But Nature
whistled
with all her winds,
Did as she pleased and went her way.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But let them look over all the great
and
monstrous
wickednesses, they shall never find those in poor families.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--
At their heads they set their shields of war,
bucklers bright; on the bench were there
over each atheling, easy to see,
the high battle-helmet, the haughty spear,
the
corselet
of rings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Broken their girths, downwards their saddles slide;
Both those Kings fall,
themselves
aground do find;
Nimbly enough upon their feet they rise;
Most vassal-like they draw their swords outright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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dis, si tu le sais,
A cet
agonisant
que le loup deja flaire
Et que surveille le corbeau,
A ce soldat brise, s'il faut qu'il desespere
D'avoir sa croix et son tombeau;
Ce pauvre agonisant que le loup deja flaire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Men don't go up into the roofs
of their
bungalows
to die, and they don't fasten up the ceiling-cloth
behind 'em.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Let all depart--alone
Leave the
tsarevich
with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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May
perpetual
youth
Keep dry their light from tears;
That her fair form may stand and shine,
Make bright our days and light our dreams,
Turning to scorn with lips divine
The falsehood of extremes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
_
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,
When I look at the date of your kind letter, my heart reproaches me
severely with
ingratitude
in neglecting so long to answer it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
This poem of fin'amor, perfect or true love, is one of the more comprehensive statements of the
troubadour
ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
at
dignites
ben ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Let him put forth his power, attest his sway,
Howe'er he will--a momentary show,
A little brief
authority
in heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Had they the wing
Like such a bird,
themselves
would be too proud
And build on nothing but a passing cloud!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling
things that other people have desired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
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: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"The king himself proclaimed her
peerless
beauty
Before the court,
And held it were to win a kiss his duty
To give a fort,
Or, more, to sign away all bright Dorado,
Tho' gold-plate tiled--
Oh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And now, its
strings
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes
Over delicious surges sink and rise,
Such a soft floating witchery of sound
As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve
Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land,
Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers,
Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,
Nor pause, nor perch,
hovering
on untamed
wing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Wait a little; we are going to install Plutus presently in the
place he
formerly
occupied behind the Temple of Athene;[811] there he
will watch over our treasures for ever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Many ages, he said, before his time,
there were ballads in praise of
illustrious
men; and these
ballads it was the fashion for the guests at banquets to sing in
turn while the piper played.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
No, by Apollo, will I not, unless you are going to discuss
the
question
of peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I
wondered
what machine of ages gone
This represented an improvement on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more
impatient
cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Fulmina, fulmina
Deus
vastator!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Glasses of rose
and crimson and blue, magical glasses, glasses of
Paradise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
" 40
Thenne CANTERLOUE hee dydd goe out,
To telle the maior straite
To gett all thynges ynne reddyness
For goode Syr
CHARLESES
fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
In this period the Italian
(perhaps largely Celtic) genius is allied with
Alexandrianism
in revolt
against Rome: and in it Latin poetry may be said to attain formal
perfection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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l fuelh
Like to him who bends the leaves
And picks the loveliest flower of all
I from the highest branch have seized,
Of them, the one most beautiful,
One God has made, without a stain,
Made her out of His own beauty,
And He
commanded
that humility
Should her great worth grace again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Auf deiner
Schwelle
wessen Blut?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Gilgamish and Enkidu
grappled
with each other,
goring like an ox.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
The
handwriting
was at first somewhat like the delicate, running
Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she advanced in
breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her
latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its
fellows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And in the copies which she sent to friends,
sometimes
one
form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Daughter
Pholoe may succeed,
But mother Chloris what she touches mars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
I cannot
remember
now what Neptune taught me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He has demonstrated that no man could have lived so
long--De Quincey was nearly seventy-five at his death--and worked so
hard, if he had consumed twelve
thousand
drops of laudanum as often as
he said he did.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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In vain
Religion
meets my shrinking eye,
I dare not combat, but I turn and fly:
Conscience in vain upbraids th' unhallow'd fire,
Love grasps her scorpions--stifled they expire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Step from the car; Alcmena's son, 'tis said,
Was sold
perforce
and bore the yoke of old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Farewell
the plain sae rashy, O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
]
[Sidenote G: It
consisted
of all dainties in season.
| 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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Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet carillon of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no companions else
Than ghostly
kilometer
posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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 |
|
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
PORTIA
TO ELLEN TERRY
(_Written at the Lyceum Theatre_)
I MARVEL not
Bassanio
was so bold
To peril all he had upon the lead,
Or that proud Aragon bent low his head
Or that Morocco's fiery heart grew cold:
For in that gorgeous dress of beaten gold
Which is more golden than the golden sun
No woman Veronese looked upon
Was half so fair as thou whom I behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
, 169;
_Challenge
at Tilt_, lxvi ff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Cachez les palais morts dans des niches de planches
L'ancien jour effare
rafraichit
vos regards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Be
innocent
of the knowledge, dearest Chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed: Come, seeling Night,
Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittifull Day,
And with thy bloodie and inuisible Hand
Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond,
Which keepes me pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
something it must mean, for sure,
And Hylax on the
threshold
'gins to bark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
TO THE SHAH
FROM HAFIZ
Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,
Poises
Arcturus
aloft morning and evening his spear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
And think you that I should be dumb,
And full
_dolorum
omnium_,
Excepting when _you_ choose to come
And share my dinner?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The four children then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who discoursed in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which
naturally
occasioned
a fizzy, extraneous utterance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
QUEBEC AND
MONTMORENCI
20
III.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
It has, for instance, been seriously
debated, whether an epic should not contain a
catalogue
of heroes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
For wash and clean us as much as we will,
We always prove
unfruitful
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg"
associated
with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
And trailing tatters of my vest,
In looped and windowed
raggedness
forlorn,
Hang rent around my breast,
Even as I, by blows of Fate most stern
Saddened and torn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
[188] Julius Caesar, the
conqueror
of Gaul, or France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and
donations
can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
She
touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is
never by any chance
frivolous
or trivial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
See now, I set thee high on vantage ground,
From whence to watch the time, and eagle-like
Stoop at thy will on
Lancelot
and the Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Would ye, to please
The house of Godunov, uplift a hand
Against the lawful tsar, against the grandson
Of
Monomakh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
_Their Evadne_, the sister of
Melantius
in their play "The Maid's
Tragedy".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
That sign beheld, and strengthen'd from above,
Boldly pursue the journey mark'd by Jove:
But if the god his augury denies,
Suppress
thy impulse, nor reject advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Father, I bring thee not myself, --
That were the little load;
I bring thee the
imperial
heart
I had not strength to hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
--
Botte thenn thie soughle woulde throwe thy vysage sheene,
Yatt shemres onn thie comelie semlykeene[4],
Lyche
nottebrowne
cloudes, whann bie the sonne made redde, 10
Orr scarlette, wythe waylde lynnen clothe ywreene[5],
Syke[6] woulde thie spryte upponn thie vysage spredde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
, you will do me the justice to believe me, when I assure you that
the love I have for you is founded on the sacred
principles
of virtue
and honour, and by consequence so long as you continue possessed of
those amiable qualities which first inspired my passion for you, so
long must I continue to love you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
And the Quangle Wangle said
To himself on the
Crumpetty
Tree,
"When all these creatures move
What a wonderful noise there'll be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Since he sends word, that King Marsiliun,
Homage he'll do, by finger and by thumb;
Throughout all Spain your writ alone shall run
Next he'll receive our rule of Christendom
Who shall advise, this bidding be not done,
Deserves
not death, since all to death must come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
E'en as you spoke--and gentle words were those
Spoken by you,--the silver moon uprose;
How that mysterious union of her ray,
With your impassioned accents, made its way
Straight
to my heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
LXIII
"All power o'er me have I
bestowed
on you,
Rogero; and more than others may divine:
I know that to a prince whose throne is new
Was never fealty sworn more true than mine;
Nor ever surer state, this wide world through,
By king or keysar was possest than thine.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
allurements
of
speech are also added.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now, gentles, what shall I
produce?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A reproach of the same class,
relating
to the
frequent recurrence of a Great Name in my pages, has already filled me
with regret.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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that Proteus-like idea, with as many
appellations as the nine-titled
Corcyra!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Poetic Sentiment, of course, may develop itself in various modes--in
Painting, in Sculpture, in Architecture, in the Dance--very especially
in Music--and very peculiarly, and with a wide field, in the com
position of the
Landscape
Garden.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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þā ic on morgne
ge-frægn mǣg ōðerne billes ecgum on bonan stǣlan _(then I learned that on
the morrow one brother instigated the other to murder with the sword's
edge_; or, _one avenged the other on the
murderer_?
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Beowulf |
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But the main quality of these
poems is that of extraordinary grasp and insight, uttered with an
uneven vigor
sometimes
exasperating, seemingly wayward, but really
unsought and inevitable.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My cold lips frame
Tremulously the
familiar
name,
Unheard of her upon my breath:
'Elizabeth.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_All repeat_ of king
_before_
Lamedon; _the words were caught from_ l.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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A sorry lover, how can I be
resigned?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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