And
stretches
still so closely wedged,
As if the night within were hedged.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Come: let me seek
elsewhere
some means of address,
By which I might move my father's tenderness,
And speak to him of a love he may oppose,
But which all his power knows no way to depose.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Our
composition
must
be more accurate in the beginning and end than in the midst, and in the
end more than in the beginning; for through the midst the stream bears
us.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Oh, sharper tangs pierced through this
perfumed
May.
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Or haue we eaten on the insane Root,
That takes the Reason
Prisoner?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Speaking to clouds and playing with the wind,
With joy he sings the sad Way of the Rood;
His
shadowing
pilgrim spirit weeps behind
To see him gay as birds are in the wood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
]
"Have you prayed tonight,
Desdemona?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Now, then,
Since nature of mind is movable so much,
Consist it must of seeds
exceeding
small
And smooth and round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hor ich
Rauschen?
| 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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The newly recovered section of the epic
contains
two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with subjects for
seals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No
brimming
tankards flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
VI
They crossed the hills; they came to where
Through an arid gloom the river Chaudiere
Fled like a Maenad with
outstreaming
hair;
And there the soldier sank, and died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Jia Zhi, Dawn Court at Daming Palace, for My Colleagues in the Two Ministries Silver candles scent the heavens,
stretching
along on purple streets, colors of spring in the Forbidden City, lush in the morning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Shivering
they sit on leafless bush, or frozen stone
Wearied with seeking food across the snowy waste; the little
Heart, cold; and the little tongue consum'd, that once in thoughtless joy
Gave songs of gratitude to [[the]]waving corn fields round their nest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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'
But nedes day departe moste hem sone,
And whanne hir speche doon was and hir chere, 1710
They twinne anoon as they were wont to done,
And setten tyme of meting eft y-fere;
And many a night they
wroughte
in this manere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Can I punish the father of
Chimene?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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You know very well
he is on the roll of the
Semenofsky
regiment.
| 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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--it
flickers
up the sky through the night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Though time shall be no more, yet space shall give
A nobler theatre to love and live
The winged courier then no more shall claim
The power to sink or raise the notes of Fame,
Or give its glories to the
noontide
ray:
True merit then, in everlasting day,
Shall shine for ever, as at first it shone
At once to God and man and angels known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Come, tell me
everything
in detail;
what a long journey would I not be ready to take to hear your tale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Like a priest from whom one has torn
his divinity, I could not, without heartbreaking bitterness, leave this
so monstrously seductive ocean, this sea so infinitely various in its
terrifying simplicity, which seemed to contain in itself and represent
by its joys, and attractions, and angers, and smiles, the moods and
agonies and
ecstasies
of all souls that have lived, that live, and that
shall yet live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Who
would not praise thee for these thy gifts in thy
goodness
to the sons
of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
"Wake," call the spirits:
But to heedless ears;
They have
forgotten
sorrows
And hopes and fears;
They have forgotten perils
And smiles and tears;
Their dream has held them long,
Long years and years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Page 54
324
Atte
seuentene
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
_"
I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when,
And still my delight is in proper young men;
Some one of a troop of
dragoons
was my daddie,
No wonder I'm fond of a sodger laddie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Yea, here the end
Of love's
astonishment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
53-4) Donne writes:
though such a life wee have
As but so many
mandrakes
on his grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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But who is he,
My terrible
antagonist?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Unless incidentally, it has no concern
whatever
either with Duty or with
Truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Bēowulf
maðelode, bearn Ecgþēowes:
"Hwæt!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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UNA
Roving, roving, as it seems,
Una lights my clouded dreams;
Still for
journeys
she is dressed;
We wander far by east and west.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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It will not be much less than 9000 lines,--not hundred
but
thousand
lines long,--an alarming length!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Coleridge, who was so often his own best
critic,
especially
when the criticism was to remain inactive, wrote on an
autograph copy of this poem now belonging to Professor Dowden: "N.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Horace here pleads
the Cause of his Contemporaries, first against the Taste of the Town,
whose humour it was to magnify the Authors of the
preceding
Age; secondly
against the Court and Nobility, who encouraged only the Writers for the
Theatre; and lastly against the Emperor himself, who had conceived them
of little Use to the Government.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Waves were welling, the
warriors
saw,
hot with blood; but the horn sang oft
battle-song bold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Plagiarisms from modern authors may in some cases have been
introduced by
Chatterton
but in others they are the commonplaces of
poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Gosse conjectures that the person
addressed
is Edward Guilpin, or
Gilpin, author of _Skialetheia_ (1598), a collection of epigrams and
satires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Dost lawless
passions
grasp?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas,
miserable
heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
You know
I do not commonly speak in such abrupt and unmingled phrases, and
therefore
will the more readily believe me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And all these four be fools, but mighty men,
And
therefore
am I come for Lancelot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
How durst thou vaunt thy watery
progeny?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Then, as a falcon from the rocky height,
Her quarry seen,
impetuous
at the sight,
Forth-springing instant, darts herself from high,
Shoots on the wing, and skims along the sky:
Such, and so swift, the power of ocean flew;
The wide horizon shut him from their view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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DELACROIX, lake of blood ill angels haunt,
Where ever-green, o'ershadowing woods arise;
Under the surly heaven strange fanfares chaunt
And pass, like one of Weber's
strangled
sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
"There's nothing for it but to rise and go to the door,"
And in his
comfortable
seat he groans and sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Lady so graced,
All
acclaimed
and have praised
Your worth with pleasure freighted;
Who forgets, instead,
May as well be dead,
I adore, you, the ever-exalted;
Since you have the kindest head,
And are best, and the worthiest bred,
I've flattered
I've served
More truly than Erec Enida.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Behold, on the lakes, thy pilots at their wheels, thy oarsmen,
How the ash writhes under those
muscular
arms!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
CHORUS
By grace of the gods we hold it,
a city untamed of the spear,
And the
battlement
wards from the wall
the foe and his aspect of fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
'14'
At this time the
gentlemen
always sat in the side boxes of the theater;
the ladies in the front boxes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Our hearts are turning home again and there we long to be,
In our beautiful big country beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of
sunlight
and the flag is full of stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the
quaystones
with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To sacrifice to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Alfred Prufrock
S'io
credesse
che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
III
Eftsoones he tooke that miscreated faire,
And that false other Spright, on whom he spred 20
A seeming body of the subtile aire,
Like a young Squire, in loves and lustybed
His wanton dayes that ever loosely led,
Without regard of armes and dreaded fight:
Those two he tooke, and in a secret bed, 25
Coverd with darknesse and
misdeeming
night,
Them both together laid, to joy in vaine delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
So to the palace and its gilded dome
With stately steps
unchallenged
did he roam;
He enters it--within those walls he leapt!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
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 |
|
Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
"]
When biting Boreas, fell and doure,
Sharp shivers thro' the
leafless
bow'r;
When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r
Far south the lift,
Dim-darkening through the flaky show'r,
Or whirling drift:
Ae night the storm the steeples rocked,
Poor labour sweet in sleep was locked,
While burns, wi' snawy wreeths up-choked,
Wild-eddying swirl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The
book was entered in the Stationers' Register to Beniamin Fisher and
Richard Redmer on the 30th of September, 1631, and was issued with a
dedicatory letter by Redmer to his sister 'M^{rs}
Elizabeth
Francis of
Brumsted in Norff' and a note 'To the Reader' signed 'R'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
All my lamps burn scented oil,
Hung on laden orange-trees,
Whose
shadowed
foliage is the foil
To golden lamps and oranges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Vengeance
I gat, but there's no treason proved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
For thee is
laughing
Nature gay,
For thee she pours the vernal day;
For me in vain is Nature drest,
While Joy's a stranger to my breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
A Pretty Boy_
DVM dubitat natura marem
faceretne
puellam,
factus es, o pulcher, paene puella, puer.
| 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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Winds blow south, or winds blow north,
Day come white, or night come black,
Home, or rivers and
mountains
from home,
Singing all time, minding no time,
While we two keep together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
O Hymen Hymenaeus io, 140
O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And
soundest
casuists doubt, like you and me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
"
Swiftly,
steadily
the day approached us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Ch'u P'ing's[30] prose and verse
Hang like the sun and moon;[31]
The king of Ch'u's arbours and towers
Are only
hummocks
in the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Will ye gang down the water-side,
And see the waves sae sweetly glide
Beneath the hazels
spreading
wide,
The moon it shines fu' clearly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Can tell by tongue, or True-love tie;
Next, when those lawny films I see
Play with a wild civility;
And all those airy silks to flow,
Alluring me, and
tempting
so--
I must confess, mine eye and heart
Dotes less on nature than on art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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How now,
wretched
man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Thank
goodness
I shall at last get all the sleep I want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And hence something constrained and
artificial
blends with
the freshness of the Elizabethan literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
I do my part, for I meet him halfway and proclaim his adventures
Praising
his name in advance, even before he's begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Air from deep in her breast
penetrates
mine and there burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
XIV
Hesperus,
bringing
together
All that the morning star scattered,--
Sheep to be folded in twilight,
Children for mothers to fondle,--
Me too will bring to the dearest, 5
Tenderest breast in all Lesbos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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by Brander Matthews (Editor)
Copyright laws are
changing
all over the world.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Come: let me seek
elsewhere
some means of address,
By which I might move my father's tenderness,
And speak to him of a love he may oppose,
But which all his power knows no way to depose.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Your father's form recall,
Now
darkened
by his sombre shade, now gilt
By beams that wandering fall.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[To
discover
the names in this and the following poem read the first
letter of the first line in connection with the second letter of the
second line, the third letter of the third line, the fourth of the
fourth and so on to the end.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When the flesh that
nourished
us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God absolves us all.
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Villon |
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org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means
of obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its
original
"Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
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Yeats |
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Westmoreland,
etymology
of, 6.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e sauynge of 2944
obedient
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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His bloude at this was waxen
flaminge
hotte,
Without adoe he turned once agayne,
And hytt de Griel thilk a blowe, God wote,
Maugre hys helme, he splete his hede in twayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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