a wand'rer lame and blind,
To drive him frae his door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Himself who chose us
from all his army to aid him now,
urged us to glory, and gave these treasures,
because he counted us keen with the spear
and hardy 'neath helm, though this hero-work
our leader hoped
unhelped
and alone
to finish for us, -- folk-defender
who hath got him glory greater than all men
for daring deeds!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
patria, bonis, amicis,
genitoribus
abero?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
drihtlīce
wīf (Finn's
wife), 1159; instr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Aye, me
And this my brother, loveless,
solitary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of
Blasphemy
scattered through the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
When I can scarce breathe beneath a
shameful
yoke!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The sign that she makes to him is that
happiness
we
call delight in beauty.
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Yeats |
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The fyghtynge beynge done, I came awaie,
In odher fieldes to fyghte a moe
unequalle
fraie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A
travelling
flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[Footnote 10: The house of
Professor
Dugald Stewart.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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These corrections
have been made silently; all other corrections and additions are
indicated by
footnotes
enclosed in square brackets.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Pale beneath the blaze
Hung the transparent foliage; and I watched
Some broad and sunny leaf, and loved to see
The shadow of the leaf and stem above,
Dappling
its sunshine!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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This disconcerted us so greatly that we thought it
advisable
to vary the
attack to Metaphysics.
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Poe - 5 |
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