Now, to your question--hear me clearly show
On what imputed fault he
tortures
me.
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Aeschylus |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This was his last
communication
to the Museum.
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Robert Forst |
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Donne's prose and verse of
the years
following
1601 are full of this melancholy depreciation of
himself and his lot.
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John Donne |
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Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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BEAVER BROOK
Hushed with broad
sunlight
lies the hill,
And, minuting the long day's loss,
The cedar's shadow, slow and still,
Creeps o'er its dial of gray moss.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Thus of those piteous spirits one bespake me;
And
Beatrice
next: "Say on; and trust
As unto gods!
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| Question: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lo, the law stands--_The slayer shall not plead,
Till by the hand of him who cleanses blood
A
suckling
creature's blood besprinkle him_.
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Aeschylus |
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The place where he
stood is called
Pooldhoya
to this day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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associated
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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re-use it under the terms of the Project
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License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
III
When spring winds wakened the mountain floods,
And kindled the flame of the tulip buds,
When bees grew loud and the days grew long,
And the peach groves thrilled to the oriole's song,
Queen Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed,
Decking with jewels her
exquisite
head;
And still she gazed in her mirror and sighed:
"O King, my heart is unsatisfied.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne
prodest, immo etiam taedet obestque magis;
ut mihi, quem nemo grauius nec
acerbius
urget, 5
quam modo qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Yet it's good that she
subjects
me
To her whole will utterly,
For if she does wrong, and slowly,
The sooner she'll take pity;
For, or so the scriptures say,
Through good luck, a single day
May a whole century redress.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
* * * * *
"O Wagner, westward bring thy
heavenly
art,
No trifler thou: Siegfried and Wotan be
Names for big ballads of the modern heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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>>
C'etait se
meprendre
etrangement que de compter sur la publicite pour
amener Baudelaire a resipiscence; le parquet imperial ne prit pas tant
de menagements.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ma l'alta provedenza, che con Scipio
difese a Roma la gloria del mondo,
soccorra tosto, si com' io concipio;
e tu, figliuol, che per lo mortal pondo
ancor giu tornerai, apri la bocca,
e non
asconder
quel ch'io non ascondo>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And first
the arrow of the son of Hyrtacus, flying through heaven from the
sounding string, whistles through the fleet breezes, and reaches and
sticks fast full in the mast's wood: the mast quivered, and the bird
fluttered her
feathers
in affright, and the whole ground rang with loud
clapping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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What, I think,
impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music,
floating from
unperceived
instruments, in Mr.
| 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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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the
shivering
air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And whence those charms that so
divinely
show,
Spread o'er a face serene as heaven's blue plain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals
blinking
through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
There is
still a
something
in the distance which he has been unable to attain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The common cry,
Will, as 't is ever wont, affix the blame
Unto the party injur'd: but the truth
Shall, in the vengeance it dispenseth, find
A
faithful
witness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's
citizens
be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared destruction!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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No, not if the blow
Is as the lightning
blasting
a tree,
I fear you not, puffing braggart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Der Herr der Ratten und der Mause,
Der Fliegen, Frosche, Wanzen, Lause
Befiehlt
dir, dich hervor zu wagen
Und diese Schwelle zu benagen,
So wie er sie mit Ol betupft-
Da kommst du schon hervorgehupft!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
We might safely
accept the sustained judgment of a
thousand
years of Greece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Weep, weep, my eyes,
dissolve
in water!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Your beauty is your life and my content,
And I will liken you to an apple-tree,
Mary and
Margaret
playing under the branches,
And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,
And scattered blossom like your little smiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Bright in whose face Love's conquering ensign stream'd,
A foreign fair so won me, young and vain,
That of her sex all others worthless seem'd:
Her as I follow'd o'er the verdant plain,
I heard a loud voice
speaking
from afar,
"How lost in these lone woods his footsteps are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Death, his stern arm already rear'd to slay,
As
thunders
angry heaven or lions roar,
Pursues my life that vainly flies before,
While I with terror shake, and mute obey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Farm hands from the terraces of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny
Appleseed
laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
| 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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Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau,
The apostle of affliction, he who threw
Enchantment
over passion, and from woe
Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew
The breath which made him wretched; yet he knew
How to make madness beautiful, and cast
O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue
Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past
The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
| 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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For Salamon, ful wel I woot,
In his
Parables
us wroot, 6530
As it is knowe of many a wight,
In his [thrittethe] chapitre right:
"God, thou me kepe, for thy poustee,
Fro richesse and mendicitee;
For if a riche man him dresse 6535
To thenke to moche on [his] richesse,
His herte on that so fer is set,
That he his creatour foryet;
And him, that [begging] wol ay greve,
How shulde I by his word him leve?
| 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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To print our poems, the
propulsive
cause
Is fame--the breath of popular applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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His mightie armour, missing most at need;
His silver shield, now idle maisterlesse;
His poynant speare, that many made to bleed,
The rueful
moniments?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Educated
early at Court in the service of the great;
experienced in the ways of the world; sharpened by study; in
poetry, he is more famous than anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Beautiful
eagle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But the robin might have said,
"To the
farthest
West he has followed the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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A robin
flashing
in a rowan-tree,
A wanton robin, spills his melody
As if he had such store of golden tones
That they were no more worth to him than stones:
The sunny lizards dream upon the ledges:
Linnets titter in and out the hedges,
Or swoop among the freckled butterflies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
His proud stallions that previously appeared
Nobly obeying his voice, and full of ardour,
With grieving eyes and with lowered brow, 1505
Seemed
responsive
to his sad thoughts, now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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They came nearer and nearer, and
Hanrahan
saw that they also
were lovers, and that they had heart-shaped mirrors instead of hearts,
and they were looking and ever looking on their own faces in one
another's mirrors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add
something
more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And
where the dew lies on the primrose, the violet and whitethorn leaves
they are emerald and beryl, yet nothing more than the dews of the
morning on the budding leaves; nay, the road grasses are covered with
gold and silver beads, and the further we go the
brighter
they seem to
shine, like solid gold and silver.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And now these clothes, that wrapped Him, take
And keep them precious, for his sake;
Our
benediction
thus we make,
Naught else have we to give.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Terrified & drinking tears of woe
Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights
Sleepless
her food was tears
Wondring she saw her woof begin to animate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Any alternate format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
10 Ritual and music, sometimes particularly
involving
ceremonial robes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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In vain his thund'ring coursers shake the ground,
Cambaya
bleeding
of his might's last wound
Sinks pale in dust: fierce Hydal-Kan[624] in vain
Wakes war on war; he bites his iron chain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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21 "Two
articles
of" changed to "Two articles on"
p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Any alternate format must include
the full Project Gutenberg(TM) License as specified in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
It was wont to be
faithful
to me; but shaken
with age now, and sloth, which weakens the strongest abilities, it may
perform somewhat, but cannot promise much.
| 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 |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The sun turns north, the days grow long,
Later the evening star grows bright--
How can the
daylight
linger on
For men to fight,
Still fight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Sing, hey my braw John
Highlandman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Why laugh'st thou not
thereat?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the
changing
breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks pricking us more than a cobbler's awl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
When the pony was ready, I stood at his
head
prepared
to mount and dash out as soon as the dog should again lift
up his voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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In an island 216 of the ocean stands a sacred and unviolated grove, in which is a consecrated chariot, covered with a veil, which the priest alone is
permitted
to touch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
And whoever walks along there
Stops short and sees,
By the moist tree-roots
In a
clearing
of the trees,
Yellow great battalions of them,
Blowing in the breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
[31] Practically a
quotation
from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
exclaimed
the Soudan, "welcome light, all hail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The
watchful
night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The uninformed mob may swell a nation's bulk; and the titled, tinsel,
courtly throng, may be its feathered ornament; but the number of those
who are elevated enough in life to reason and to reflect; yet low
enough to keep clear of the venal
contagion
of a court!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
And yet thou shalt not fear me
wronging
thee:
Tell me, O thou Despair, whither thou goest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and
faithless
as a smile and shake of the hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
8071 (T), in quo
inscriptum
est _Epithalamium
Catulli_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Gentlemen
and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat in my
shirt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Title: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Author:
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
Release Date: January 13, 2015 [eBook #2002]
[This file was first posted on April 20, 1999]
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE***
Transcribed from the 1906 Caradoc Press edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Does it not seem that
everything
is extravagance in the world,
or rather madness, when you watch the way things go?
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Aristophanes |
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And I said, "I will seek that city and the
blessedness
thereof.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And while In wrath to
vengeful
fiends she cries,
How from their hell would vengeful fiends arise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Thence they might easily pass by means of commercial
intercourse
to the neighboring Germans.
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Tacitus |
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But when the order came Po was already dead, having reached
the age of
somewhat
over sixty.
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Li Po |
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He
scampered
to the bushes far away;
The shepherd called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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John Clare |
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Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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THROUGH the casement a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so
rejoiced
and keen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And when his pockets, chafing through the case,
Wore it quite out ere others took the place,
Right loath to be of company bereft
He kept the
fragments
while a bit was left.
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John Clare |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It might be in the end the
Almighty
is the best man for us all!
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Yeats |
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But should any dream of licence, there's a lesson may be read,
How 'twas wine that drove the Centaurs with the
Lapithae
to fight.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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