High afar
The Latmian saw them minish into nought;
And, when all were clear vanish'd, still he caught
A vivid lightning from that
dreadful
bow.
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully
human, that cries from the darkening valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then the
henchman
-- he that smote Hamish -- would tremble and lag;
"Strike, hard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
" The Romans of the age of
Cincinatus
were
probably quite as credulous as the Spanish subjects of Charles
the Fifth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
1080
Ele vausist a ung prodomme
Miex que
trestous
li ors de Romme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
In 804 on the death of his father, and again in 811 on the death of his
mother, he spent periods of
retirement
on the Wei river near Ch'ang-an.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet
harmonious
voice
Like a murmuring stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Und steigen
freundlich
blickend
Ewige Sterne nicht herauf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My darkest moods will always clear
When I can fancy
children
near,
With rosy lips a-laughing--dear,
Light-dancing band!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
But when I look again,
It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine,
Thy habitation from
eternity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
When
wasteful
war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
In Raetia and the Gallic provinces some
centurions and men carrying letters and edicts from Vespasian were
taken
prisoners
and sent to Vitellius, who had them executed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Planks on trestles -- the "board" of later English
literature
--
formed the tables just in front of the long rows of seats, and were
taken away after banquets, when the retainers were ready to stretch
themselves out for sleep on the benches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet;
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak the gate,
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An' getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like
gathering
storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE
UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH
Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things;
The breath of heaven bore up thy cloudy wings,
And, patient in their triple rank,
The thunders
crouched
about thy flank,
Their black lips silent with the doom of kings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The population of Rome was, from a very early
period, divided into hereditary castes, which, indeed, readily
united to repel foreign enemies, but which
regarded
each other,
during many years, with bitter animosity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Look for no respite from that agony
Until some other deity be found,
Ready to bear for thee the brunt of doom,
Choosing
to pass into the lampless world
Of Hades and the murky depths of hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
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methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Much too of music was his thought;
The melodies and measures fraught
With
sunshine
and the open air,
Of vineyards and the singing sea
Of his beloved Sicily;
And much it pleased him to peruse
The songs of the Sicilian muse,--
Bucolic songs by Meli sung
In the familiar peasant tongue,
That made men say, "Behold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
King Olaf had sent her this wedding gift,
But her
thoughts
as arrows were keen and swift.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
You are afraid I shall grow intoxicated with my
prosperity
as a poet;
alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Men ruled, but ruled in vain; since wretchedness
Of soul and body, for the mass of men,
Made them like dead leaves in an idle drift
Around the plough of progress as it drove
Sharp through the glebe of modern days, to plant
A
civilized
world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Yes, that goodness
Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,
Into your own hands, Cardinal, by extortion;
The goodness of your
intercepted
packets
You writ to th' Pope against the King; your goodness,
Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
5
Blow again
trumpeter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
XII
"If Fortune's care I was not, who denied
To me upon my birth a wealthy boon,
Nature that went with
graceful
form supplied;
So that in beauty rival had I none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Else
wherefore
sex?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The last
relation
I shall give, though equally true, is not so well
identified as the two former, with regard to the scene; but as the
best authorities give it for Alloway, I shall relate it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
What Eden but noon-light stares it tame,
Shadowless, brazen,
forsaken
of shame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Or, turning to the Vatican, go see
Laocoon's torture dignifying pain--
A father's love and mortal's agony
With an immortal's
patience
blending:--Vain
The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain
And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp,
The old man's clench; the long envenomed chain
Rivets the living links,--the enormous asp
Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
_
TO STEFANO COLONNA THE ELDER,
INVITING
HIM TO THE COUNTRY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
O sacred light
eternal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
e kny3t totes,
Sir Wawen her
welcumed
wor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Then grave Clarissa
graceful
wav'd her fan;
Silence ensu'd, and thus the nymph began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
]
MADAM,
Permit me to present you with the
enclosed
song as a small though
grateful tribute for the honour of your acquaintance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
4 the
traveler
has come back across a thousand leagues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Among these
tempests
great and manifold, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
[7]
It seems the art of one who walked through the world of things endowed
with the senses of a god, and able, with that perfection of effort that
looks as if it were effortless, to fashion his
experience
into
incorruptible song; whether it be the dance of flies round a byre at
milking-time, or a forest-fire on the mountains at night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Courthope qualifies this statement somewhat on the next
page: 'From this spirit of cynical lawlessness he was
perhaps
reclaimed
by genuine love,' &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
_The old woman comes in
burdened
with her sack_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Transports, at once my
punishment
and prize!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Act IV Scene VI (Phaedra, Oenone)
Phaedra
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have
learned?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
I
threw myself
passionately
back in my chair, and for some moments buried
my face in my hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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en he keuere3 bi a cragge, & come3 of a hole,
Whyrlande
out of a wro, wyth a felle weppen,
[F] A dene3 ax nwe dy3t, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Saveliitch exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to
himself!
| 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
SZECHWAN
ROAD
Eheu!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
This
thoughtful
and
responsible man initiated the journal with an essay of his own,
explaining how forms of entertainment are actually at the same time our
primary modes of education.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
CXXXVIII
"Form, site, and sumptuous work doth he behold,
And royal ornament and fair device;
And oft repeats, not all this wide world's gold
To buy the
egregious
mansion wound suffice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The rumour of our onward course now brings
A steady rustle, as of some strange ship
Darkling with
soundless
sail all set and amply filled
By volume of an ever-constant air,
At fullest night, through seas for ever calm,
Swept lovely and unknown for ever on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
ye
Who scorn whatever actual appears;
Saints, satyrs, seekers of Infinity,
So full of cries, so full of bitter tears;
Te whom my soul has
followed
into hell,
I love and pity, O sad sisters mine,
Tour thirsts unquenched, your pains no tongue can tell,
And your great hearts, those urns of love divine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,
Rebounds
our heavier hail
From each iron scale
Of the monster's hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Who or what Durga Charan
was, Trejago never inquired; and why in the world he was not discovered
and knifed never
occurred
to him till his madness was over, and Bisesa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
A union then of honest men,
Or union
nevermore
again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts, murmuring with the bees:
And our blood,
enamoured
of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Yet then did
_Gildon_
draw his venal quill;--
I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
You know
yourself
how easy it would be
For the flood tide to carry them to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
He laughed--the
gauntlet
trembled at his stroke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The lustres of the chandelier are bright, and
clusters
of rubies leap in
the bohemian glasses on the _étagère_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
'
Sed te iam ferre
Herculei
labos est.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Why weaves she not her world-webs to
according
lutes and tabors,
With nevermore this too remorseful air upon her face,
As of angel fallen from grace?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
_
To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,
On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost
isles are free;
And the
furthermost
isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill,
Breaker and beach cry, each to each, "'Tis the Mother who
calls!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
And when at Eve the
unpitying
sun
Smiled grimly on the solemn fun,
"Alack," he sighed, "what _have_ I done?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And so many
children
poor?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
But the poetess occupies a place
of considerable importance in the first four centuries of our era,
though the classical period (T'ang and Sung)
produced
no great woman
writer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in
Macbeths
place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
What he means is probably that at
Court pity, which
elsewhere
is a virtue, may not be so if it induces a
lady to lend a relenting ear to the complaint of a lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
mallit_
GRVen a
2
_Catule_
R
4 _notorum_ O: _not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
GRETCHEN
(heraustretend):
Wer liegt hier?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
|| _haec_ O ||
_libelli
al.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Now is ther litel more for to doone,
But Pandare up, and shortly for to seyne,
Right sone upon the chaunging of the mone,
Whan lightles is the world a night or tweyne, 550
And that the welken shoop him for to reyne,
He
streight
a-morwe un-to his nece wente;
Ye han wel herd the fyn of his entente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Gunga Dass clutched the coins, and
hid them at once in his ragged loin cloth, his
expression
changing to
something diabolical as he looked round to assure himself that no one
had observed us.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a
separable
spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of shipwreck or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid
imagination
by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"Some
dialects
are objected to--
For one, the _Irish_ brogue is:
And then, for all you have to do,
One pound a week they offer you,
And find yourself in Bogies!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Or the
attraction
of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations
and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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sicine discedens neglecto numine diuum,
immemor a deuota domum
periuria
portas?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And all the more since he was wont to give,
Concerning the immortal gods themselves,
Many
pronouncements
with a tongue divine,
And to unfold by his pronouncements all
The nature of the world.
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Lucretius |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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The time is come, when yon
despairing
host
Shall learn the value of the man they lost:
Now at my knees the Greeks shall pour their moan,
And proud Atrides tremble on his throne.
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Iliad - Pope |
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(Enter
Politian
and Baldazzar.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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