Whom with due honours both Atrides grace:
Ye guides and
guardians
of our Argive race!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Hate hath
vanished
in the air!
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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That heaven, where two fair stars, with genial ray,
Shed their kind
influence
on life's dim way?
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Hence perdition-doom'd I rove
A prey to
rankling
sorrow in this garb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He forbids to despair;
His cheeks mantle with mirth;
And the
unimagined
good of men
Is yeaning at the birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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in
apprehension
how like a god!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Peacock: the friend who,
while yet an entire stranger,
awakened
and led the public recognition
of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played
measures
brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
| 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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What secret
Gives wisdom to her
purpose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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II
O pale
Ophelia!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Canst thou give to a frame
tremblingly
alive as the tortures of
suspense, the stability and hardihood of the rock that braves the
blast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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FAUST:
Auch was
Geschriebnes
forderst du Pedant?
| 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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A
thousand
masses I hear and offer,
Burn oil, wax candles in my hand,
So that success God might ensure,
For striving alone won't climb her stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Thus grew it up--"Not in my own sad breast,
Which is its own great judge and
searcher
out, 130
Can I find reason why ye should be thus:
Not in the legends of the first of days,
Studied from that old spirit-leaved book
Which starry Uranus with finger bright
Sav'd from the shores of darkness, when the waves
Low-ebb'd still hid it up in shallow gloom;--
And the which book ye know I ever kept
For my firm-based footstool:--Ah, infirm!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The
mournful
wood waves round
Its garland on all sides, as round the wood
Spreads the sad foss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Then had I not been thus exil'd from light;
As in the land of
darkness
yet in light,
To live a life half dead, a living death, 100
And buried; but O yet more miserable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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That from this terror thou mayst free thyself,
I will
instruct
thee why I came, and what
I heard in that same instant, when for thee
Grief touch'd me first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Land of the
avalanche!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I soar up into the
coldness
as the air-hounds wheel on high,
And slip away in the dimness as they hunt where I circled by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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net/2/4/6/8/24689
An
alternative
method of locating eBooks:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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|| _ante_ Statius
7
_perambulauit_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
There is a transcript of Scene 1 among the Hunt manuscripts, which has
been
collated
by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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ai maden
Ieroboam
kyng; wel he gan hem paie;
And euere ?
| 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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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Corruption and
death were ever
floating
in his consciousness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Woe's me the lore I must
unlearn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
The
unsuspecting
trees
Brought out their burrs and mosses
His fantasy to please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
" Him awhile they eyed,
Straining
their eyes and lids; then knew the peer;
And, seeing him in such a piteous plight,
Were filled with grief and wonder at the sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And so for us he made great medicine,
And so for us he made great medicine,
In the days of
President
Washington.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
_ You set too high a rate upon
A
shepherdess
so homely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Never smiled the
inconstant
moon
On a pair so true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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oh might it prove
A presage of
inevitable
death
To all these revellers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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if he pleases yet,
His moral pleases, not his pointed wit;
Forget his epic, nay
Pindaric
art;
But still I love the language of his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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That
friendly
greeting parted, ere dispatch
Of the first onward step, from either tribe
Loud clamour rises: those, who newly come,
Shout "Sodom and Gomorrah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
| 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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If I could flatter myself that this Essay has any merit, it is in
steering betwixt the extremes of doctrines
seemingly
opposite, in passing
over terms utterly unintelligible, and in forming a temperate yet not
inconsistent, and a short yet not imperfect system of Ethics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
G
[Illustration]
G was a gooseberry,
Perfectly
red;
To be made into jam,
And eaten with bread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
The old set of this song, which is still to be found in printed
collections, is much
prettier
than this; but somebody, I believe it
was Ramsay, took it into his head to clear it of some seeming
indelicacies, and made it at once more chaste and more dull.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Oenone
Why grant him a
complete
victory so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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are,
he fond [him] redy
sittinde
?
| 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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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Muffling
his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
'And now a day and another day hath sped; the breezes woo our sails, and
the canvas blows out to the
swelling
south.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
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| 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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Imagination is as the
immortal God which should assume flesh for the
redemption
of mortal
passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and
distributed
to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
970
And now when I think to
approach
so joyfully
All that the gods have made most dear to me:
What do I find?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
THEY thus proceeded to the
beauteous
dame;
Soon valets, maids, and others round them came;
The dog and pilgrim gave extreme delight
And all were quite diverted at the sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Note: See Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' for an
expression
of like sentiment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The poem of "Hellas", written at the
suggestion
of the events of the
moment, is a mere improvise, and derives its interest (should it be
found to possess any) solely from the intense sympathy which the
Author feels with the cause he would celebrate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
e,
[E] & haue no men wyth no male3, with
menskful
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
A Muse by these is like a mistress us'd,
This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd;
While their weak heads like towns unfortify'd,
'Twixt sense and
nonsense
daily change their side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
--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 |
|
La lucarne faisait un coeur de lueur vive
Dans la cour ou les cieux bas
plaquaient
d'ors vermeils
Les vitres; les paves puant l'eau de lessive
Souffraient l'ombre des toits bordes de noirs sommeils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Then to her side
The
children
came, and clung to her and cried,
And her arms hugged them, and a long good-bye
She gave to each, like one who goes to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic
metaphysics
in criticising Plato's 'Idealism'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Song of Roland, by Anonymous
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere 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: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Yet you see Heaven wishes
something
else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
"
[Sidenote A: He desires to know what had driven Sir Gawayne from Arthur's
court before the end of the
Christmas
holidays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That were a life to make time
envious!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Their
simplicity appears
beggarly
when compared with the quaint forms
and gaudy coloring of such artists as Cowley and Gongora.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more
disastrous
fall.
| 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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Zu Frosch):
Nun sagt, was
wunschet
Ihr zu schmecken?
| 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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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The
beauties
round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
[Sidenote: Their disease God cures by the
medicine
of money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The times has bene,
That when the Braines were out, the man would dye,
And there an end: But now they rise againe
With twenty mortall
murthers
on their crownes,
And push vs from our stooles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Quivi le brutte Arpie lor nidi fanno,
che cacciar de le Strofade i Troiani
con tristo
annunzio
di futuro danno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
MERCURY:
Back to your towers of iron,
And gnash, beside the streams of fire and wail, _345
Your
foodless
teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"]
Through the soft evening air enwinding all,
Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,
In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,
(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the
audience
of the opera house,
Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,
And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)
Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,
Music, Italian music in Dakota.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
How
gallantly
he charged
Today in the last battle, and when wounded,
How swiftly bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
How now, sweet Frank, why art thou
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile,
uncrowned
in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
She was nor this nor that of those beings divine,
But each and the whole--an essence of all the Nine;
With
tentative
foot she neared to my halting-place,
A pensive smile on her sweet, small, marvellous face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
What better tale could any lover tell
When age or death his reckoning shall write
Than thus, 'Love taught me only to rebel
Against these things,--the thieving of delight
Without return; the gospellers of fear
Who, loving, yet deny the truth they bear,
Sad-suited lusts with
lecherous
hands to smear
The cloth of gold they would but dare not wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Through all our
literature
your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most affection in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And thus to Betty's question, he
Made answer, like a
traveller
bold,
(His very words I give to you,)
"The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo,
"And the sun did shine so cold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
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Hugo - Poems |
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No savage
mountain
climbing to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the astonished eyes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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As such I wish to be
allowed to wait on you, and as I expect to remove in a few days a
little further off, and you, I suppose, will perhaps soon leave this
place, I wish to see or hear from you soon; and if an expression
should perhaps escape me, rather too warm for friendship, I hope you
will pardon it in, my dear Miss--(pardon me the dear
expression
for
once) * * * *
R.
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Robert Burns |
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Past bows and invitations,
Past interview, and vow,
Past what
ourselves
can estimate, --
That makes the quick of woe!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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