Touching
those letters, sir,
Your son made mention of--your son, is he not?
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Poe - 5 |
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Now a
faintness
falls on the men that run, and they all stand still.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Alexius was sett to boke,
To gode
maistres
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Der Trodel, der mit
tausendfachem
Tand
In dieser Mottenwelt mich dranget?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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FOLLY OF THE FEAR OF DEATH
Therefore
death to us
Is nothing, nor concerns us in the least,
Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Our
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Oneguine's speeches I abhorred
At first, but soon became inured
To the sarcastic observation,
To witticisms and taunts half-vicious
And gloomy
epigrams
malicious.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| 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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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Whan hit was vij yere olde and more,
hys
freendys
sett hym wnto lore; 46
he was sone Full goode of wytt,
And wnderstode the holy wryte;
he loued god in all his thought, 49
And of thys worllde gaffe he nought;
he sawe thys worllde was butt gylle,
for hit showld laste but a whyle;
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52
neuerthe les whan he was elde,
lone and felde For to wellde,
hys fader puruyde hym a wyffe, 55
Wit whome he soulde led hys lyffe;
A mayden there was fayre and Fre,
Com of ?
| 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 |
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"
"He was
interfering
with me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I kenne thee, Magnus, welle; a wyghte thou art
That doest aslee alonge ynn doled dystresse,
Strynge bulle yn boddie,
lyoncelle
yn harte, 505
I almost wysche thie prowes were made lesse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Come balestro frange, quando scocca
da troppa tesa, la sua corda e l'arco,
e con men foga l'asta il segno tocca,
si scoppia' io sottesso grave carco,
fuori
sgorgando
lagrime e sospiri,
e la voce allento per lo suo varco.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
representation
of Venus drawn in a chariot by swans
and doves, the birds sacred to her, may have been common enough.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LXXVIII
Once in the shining street,
In the heart of a
seaboard
town,
As I waited, behold, there came
The woman I loved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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With fire, with such indignant fire as pride
Yields, when it must destroy itself to feel
The power of the world touch it with
humbling
flame,--
With such a fire, whose heat you know not of,
Have I assayed this--notion, didst thou say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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As turns, as flies, the woodman
In the
Calabrian
brake,
When through the reeds gleams the round eye
Of that fell speckled snake;
So turned, so fled, false Sextus,
And hid him in the rear,
Behind the dark Lavinian ranks,
Bristling with crest and spear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
II
"O Time," replied the Lord,
"Thou read'st me ill, I ween;
Were all _the same_, I should not grieve
At that late earthly scene,
Now blestly past--though planned by me
With
interest
close and keen!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Patiently enduring,
Painfully
surrounded,
Listen how we love you,
Hope the uttermost!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Tell no one thou hast been with
Margery!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and
passionate
memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Bright spirit, from those earthly bonds released,
The loveliest ever wove in Nature's loom,
From thy bright skies
compassionate
the gloom
Shrouding my life that once of joy could taste!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Of the several theories which have been advanced to
account for their disappearance, the most plausible seems to be that which
represents them as having been burned at
Byzantium
in the year 380 Anno
Domini, by command of Gregory Nazianzen, in order that his own poems might
be studied in their stead and the morals of the people thereby improved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and
stallions
feeding!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Such an account he gave me of his
journey!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Such verse must inevitably
forfeit whatever
advantage
lies in the discipline of public criticism
and the enforced conformity to accepted ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
GEISTER (auf dem Gange):
Drinnen
gefangen
ist einer!
| 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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They'll never hear another bird,
Another gay or loving word--
Those men who lie so cold and lone,
Far in a country not their own;
Those men who died for you and me,
That England still might
sheltered
be
And all our lives go on the same
(Although to live is almost shame).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Fat Pierre with the hook gauche-main,
Thomas Larron "Ear-the-less," Tybalde and that armouress
Who gave this
poignard
its premier stain Pinning the Guise that had been fain
To make him a mate of the "Haulte Noblesse" And bade her be out with ill address
As a fool that mocketh his drue's disdeign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Thrice welcome to our
faithful
friends we came
From death escaped, but much they mourn'd the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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goddes hous in
Ierusalems
burgh?
| 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 |
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Nay, we are dull with joy:
Of thee we thought not, out of the hands of outrage
Coming back,
although
with victory coming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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not for wild beasts to roam
But many stood silent & busied in their families
And many said We see no Visions in the darksom air
Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the dismal darksom day
Set stations on this breeding Earth & let us buy & sell
Others arose & schools Erected forming
Instruments
To measure out the course of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen [kai
eskanosen
en -[h]amen]
[ [What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the Heavenly Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity] *{These lines, included in Erdman's transcription are unmistakably erased.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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3010
And
Bialacoil
me served wel,
Whan I so nygh me mighte fele
Of the botoun the swete odour,
And so lusty hewed of colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Et comme il savourait surtout les sombres choses,
Quand, dans la chambre nue aux persiennes closes,
Haute et bleue, acrement prise d'humidite,
Il lisait son roman sans cesse medite,
Plein de lourds ciels ocreux et de forets noyees,
De fleurs de chair aux bois siderals deployees,
Vertige, ecroulements,
deroutes
et pitie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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= The
procession from Newgate by Holbom and Tyburn road was in truth
often a 'triumphall egression,' and a popular
criminal
like Jack
Sheppard or Jonathan Wild frequently had a large attendance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That spirit you have seen,
Seen made wrathfully plain that secret spirit,
Whereby is man's frail
scabbard
filled with steel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
That all the tributes
of her contemporaries show reverence not less for her
personality
than for
her genius is sufficient answer to the calumnies with which the ribald
jesters of that later period, the corrupt and shameless writers of Athenian
comedy, strove to defile her fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men remember us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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--Of which
Aristophanes
affords an ample
harvest, having not only outgone Plautus or any other in that kind, but
expressed all the moods and figures of what is ridiculous oddly.
| 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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Nor sit out late at night,
Lest horrid
Cummerbunds
should come,
And swollow you outright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
"
"A fable,"
remarked
Herman; "perhaps the cards were marked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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One might not know that souls had place
Were't not for the
wrinkles
in life's face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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That noble lady
Or
gentleman
that is not freely merry
Is not my friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Her
bitterest
enemies--and she had many--could hardly accuse Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Wait for a space without, but wait not long;
This is the house of violence and wrong:
Some rude insult thy
reverend
age may bear;
For like their lawless lords the servants are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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there is light in that lone chamber,
And o'er her silken ottoman
Are thrown the
fragrant
beads of amber,
O'er which her fairy fingers ran;[156]
Near these, with emerald rays beset,[157]
(How could she thus that gem forget?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA,
FRAGMENT)
ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the sunlight I have lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The stem of youth, unpluckt, to manhood come,
Nor Ares rise from Aphrodite's bower,
The lord of death and bane, to waste our
youthful
flower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
He did not
remember
how once we went hand in hand,
But left me like footsteps behind one in the dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Two brigades, if you please,
Dressing as
straight
as a hem,
We--we were down on our knees,
Praying for us and for them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
"
XX
While there is many an
unpleasant
sound, I hate to hear barking
Worse than anything else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Afar, where clothed in green and gold
Meadows and cornfields are displayed,
Villages in the distance show
And herds of oxen
wandering
low;
Whilst nearer, sunk in deeper shade,
A thick immense neglected grove
Extended--haunt which Dryads love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Soon pass'd beyond their sight, I left the flood,
And took the
spreading
shelter of the wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Down to the vale this
streamlet
hies,
Look, how it seems to run,
As if 't were pleased with summer skies,
And glad to meet the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
They saw, they knew him, and with fond embrace
Each humbly kiss'd his knee, or hand, or face;
He knows them all, in all such truth appears,
E'en he
indulges
the sweet joy of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
"--
"I tried to paint out here a natural face;
For nature
includes
Raffael, as we know,
Not Raffael nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
I think it did not hit him,
But
suddenly
that part of him that was left behind convulsed in
undignified haste,
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Shall his fevered eye
Through
towering
nothingness descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The young man had a great name, his popularity was still fresh,
and moreover, he
disliked
Titus Vinius, or, if he did not, Vinius'
enemies hoped he did: it is so easy to believe in hatred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Sweet hours have perished here;
This is a mighty room;
Within its
precincts
hopes have played, --
Now shadows in the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thus when in Orbes
Of circuit inexpressible they stood,
Orb within Orb, the Father infinite,
By whom in bliss imbosom'd sat the Son,
Amidst as from a flaming Mount, whose top
Brightness
had made invisible, thus spake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The
CRIPPLES
are
watching the basket.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Him warm I welcom'd, and with open arms
Receiv'd, who bold affirm'd that he had seen
My master with
Idomeneus
at Crete
His ships refitting shatter'd by a storm,
And that in summer with his godlike band
He would return, bringing great riches home,
Or else in autumn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Indeed, so completely has man's
personality been absorbed by his
possessions
that the English law has
always treated offences against a man's property with far more severity
than offences against his person, and property is still the test of
complete citizenship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Guillaume
Apollinaire
'Guillaume Apollinaire'
Guillaume Apollinaire - Wybor Poezji", Zak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
but we went
merrily!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
where can its
happiness
abound?
| Guess: |
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Dost thou, for this, afford proud Ilion grace,
And not, like us, infest the
faithless
race;
Like us, their present, future sons destroy,
And from its deep foundations heave their Troy?
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Iliad - Pope |
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1180
Largece la vaillant, la sage,
Tint ung
chevalier
du linage
Au bon roy Artus de Bretaigne;
Ce fu cil qui porta l'enseigne
De Valor et le gonfanon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Quid sum miser tunc
dicturus?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Hence, hence,
profane!
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious
sleights
a hundred thirsts appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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This passage
describes
the havoc of
war.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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MESSENGER
Be well assured, the tale is but begun--
The further agony that on us fell
Doth twice outweigh the
sufferings
I have told!
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Aeschylus |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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blake-poems |
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XLVIII
So Malagigi to his
comrades
said,
And moved in them desire some name to hear
Of others, who had laid that monster dead,
Which to slay others had been used whilere.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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High on the topmost
thrilling
of the surge
I saw, afar, two hosts to battle urge.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He, as it seem'd, believ'd,
That I had thought so many voices came
From some amid those
thickets
close conceal'd,
And thus his speech resum'd: "If thou lop off
A single twig from one of those ill plants,
The thought thou hast conceiv'd shall vanish quite.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[716] A specimen of the _serenades_ ([Greek:
paraklausithura])
of the
Greeks.
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Aristophanes |
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90) makes
gehwylcne
object of wīd-scofen (hæfde).
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Beowulf |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And when I reached the market place, a youth
standing
on a house-top
cried, "He is a madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now I reform, and surely so will all
Whose happy eyes on thy
translation
fall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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