Of those I often have contact with 4 I
remember
one, but don?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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My
inducement
hither
Was not at present here to find my son.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Is this too little for the
boundless
heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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,
I would
accompany
the show
As moral lecturer, the foe 590
Of Rationalism; while you could throw
The rappings in, and make them go
Strict Puritan principles, you know,
(How _do_ you make 'em?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ah, notorious as thou art,
Why hast thou shewn this
vagabond
the way
Into the city?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
warriors
are all dead: they lie on the moor-field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
e
kyng of
p{er}ciens
weep pitou[s]ly for ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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'The hawthorn's faint and quickly gone,
The grass in autumn dies;
Put by your life, and see the spring
With
everlasting
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She has a beautiful
speaking-voice, and, an almost rarer thing, a perfect ear for verse;
and nothing but the
attempting
of it will show how far these things
can be taught or developed where they exist but a little.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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My father, mother, all I trust to three;
To them, to them,
transfer
the love of me:
But, when my son grows man, the royal sway
Resign, and happy be thy bridal day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,
Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,
Fill up the interspersed vacancies
And momentary pauses of the
thought!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of
damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And was he confident until
Ill
fluttered
out in everlasting well?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Where are those bloody banners which of yore
Waved o'er thy sons, victorious to the gale,
And drove at last the
spoilers
to their shore?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He them with speeches meet 60
Does faire entreat; no courting nicetie,
But simple true, and eke
unfained
sweet,
As might become a Squire so great persons to greet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Chvabrine's
insolence
made me furious, but no one else, except myself,
understood his coarse allusions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Here a
change in his
demeanor
became evident.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Fear holds dominion over mortality
Only because, seeing in land and sky
So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
Men think
Divinities
are working there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And much speculation
does this wandering star afford to the musing night-walker, leading
him on and on, jack-o'-lantern-like, over the meadows; or, if he is
wiser, he amuses himself with imagining what of human life, far in the
silent night, is
flitting
moth-like round its candle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
It becomes
intelligible
as
soon as we observe that Sophocles was deliberately seeking what he
regarded as an archaic or "Homeric" style (cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In gracious
splendour!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Geronimo
Gil, at your service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nor know I
hardships
in the world so sure
To break the strongest down, as those by sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The forest
spread wide in tangled thickets and dark ilex; thick growth of briars
choked it all about, and the muffled pathway
glimmered
in a broken
track.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
20
And a tinkling Eastern wind-bell,
With its fluttering inscription,
From the rafters with bronze music
Should retard the quiet fleeting
Of
uncounted
hours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"Alone" is stated to have been written by Poe in the album of
a
Baltimore
lady (Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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ilicet aduentu noctem dignata iugalem
addidit augendis munera sacra toris,
munera
mortalis
non admittentia cultus,
munera, quae solos fas habuisse deos.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
That was why He took my
little
children!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst bind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
we wrong the noble dead
To vex their solemn slumber so;
Though childless, and with thorn-crowned head,
Up the steep road must England go,
Yet when this fiery web is spun,
Her
watchmen
shall descry from far
The young Republic like a sun
Rise from these crimson seas of war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the
Foundation
web page at http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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He, nor that affable
familiar
ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your countenance fill'd up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
XLIV
There when the Elfin knight arrived was,
The first and chiefest of the seven, whose care
Was guests to welcome, towardes him did pas: 390
Where seeing Mercie, that his steps upbare,
And alwayes led, to her with
reverence
rare
He humbly louted in meeke lowlinesse,
And seemely welcome for her did prepare:
For of their order she was Patronesse, 395
Albe Charissa were their chiefest founderesse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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La terre, demi-nue,
heureuse
de revivre,
A des frissons de joie aux baisers du soleil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Everyone
to his liking--
VARLAAM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
CLVIII
The count Rollanz, when their approach he sees
Is grown so bold and
manifest
and fierce
So long as he's alive he will not yield.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
In the first
paroxysm
of his
disappointment he wrote a letter to his friend, which portrays strongly
affectionate feelings, but at the same time an irascible temper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I
scarcely
now know what it is,
And yet I fear it--fear I know not what!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"
Then up and spake the popinjay,
Sae wisely
counselled
he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
From Far Dakota's Canyons [June 25, 1876]
From far Dakota's canyons,
Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the
lonesome
stretch, the
silence,
Haply to-day a mournful wall, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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gehēton æt
hærgtrafum
wīg-weorðunga, _vowed
offerings at the shrines of the gods_, 175; þonne wē gehēton ūssum hlāforde
þæt .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
XVII
THEN
hastened
those heroes their home to see,
friendless, to find the Frisian land,
houses and high burg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Good herte makith the gode thought;
The
clothing
yeveth ne reveth nought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
We go down,
overwhelmed
by
numbers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Rodrigue
Be not
offended
if in your presence, Sire,
Loving respect makes me kneel before her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
'Tis said, that some have died for love:
And here and there a church-yard grave is found
In the cold north's unhallowed ground,
Because the wretched man himself had slain,
His love was such a
grievous
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
[1]
Once more ye waver
dreamily
before me,
Forms that so early cheered my troubled eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"Wilkes," said the Devil, "I
understand
all this;
You turned to half a courtier[536] ere you died,
And seem to think it would not be amiss
To grow a whole one on the other side
Of Charon's ferry; you forget that _his_
Reign is concluded; whatsoe'er betide,
He won't be sovereign more: you've lost your labour,
For at the best he will but be your neighbour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
--If I take the wood,
And in thick shelter of
innumerous
boughs
Enjoy the comfort gentle sleep allows;
Though fenced from cold, and though my toil be pass'd,
What savage beasts may wander in the waste?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
"
LXXII
An admiral is there of Balaguet;
Clear face and proud, and body nobly bred;
Since first he was upon his horse mounted,
His arms to bear has shewn great lustihead;
In
vassalage
he is well famoused;
Christian were he, he'd shewn good baronhead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
'
And I saw long ships, with their
smokestacks
leaning
In the white scud and the white foam and the smoky swift spray!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
To whom replied
Telemachus
discrete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air,
That blows here from
Provence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
XXVI
I recall thy white gown, cinctured
With a linen belt, whereon
Violets were wrought, and scented
With strange
perfumes
out of Egypt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
--I, too, have
suffered
persuasion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The water flows, the wind in passing by
In murmuring tones takes up the
questioning
cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Juno's guile and wrath lay clear to her brother's eye; east wind and
west he calls before him, and thereon speaks thus:
'Stand you then so sure in your
confidence
of birth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
[Music:
_Lessons
for the Lyra Violl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate bird,
We shall need all our
strength
for the job!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or
trampled
by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
_
41 _adiurarit_ h:
_adiuraret_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
She,
essaying
to lift her heavy
eyes, swoons back; the deep-driven wound gurgles in her breast.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
hī hyne
ætbǣron
tō brimes
faroðe, 28.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
, nullo spatio relicto
1 _iuuenti_ La1:
_uiuenti_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
'Tis certain: thou hast lost a
faithful
wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Dugdale,/ _Green Street,
Leicester
Square_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
, _sudden,
unexpected
attack_: nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The broch'd keene javlyn hurld from honde so stronge 335
As thine came
thundrynge
on his crysted beave;
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
layd
Low under all, yet above all in pride,
That name of native syre did fowle upbrayd, 430
And would as Ammons sonne be magnifide,
Till scornd of God and man a
shamefull
death he dide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Da ogne bocca
dirompea
co' denti
un peccatore, a guisa di maciulla,
si che tre ne facea cosi dolenti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
MARGARETE (wirft sich zu ihm):
O lass uns knien, die Heil'gen
anzurufen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Fulmina, fulmina
Deus
vastator!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
A few Russian artists have realised
themselves in Art; in a fiction that is
mediaeval
in character, hecauae
its dominant note is the realisation of men through suffering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
100, points out that Jonson's etymology of the word _Vice_, which
has been a matter of dispute, was the generally
accepted
one, that
is, from _vice_ = evil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and
employees
expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
The owlets through the long blue night
Are shouting to each other still:
Fond lovers, yet not quite hob nob,
They
lengthen
out the tremulous sob,
That echoes far from hill to hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
This
reverend
brow,
This was my sire's--the greatest, though the last:
The Moors his friend had taken and made fast--
Alvar Giron.
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Leave me to deal
With
credulous
and imaginative man;
For, though he scoop my water in his palm,
A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds.
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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Soe much did zeale her
conscience
rarefie 45
That, extreme truth lack'd little of a lye,
Making omissions, acts; laying the touch
Of sinne, on things that sometimes may be such.
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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General Terms of Use and
Redistributing
Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic works
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Li Po |
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to affright withal
By
cursing?
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