Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's
will- 'tis
strongly
wedg'd up in a block-head; but if it were at
liberty 'twould sure southward.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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How came it that the absent Duke had not either deliver'd him
to his liberty or
executed
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Euery sonenday
houseled
he was,
And shryuen also of vche trespas
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The revelling of
Heracles
is touched in with the lightest of
hands; it is little more than symbolic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Whoe'er thou art,
Who journey'st thus this way, thy visage turn,
Think if me
elsewhere
thou hast ever seen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Tell me whereon the
likelihood
depends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The
movement
of your hands is the long, golden running of light from
a rising sun;
It is the hopping of birds upon a garden-path.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And will cat throats again, if he be paid ;
In the Irish
shambles
he first learned the trade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
{139a} "There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from
heavenly
realms.
| 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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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A little moment past, so
smiling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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FAUST:
Verstehst du, was fur neue Lebenskraft
Mir dieser Wandel in der Ode
schafft?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
The
gentleman
addressed to him some strong
remarks, as a funeral sermon, and proposed that I should play a game
with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O
155 _anilitas_ codex Vicentinus
scriptus
anno 1460: _an(n)ilis
etas_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Juno here far off doth stand,
Cooling sleep with
charming
wand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If by
confiding
friend aught e'er be trusted in silence,
Unto a man whose mind known is for worthiest trust,
Me shalt thou find no less than such to secrecy oathbound,
(Cornelius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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No
fragments
merely
shall burn with the warrior.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Do you understand, that, thanks to us, you will
be loaded with
benefits?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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_Tradescant's curious shells_: John
Tradescant
was a Dutchman,
born towards the close of the sixteenth century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
He speaks,
The
Minister
of State.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I atone for this
loquacity
by a year of taciturnity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Years
rolled on, and I went from Khorassan to Transoxiana, and
wandered
to
Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and
rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp
Arslan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For when we gaze aloft
Upon the skiey vaults of yon great world
And ether, fixed high o'er
twinkling
stars,
And into our thought there come the journeyings
Of sun and moon, O then into our breasts,
O'erburdened already with their other ills,
Begins forthwith to rear its sudden head
One more misgiving: lest o'er us, percase,
It be the gods' immeasurable power
That rolls, with varied motion, round and round
The far white constellations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
] Of
all this he stood exposed to conviction by men of the first rank in
Rome; who being earnest to attack him, he appealed to Caesar: from whom
soon after a letter was brought in behalf of Cotta; in it he recounted
"the
beginning
of their friendship," repeated "his many good services
to himself," and desired "that words perversely construed, and humorous
tales told at an entertainment, might not be wrested into crimes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court,
Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye,
Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was
defending
a pig
On the charge of deserting its sty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And wines, purple and blue and like gold fire,
Made of the colours of the morning sea
And
fragrance
wild as woman's need of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"_
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who
remembers
that famous day and year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Je suis de la
canaille!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
CI
And Otes strikes a pagan Estorgant
Upon the shield, before its
leathern
band,
Slices it through, the white with the scarlat;
The hauberk too, has torn its folds apart,
And his good spear thrusts clean through the carcass,
And flings it dead, ev'n as the horse goes past;
He says: "You have no warrant afterward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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 |
|
London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
]
They were
published
in the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798),
but 'The Old Cumberland Beggar' was not published till 1800.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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"
I threw a side glance upon these two
confederates
of the usurper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"There Tityus large and long, in fetters bound,
O'erspreads nine acres of infernal ground;
Two ravenous vultures, furious for their food,
Scream o'er the fiend, and riot in his blood,
Incessant gore the liver in his breast,
The
immortal
liver grows, and gives the immortal feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Slombrestow as in a
lytargye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,
That all the
misbelieving
and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
aptauitque
suis incongrua tegmina membris
et miserum tanto pressit honore caput.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
What tithe or part
Can I return to thee,
O
stricken
heart,
That thou shouldst break for me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
So drink with Walters, or with
Chartres
eat,
They'll never poison you, they'll only cheat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And I was dying there
Like some poor
stricken
beast, unmissed, alone
In God-forgotten vasts of yellow glare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
--
Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove,
The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love;
Or just as gay, at council, in a ring
Of mimic'd
statesmen
and their merry king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
It was pleasant, Kitty thought, to have him at her feet, but
it was better to escape from him and ride with the graceless Cubbon--the
man in a Dragoon
Regiment
at Umballa--the boy with a handsome face, and
no prospects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
When they diverge, the
question
is a more
open one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
As Appius
Claudius
was that day, so may his grandson be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
What was it it
whispered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Go, let thy fancies range
And ramble where they may;
View power in every change,
And what is the
display?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
ou
p{ro}euedest
in disputynge ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
'Tis life to guide the fiery barb
Across the
moonlight
plain;
'Tis life to feel the night-wind
That lifts his tossing mane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
She kept with care her
beauties
rare
From lovers warm and true--
For heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to won,
But honor'd well her charms to sell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Henry Ware, and soon after,
because of his senior's
delicate
health, was called on to assume the
full duty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Waley on
his very learned paper and
beautiful
translations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
But the
abandonment of the Saturnian was the
abandonment
of a tradition five
centuries old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
THROUGH GREAT
IMPATIENCE
OF HIS GRIEVED HED, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
But if the only competition were my brother, 490
Madame, over him I have
essential
claims,
That I could salvage from the law's domains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But wen it comes to _bein'_ killed,--I tell ye I felt streaked
The fust time 't ever I found out wy
baggonets
wuz peaked;
Here's how it wuz: I started out to go to a fandango,
The sentinul he ups an' sez, 'Thet's furder 'an you can go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Woe upon spouse and spouse,
Whatso of evil sway
Held her in that
distress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
O newborn Passion,
glorious
charioteer,
Goading, restraining, swerving these the steeds That draw my life, what founts of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
6
_perspecta_
a || _?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Accursed
be ye both!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The
flattered
great may clamours raise
Of power, and their own weakness hide,
But death shall find unlooked-for ways
To end the farce of pride,
An arrow hurtled eer so high,
From een a giant's sinewy strength,
In Time's untraced eternity
Goes but a pigmy length;
Nay, whirring from the tortured string,
With all its pomp of hurried flight,
Tis by the skylark's little wing
Outmeasured in its height.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
In
the
principal
salon stood a long table, at which about twenty men sat
playing faro, the host of the establishment being the banker.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
_
[_Sits down on the steps of the temple_]
Vijaya, I have brought my evening rice;
The sun has laid his chin on the gray wood,
Weary, with all his poppies
gathered
round him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus
entreats
thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
(Bearded or smooth, to her that gave him suck
The man is always child)--Stay, here's a brow
Split by the Zouaves'
bullets!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
No parts of early Roman
history are richer with poetical
coloring
than those which relate
to the long contest between the privileged houses and the
commonality.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers
concerned
have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the possibilities of
expression
in the German
language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
On a sloped sandy beach,
Which the spring-tide billows reach,
Stand a watchful throng
Who have hoped and waited long:
"Fie on this ship, that tarries
With the
priceless
freight it carries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
She is so strange,--so strange,--so
strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
THE MILKMAID
UNDER a daisied bank
There stands a rich red ruminating cow,
And hard against her flank
A cotton-hooded
milkmaid
bends her brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Of them
will they even haply claim vengeance for my flight, and wash away this
crime in their
wretched
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
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individual
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Didelot_,
sometime
Director of the ballet at the Opera at
St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There
grieving
thou shalt only hear
Vain murmuring of an empty shell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Stephen Crane |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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The children of the citadel
conquered
all
Their conquerors, smiting them with the pure light
That shone in that strong city fortified.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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e Rounde Table,
2520 [G] & he
honoured
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The dark departs;
The chains now rust that crushed men's flesh and bones,
Feet tread no more the
mildewed
prison stones,
And slavery is lifted from your hearts.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With my mood at its height I wield my brush
And the Five Hills quake;
When the poem is done, my
laughter
soars
To the Blue Isles[32] of the sky.
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Li Po |
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Big
perilous
theorem, hard for king and priest:
`Pursue the West but long enough, 'tis East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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