what a knight, were he a
Christian
yet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Not to go back, is
somewhat
to advance,
And men must walk at least before they dance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Sea, and hill, and wood,
With all the
numberless
goings-on of life,
Inaudible as dreams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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I hardly thought you
So
absolute
a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Leonor
Yet, Madame,
considering
your success
Your show of sadness runs now to excess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
LXII
So said, the cavalier remounts his horse,
And serves the gallant damsel as a guide;
Who is
prepared
Rogero's gaol to force,
Or to be slain, or in his prison stied.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O chalice of all common
miseries!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They read of
politics
and not of grain,
And speechify and comment and explain,
And know so much of Parliament and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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4 This refers to the
disastrous
defeat of the hastily assembled imperial army outside of Tong Pass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Careless to please, with
insolence
ye woo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
The writer shamelessly
distorts facts to show that Chatterton was an utterly profligate
blackguard and
declares
finally that neither Rowley nor Chatterton
wrote the poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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You should not murmur if your fate is,
To have a bit of
pleasure
gratis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The sober Autumn enter'd mild,
When he grew wan and pale;
His bending joints and
drooping
head
Show'd he began to fail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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My head flew to my feet and yet I never
fled,
wherefore
I deserve to be called the better man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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" Then you grasped my hand
With a
brotherly
grip, and you made me feel
Something that Time would surely reveal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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420
Upon du Chatelet he
ferselie
sett,
And peerc'd his bodie with a force full grete;
The asenglave of his tylt-launce was wett,
The rollynge bloude alonge the launce did fleet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So hidden in her leaflets,
Lest anybody find;
So breathless till I passed her,
So
helpless
when I turned
And bore her, struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The grassy seat beneath their
casement
shade
The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
He was hunted with dogs in the mountains of Cabaret, and wore a
wolfskin
to give the scent to the dogs and masters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Ma tosto ruppe le dolci ragioni
un alber che
trovammo
in mezza strada,
con pomi a odorar soavi e buoni;
e come abete in alto si digrada
di ramo in ramo, cosi quello in giuso,
cred' io, perche persona su non vada.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Death is
consoler
and Death brings to life;
The end of all, the solitary hope;
We, drunk with Death's elixir, face the strife,
Take heart, and mount till eve the weary slope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Thus wears the month along, in checkered moods,
Sunshine
and shadows, tempests loud, and calms;
One hour dies silent oer the sleepy woods,
The next wakes loud with unexpected storms;
A dreary nakedness the field deforms--
Yet many a rural sound, and rural sight,
Lives in the village still about the farms,
Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night
Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The Burbages leased it to Henry Evans
for the performances of the
Children
of the Chapel, and the King's
Servants acted there after the departure of the children.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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UPON HIMSELF
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love's fire shines
Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines;
And learn'd
musicians
shall, to honour Herrick's
Fame, and his name, both set and sing his lyrics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Ricorditi,
ricorditi!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
325
For hoolly al the storie of Troye
Was in the glasing y-wroght thus,
Of Ector and king Priamus,
Of
Achilles
and Lamedon,
Of Medea and of Iason, 330
Of Paris, Eleyne, and Lavyne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
From mean account
Lifted to mighty, where the resolute
Waters ot Aufidus
reverberant
ring
O'er fields where Daunus once held rustic state,
Of barren acres simple-minded king,--
There was I born, and first of men did mate
To lyre of Latium Aeolic lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
And all my
Children?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about
donations
to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
5
uisam te incolumem audiamque Hiberum
narrantem
loca, facta, nationes,
ut mos est tuus, applicansque collum
iucundum os oculosque suauiabor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
embracing
her in sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
Why will you plead
yourself
so sad forlorn,
While I am striving how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
An Ace of Hearts steps forth: The King unseen 95
Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen:
He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace,
And falls like thunder on the
prostrate
Ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
I am
doubtful
whether it would not
be an improvement to keep out the last stanza but one altogether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Sweet and joyous lady, know
Without your loving, there,
I die, my heart it breaks so
The pulse is
scarcely
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
every house and room is bright
With
glimmers
of reflected light
From plates that on the dresser shine;
Flagons to foam with Flemish beer,
Or sparkle with the Rhenish wine,
And pilgrim flasks with fleurs-de-lis,
And ships upon a rolling sea,
And tankards pewter topped, and queer
With comic mask and musketeer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
"--She said it from the sea,
The English minstrel in her minstrelsy,
While, under
brighter
skies than erst she knew,
Her heart grew dark, and groped there as the blind
To reach across the waves friends left behind--
"Do you think of me as I think of you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
--
Thus the
tradition
of the gusty deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
For the sense of the ultimate
uselessness
of life, of
the blankness of imperturbable darkness that surrounds it, Goethe's word
"Hell" is not too shocking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
His _pates a la fois_ were beyond doubt immaculate; but
what pen can do justice to his essays _sur la Nature_--his
thoughts
sur
_l'Ame_--his observations _sur l'Esprit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
And be as thou wert wont to be
Ere we were
disunited?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
'Twill murmur on a
thousand
years
And flow as now it flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
{a}t we
resseyuen
{and} ne thinke nat on it / {and} as we drawen owr{e}
breth in slepynge ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
'
`How hastow thus
unkindely
and longe
Hid this fro me, thou fool?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
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: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Well hast thou
counselled
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
The immutable calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one
mummified
winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
4 Set
medicine
inquit tempus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
2) The
dedication
of the poem "Sunrise", at the beginning of this volume,
is in the 1918 copy, but not in the 1898 copy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
You built your cities rich
Around each towered hall,--
Without, the statued niche,
Within, the
pictured
wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Defeat, my Defeat, my
deathless
courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
We know who once, and in what shrine with you-
The he-goats looked aside- the light nymphs laughed-
MENALCAS
Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash
Micon's young vines and trees with
spiteful
hook.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
uiden ut faces
splendidas
quatiunt
comas?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
The legions in front, when the din
told them what had happened,
redoubled
their efforts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work
electronically
in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
And so I would, were it not for fear,
For never has one so shaped and made
For love such
diffidence
displayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Nor, though a prince, to be a man refused ;
But rather than in his Eliza's pain
Not love, not grieve, would neither live nor
reign;
And in himself so ofl
immortal
tried.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
R sed uix ab eadem
manu
6 _truf_(_ff_ a)_antem_ Da:
_crissantem_
marg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
There, by the starlit fences,
The wanderer halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the
glimmering
weirs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made
existence
home!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
`Wo worth the faire gemme
vertulees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Oenone
Madame, by the tears for you that wet my face,
By your
faltering
knees that I here embrace,
Free my spirit from dreadful questioning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
"
On which Violet, who was
perfectly
acquainted with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
"
With his right hand he has
absolved
and signed,
Then to his care the wand and brief confides.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Can you fear at present to enter a country where you
have triumphed since your
childhood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
In a
word, we must be in that mood which, as nearly as possible, is the
exact
converse
of the poetical.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
ON A
FAVOURITE
CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
" And
yet,
whenever
Wine, Wine-bearer, &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
' The
fact is that both words were
sometimes
spelt _geere_, as well
as in a variety of other ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Then Pallas, Goddess azure-eyed, her thoughts
Elsewhere directing, all the city ranged
In
semblance
of Telemachus, each man
Exhorting, at the dusk of eve, to seek
The gallant ship, and from Noemon, son
Renown'd of Phronius, ask'd, herself, a bark,
Which soon as ask'd, he promis'd to supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
net),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
So sieh dies Zeichen
Dem sie sich beugen,
Die
schwarzen
Scharen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
London:
documents
at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
It thou canst not
With
anything
compare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Sweet to his mate, recumbent o'er his young,
The
nightingale
his spousal anthem sung;
From ev'ry bower the holy chorus rose,
From ev'ry bower the rival anthem flows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
She hath such
tendance
as the dying crave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He was among the
garrison
of Mayence
when this place was besieged by the Prussians, and obliged to
capitulate after a long and famous siege (from 6th April 1793 to 22nd
July 1793).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
stod,
&
grantede
him wi?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
" She replied:
"No greater grief than to
remember
days
Of joy, when mis'ry is at hand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
SWANS
NIGHT is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their
reflection
in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
speak and
perchance
I shall let myself be softened.
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Aristophanes |
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No crier to the polling summons the eager throng;
No Tribune
breathes
the word of might that guards the weak from
wrong.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A coolness of
twilight
takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My son while he was infant yet, and own'd 660
An infant's mind, could never give consent
That I should wed and leave him; but at length,
Since he hath reached the stature of a man,
He wishes my departure hence, the waste
Viewing
indignant
by the suitors made.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So that not fainting, but
refresht
and astonisht
And strangely spirited and divinely angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--For a man to write well, there
are required three necessaries--to read the best authors, observe the best
speakers, and much exercise of his own style; in style to
consider
what
ought to be written, and after what manner.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued accompaniment a note of
gratitude
for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O hours with all
illusion
rife,
As ere the heart divined what ill meant!
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James Russell Lowell |
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