Nothing, Madam,
Save that
methought
I gather'd from the Queen
That she would see your Grace before she--died.
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Tennyson |
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Now while I watch the
dreaming
sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In 'pride of place' here last the eagle flew,
Then tore with bloody talon the rent plain,
Pierced by the shaft of banded nations through:
Ambition's life and labours all were vain;
He wears the
shattered
links of the world's broken chain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Do scribes aver the Comic to be
Reverend
still?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Whence the straitened cries roll
From its terrified flock;
With
incendiary
grips
It loosens a block,
Which smokes and then slips
From its place by the shock;
To the surface first sheers,
Then melts, disappears,
Like the glacier, the rock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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, a maker, or a feigner: his art, an art of
imitation
or feigning;
expressing the life of man in fit measure, numbers, and harmony,
according to Aristotle; from the word ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The peasants assembled, and
pursued, and would have captured them, if some gentlemen,
unworthy
of
being called so, had not stopped the pursuit, and received the villains
into their castles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
|
XXIX
"Two years were passed since to a distant town
He had repaired to ply a gainful trade: [21]
What tears of bitter grief, till then
unknown!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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A sweet Thought, which was once the life within
This heavy heart, man a time and oft
Went up before our Father's feet, and there _15
It saw a
glorious
Lady throned aloft;
And its sweet talk of her my soul did win,
So that I said, 'Thither I too will fare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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"
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases
pancakes
and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Then cling to her;
And say if thou hast found a guest of grace
In God's son,
Heracles!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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the figure is not drawn correctly;
One of the angles, 'tis the outer one,
Is somewhat open, dost
perceive
it?
| 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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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and
compelled
to the chaste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
At this Aeneas' mother most beautiful inspired him to advance on the
walls, directing his columns on the town and
dismaying
the Latins with
sudden and swift disaster.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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--On va sous les
tilleuls
verts de la promenade,
Les tilleuls sentent bon dans les bons soirs de juin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Imperial
Revels--_H.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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<>,
ricomincio
il cortese portinaio:
<>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But if any mortal has in his
Mind the way of truth,
It is
necessary
to make the best
Of what befalls from the blessed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
"The proper thing, as you were late,
Was
certainly
to go:
But, with the roads in such a state,
I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait
For half an hour or so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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But midmost, where the boss rose higher,
A sun stood blazing,
And winged steeds, and stars in choir,
Hyad and Pleiad, fire on fire,
For Hector's dazing:
Across the golden helm, each way,
Two taloned
Sphinxes
held their prey,
Song-drawn to slaughter:
And round the breastplate ramping came
A mingled breed of lion and flame,
Hot-eyed to tear that steed of fame
That found Pirene's water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
eBook, Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The nymphs, and cruel Cupid too,
Sharpening his pointed dart
On an old home
besmeared
with blood,
Forbear thy perjured heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Scarcely
had the first summer set in, when lord
Anchises
bids us spread our sails
to fortune, and weeping I leave the shores and havens of my country, and
the plains where once was Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
denoting
contrariety: hence 1) _but_ (like N.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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They have
learnt that a band of Boeotians intend taking
advantage
of the feast of
Cups to invade our country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From
remembrance
soon must fade,
As the wash of silver moonlight 15
From a purple-dark ravine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
When I upon the
Blocksberg
meet you,
That I approve; for there's your place, I grant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
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: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And what if Trade sow cities
Like shells along the shore,
And thatch with towns the prairie broad
With
railways
ironed o'er?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Finally
the old woman
tottered
into the room, completely exhausted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Laurentiani
51 _nam_] _non_ G || _anatunsia_ D
52 _torruerit_ Turnebus: _corpuerit_ Markland
54 _eetheis_ G: _oethis_ BLa1RVen: _cetheis_ O || _malia_ a:
_maulia_
GORVen: _manlia_ Dp
55 _pupula_ scripsi, cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase
introduced
by and extended from the title.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Therefore we'll parry with cloak what shafts thou
shootest
against us;
And by our bolts transfixt, penalty due thou shalt pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"
The second Satan had neither the air at once tragical and smiling, the
lovely
insinuating
ways, nor the delicate and scented beauty of the
first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
We weep because the night is long,
We laugh, for day shall rise,
We sing a slow
contented
song
And knock at Paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Then all the builded houses
Above ground--and the more, the higher up-reared
Unto the sky--lean ominously, careening
Into the same direction; and the beams,
Wrenched
forward, over-hang, ready to go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The little park was filled with peace,
The walks were
carpeted
with snow,
But every iron gate was locked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Anear to whom
Are the Gorgon sisters three,
enclothed
with wings,
With twisted snakes for ringlets, man-abhorred:
There is no mortal gazes in their face
And gazing can breathe on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the
fraternal
harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Your wine locked up, your butler
strolled
abroad,
Or fish denied (the river yet unthawed),
If then plain bread and milk will do the feat,
The pleasure lies in you, and not the meat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
'
`Thou seyst wel,' quod Pandare, `and now I hope
That thou the goddes
wraththe
hast al apesed; 940
And sithen thou hast wepen many a drope,
And seyd swich thing wher-with thy god is plesed,
Now wolde never god but thou were esed;
And think wel, she of whom rist al thy wo
Here-after may thy comfort been al-so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
_ When
political
combustion ceases to be the object
of princes and patriots, it then you know becomes the lawful prey of
historians and poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The brasen towre in which my parents deare 20
For dread of that huge feend emprisond be,
Whom I from far, see on the walles appeare,
Whose sight my feeble soule doth greatly cheare:
And on the top of all I do espye
The
watchman
wayting tydings glad to heare, 25
That O my parents might I happily
Unto you bring, to ease you of your misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
'
The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it
fracture
for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier, transparent with flights not made?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
But, lady fair,
What if Enipeus please
Your
listless
eye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
10
Yet had the number of her days
Bin as
compleat
as was her praise,
Nature and fate had had no strife
In giving limit to her life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
)
The chief with wonder sees the
extended
streets,
The spreading harbours, and the riding fleets;
He next their princes' lofty domes admires,
In separate islands, crown'd with rising spires;
And deep entrenchments, and high walls of stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
For comic weaknesses he had an eye
Keen as an acid for an alkali,
Yet you could feel, through his
sardonic
tone,
He loved them all, unless they were his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
While God is
marching
on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
So two nights passed: the night's dismay
Saddened
and stunned the coming day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While,
leafless
now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Growin' up a man, he
scarcely
met
Other white folks; an' his heart was set
On this red girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But we have no need
To lean on foreign aid; we have enough
Of our own warlike people to repel
Traitors
and Poles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
O God, make tolerable,
Make
tolerable
the end that awaits for me,
And give me courage to die when the time comes,
When the time comes as it must, however it comes,
That I shrink not nor scream, gripped by the jaws of the vice;
For the thought of it turns me sick, and my heart stands still,
Knocks and stands still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
When I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain;
Spectre cannot harm,
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath
suffered
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Wohin die Angst des
Kerkers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Hence
Philosophers
and other gravest
Writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out of Tragic
Poets, both to adorn and illustrate thir discourse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive
Catalogue
of the Medusae of the Australian Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
illa, quam uidetis
turpe incedere, mimice ac moleste
ridentem
catuli ore Gallicani.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les
rondeurs
des reins semblent prendre l'essor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
'Twas my heart then must dance
To dwell in my delight;
No need to sing when all in song my sight
Moved over hills so
musically
made
And with such colour played.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Comme then, and see you
swotelie
tune the strynge,
And stret[42], and engyne all the human wytte,
Toe please mie dame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
' The
humors of the longing wife are a
constant
subject of ridicule.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
I lost six brothers in the flower of their youth,
And the hopes of an
illustrious
house in truth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely
suffering
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
_A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC_]
[1 Past, _1633-54_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_,
_Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _TC:_ Last _1669_, _Chambers_]
[2 reads,] read, _1650-54_]
[6 decayes:] decayes, _1633_]
[16 womens] womans _1669_]
[17 dyet; _Ed:_ dyet, _1633_ (_with a larger
interval
than is
usually given to a comma_), _1669:_ dyet.
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The gods themselves and the almightier fates
Cannot avail to harm
With outward and misfortunate chance 5
The radiant
unshaken
mind of him
Who at his being's centre will abide,
Secure from doubt and fear.
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Sappho |
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excidit attonito pinguis Galatea poetae,
Thestylis et rubras messibus usta genas:
protinus ITALIAM
concepit
et ARMA VIRVMQUE,
qui modo uix Culicem fleuerat ore rudi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Slender in
bulk—but
it contains good poems.
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Take him with all his virtues, on my word;
His whole
ambition
was to serve a lord:
But, sir, to you, with what would I not part?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"The Battle," his one thoroughly intelligible poem, has hitherto been
only very
imperfectly
translated.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Doth he give
Thy tomb good
tendance?
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Euripides - Electra |
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For looking
forth from Dia's beach, resounding with crashing of breakers, Theseus
hasting from sight with
swiftest
of fleets, Ariadne watches, her heart
swelling with raging passion, nor scarce yet credits she sees what she
sees, as, newly-awakened from her deceptive sleep, she perceives herself,
deserted and woeful, on the lonely shore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Over heaps all torn and gory--shall I tell the fearful story,
How they surged above the breastwork, as a sea breaks over a deck;
How, driven, yet scarce defeated, our worn-out men retreated,
With their powder-horns all emptied, like the
swimmers
from a wreck?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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each his center
basement
finds; suspended there they stand {According to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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better far had been the fate
Of thee, of me, of all the Grecian state,
If (ere the day when by mad passion sway'd,
Rash we
contended
for the black-eyed maid)
Preventing Dian had despatch'd her dart,
And shot the shining mischief to the heart!
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Iliad - Pope |
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While thus she spake, the golden dawn arose,
When, putting on me my attire, the nymph 660
Next, cloath'd herself, and girding to her waist
With an embroider'd zone her snowy robe
Graceful, redundant, veil'd her
beauteous
head.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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e kny3t mad ay god chere,
& sayde, "quat schuld I wonde,
564 [G] Of
destines
derf & dere,
What may mon do bot fonde?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats - Lamia |
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