--Affliction teacheth a wicked person some time
to pray:
prosperity
never.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Through the wild ocean plough the
dangerous
way,
And leave his fortunes and his house a prey?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Aurora
conferred
upon him
immortality without youth, hence the epithet "aged.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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One spot on the margin of Lake
Regillus
was
regarded during many ages with superstitious awe.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And do you see with what
pleasure
this sickle-maker is making
long noses at the spear-maker?
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Aristophanes |
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'No, such a genius never can lie still;'
And then for mine
obligingly
mistakes
The first lampoon Sir Will.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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A man whose father and mother were Irish
Ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain;
He drove a covered wagon years ago,
Understood
how to handle a rifle,
Shot grouse, buffalo, Indians, in a single year,
And now was raising goats around a shanty.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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More remote and buxom-brown,
The Queen of vintage bow'd before his throne;
A rich
pomegranate
gemm'd her crown,
A ripe sheaf bound her zone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For whatever effulgence
Hath first
streamed
off, no matter where it falls,
Is lost unto the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From innocent play, and leave the
cowslips
plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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More
discontents
I never had, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Bearing the
sleeping
Mahaud they moved now
Silent and bent with heavy step and slow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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E'en now dull earth and
wandering
floods,
And Atlas' limitary range,
And Styx, and Taenarus' dark abodes
Are reeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom
to reach the gentle fields of air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former
pleasures
in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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344:
--You shall fry first
For a rotten piece of touchwood, and give fire
To the great fiend's nostrils, when he smokes
tobacco!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Diary (quoted
_Annals_
2.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Wherefore
again, again, there's naught for wonder
*****
In those which render from the mirror's plane
A vision back, since each thing comes to pass
By means of the two airs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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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: |
Keats - Lamia |
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I am informed that it was through Emerson's intervention that
he obtained the
sanction
of President Lincoln for this purpose of charity,
with authority to draw the ordinary army rations; Whitman stipulating at
the same time that he would not receive any remuneration for his services.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The winds that make Icarian billows dark
The
merchant
fears, and hugs the rural ease
Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
question
is not very material, since conjecture alone must decide it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Yea,
Holofernes
now can bring no shame
Upon me that Ozias hath not brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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8•
Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But waxing time and growth betrays
The blood-thirst of the lion-race,
And, for the house's fostering care,
Unbidden all, it revels there,
And bloody recompense repays--
Rent flesh of tine, its talons tare:
A mighty beast, that slays and slays,
And mars with blood the
household
fair,
A God-sent pest invincible,
A minister of fate and hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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en hy3es heruest, &
hardenes
hym sone.
| 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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But Irus and the stranger have not fought,
Urged by the suitors, and the stranger prov'd
Victorious; yes--heav'n knows how much I wish
That, (in the palace some, some in the court)
The suitors all sat vanquish'd, with their heads
Depending low, and with
enfeebled
limbs, 290
Even as that same Irus, while I speak,
With chin on bosom propp'd at the hall-gate
Sits drunkard-like, incapable to stand
Erect, or to regain his proper home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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6 _istis_ a
8 _potest a se_ (uel _ase_)
_uendicare_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Rodrigue
But the
infamous
shall not remain above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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_Who after his
transgression
doth repent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But therewithal the queenly
daughter
of Saturn puts the last touch to
war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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They sit in the
reverend
Hall: `Shall we declare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Morning at the Window
They are
rattling
breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Honour to the woods
unshorn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Behind the
mountain
sank the moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It has been the fashion of late days to deny Moore Imagination, while
granting him Fancy--a distinction
originating
with Coleridge--than whom
no man more fully comprehended the great powers of Moore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"What
possesses
my Ivan Kouzmitch to-day to drill his troops so long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_ The first
stringed
instruments were
said to be made of tortoise-shells with strings stretched across.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I see it all now: when I wanted a king,
'Twas the
kingship
that failed in myself I was seeking,-- 90
'Tis so much less easy to do than to sing,
So much simpler to reign by a proxy than _be_ king!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Ere long, with
melancholy
rise and swell,
The evening chimes, the convent's vesper bell,
Struck on mine ears amid the amorous flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The Muses, still with Freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle, with matchless beauty crown'd,
And manly hearts to guard the fair:--
Rule
Britannia!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
) 'O seer' I cry,
'To the stern
sanction
of the offended sky
My prompt obedience bows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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proueniebant
oratores nouei, stulti adulescentuli.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Be thou me,
impetuous
one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
John
Masefield
is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The Everlasting Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the
lifeless
corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields
transport
the standing corn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Cuddie and his mother in 'Old
Mortality!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Quod si te mala mens
furorque
vecors
In tantam inpulerit, sceleste, culpam, 15
Vt nostrum insidiis caput lacessas,
A tum te miserum malique fati,
Quem attractis pedibus patente porta
Percurrent raphanique mugilesque.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"
I
straightway
rose, and show'd myself less spent
Than I in truth did feel me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
What
historical
Authority has Mons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Bealo-cwealm hafað
"fela feorh-cynna feorr
onsended!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Arias
Allow your
feelings
to respond to reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally
accessible
and useful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
It may not be: nor even can Fancy's eye
Restore what time hath
laboured
to deface.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
THE
EDUCATION
OF NATURE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of
favorite
things I had,
Balked of much desired:
Yet farther on my road to-day,
God willing, farther on my way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Time doth
transfix
the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
But 'tis a law they make
That their accord
themselves
should never break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
) The Seventy-two
Religions
supposed to divide the World,
including Islamism, as some think: but others not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I too leave the rest--great as it is, it is nothing--houses,
machines
are
nothing--I see them not;
I see but you, O warlike pennant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Tell them, and press it on their mind,
As thou thyself must shortly find,
The smile or frown of awful Heav'n,
To virtue or to Vice is giv'n,
Say, to be just, and kind, and wise--
There solid self-enjoyment lies;
That foolish, selfish,
faithless
ways
Lead to be wretched, vile, and base.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Since ancient days, an
uninhabited
realm, 36 in this present age, pikes and lances are brandished.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
How the clouds pass
silently
overhead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Li rossignos lores s'efforce
De chanter et de faire noise;
Lors s'esvertue, et lors s'envoise
Li
papegaus
et la kalandre:
Lors estuet jones gens entendre
A estre gais et amoreus
Por le tens bel et doucereus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The band sat down,
and watched on the water worm-like things,
sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep,
and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness --
such as oft essay at hour of morn
on the road-of-sails their
ruthless
quest, --
and sea-snakes and monsters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
It
is so
wonderful
that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
iam Catullus obdurat,
nec te
requiret
nec rogabit inuitam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
till the light
Wake you to sin and crime again,
Whilst on your dreams, like dismal rain,
I scatter
downward
through the night
My maledictions dark and deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
When
conquered
and driven beyond the Elbe by Tiberius, they occupied that part of the country where are now Prignitz, Ruppin, and part of the Middle Marche.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"Some year or more ago, I s'pose,
I roamed from Maine to Floridy,
And, -- see where them
Palmettos
grows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Look thou to him
And his beneficence: for he shall cause
Reversal of their lot to many people,
Rich men and beggars
interchanging
fortunes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
He had nothing of a more detailed or
accurate
nature to
relate, having been afraid of going too far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now when
Aldeboran?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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lili
more
apparent
errors have been corrected, and
some advance made toward a pure text.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thereon Allecto, steeped in Gorgonian venom, first seeks Latium and the
high house of the
Laurentine
monarch, and silently sits down before
Amata's doors, whom a woman's distress and anger heated to frenzy over
the Teucrians' coming and the marriage of Turnus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The day came slow, till five o'clock,
Then sprang before the hills
Like
hindered
rubies, or the light
A sudden musket spills.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(He unbridles and
unsaddles
the horse.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Once, among the Pleiads walking,
Seyd
overheard
the young gods talking;
And the treason, too long pent,
To his ears was evident.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Th'
adventurous
baron the bright locks admired; 45
He saw, he wished, and to the prize aspired.
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