It breaks the
sunlight
bound on bound:
Goes singing as it leaps along
To sheep-bells with a dreamy sound
A dreamy song.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I am informed that the Boston
newspapers are filled with
paragraphs
from private letters relating to
the expedition.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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TWO nuns alternatively, from the youth;
Experienced many services, in truth;
The one had recently a novice been;
Few months had passed since she complete was seen;
The other still the dress of novice wore;
The youngest's age was
seventeen
years, not more
Time doubtless very proper (to be plain)
Love's wily thesis fully to sustain:
The bachelor so well the fair had taught,
And they so earnestly the science sought,
That by experience both the art had learned,
And ev'ry thing most perfectly discerned.
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La Fontaine |
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To her whom it adorns this sheath imparteth
The living motion from the light surrounding; And thus my nobler parts, to grief's confounding, Impart into my heart a peace which starteth
From one round whom a
graciousness
is cast Which clingeth in the air where she hath past.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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e seke
gladlich
?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in
youthful
season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thence to my view another vale appear'd
CANTO XX
AND now the verse
proceeds
to torments new,
Fit argument of this the twentieth strain
Of the first song, whose awful theme records
The spirits whelm'd in woe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Some dream of effort
Up a toilsome steep;
Some dream of pasture grounds
For
harmless
sheep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Note not the pigment the while that the painting
determines
humanity's
joy and pain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Your glorious
standard
launch again
To match another foe:
And sweep through the deep,
While the stormy winds do blow;
While the battle rages loud and long
And the stormy winds do blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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I come to your wan, bleak hills
For a
greeting
that rises dearer,
To homely hearts draws me nearer
Than the warmth of the rice-fields or wealth of the ranches.
| 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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As Proserpine still weeps for her
Sicilian
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
)
turpiter
hospitium
lecto cumulasse iugali
paenitet et lateri conseruisse latus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Less bold than in days of yore,
Doubting
now though never before,
Doubting he goes and lags the more:
Is the time late?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Most
of the poems from this volume which were selected to be
included
in
"Love Songs" also had some minor changes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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at I scholde han
distourbed
360
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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280
One day remembering her kernel-stone
She set it by a wall that faced the south;
Dewed it with tears, hoped for a root,
Watched for a waxing shoot,
But there came none;
It never saw the sun,
It never felt the trickling moisture run:
While with sunk eyes and faded mouth
She dreamed of melons, as a
traveller
sees
False waves in desert drouth 290
With shade of leaf-crowned trees,
And burns the thirstier in the sandful breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Thus on the coffin loud and long
I strike--the murmur sent
Through the grey
chambers
to my song,
Shall be the accompaniment.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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When thou wast young thou
girdedst
thyself, and walkedst
Whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old,
Thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and other men
Shall gird and carry thee whither thou wouldst not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Therefore, my Lord Protector, give consent
That
Margaret
may be England's royal Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Whose life is all
A simpering
pretence
of modesty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She had expected to find the young officer there, but
she felt
relieved
to see that he was not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He that's comming,
Must be prouided for: and you shall put
This Nights great Businesse into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our Nights, and Dayes to come,
Giue solely
soueraigne
sway, and Masterdome
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The brand he laid in Beowulf's lap;
and of hides
assigned
him seven thousand, {29b}
with house and high-seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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]
[Footnote 22:
Substituted
in 1845 for
the reading of 1833, 1842, 1843, which ran as recorded 'supra'.
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Tennyson |
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ai nolde bilaue, 21
And to
penaunce
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--so bashful at my gaze,
That the lashes, hung with tears,
Grow too heavy to
upraise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(zu Faust):
Stoss zu!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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THIS pilgrim, cried the maid, has got the means
Not only belles to get, but even queens;
Or beauteous goddesses he could obtain:--
He's worth a
thousand
Atis's 'tis plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Courage as the first
necessary
value of life is most naively and simply
expressed, perhaps, in the _Poem of the Cid_; but even here the
expression is, as in all art, unique, and chiefly because it is
contrived through solidly imagined characters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Laws are
explained
by men--so have a care.
| 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 water it soon came in, it did;
The water it soon came in:
So, to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat;
And they
fastened
it down with a pin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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IV
O Pan of the
evergreen
forest,
Protector of herds in the meadows,
Helper of men at their toiling,--
Tillage and harvest and herding,--
How many times to frail mortals 5
Hast thou not hearkened!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ytte hathe
unspryted
mee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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** Clytia--The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a
better-known term, the turnsol--which
continually
turns
towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from
which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its
flowers during the most violent heat of the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Bride gives
response
with perfect coolness, and is given away by the
father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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His thoughts became
unbounded
and he shouted loudly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Project Gutenberg is a registered
trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you
receive
specific
permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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[25] _namastu_ a late form which has followed the analogy of _restu_
in assuming the
feminine
_t_ as part of the root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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One could hardly believe it
possible
that
the trees could have been touched by it; for the barrier hill on
which they grew,--and under whose shelter they have seen centuries
of storm,--goes straight upwards, betwixt them and the west.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The
harlot commands him to eat and drink also:
"It is the
conformity
of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Golightly
bustled
on, wishing that he had brought an umbrella.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Left undisturbed to snatch, and clog his
brambled
den,
With sleepers' bones and plumes of daunted doves,
And other spoil of beasts as timid as the men,
Who shrank when he mock-roared, from glens and groves--
He begged his fellows view the crannies crammed with pelf
Sordid and tawdry, stained and tinselled things,
As ample proof he was the Royal Tiger's self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And now, I'm
different
from before,
As if I breathed superior air,
Or brushed a royal gown;
My feet, too, that had wandered so,
My gypsy face transfigured now
To tenderer renown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
kymeneae_
T
LXIII
Super alta uectus Attis celeri rate maria,
Phrygium ut nemus citato cupide pede tetigit,
adiitque opaca siluis redimita loca deae,
stimulatus ibi furenti rabie, uagus animis,
deuoluit ile acuto sibi pondere silicis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
Far, far across the
crimsoned
map the impassioned armies sweep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_ "The halls of Alkinous and Menelaus glitter
with gold, copper, and electrum; while large stocks of yet
unemployed
metal--gold, copper, and iron are stored up in the
treasure-chamber of Odysseus and other chiefs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet
content!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
FAUST:
Vom Eise befreit sind Strom und Bache
Durch des Fruhlings holden,
belebenden
Blick;
Im Tale grunet Hoffnungsgluck;
Der alte Winter, in seiner Schwache,
Zog sich in rauhe Berge zuruck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Well hast thou
counselled
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Homer's singularity in this
respect is overwhelming; but it is frequently forgotten, and especially
by those who think to help in the Homeric
question
by comparing him with
other "authentic" epics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
It may be observed in passing
that though
Goldsmith
upheld Rowley, Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
One day the two met in the marketplace, and amidst their followers
they began to dispute and to argue about the
existence
or the
non-existence of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Why could it not have been some
one less
important
to him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Then there was a French boy
Who said with
seriousness
that made them laugh,
"Ma friend, you ain't know what it is you're ask.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping
from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
_25 sea edition 1862; sense
editions
1824, 1839.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Once lately, when someone was singing,
Suddenly
I heard a verse--
Before I had time to catch the words
A pain had stabbed my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
[_As the song ceases the doors are thrown open and_ ADMETUS _comes
before them: a great funeral
procession
is seen moving out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force,
fascination?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"
The whole is
redolent
with poetry of a very lofty order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Receive the Law that God to us presents,
Christianity, and then I'll love thee well;
Serve and believe the King
Omnipotent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Hot Egypt's pest 140
Into their vision
covetous
and sly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
And the hills, which stood fast
Ere the first axe was cast
And have seen so much history,
May have
fathomed
the mystery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
e
bisshopes
hem alle among
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
He had long been desirous that these Poems should be printed;
and therefore readily undertook the charge of
superintending
the
edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Phidippides did not yet know
the
irrefutable
argument.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A dragon's fiery form belied the god;
Sublime on radiant spires he rode
When he to fair Olympia prest,
And while he sought her snowy breast;
Then round her slender waist he curl'd,
And stamp'd an image of himself, a
sovereign
of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
While the best, loveliest of them all
I have with me until the dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
e
necessite
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Much use for years
Had
gradually
worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
= For an exposition of the
character
and
duties of the gentleman-usher see the notes to 4.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Meantime
Saturnia from Olympus' brow,
High-throned in gold, beheld the fields below;
With joy the glorious conflict she survey'd,
Where her great brother gave the Grecians aid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
they for joy did grin
And all at once their breath drew in
As they were
drinking
all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
No bound or goal is set to you;
Where'er you like to wander sipping,
And catch a tit-bit in your skipping,
Eschew all coyness, just fall to,
And may you find a good
digestion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The
faithful
witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
It furnishes much comic material, and the characters of
Lady Tailbush and Lady
Eitherside
offer the poet the opportunity for
some of his cleverest touches in characterization and contrast.
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If what's beneath the sky knew eternity,
The monuments, whose form I had you draw,
Not on paper but in marble, porphyry,
Would yet
preserve
their live antiquity.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Why any
seconds?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It
occurred
to him to try to turn his infant talents to account;
and he painted upon cardboard a couple of birds in the style which the
older among us remember as having been called Oriental tinting, took them
to a small shop, and sold them for fourpence.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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) must fall,
And stain the pavement of my regal hall;
Where famish'd dogs, late
guardians
of my door,
Shall lick their mangled master's spatter'd gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Playes made from hallie[32] tales I holde unmeete;
Lette somme greate storie of a manne be songe;
Whanne, as a manne, we Godde and Jesus treate, 45
In mie pore mynde, we doe the
Godhedde
wronge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What
interested
scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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