"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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There he sees Lucifera, the Queen of Pride,
attended
by
her sinful court.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Pallas and I, since Priam's sire
Denied the gods his pledged reward,
Had doom'd them all to sword and fire,
The people and their
perjured
lord.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
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Beowulf |
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If you will take off heads,
take off the head of the sea turtle of Muirthemne, or of the pig
of
Connaught
that has a moon in his belly, or of that old juggler
Manannan, son of the sea, or of the red man of the Boyne, or of the
King of the Cats, for they are of your own sort, and it may be they
understand your ways.
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Yeats |
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He turned on will-power to increase the load
And slow me down--and I abruptly slowed,
Like coming to a sudden
railroad
station.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He holds huge courts every day in his garden of
all the learned men of all religions--Rajahs and beggars and
saints and downright
villains
all delightfully mixed up, and all
treated as one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It had been five thousand and fifty years and some months
since he had been consigned to the
catacombs
at Eleithias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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For the
Jumblies
came in a sieve, they did,--
Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd
Where the Oblong Oysters grow,
And the rocks are smooth and gray.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I saw and heard, for such a
numerous
host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded; and Heav'n Gates
Pourd out by millions her victorious Bands
Pursuing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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The
deathless
fairies take me ofl
To lead them in their dances soft,
And when I tune myself to sing.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Untrodden before,
untrodden
since:
Tedious land for a social Prince;
Halting, he scanned the outs and ins,
Endless, labyrinthine, grim,
Of the solitude that made him wince,
Laying wait for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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So with a yawn I went my way
To seek the welcome downy,
And slept, and dreamed till break of day
Of
Poltergeist
and Fetch and Fay
And Leprechaun and Brownie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
III
Had I the ear of wombed souls
Ere their
terrestrial
chart unrolls,
And thou wert free
To cease, or be,
Then would I tell thee all I know,
And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so?
| 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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Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone,
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a
vanished
age hath flown
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray of glory's light
That gilds your deathless tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and stranger than
the
strangeness
of my madness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
to don equite {and}
gouerni?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
There are poems in _The Book of Pilgrimage_ of the stillness of a
whispered prayer in a great Cathedral and there are others that carry in
their
exultation
the music of mighty hymns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Soll ich den Augen trauen,
Oberon, den schonen Gott,
Auch heute hier zu
schauen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Houses are classed, I beg to state,
According
to the number
Of Ghosts that they accommodate:
(The Tenant merely counts as _weight_,
With Coals and other lumber).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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So
suddenly
I flung the door wide on him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Who robbed the woods,
The
trusting
woods?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
So glad ne was he never in al his lyve;
And to Pandarus reed gan al assente,
And to
Deiphebus
hous at night he wente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
_Enter_
GARDINER
_(turning back from the procession)_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
But now help god to
quenchen
al this sorwe,
So hope I that he shal, for he best may;
For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060
Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day;
And after winter folweth grene May.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Es wird ihr
hoffentlich
nicht schaden!
| 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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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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How have Eden flowers blown,
Squandering
their sweet breath,
Without me to tend them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Fitzdottrel
suspects
Pug of being her husband's spy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Ah, woe upon me, woe
ineffable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men
remember
us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
On his arrival in Naples, Petrarch had an audience with the Queen
Dowager; but her grief and tears for the loss of her husband made this
interview brief and
fruitless
with regard to business.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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And so for the sorrow his soul endured,
men's
gladness
he gave up and God's light chose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"
Scarcely
was the first course served when another noise than that of
music was heard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
34, which the editor
explains
as 'a
proverbial expression for a fruitless task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
But how about the bunches,
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Roused by his Ilia's
plaintive
woes,
He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
--Is it not a fact that this report
Is artfully
concocted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
XVII
To eastward and to westward
Have spread the Tuscan bands;
Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote
In
Crustumerium
stands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
He deemed his friends but longed to make
Great
sacrifices
for his sake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Niebuhr's supposition that each of the three defenders of the
bridge was the representative of one of the three patrician
tribes is both
ingenious
and probable, and has been adopted in
the following poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And thy
dwelling
men shall call
Orestes Town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
There is a period in the life of every artist when his whole being seems
lost in a
contemplation
of the surrounding world, when the application
to work is difficult, like the violent forcing of something that is
awaiting its time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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i-ip-pu-us ul-sa-am
is-si-ma i-ni-i-su
i-ta-mar a-we-lam
iz [32]-za-kar-am a-na harimti
sa-am-ka-at uk-ki-si [33] a-we-lam
a-na mi-nim il-li-kam
zi-ki-ir-su lu-us-su [34]
ha-ri-im-tum is-ta-si a-we-lam
i-ba-us-su-um-ma i-ta-mar-su
e-di-il [35] e-es-ta-hi-[ta-am]
mi-nu a-la-ku-zu na-ah- [36] [ -]ma
e pi-su i-pu-sa-am-[ma]
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluEn-[ki-du]
bi-ti-is e-mu-tim [ ]
si-ma-a-at ni-si-i- ma
tu-sa [37]-ar pa-a-ta-tim [38]
a-na ali dup-sak-ki-i e si-en
UG-AD-AD-LIL e-mi sa-a-a-ha-tim
a-na sarri Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [39] a-na ha-a-a-ri
a-na
iluGilgamis
sarri sa Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [40]
a-na ha-a-a-ri
as-sa-at si-ma-tim i-ra-ah-hi
su-u pa-na-nu-um-ma
mu-uk wa-ar-ka-nu
i-na mi-il-ki sa ili ga-bi-ma
i-na bi-ti-ik a-pu-un-na-ti-su [41]
si- ma- az- zum
a-na zi-ik-ri id-li-im
i-ri-ku pa-nu-su
REVERSE II
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
]
[Sidenote G: Another I aimed at thee because thou
kissedst
my wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
His time and labour
constantly
were lost;
Vain proved each effort: mystick skill was crossed;
The wind, or rain, or fog, or frost, or snow,
Had no effect: still circular 'twould go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
like a bad leech falling sick
Thou art faint at soul, and canst not find the drugs
Required
to save thyself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
His time and labour
constantly
were lost;
Vain proved each effort: mystick skill was crossed;
The wind, or rain, or fog, or frost, or snow,
Had no effect: still circular 'twould go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
like a bad leech falling sick
Thou art faint at soul, and canst not find the drugs
Required
to save thyself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
This exquisite
fragment
is printed in
Coleridge's works in a prefatory note to the prose "Wanderings of Cain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
like a bad leech falling sick
Thou art faint at soul, and canst not find the drugs
Required
to save thyself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
THE years had passed away, when Philip tried,
In matters more profound his son to guide;
He spoke of
Paradise
and Heav'n above;
But not a word of woman,--nor of LOVE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
This exquisite
fragment
is printed in
Coleridge's works in a prefatory note to the prose "Wanderings of Cain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The editor
accordingly
published
it (no payment being asked) and great curiosity
was aroused in consequence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
But the _mitrailleuse_
splutters
and stutters, and riddles him into a
sieve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Is it not
beautiful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
It may, however, have come from
the common source of this poem, and there are
divergences
in order and
text which make me think that they are thus derived from one common
source.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Thus sang the Potter at his task
Beneath the
blossoming
hawthorn-tree,
While o'er his features, like a mask,
The quilted sunshine and leaf-shade
Moved, as the boughs above him swayed,
And clothed him, till he seemed to be
A figure woven in tapestry,
So sumptuously was he arrayed
In that magnificent attire
Of sable tissue flaked with fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Con l'unghie si fendea ciascuna il petto;
battiensi
a palme e gridavan si alto,
ch'i' mi strinsi al poeta per sospetto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
ni
Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I could have borne him
A
thousand
miles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Now, that I should be permitted to write about these as so many
others have done and with success I do not believe it can be doubted; and
people cannot condemn me for so doing, without also condemning Ariosto
before me and the
Ancients
before Ariosto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
--Entre le laurier-rose et le lotus jaseur
Glisse amoureusement le grand Cygne reveur
Embrassant la Leda des blancheurs de son aile;
--Et tandis que Cypris passe, etrangement belle,
Et, cambrant les rondeurs splendides de ses reins,
Etale
fierement
l'or de ses larges seins
Et son ventre neigeux brode de mousse noire,
--Heracles, le Dompteur, qui, comme d'une gloire
Fort, ceint son vaste corps de la peau du lion,
S'avance, front terrible et doux, a l'horizon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
ni
Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"
Owing to the high combustibility of both the flax and the tar to which
it adhered, the dwarf had scarcely made an end of his brief speech
before the work of
vengeance
was complete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array
the flagons and
engarland
the wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
ni
Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The best
knowledge
last I have.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Deeming himself a veteran scarred
In love's campaigns Oneguine heard
With quite a lachrymose expression
The
youthful
poet's fond confession.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's
presence
when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Deeming himself a veteran scarred
In love's campaigns Oneguine heard
With quite a lachrymose expression
The
youthful
poet's fond confession.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Although the clouded storm dismays Many a heart upon these waters, The thought of that far golden blaze Giveth me heart upon the waters,
Thinking
thereof my bark is led
To port wherein no storm I dread; No tempest maketh me afraid.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Shal thus
Criseyde
awey, for that thou wilt?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Everyone
knows him and ought to adore him,
Herald of Zeus: Hermes, the healing god.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Shal thus
Criseyde
awey, for that thou wilt?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Him all our haste
Restrain'd not, but thus spake the sire belov'd:
Fear not to speed the shaft, that on thy lip
Stands
trembling
for its flight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Why dost thou pause,
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Shal thus
Criseyde
awey, for that thou wilt?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Does my friend there, with a bullet resting on half
an ounce of powder, think that he needs that
argument
in conversing
with me?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Shal thus
Criseyde
awey, for that thou wilt?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[97] An accusation
frequently
hurled at the orators.
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Aristophanes |
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Do not fold
yourself
so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often breaking up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often searching out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our
promises
and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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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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I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words,
And like
unlettered
clerk still cry 'Amen'
To every hymn that able spirit affords,
In polish'd form of well-refined pen.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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