M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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tante chi stipa
nove
travaglie
e pene quant' io viddi?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Darius, Assar-addon, Hamilcar;
Who have led men in legions out to war,
Or have o'er Time's shade cast rays from their seat,
Or throngs in worship made their name repeat,
These were, but all the cup of life have drank;
Rising 'midst clamor, they in
stillness
sank.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So long as Death 'twixt dance and dance
Chills best and bravest blood,
And drops the
reckless
rider down
The rotten, rain-soaked khud,
So long as rumours from the North
Make loving wives afraid,
So long as Burma takes the boy
Or typhoid kills the maid,
If you love me as I love you
What knife can cut our love in two?
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
"There's no special reason why
anything
in the world should ever be
done.
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Kipling - Poems |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the swinging prow;
And
question
of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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None the less I cannot really believe that, if we make
patient use of our
available
knowledge, the _Alcestis_ presents any
startling enigma.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He would have added, and
he was daily doing it, whatever was requisite to
complete
his
oratorical genius; and all that could be desired, was more vigour in
argument, and more attention to matter and sentiment, than to the
choice of words.
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Tacitus |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes
outshine
the dying day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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--Who art thou
That comest here in this
mysterious
guise
Into our camp unheralded?
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Longfellow |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All
villains
that do stand by thee are pure.
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Shakespeare |
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We hear the warlike clarions we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in
indolence
reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Such tortuous
expression
of emotion did not
lead to good poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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-
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Time since has twined them in more sober braid,
And with a snare so
powerful
bound my heart,
Death from its fetters only can unbind.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The outer walls were almost all decayed,
The door, for ancient Marquises once made--
Raised many steps above the
courtyard
near--
Commanded view of the horizon clear.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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or the lines of the arches
and
cornices?
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Whitman |
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Then fiercely rushing on the daring foe,
His lifted arm
prepares
the fatal blow:
But, jealous of his fame, Apollo shrouds
The god-like Trojan in a veil of clouds.
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Iliad - Pope |
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dȳre īren,
2051;
drincfæt
dȳre (dēore), 2307, 2255; instr.
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Beowulf |
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XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our
undivided
loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As he that sees a starre fall, runs apace,
And findes a gellie in the place, 205
So doth the
Bridegroome
hast as much,
Being told this starre is falne, and findes her such.
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John Donne |
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Banquets and game tables, operas, balls,
promenades
down the Corso?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'BUS-TOP
Black shapes bending,
Taxicabs
crush in the crowd.
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Imagists |
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Still sprung from those swift hoofs,
thundering
South,
The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth;
Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,
Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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FACIT VERSUS, QUALES
CATULLUS
AUT
CALVUS.
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Robert Herrick |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"Is she
unhappy?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Oh, call not Nature dumb;
These trees and stones are audible to me,
These idle flowers, that tremble in the wind,
I
understand
their faery syllables,
And all their sad significance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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On great pied motionless moth-wings borne along,
So effortless and so strong,
Cutting each other's paths, together they glided,
Then wheeled asunder till they soared divided
Two valleys' width (as though it were delight
To part like this, being sure they could unite
So swiftly in their empty, free dominion),
Curved
headlong
downward, towered up the sunny steep,
Then, with a sudden lift of the one great pinion,
Swung proudly to a curve and from its height
Took half a mile of sunlight in one long sweep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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All motions, sounds, and voices, far and nigh,
Blend in a music of tranquillity; [91]
Save when, a
stranger
seen below [92] the boy
Shouts from the echoing hills with savage joy.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that everything beneath the moon
Is
corruptible
and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
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Euripides - Electra |
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h Voss
11
_tenebricosum_
h2: _tenebrosum_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
This is because, in context, the past tense seems to fit better,
and
therefore
this change allows the text to flow better.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Send me far into Thy barren land
Where the snow clouds the wild wind drives,
Where
monasteries
like gray shrouds stand--
August symbols of unlived lives.
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Rilke - Poems |
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* There was then a design of
repairing
St.
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Marvell - Poems |
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whither wanders thy distemper'd brain,
Thou bold
intruder
on a princely train?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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)
I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,
I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown'd ladies, impeach'd ministers, rejected kings,
Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced
chieftains
and the rest.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The waves in easy motion went rolling on their way,
English colours were a-flying where the British
squadron
lay.
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John Clare |
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The real
intention
of the _Aeneid_, and the real intention
of _Paradise Lost_, are not easily brought into vivid apprehension.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Royalty payments must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But setting aside the fact
that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients
had a
superstitious
belief in the great age of trees which grew near
places consecrated by the presence of gods and great men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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With his father's
might Pyrrhus presses on; nor guards nor
barriers
can hold out.
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Hodge, in his waggon, marks the wondrous tongue,
And talks with echo as he drives along;
Still cracks his whip, bawls every horse's name,
And echo still as ready bawls the same:
The puzzling mystery he would gladly cheat,
And fain would utter what it can't repeat,
Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf
As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself;
And, quite convinced with the proofs it gives,
The boy drives on and fancies echo lives,
Like some wood-fiend that frights benighted men,
The
troubling
spirit of a robber's den.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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His wise and patient heart shall share
The strong sweet loveliness of all things made, 10
And the
serenity
of inward joy
Beyond the storm of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The ridge of your breast is taut,
and under each the shadow is sharp,
and between the
clenched
muscles
of your slender hips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Within yon milk-white hawthorn bush,
Amang her nestlings sits the thrush;
Her faithfu' mate will share her toil,
Or wi' his song her cares beguile:
But I, wi' my sweet
nurslings
here,
Nae mate to help, nae mate to cheer,
Pass widow'd nights and joyless days,
While Willie's far frae Logan braes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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_I_ charge you, by great Saint Martino
And prodigies
quickened
by wrong,
Remember your Dead on Ticino;
Be worthy, be constant, be strong--
Bah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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bring ye to
Demodocus
his lyre
Clear-toned, left somewhere in our hall at home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin
To use my land to put his
rainbows
in.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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O God, if Orpheus' voice were mine, to sing
To Death's high Virgin and the Virgin's King,
Till their hearts failed them, down would I my path
Cleave, and naught stay me, not the Hound of Wrath,
Not the grey oarsman of the ghostly tide,
Till back to
sunlight
I had borne my bride.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pull him upon his knees before his curses
Have plucked thunder and
lightning
on our heads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The paintings represented subjects
connected
with the
various supposed duties of the soul, and its presentation to different
divinities, with numerous identical human figures, intended, very
probably, as portraits of the persons embalmed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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A thousand lamps
On pit, stalls, boxes,
brightly
blaze,
Impatiently the gallery stamps,
The curtain now they slowly raise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Chaucer, _Nonne
Preestes
Tale_, l.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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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.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered
in straw?
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Partaken, it
relieves
indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He represents the abuses, the
chicanery, and
mercenary
practices of the law, as inconsistent with
every principle of candour and honesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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He
explained
that the portico alone was adorned with no less
than four and twenty columns, five feet in diameter, and ten feet apart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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HE WISHES HIS BELOVED WERE DEAD
WERE you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,
You would come hither, and bend your head,
And I would lay my head on your breast;
And you would murmur tender words,
Forgiving
me, because you were dead:
Nor would you rise and hasten away,
Though you have the will of the wild birds,
But know your hair was bound and wound
About the stars and moon and sun:
O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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He stood, and heard not Thea's sobbing deep;
A little time, and then again he snatch'd 140
Utterance
thus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Da che fatto fu poi di sangue bruno,
ricomincio
a dir: <
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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