Thou lovedst me upon the Tree,--
Still me, hid by the
ponderous
stone,--
Me always,--me
Thy little one.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This was in the white of the year,
That was in the green,
Drifts were as
difficult
then to think
As daisies now to be seen.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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O Thou that knowest, let not my strong prayer
Be weaken'd in thy sight, because I love
The husband of
another!
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life
Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe,
And that which should
accompany
Old-Age,
As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends,
I must not looke to haue: but in their steed,
Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath
Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not.
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
| 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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* * * * *
WILFRID GIBSON
FIRE
In each black tile a mimic fire's aglow,
And in the hearthlight old mahogany,
Ripe with stored
sunshine
that in Mexico
Poured like gold wine into the living tree
Summer on summer through a century,
Burns like a crater in the heart of night:
And all familiar things in the ingle-light
Glow with a secret strange intensity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And have you not done me the most deadly injury by
seeking to banish me from every
country?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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XXVI
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Lo, we
seafarers
say our will,
far-come men, that we fain would seek
Hygelac now.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Polygnotus and
Aglaophon
were
ancienter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You remember,--or
If not, your son does,--that the locks were changed
Beneath _his_ chief inspection on the morn
Which led to this same night: how he had entered
He best knows--but within an antechamber, 330
The door of which was half ajar, I saw
A man who washed his bloody hands, and oft
With stern and anxious glance gazed back upon--
The
bleeding
body--but it moved no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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You must not hastily
To such
conclusions
jump.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When evening
quickens
faintly in the street,
Wakening the appetites of life in some
And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Let me tell you, my friends, the whole
question
depends
On an ancient manorial right.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
V
Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:
I entertain no base, insolent
thoughts
about you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
_S_, and
Chambers
ignored it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
SYMBOLS
From infinite longings finite deeds rise
As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And
trembling
from their lack of power descend--
So through the falling torrent of our fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
'
"Thus he: the beeves around
securely
stray,
When swift to ruin they invade the prey;
They seize, they kill!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung arranged in
chronological
order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
When I stand where
half a dozen large elms droop over a house, it is as if I stood within
a ripe pumpkin-rind, and I feel as mellow as if I were the pulp,
though I may be
somewhat
stringy and seedy withal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
5
itaque ut relicta sensit sibi membra sine uiro,
etiam recente terrae sola sanguine maculans,
niueis citata cepit manibus leue typanum,
typanum, tubam Cybelles, tua, mater, initia,
quatiensque terga taurei teneris caua digitis, 10
canere haec suis adorta est
tremebunda
comitibus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
188:
The
conjurer
cozened him with a candle's end; he was an ass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Love's thorny tapers yet
neglected
lie:
Speak thou the word, they'll kindle by-and-bye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing
thrushes
the green boughs droop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
the
mightiest
of our young men was born under a star in the
midwinter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
]
ne forein causes
necesseden
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the
times when it lay in
covering
waters and gases, before man had
appeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
_
Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain
That frowned on the river below,
As we stood by our guns in the morning,
And eagerly watched for the foe;
When a rider came out of the darkness
That hung over
mountain
and tree,
And shouted, "Boys, up and be ready!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The Gnomes or Daemons of Earth
delight in mischief; but the Sylphs whose
habitation
is in the Air, are
the best-condition'd creatures imaginable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in a
poem with which Pope was
familiar
('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), and
from which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Let us fare on, dead friend, O deathless friend,
Where under his old hat as green as moss
The hedger chops and finds new gaps to mend,
And on his
bonfires
burns the thorns and dross,
And hums a hymn, the best, thinks he, that ever was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Whether wandering in your course,
or tempest-driven (such perils
manifold
on the high seas do sailors
suffer), you have entered the river banks and lie in harbour; shun not
our welcome, and be not ignorant that the Latins are Saturn's people,
whom no laws fetter to justice, upright of their own free will and the
custom of the god of old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
impair the memory of that hour
Of thy
communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
It would have been obviously
improper
to mimic the manner of any
particular age or country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium
with your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his
threshold
drew--
I saw the solitary Ringdove there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
But I will surely love thee for ever
Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
Warbles, of Itys lost ever
bemoaning
the lot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
A narrow wind
complains
all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all true jewels
of majesty; others furnish them with feathers, bells, and ribands, and
are
therefore
esteemed the fitter servants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Nam præcipue quidem apud Ciceronem,
frequenter tamen apud Asinium etiam, et cæteros, qui sunt proximi,
vidimus ENNII, ACCII, PACUVII, TERENTII et aliorum inseri versus,
summâ non eruditionis modò gratiâ, sed etiam jucunditatis; cum
poeticis
voluptatibus
aures a forensi asperitate respirent, quibus
accedit non mediocris utilitas, cum sententiis eorum, velut quibusdam
testimoniis, quæ proposuere confirmant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Botte hann mie actyonns straughte[27] the rolle of fate,
Pyghte thee fromm Hell, or
broughte
Heaven down to thee, 60
Layde the whol worlde a falldstole atte thie feete,
On smyle woulde be suffycyll mede for mee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Or darest thou
Contend that never hath it come to pass
That divers strokes have
happened
at one time?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
But have we any right to reproduce, from an antiquarian motive, what--in
a literary sense--is either trivial, or feeble, or
sterile?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
3hj
Lemniaciim
temerant
vestigia nulla cubile,
Nee Veneris Mavors meminit, si Fraxinus absit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
De nos jours une pareille note ressemblerait
fort a une reclame deguisee:
<< Ce qui nous parait ici meriter l'interet, disait-elle, c'est
l'expression vive, curieuse, meme dans sa violence, de quelques
defaillances, de quelques douleurs morales, que, sans les partager ni
les discuter, on doit tenir a
connaitre
comme un des signes de notre
temps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Personne ne
comprend
personne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Donne |
|
--a similar tale
Told of a
beauteous
dame beyond the sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Or shall we every decency confound,
Through taverns, stews, and bagnios take our round,
Go dine with Chartres, in each vice out-do
K---l's lewd cargo, or Ty---y's crew,
From Latian Syrens, French Circean feasts,
Return well travelled, and
transformed
to beasts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Wide was the dragon's warring seen,
its fiendish fury far and near,
as the grim
destroyer
those Geatish people
hated and hounded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
I will not look upon the quickning Sun,
But
straight
her beauty to my sense shall run;
The ayre shall note her soft, the fire most pure; 75
Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Thou beauteous wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth
breathe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
8 ubi pro
_perdidit_
traditum est _per odit_ uel _reddidit
LII
Quid est, Catulle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
E come a messagger che porta ulivo
tragge la gente per udir novelle,
e di calcar nessun si mostra schivo,
cosi al viso mio s'affisar quelle
anime fortunate tutte quante,
quasi
obliando
d'ire a farsi belle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
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 |
|
Who is here so vile that will not love his
country?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
It says much
for the genius of Morris that _Sigurd the Volsung_, with all these
faults, is not to be condemned; that, on the contrary, to read it is
rather a great than a tiresome experience; and not only because the
faults are relieved, here and there, by exquisite beauties and
dignities, indeed by
incomparable
lines, but because the poem as a whole
does, as it goes on, accumulate an immense pressure of significance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
THIS servant girl now
hastened
to the fair,
And ev'ry circumstance detailed with care.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's
simultaneous
sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The last day of her stay at Lucknow came, and
Hannasyde
saw her off
at the Railway Station.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee shall home, or food, or pastime yield.
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Robert Burns |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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I then considered myself amply justified
in resorting to that heroick treatment the felicity of which, as applied
by the great Bentley to Milton, had long ago
enlisted
my admiration.
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Arbor ut
indpmitos
ornet vix una labores,
Tempora nee foliis praecingat tota malignis ;
Dum simul implexi, tranquillae ad serta quietis,
Omnigeni coeunt flores, integraque sylva.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And now the
glorious
artist, ere he yet 370
Had reach'd the Lemnian isle, limping, return'd
From his feign'd journey, for his spy the sun
Had told him all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
proceedings of Sin and Death; God
foretels
the final Victory of his Son
over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands
his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements.
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Milton |
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ALTER BAUER:
Furwahr, es ist sehr wohl getan,
Dass Ihr am frohen Tag erscheint;
Habt Ihr es vormals doch mit uns
An bosen Tagen gut
gemeint!
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Children, ye heard his
promise?
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I wot my-self as wel as any wight; 220
For I loved oon with al my herte and might
More then my-self, an hundred
thousand
sythe,
And called him my hertes lyf, my knight,
And was al his, as fer as hit was right;
And whan that he was glad, than was I blythe, 225
And his disese was my deeth as swythe;
And he ayein his trouthe me had plight
For ever-more, his lady me to kythe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I looked on the eyes of fair woman too long,
Till silence and shame stole the use of my tongue:
When I tried to speak to her I'd nothing to say,
So I turned myself round and she
wandered
away.
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