Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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Ma perche tutte le tue voglie piene
ten porti che son nate in questa spera,
proceder
ancor oltre mi convene.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton ame
Dans le
deroulement
infini de sa lame,
Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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TRIBOULET
_(the Court Jester), sneering.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But there is one more strong,
Love, that came laughing from the elder seas,
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
And in my own too
sorrowful
a fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I would not, if I could,
Know what the
sapphire
fellows do,
In your new-fashioned world!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Often he would bring her the
beautiful
skins of animals, and she would
walk to and fro on them, laughing to feel their softness under her
feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Omar, more
desperate, or more careless of any so complicated System as resulted
in nothing but hopeless Necessity, flung his own Genius and Learning
with a bitter or humorous jest into the general Ruin which their
insufficient glimpses only served to reveal; and, pretending sensual
pleasure, as the serious purpose of Life, only
diverted
himself with
speculative problems of Deity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and
Evil, and other such questions, easier to start than to run down, and
the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport at last!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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This one day sent thee first to war, this one day takes thee
away, while yet thou leavest heaped high thy
Rutulian
dead.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed
new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty unrivalled yet--
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now--
spread larve across them,
not honey but seething life.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still
temptation
follows where thou art.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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exquisite dancers in gray
twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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cwōm
Wealhþēo
forð gān under
gyldnum bēage, _she walked along under a golden head-ring, wore a golden
diadem_, 1164; gen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers
now!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Chimene
Sire, one faints from joy as well as sadness:
Excess of
happiness
may bring on weakness,
Surprise the soul, and overcome the senses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was put down
entirely through the grossly illegal conduct of certain agitators in
Boston and elsewhere, who were not slaves themselves, nor owners of
slaves, nor had
anything
to do with the question really.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They read of politics and not of grain,
And speechify and comment and explain,
And know so much of
Parliament
and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or
limitation
of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Wherefore
again, again,
Even as I say, there is a joint delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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She gave him minute
instructions
and a key with which to open the street
door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If he lives, and his game spirit increases,
heaven and earth shall fail him sooner than game; and when he dies, he
will go to more
extensive
and, perchance, happier hunting-grounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Enter_ SIR
NICHOLAS
HEATH.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
'
'It is
certainly
genuine,' he replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
'
The
huntsman
loosens on the morn
A gay and wandering cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the
Galilean
lake,
Two massy Keyes he bore of metals twain, 110
(The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain)
He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,
Anow of such as for their bellies sake,
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What widens within you, Walt
Whitman?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Let our laughter
Leap like
firelight
up again.
| 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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inges ne
shewedest
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Pages in purple run madly about,
Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge,
frightened
mouths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Juste as I was wythe AElla to be bleste,
Shappe foullie thos hathe
snatched
hym awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
, and
I have adopted it in
preference
to 'But scarce a Poet', which is an
awkward phrase and does not express what the writer means.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable
conceited
fellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
A
Gentleman
who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from
Almighty God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an
honourable
silence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Our love was new, and then but in the spring,
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her
mournful
hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Each due
atonement
gladly I prepare;
And heaven regard me as I justly swear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
XXXIV
A little lowly
Hermitage
it was,
Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side,
Far from resort of people, that did pas 300
In travell to and froe: a little wyde?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Lest of his penalty ye taste,
And shattered brain and reason feel
The roaring,
ruthless
thunder-peal!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh;
The short'ning winter-day is near a close;
The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh;
The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose:
The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,--
This night his weekly moil is at an end,
Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,
Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,
And weary, o'er the moor, his course does
hameward
bend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that
steadily
press through woolly fabric.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
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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`But nathelees, this warne I yow,' quod she,
`A kinges sone al-though ye be, y-wis, 170
Ye shal na-more have soverainetee
Of me in love, than right in that cas is;
Ne I nil forbere, if that ye doon a-mis,
To wrathen yow; and whyl that ye me serve,
Cherycen
yow right after ye deserve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
This is the Serieant,
Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought
'Gainst my Captiuitie: Haile braue friend;
Say to the King, the
knowledge
of the Broyle,
As thou didst leaue it
Cap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
_ Why, if I wept, it were no remedy;
And do not _thou_ spend labour on the air
To
bootless
uses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Empanoplied
and plumed
We entered in, and waited, fifty there
Opposed to fifty, till the trumpet blared
At the barrier like a wild horn in a land
Of echoes, and a moment, and once more
The trumpet, and again: at which the storm
Of galloping hoofs bare on the ridge of spears
And riders front to front, until they closed
In conflict with the crash of shivering points,
And thunder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
But I look on thee--on thee--
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing
oblivion
beyond memory;
As one who sits and gazes from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Arrows entered Zhaoyang Palace, reed pipes moaned at
Thinwillow
Camp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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covering for the neck;
wimpled, i, 4, folded,
provided
with a wimple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
MEPHISTOPHELES:
Gib nur erst acht, die Bestialitat
Wird sich gar
herrlich
offenbaren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
So the sad trumpets told their funeral tale
While from the bier the torch
dislodged
my frame;
What did my husband, what my sires avail,
Or all these numerous pledges of my fame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He stood before the
tumbling
main
With joy too tense for sober brain;
He shared the life of the element,
The tie of blood and home was rent:
As if in him the welkin walked,
The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,
And he the bard, a crystal soul
Sphered and concentric with the whole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Thus am I Dante for a space and am One Francois Villon, ballad-lord and thief Or am such holy ones I may not write, Lest
blasphemy
be writ against my name; This for an instant and the flame is gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Bernart de
Ventadorn
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Where sulphury
Fulegethon
does ever burn !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Strange is the heart of man, with its quick, mysterious
instincts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
) My dear bridegroom, comely
son of a king, not to me wast thou given, not to thy
affianced bride, but to a dark
sepulchre
in a strange
land; never shall I take comfort, ever shall I weep for
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
BROOKS,
In the Clerk's Office of the
District
Court
of the District of Rhode Island.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
masterest
thou some thirty acres of grass-land
Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
moles
pulcherrima
caeli
ardebit flammis tota repente suis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
How you've revered the
formative
will of those ancient artists!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
At sights of charms, enchanting to the eyes,
The gay gallant exclaimed, with fond surprise:--
Ye gods, what striking
beauties
now I see!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
How many colors taken
On
Revolution
Day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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the momentary dews
Which,
sparkling
to the twilight stars, infuse
Freshness in the green turf that wraps the dead,
Whose names are mausoleums of the Muse,
Are gently prest with far more reverent tread
Than ever paced the slab which paves the princely head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When Byron once more
bethought
himself of his old subject, he not only
sent for the MS.
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Byron |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying to every word a
twinborn
sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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POEMS FROM
ADDITIONAL
MS.
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John Donne |
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Or even upon the
measured
pulpitings
Of the familiar false and true?
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Stephen Crane |
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"
II
--"Her look is but her story:
construe
not its symbols keenly:
In her wonderworks yea surely has she wounded where she loves.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And I am
narrowed
to myself once more.
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James Russell Lowell |
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They were a different people from the Goths, though, perhaps, in
alliance
with them.
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Tacitus |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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that
eloquent
voice
Surely I never heard--yet it were well
Had I but heard it with its thrilling tones
In earlier days!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The unshorn mountains to the stars up-toss
Voices of gladness; ay, the very rocks,
The very thickets, shout and sing, 'A god,
A god is he,
Menalcas
"Be thou kind,
Propitious to thine own.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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They
strewed flowers alike on the graves of the
Confederate
and of the
National soldiers.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Qingzhou
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Du Fu - 5 |
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