In common
politeness
I--We have got beyond that!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Aiken was consulted, and in
consequence of his advice, the certificate of
marriage
was destroyed.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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----
From an
anthology
of verse by Jessie B.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Like the tolling bell
Of a convent curst;
Like the billowy roar
On a storm-lashed shore,--
Now hushed, but once more
Maddening
to its worst.
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Hugo - Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite
intelligible
to the ordinary reader.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus originally did not know
his guest, and received not so much the reward of
exceptional
virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
that which happens to the eyes when we behold a body, the same happens to
the memory when we
contemplate
an action.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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| Answer: |
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Longfellow |
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[183]
And whose more rife with
merriment
than thine,
Oh Stamboul!
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Phaedra
Noble, glittering creator of a sad family,
You, whose
daughter
my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Those grand,
majestic
pines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
It is but
nineteen hundred feet above the village of Princeton, and three
thousand above the level of the sea; but by this slight elevation it
is infinitely removed from the plain, and when we reached it we felt a
sense of remoteness, as if we had
traveled
into distant regions, to
Arabia Petraea, or the farthest East.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women,
Alcmaeon
in Psophis, Telephus and
Alcestis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
* * * *
Like Maia's son he stood,
And shook his plumes, that
heavenly
fragrance fill'd
The circuit wide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Day after day, though no one sees,
The lonely place no different seems;
The trees, the stack, still images
Constant
in who can say whose dreams?
| 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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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
they
Who laugh and name you a Caricature,
They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure,
The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone
That is most dear to me, tall
skeleton!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
It
strongly
advised that the Butcher should be
Conveyed in a separate ship:
But the Bellman declared that would never agree
With the plans he had made for the trip:
[Illustration: "THE BEAVER KEPT LOOKING THE OPPOSITE WAY"]
Navigation was always a difficult art,
Though with only one ship and one bell:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
Undertaking another as well.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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[The charm which
Dumfries
threw over the poet, seems to have dissolved
like a spell, when he sat down in Ellisland: he spoke, for a time,
with little respect of either place or people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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quotiens uitae custos inuisus amarae
continuit
promptas in mea fata manus!
| 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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A
princely
lodging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Again, I've taught thee that the clouds bear off
Much
moisture
too, up-taken from the reaches
Of the mighty main, and sprinkle it about
O'er all the zones, when rain is on the lands
And winds convey the aery racks of vapour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our
faltering
few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
430
His waking a
continual
dread of Death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
This did ye expect,
When in simplicity ye wrote
Your innocent and
charming
note
With so much warmth and intellect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
HOUSE OF VISHNEVETSKY
The PRETENDER and a
CATHOLIC
PRIEST
PRETENDER.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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3
_siccine
subrec_(_rep_ OVen Laur.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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God Neptune's
palaces!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
With joy
And tidings fraught, to Hell he now return'd,
And at the brink of Chaos, neer the foot
Of this new
wondrous
Pontifice, unhop't
Met who to meet him came, his Ofspring dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
O
helpless
soul of me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
After walking up and down awhile in my
little room, I
suddenly
stopped short before him, and said to him,
angrily--
"It seems that it did not satisfy you that, thanks to you, I've been
wounded and at death's door, but that you must also want to kill my
mother as well.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
CVII
He then new counsel took, and 'twas the best,
With other arms the monster to pursue;
And lifting from his shield the
covering
vest,
To dazzle with the light his blasted view.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Diaphenia
like the daffadowndilly,
White as the sun, fair as the lily,
Heigh ho, how do I love thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Then to the dance they form the vocal strain,
Till Hesperus leads forth the starry train;
And now he raises, as the daylight fades,
His golden circlet in the deepening shades:
Three vases heap'd with copious fires display
O'er all the palace a fictitious day;
From space to space the torch wide-beaming burns,
And
sprightly
damsels trim the rays by turns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray trickles from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The
threatening
billow on the deep
Obedient lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Tho
sodeinly
doun from his hors he sterte, 200
And thorugh his paleys, with a swollen herte,
To chambre he wente; of no-thing took he hede,
Ne noon to him dar speke a word for drede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
What make you, master,
fumbling
at the oar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
If not, then woe
To the
miscreant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
The pass was steep and rugged,
The wolves they howled and whined;
But he ran like a
whirlwind
up the pass,
And he left the wolves behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
'
"Thrice in my arms I strove her shade to bind,
Thrice through my arms she slipp'd like empty wind,
Or dreams, the vain
illusions
of the mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
How cordial is the
mystery!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Once more, if Nature
Should of a sudden send a voice abroad,
And her own self inveigh against us so:
"Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou indulgest in too sickly
plaints?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
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of this work.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Chalaundres
fele saw I there,
That wery, nigh forsongen were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
It held three persons;
and he was often seen on the Arno in it, to the horror of the Italians,
who
remonstrated
on the danger, and could not understand how anyone
could take pleasure in an exercise that risked life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
You see, I too
sometimes
know how
to make puns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
10
quin tu animo
offirmas
atque istinc te ipse reducis,
et dis inuitis desinis esse miser?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of
mountain
and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
oft I talk to thee
For thou art worthy,
Thou
unassuming
commonplace
Of Nature, with that homely face,
And yet with something of a grace,
Which love makes for thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
They weep:--from off their
delicate
stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Western beams follow flowing water;
Stir a ripple in
wandering
person's mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
[33]
Down through stones, through mosses flowing,
See the brook and
brooklet
springing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
You've seen
balloons
set, haven't you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
What pressure from the hands that
lifeless
lie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
neither base by birth thou seem'st,
Nor unintelligent, (but Jove, the King
Olympian, gives to good and bad alike
Prosperity
according
to his will,
And grief to thee, which thou must patient bear,)
Now, therefore, at our land and city arrived,
Nor garment thou shalt want, nor aught beside
Due to a suppliant guest like thee forlorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
My father, Andrej
Petrovitch
Grineff, after serving in his youth under
Count Munich,[1] had retired in 17--with the rank of senior major.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
I will not defend this
blasphemous speech; but often, as I have glided with humble stealth
through the pomp of Princes' street, it has suggested itself to me, as
an improvement on the present human figure, that a man in proportion
to his own conceit of his
consequence
in the world, could have pushed
out the longitude of his common size, as a snail pushes out his horns,
or, as we draw out a perspective.
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Robert Burns |
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' Matthew Arnold has said that if he were asked
'where English got its turn for
melancholy
and its turn for natural
magic,' he 'would answer with little doubt that it got much of its
melancholy from a Celtic source, with no doubt at all that from a
Celtic source is got nearly all its natural magic.
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Yeats |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O strange and sad and fatal thing,
When, in the rich man's gorgeous hall,
The huge fire on the hearth doth fling
A light on some great festival,
To see the
drunkard
smile in state,
In purple wrapt, with myrtle crowned,
While Jesus lieth at the gate
With only rags to wrap him round.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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1782
Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
Though fickle Fortune has
deceived
me,
She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill;
Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me,
Yet I bear a heart shall support me still.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Dreaming
when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And I made great
provision
for my journey.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What figure more immovably august
Than that grave strength so patient and so pure,
Calm in good fortune, when it wavered, sure,
That mind serene,
impenetrably
just,
Modelled on classic lines so simple they endure?
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James Russell Lowell |
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While the late snow blew from bleak Lake Erie,
Scourging
rock and river and reed,
All night long they made great medicine
For Jonathan Chapman,
Johnny Appleseed,
Johnny Appleseed;
And as though his heart were a wind-blown wheat-sheaf,
As though his heart were a new-built nest,
As though their heaven house were his breast,
In swept the snow-birds singing glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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High on a mountain's highest ridge,
Where oft the stormy winter gale
Cuts like a scythe, while through the clouds
It sweeps from vale to vale;
Not five yards from the mountain-path,
This thorn you on your left espy;
And to the left, three yards beyond,
You see a little muddy pond
Of water, never dry;
I've
measured
it from side to side:
'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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