veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said--"Sadly this star I mistrust--
Her pallor I
strangely
mistrust--
Ah, hasten!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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e iles of
Anglesay
on lyft half he halde3,
& fare3 ouer ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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High-bounding o'er the fosse, the whirling car
Smokes through the ranks, o'ertakes the flying war,
And thunders after Hector; Hector flies,
Patroclus
shakes his lance; but fate denies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And sholde I preye, and weyve
womanhede?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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However much
The trunk be mangled, with the limbs lopped off,
The soul
withdrawn
and taken from the limbs,
Still lives the trunk and draws the vital air.
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Lucretius |
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It happened that Vibius Crispus,[224] a man whose wealth,
influence, and ability had won him a reputation that was great rather
than good, had impeached before the senate a man of equestrian rank,
called Annius Faustus, who had been a professional
informer
under
Nero.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dead is Aeschere,
of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,
my sage adviser and stay in council,
shoulder-comrade in stress of fight
when
warriors
clashed and we warded our heads,
hewed the helm-boars; hero famed
should be every earl as Aeschere was!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I weave a web of fancies
Of tears and
darkness
spun.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And who are you whom my
misfortunes
have
moved to pity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thy soul was
generous
and
mild, like the hour of the setting sun.
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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It is impossible not to regret that Moore has written so little in this
sweet and
genuinely
national style.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Whiles the hero his harp bestirred,
wood-of-delight; now lays he chanted
of sooth and sadness, or said aright
legends of wonder, the wide-hearted king;
or for years of his youth he would yearn at times,
for
strength
of old struggles, now stricken with age,
hoary hero: his heart surged full
when, wise with winters, he wailed their flight.
| 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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Comrades, known by faith the clearest,
Tried when death was near and nearest,
Bound we are by ties the dearest,
Brothers
evermore
to be.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Naught see I
permanent
or sure in thee!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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[90]
With restless
interchange
at once the bright
Wins on the shade, the shade upon the light.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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On the cairn are fixed her eyes
Where her
murdered
father lies,
And a voice remote and drear
She seems to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Not of adamant and gold
Built he heaven stark and cold;
No, but a nest of bending reeds,
Flowering grass and scented weeds;
Or like a traveller's fleeing tent,
Or bow above the tempest bent;
Built of tears and sacred flames,
And virtue
reaching
to its aims;
Built of furtherance and pursuing,
Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And
infiniter
care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Well, so be it,
charming
people!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To either maid wished well that
youthful
knight;
For both were loved, but not alike were dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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With one and twenty sail he
attacked
fifty-four large galleys of
the Moors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Yet here the farmer drove his cart,
Here
friendly
folk would meet and pass,
Here bore the good wife eggs to mart
And old and young walked up to Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the
mountain
tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my brow;
But out!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Flame passes under us
and sparks that unknot the flesh,
sorrow, splitting bone from bone,
splendour athwart our eyes
and rifts in the splendour,
sparks and
scattered
light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Don Sanche suits her choice, and he'll suffice
Since this duel will be the first he fights;
His lack of experience pleases her;
Since he lacks renown she lacks all fear;
And her calm reveals to us readily
She seeks a duel to
discharge
her duty,
One that will give Rodrigue swift victory,
And render him no more her enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
In
punishment
no terror lies; the terror
Doth lie in thy disfavour; in thy presence
Dare I use cunning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And while they wept,
they looked out into the distance and saw the deep
mountain
of Tsang-wu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
WANDERING SINGERS
(Written to one of their Tunes)
Where the voice of the wind calls our
wandering
feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street,
With lutes in our hands ever-singing we roam,
All men are our kindred, the world is our home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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But, when he came to know me well,
_He kicked me out_, _her testy Sire_:
_And when I stained my hair_, _that Belle_
_Might note the change_, _and thus admire_
And love me, it was sure to dye
_A muddy green or staring blue_:
_Whilst one might trace_, _with half an eye_,
_The still
triumphant
carrot through_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
--yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like
forgotten
lyres, whose dissonant strings _5
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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So must be fulfilled the rite
That giveth me the dead year's might;
And at dawn I shall arise
A spirit, though with human eyes,
A human form and human face;
And where'er I go or stay,
There the summer's
perished
grace
Shall be with me, night and day.
| 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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`Was ther non other broche yow liste lete
To feffe with your newe love,' quod he,
`But thilke broche that I, with teres wete, 1690
Yow yaf, as for a
remembraunce
of me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I pluck
chrysanthemums
under the eastern hedge,
Then gaze long at the distant summer hills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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E tutto in dubbio dissi: <
Beatrice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It is hardly too much to say that all
the rest of Pope's work is
directly
traceable to Bolingbroke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine: 405
Me, let the tender office long engage,
To rock the cradle of
reposing
Age,
With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath,
Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, 410
And keep a while one parent from the sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
]
[Illustration:
Minspysia
Deliciosa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
515
Is it not
sufficient
that you will not hate me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But the seventh self
remained
watching and gazing at nothingness,
which is behind all things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
20
Now from the Pulpit to the peoples eares,
Whose speech shall send
repentant
sighes, and teares?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
I stood upon a shore, a pleasant shore,
Where a sweet clime was
breathed
from a land
Of fragrance, quietness, and trees, and flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You think I can't guess what your
business
is?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
LV
Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the
changeless
blood of man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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to
Eufemianes
house,
?
| 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 |
|
And when Pope had once done a good piece of
work, he had all an artist's
reluctance
to destroy it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
Then becometh it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland- dweller amid the rocks and streams
"
consociisfaunts
dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum" Janus of Basel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Heedless-unawed,
untouched
with serious thought, 1838.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
O tell me, father; make my joy
complete!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Not that the deep fundamental
note of humanity is ever absent in his poems; the eternal
diapason
is
there even when least overheard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
For if such holy Song
Enwrap our fancy long,
Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold;
And speckled vanity
Will sicken soon and die,
And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould;
And Hell itself will pass away,
And leave her
dolorous
mansions to the peering day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
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Stephen Crane |
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His Le
Drageoir
aux Epices is a
continuation of Petits Poemes en Prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Unscrew the doors
themselves
from their jambs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The honorable orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing
the syllables "sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
While my eyes were
watching
the clouds that travel to the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
_ Our
Dotterel
then is caught?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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and
affecting
lechery,
In veluet!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Spanish court and
the priests were
supposed
to employ supernatural agencies against the
Protestants.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Franks, chevaliers," says the Emperour then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To
Marsilie
shall carry back my answer.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now the Arians, besides their
forces, in which they surpass the several nations just recounted, are
in their persons stern and truculent; and even humour and improve their
natural
grimness
and ferocity by art and time.
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Tacitus |
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In
Parliament's address to James 'the tender point of prerogative' was
not disturbed, and it was
contrived
that all the blame and punishment
should fall on the patentees.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her
pleasant
days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of unlovely eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Besides are seeds of soul there left behind
In the
breathless
body, or not?
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Lucretius |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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