Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O, let not virtue seek
Remuneration
for the thing it was;
For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating Time.
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Shakespeare |
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The
hospitable
pall
A "this way" beckons spaciously, --
A miracle for all!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Place me where angry Titan burns the Moor,
And thirsty Afric fiery
monsters
brings,
Or where the new-born phoenix spreads her wings,
And troops of wond'ring birds her flight adore:
Place me by Gange, or Ind's empamper'd shore,
Where smiling heavens on earth cause double springs:
Place me where Neptune's quire of Syrens sings,
Or where, made hoarse through cold, he leaves to roar:
Me place where Fortune doth her darlings crown,
A wonder or a spark in Envy's eye,
Or late outrageous fates upon me frown,
And pity wailing, see disaster'd me.
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Petrarch |
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Among the Multitude
Among the men and women the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging
none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child,
any nearer than I am,
Some are baffled, but that one is not--that one knows me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in
the collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Stephen Crane |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What
delicious
cheese-cake!
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and
animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names;
Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta,
Oronoco, Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla;
Leaving such to the States, they melt, they depart,
charging
the water and
the land with names.
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Whitman |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Yet I the vengeance of his shame will wreak--
That do the gods
command!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Beneath a pile that close the dome adjoin'd,
Twelve female slaves the gift of Ceres grind;
Task'd for the royal board to bolt the bran
From the pure flour (the growth and
strength
of man)
Discharging to the day the labour due,
Now early to repose the rest withdrew;
One maid unequal to the task assign'd,
Still turn'd the toilsome mill with anxious mind;
And thus in bitterness of soul divined:
"Father of gods and men, whose thunders roll
O'er the cerulean vault, and shake the pole:
Whoe'er from Heaven has gain'd this rare ostent
(Of granted vows a certain signal sent),
In this blest moment of accepted prayer,
Piteous, regard a wretch consumed with care!
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Odyssey - Pope |
|
]
DISCUSSION ON THE FOREGOING PAPER
THE
CHAIRMAN
(MR.
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Li Po |
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Earth of shine and dark
mottling
the tide of the river!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How
beautiful
thou art!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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gif þæt
gegangeð
þæt .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Already
He is
completely
tangled in her toils.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Place me in lowly state, in power and pride,
Where lour the skies, or where bland zephyrs play
Place me where blind night rules, or
lengthened
day,
In age mature, or in youth's boiling tide:
Place me in heaven, or in the abyss profound,
On lofty height, or in low vale obscure,
A spirit freed, or to the body bound;
Bank'd with the great, or all unknown to fame,
I still the same will be!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
e
emperour
al-so,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'And all at once, as there we sat, we heard
A
cracking
and a riving of the roofs,
And rending, and a blast, and overhead
Thunder, and in the thunder was a cry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Although
your stature is small, 8 your mature energy stretches across the nine regions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Three times
I dreamed the
selfsame
dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then with a jerking hand
Held out so piteously
She gave a ring to me
Of gold wrought curiously,
A ring which she had worn
Since the day that I was born,
She once had said to me:
I slipped it on my finger;
Her eyes were keen to linger
On my hand that slipped it on;
Then she sighed one rattling sigh
And stared on with
sightless
eye:--
The one who loved me was gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Hūn-lāfing, name of a costly sword, which Finn
presents
to Hengest, 1144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Are those
billions
of men really gone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Here take our homage, Chief and Sire;
Here wreathe with bay thy conquering brow,
And bid the
prancing
Mede retire,
Our Caesar thou!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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At last they
sacrificed
the honour of their
party and beat a retreat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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To him enter the essences of the real things and
past and present events--of the enormous diversity of temperature and
agriculture and mines--the tribes of red aborigines--the weather-beaten
vessels entering new ports, or making landings on rocky coasts--the first
settlements north or south--the rapid stature and muscle--the haughty
defiance of '76, and the war and peace and formation of the constitution--
the union always surrounded by blatherers, and always calm and
impregnable--the perpetual coming of immigrants--the wharf-hemmed cities
and
superior
marine--the unsurveyed interior--the loghouses and clearings
and wild animals and hunters and trappers--the free commerce--the fisheries
and whaling and gold-digging--the endless gestations of new states--the
convening of Congress every December, the members duly coming up from all
climates and the uttermost parts--the noble character of the young
mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen--the general
ardour and friendliness and enterprise--the perfect equality of the female
with the male--the large amativeness--the fluid movement of the
population--the factories and mercantile life and labour-saving machinery--
the Yankee swap--the New York firemen and the target excursion--the
Southern plantation life--the character of the north-east and of the north-
west and south-west-slavery, and the tremulous spreading of hands to
protect it, and the stern opposition to it which shall never cease till it
ceases, or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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What
blessings
Thy free bounty gives,
Let me not cast away;
For God is paid when man receives,
To enjoy is to obey.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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He has almost supt: why haue you left the
chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
| 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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["The following lines from a correspondent-besides the deep, quaint
strain of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some ludicrous
touches amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless intended by
the author-appears to us one of the most
felicitous
specimens of unique
rhyming which has for some time met our eye.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Each sphere has its angel
or
intelligence
that moves and directs it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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You see how
serious the
question
has become; 'twill be all over with us, which the
gods forfend, if he should prevail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He fears nor kris nor assegai,
He gazes at man, with no cares at all,
And smiles at the sepoy's musket-ball,
That merely
rebounds
from his hide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy
Northern
sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Close by I congratulate the
Restoration?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Mountains of salt and fragrant gums in vain
Were spent
untainted
to embalm the slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
'T was such a gallant, gallant sea
That
beckoned
it away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Each, each, where thou art lowly laid,
Stands, a suppliant,
homeless
made:
Ah, and all is full of ill,
Comfort is there none to say!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
e ordre
destinal
p{ro}cedi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Moult
sembloit
bien qu'el fust dolente,
Qu'ele n'avoit mie este lente
D'esgratiner tote sa chiere;
N'ele n'avoit pas sa robe chiere,
Ains l'ot en mains leus desciree
Cum cele qui moult iert iree.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
He carries on his shawl-wrapped
shoulders
now
The bitterness, the folly, and the pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
So, lifted with
prophetic
pride,
Raised conquering hands to heaven and cried:
"All hail the Stars and Stripes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
forlorn,
Without thee nothing, wretched,
desolate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
If you have not exhausted the scope of seeing and hearing,
How can you realize the
wideness
of the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Oxford,
Clarendon
Press, 1903, page
3).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail scattered everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind
mutinously
prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
They arrived, at last, at a village
inhabited
by African banditti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Faints into airs, and
languishes
with pride,
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, 35
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Gosse has
suggested
this) of Spanish
fare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"
"
Being freed of the weight of a soul
damnation," a grievous
striving
thing that after much straining was mercifully taken from me ; as had one passed saying as one in the Book of the Dead,
"
I, lo I, am the assembler of souls," and had taken it with him, leaving me thus simplex naturae, even so at peace and trans- sentient as a wood pool I made it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"
I watched him to the door,
catching his robe
as the wine-bowl crashed to the floor,
spilling a few wet lees
(ah, his purple
hyacinth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The Roman
influence
is that of the Rome of the Civil Wars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Since Homer, he has spoken with martial
eloquence through, the voices of Drayton, Spenser, Marlowe, Webster,
Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, Burns, Campbell, Tennyson, Browning,
the New England group, and Walt Whitman,--to mention only a few of the
British and
American
names,--and he speaks sincerely and powerfully
to-day in the writings of Kipling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Meantime, Icarius' daughter, who had placed
Her splendid seat opposite, heard distinct 470
Their
taunting
speeches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Celmonde
canne ne'er from anie byker staie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people
who know absolutely
everything
and people who know absolutely nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"Before me shone a glorious world
Fresh as a banner bright, unfurl'd
To music suddenly:
I look'd upon those hills and plains,
And seem'd as if let loose from chains
To live at
liberty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
" In 1845, it was
transferred
to the class of
"Poems written in Youth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Children, ye heard his
promise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
After a preceding negative verb, _except_: þāra þe gumena bearn gearwe ne
wiston būton Fitela mid hine, _which the
children
of men did not know at
all, except Fitela, who was with him_, 880; ne nom hē māðm-ǣhta mā būton
þone hafelan, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Hierome come
into their mind, _Ubi
generalis
est de vitiis disputatio_, _ibi nullius
esse personae injuriam_?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
250)
When I was young, throughout the hot season
There were no
carriages
driving about the roads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The clouds their backs together laid,
The north begun to push,
The forests galloped till they fell,
The lightning skipped like mice;
The thunder
crumbled
like a stuff --
How good to be safe in tombs,
Where nature's temper cannot reach,
Nor vengeance ever comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
And say, to which shall our
applause
belong,
This new Court jargon, or the good old song?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
How
will it
benefit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
If I mistake not,
Aeschylus
must be in a rage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
" He deposited half of his funds
in the hands of his well-known friends Monsieur and Madame Binat, and
ordered himself a
Zanzibar
dance of the finest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her preference for the young officer, assuring her that he knew
more than she
supposed
he did.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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race d'Abel, ta charogne
Engraissera
le sol fumant!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Those here selected are
strung into
something
of an Eclogue, with perhaps a less than equal
proportion of the "Drink and make-merry," which (genuine or not)
recurs over-frequently in the Original.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Why, noble as thou art, should'st thou invent
Palpable
falsehoods?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and
passionate
memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning
skilfully
while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of romantic art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches
rhetoric
can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[The
Tragedie
of Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1603]
Actus Primus.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Oh, 'twas strange for a pupil of Paul to recline
On voluptuous couch, while
Falernian
wine
Fill'd his cup to the brim!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But all along the shore, for
many hours, there was distinctly heard a sound of severely-suppressed sobs,
and of a vague multitude of living creatures using their
pocket-handkerchiefs in a subdued simultaneous snuffle,
lingering
sadly
along the walloping waves as the boat sailed farther and farther away from
the Land of the Happy Blue-Bottle-Flies.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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To Charles the old, with his great
blossoming
beard,
Day shall not dawn but brings him rage and grief,
Ere a year pass, all France we shall have seized,
Till we can lie in th' burgh of Saint Denise.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It was a pleasure-place within my soul;
An earthly
paradise
supremely fair
That lured me from the goal.
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Christina Rossetti |
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