The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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Heraus mit Eurem
Flederwisch!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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L'une,
insidieuse
et ferme,
Disait: << La Terre est un gateau plein de douceur;
Je puis (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend
Nor constellation burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of
latitudes
unknown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Their feet, that crushed down freedom to its grave
And felt the very earth they trod a slave,
How quiet here they lie in death's cold arms
Without the power to crush the feeble worms
Who spite of all the
dreadful
fears they made
Creep there to conquer and are not afraid.
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John Clare |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[19]
How the character of Satan was to be
represented
is of course
impossible to determine.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
CORYDON
"This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in
polished
marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He himself fell
entangled
in the harness.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Certainly
Pheres can be trusted
to do so, though we must remember that we see him at an unfortunate
moment.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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la bague etait brisee
Que s'ils etaient d'argent ou d'or
D'emeraude ou de diamant
Seront plus clairs plus clairs encore
Que les astres du firmament
Que la lumiere de l'aurore
Que vos regards mon fiance
Auront
meilleure
odeur encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Or the melon--
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste--
it is better to taste of frost--
the
exquisite
frost--
than of wadding and of dead grass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For whatever Reason, however, Omar as before said, has never been
popular in his own Country, and
therefore
has been but scantily
transmitted abroad.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For in
daemonic
fears
Flee even the sons of gods.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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That is a
long way from the solid reality of
material
which epic requires.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1020
So he with
difficulty
and labour hard
Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee;
But hee once past, soon after when man fell,
Strange alteration!
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Milton |
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Then again he dips his wing
In the
wrinkles
of the spring,
Then oer the rushes flies again,
And pearls roll off his back like rain.
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John Clare |
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Light from a crimson cloud
Crimsons the
sluggishly
creeping foams of waves;
The seaman, poised in the bow, rises and falls
As the deep forefoot finds a way through waves;
And there below him, steadily gazing westward,
Facing the wind, the sunset, the long cloud,
The goddess of the ship, proud figurehead,
Smiles inscrutably, plunges to crying waters,
Emerges streaming, gleaming, with jewels falling
Fierily from carved wings and golden breasts;
Steadily glides a moment, then swoops again.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without
crushing?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Fabius Pictor would be well
acquainted
with a document so
interesting to his personal feelings, and would insert large
extracts from it in his rude chronicle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She wakes their smiles, she soothes their cares,
On that pure heart so like to theirs,
Her spirit with such life is rife
That in its golden rays we see,
Touched into graceful poesy,
The dull cold
commonplace
of life.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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When you did change your ring for mine
My yielding heart to win,
Though mine was of the beaten gold
Yours but of
burnished
tin,
Though mine was all true love without,
Yours but false love within?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For upon us
confusion
vile is come,
Now have we lost our king Marsiliun,
For yesterday his hand count Rollanz cut;
We'll have no more Fair Jursaleu, his son;
The whole of Spain henceforward is undone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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He embraced all
subjects; in his philosophy, not always profound, but a keen censor of
the manners, and on moral
subjects
truly admirable.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Some of thy modesty,
That
blossoms
here as well, unseen,
As if before the world thou'dst been,
Oh, give, to strengthen me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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London my home is; though by hard fate sent
Into a long and irksome banishment;
Yet since call'd back,
henceforward
let me be,
O native country, repossess'd by thee!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Neither did Arminius or the other chiefs neglect to declare to their
several bands that "these Romans were the cowardly
fugitives
of the
Varian army, who, because they could not endure to fight, had afterwards
chosen to rebel.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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THE DEAD DRUMMER
I
THEY throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined--just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;
And foreign
constellations
west
Each night above his mound.
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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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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue
Our Bosome interest: Goe
pronounce
his present death,
And with his former Title greet Macbeth
Rosse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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JULIAN'S PRAYER
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,
How many round
attribute
all their cares!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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how oft the
sparkling
eye
Belies the inward tear, where none can gaze!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Charles his great host once more upon us draws,
Of
Frankish
men we plainly hear the horns,
"Monjoie" they cry, and great is their uproar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Le desert et la foret
Embaument
tes tresses rudes,
Ta tete a les attitudes
De l'enigme et du secret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And I remember nothing more
That I can clearly fix,
Till I was sitting on the floor,
Repeating
"Two and five are four,
But _five and two_ are six.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
One
desperate
splash--and no use to me
The noose that swung!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wearied
at last with public importunity and clamour, and with particular
expostulations, he began to unbend a little; not that he would own his
undertaking the Empire, but only avoid the
uneasiness
of perpetually
rejecting endless solicitations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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These priestly litanies are
accompanied
by wild dances--the
Salii are, etymologically, 'the Dancing men'--and by the clashing of
shields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of
withered
oak and shrouded fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
| 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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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
)
If when the clockticks counted sixty,
when the heartbeats of the Republic
came to a stop for a minute,
if the Boy had happened to sit up,
happening to sit up as Lazarus sat up, in the story,
then the first shivering
language
to drip off his mouth
might have come as, "Thank God," or "Am I dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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What may this be,
That thou
dispeyred
art thus causelees?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thy sign hath
conquered
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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In the
beginning
was the Word next God;
God was the Word, the Word no less was He:
This was in the beginning, to my mode
Of thinking, and without Him nought could be:
Therefore, just Lord!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Yet
sometimes
even in a dark day I have
thought them as bright as I ever saw them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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While the tyrant of Castile meditated a new war, he was killed by a fall
from his horse, and, leaving no issue by his queen, Beatrix (the King of
Portugal's daughter), all
pretension
to that crown ceased.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No one
concerned
seemed to think so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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fortiter
et ferrum saeuos patiemur et ignis,
sit modo libertas quae uelit ira loqui.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom
betrayed
the dell,
Many will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Like the doves voice, like
transient
day, like music in the air:
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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This satirical song was composed to
commemorate
General Cope's defeat
at Preston Pans, in 1745, when he marched against the Clans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
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a refund of the money (if any) you paid for this eBook by
sending a request within 30 days of
receiving
it to the person
you got it from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The churlish gales, that
unremitting
blow
Cold from necessity's continual snow, 1820.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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[Note 21: The poet was, on his mother's side, of African extraction,
a circumstance which perhaps
accounts
for the southern fervour of
his imagination.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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] life is blotted out & I alone remain possessd with Fears
I see the [remembrance] Shadow of the dead within my [eyes] Soul wandering*
{bracketed words blotted out, revised as indicated by italics LFS} In darkness &
solitude
forming Seas of [Trouble] Doubt & rocks of [sorrow] Repentance*
{bracketed words blotted LFS} Already are my Eyes reverted.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Peter thinks you mad;
You make men
desperate
if they once are bad:
Else might he take to virtue some years hence--
P.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a grace,
Or raise a pimple on a
beauteous
face,
Like Citron-waters matrons cheeks inflame,
Or change complexions at a losing game; 70
If e'er with airy horns I planted heads,
Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds,
Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,
Or discompos'd the head-dress of a Prude,
Or e'er to costive lap-dog gave disease, 75
Which not the tears of brightest eyes could ease:
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin,
That single act gives half the world the spleen.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The scarce wakened troops of the garrison
Yield up their trust pale with fear;
And down comes the bright British banner,
And out rings a Green
Mountain
cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Upward I reach
To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark,
Pausing an instant, with uplifted hand,
To watch, between black ruined portals of cloud,
One star,--the
tottering
portals fall and crush it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
[556]
_Unmindful
of my fate on India's shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Your chamber was the
steaming
Nile!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
) LFS}
They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
To it a form of vegetation But this Spectre of Tharmas
Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God help pity & help
So spoke they & closd the Gate of Auricular power nerves the Tongue in
trembling
fear*
{Passage written down the right margin LFS}
What have I done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
If you do not, you can receive
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sending a request within 30 days of
receiving
it to the person
you got it from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between mountain and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With
treasure
brought in from the ends of the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
X
My ladies of Ferrara, those of gay
Urbino's court are here; and I descry
Mantua's dames, and all that fair array
Which
Lombardy
and Tuscan town supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" He straight replied:
"To drink up the sweet
wormwood
of affliction
I have been brought thus early by the tears
Stream'd down my Nella's cheeks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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That's why I'll never have a child,
Never shut up a
chrysalis
in a match-box
For the moth to spoil and crush its bright colours,
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
An allegorical or
mystical
treatment is alien
from him: he handles awkwardly the few traditional fables which he
introduces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A narrow bed for me to lie,
(White, O white, is the hemlock
flower)!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He foresaw how the brave Roman nation,
Impatient of the
blandishments
of pleasure
Once sated with vain amusements' measure,
Would turn to civil war as a distraction.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Such
cowardice
of that
knight did I never hear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Not the cormorant, cradled there on the sea,
Not stones from the walls, or the
rhythmic
beat
Of a trader's oars thrashing the waves below.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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My body then doth hers involve, 5
And those things whereof I consist, hereby
In me
abundant
grow, and burdenous,
And nourish not, but smother.
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John Donne |
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With sound the least that can be made,
They follow, more and more afraid,
More cautious as they draw more near;
But in his
darkness
he can hear,
And guesses their intent.
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William Wordsworth |
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Cependant ses embarras d'argent devenus chroniques, aussi bien que son
etat maladif, rendirent
lamentables
les dernieres annees du poete.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XII
All of those greats: Alexander, Caesar and Henry and Fredrick,
Gladly would share with me half of their hard fought renown,
Could I but grant them my bed for one single night, and its comfort,
But the poor
wretches
are held stark in cold Orkian grip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The big rocks are like a flat sword:
The little rocks
resemble
ivory tusks.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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Betst du fur deiner Mutter Seele, die
Durch dich zur langen, langen Pein
hinuberschlief?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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