'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It was not so much the thought as his
own
relation
to it that allured him.
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Yeats |
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Must I battle with a thousand rivals,
To the earth's ends extend my labours,
Attack a camp alone, or rout an army,
Exceed the fame of heroes
legendary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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IV
"He moves me not at all;
I note no ray or jot
Of
rareness
in his lot,
Or star exceptional.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And this weak and idle theme,
No more
yielding
but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
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Shakespeare |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The people watched with
startled
mien
And passed with frightened glance
For all know that only a Queen
May dance in the lanes: dance!
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Waken, lords and ladies gay,
To the
greenwood
haste away;
We can show you where he lies,
Fleet of foot and tall of size;
We can show the marks he made
When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;
You shall see him brought to bay;
"Waken, lords and ladies gay.
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Golden Treasury |
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Most of the pieces translated
previously
and most of those
I am going to read to-day are songs, not poems.
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Li Po |
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"'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap--'"
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty
parenthesis
cried,
"That's exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I intend inserting them, or something like them, in an
epistle I am going to write to the gentleman on whose
friendship
my
Excise hopes depend, Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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ye Danes, now kenne,
I amme yatte Celmonde, seconde yn the fyghte,
Who dydd, atte Watchette, so
forslege
youre menne;
I fele myne eyne to swymme yn aeterne nyghte;--
To her be kynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So God is spoken against, I am never,
And I have a better terror in the world;
And chiefly for the
happiness
built round me
Divinely firm.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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) Didst mark how pale
Our
sovereign
turned, how from his face there poured
A mighty sweat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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When George Herbert tells us that if the sermon
be dull,
'God takes a text and preacheth patience,'
the
prolongation
of the word seems to convey some hint at the
longanimity of the virtue.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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is the spirit and the power,
Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower,
A new Earth and new Heaven,
Undreamt
of by the sensual and the proud--
Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud--
We in ourselves rejoice!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Lastly, before our very eyes is seen
Thing to bound thing: air hedges hill from hill,
And
mountain
walls hedge air; land ends the sea,
And sea in turn all lands; but for the All
Truly is nothing which outside may bound.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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At this moment, Visconti was arming the Genoese fleet, the command of
which he gave to
Paganino
Doria, the admiral who had beaten the
Venetians in the Propontis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Ye founts all life sustaining,
On which hang heaven and earth, and where
Men's
withered
hearts their waste repair--
Ye gush, ye nurse, and I must sit complaining?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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One ask'd me where the roses grew:
I bade him not go seek,
But
forthwith
bade my Julia show
A bud in either cheek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
_65
Light-enchanted Sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun's revolving
splendour!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
LXII
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your
victuals
fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thought's new-found path
Shall
supplement
henceforth all trodden ways,
Match God's equator with a zone of art,
And lift man's public action to a height
Worthy the enormous cloud of witnesses,
When linked hemispheres attest his deed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled laughter that slips
To the
unanimous
crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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might such length of days to me be given,
And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds,
Nor
Thracian
Orpheus should out-sing me then,
Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that
His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope,
And Linus fair Apollo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Feeding and
flying they advance at such distance as
following
eyes could keep them
in view; then, when they came to Avernus' pestilent gorge, they tower
swiftly, and sliding down through the liquid air, choose their seat and
light side by side on a tree, through whose boughs shone out the
contrasting flicker of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In the middle of summer, the season when
the ancients
performed
their voyages, for about six weeks there is no
night over the Orkney Islands; the disk of the sun, during that time,
scarcely sinking below the horizon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and
thoughtful
among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
In Gaul around Ausonius there grew up at Bordeaux a numerous and
accomplished and
enthusiastic
school of poets.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
]
[Variant 3: The two
preceding
lines were added in 1845.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The circumstance
now mentioned by Camoens is an
historical
fact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hier ist das Fenster, hier die Ture,
Ein
Rauchfang
ist dir auch gewiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Intelligent readers will gain
hence a clear understanding of the vast imaginative, range of
Poetry;--through what wide
oscillations
the mind and the taste of a
nation may pass;--how many are the roads which Truth and Nature open to
Excellence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
the Nizam of Hyderabad
In the Forest
Past and Future Life
The Poet's Love-Song
To the God of Pain
The Song of Princess Zeb-un-nissa
Indian Dancers
My Dead Dream
Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile
The Queen's Rival
The Poet to Death
The Indian Gipsy
To my Children
The Pardah Nashin
To Youth
Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
Street Cries
To India
The Royal Tombs of Golconda
To a Buddha seated on a Lotus
INTRODUCTION
It is at my
persuasion
that these poems are now published.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"
VI
But, as it chanced me, then and there
Did dire
misfortunes
burst;
My home went waste for lack of care,
My sons rebelled and curst;
Till I confessed
That aims the best
Were looking like the worst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
Then a silence
suffuses
the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Solid and square to the world
the houses stand,
their windows blocked with
venetian
blinds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"All other orbs have kept in touch;
Their
voicings
reach me speedily:
Thy people took upon them overmuch
In sundering them from me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Into the stuff of his thought and utterance, whether he be on active
service or not, the poet-interpreter of war weaves these intentions, and
cooperates with his fellows in building up a little higher and better,
from time to time, that edifice of truth for whose
completion
can be
spared no human experience, no human hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Never, surely, old Apollo,
He, or other God as old,
Of whom in story we are told,
Who had a favourite to follow
Through a battle or elsewhere,
Round the object of his care,
In a time of peril, threw
Veil of such
celestial
hue; 1819.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
As we
gathered the raspberries, which grew abundantly by the roadside, we
fancied that that action was consistent with a lofty prudence; as if
the traveler who ascends into a mountainous region should fortify
himself by eating of such light
ambrosial
fruits as grow there, and
drinking of the springs which gush out from the mountain-sides, as he
gradually inhales the subtler and purer atmosphere of those elevated
places, thus propitiating the mountain gods by a sacrifice of their
own fruits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And we have come
Together, sea by sea; in all the lands
Vision doth move at last, and Freedom stands
With
brightened
wings, and smiles and beckons home!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The flying spear whistles through
the
darkness
of the night, and comes full on the shield of Sulmo, and
there snaps, and the broken shaft passes on through his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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That day I strode with bridal song
Through lifted brands of Pelian pine;
A hand beloved lay in mine;
And loud behind a
revelling
throng
Exalted me and her, the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
They left their home in silence by the once
convivial
door;
And from that hour those Bachelors were never heard of more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of War is Kind, by Stephen Crane
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Have we got back to the days
of the festivals of Zeus Polieus,[552] to the Buphonia, to the time of
the poet Cecydes[553] and the golden
cicadas?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Auant, & quit my sight, let the earth hide thee:
Thy bones are marrowlesse, thy blood is cold:
Thou hast no
speculation
in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with
La.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
The leader alone remained to the fore,
brandishing his sword; he appeared to be
exhorting
them hotly.
| 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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deeming, its black wing
(Now a dim speck, now vanishing in light)
Had cross'd the mighty orb's dilated glory,
While thou stood'st gazing; or when all was still,
Flew creeking o'er thy head, and had a charm
For thee, my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
No sound is
dissonant
which tells of Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
12 shows 'How to enclose
a spirit in a
christall
stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"
As feels a dreamer what doth most create
His own
particular
fright, so these three felt:
Or like one who, in after ages, knelt 900
To Lucifer or Baal, when he'd pine
After a little sleep: or when in mine
Far under-ground, a sleeper meets his friends
Who know him not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Merecraft assures Fitzdottrel that this occupation, in
reality the refuge only of the Shifts and Bobadills of the city, is a
new and important office about to be formally
established
by the state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[This visit to
Auchtertyre
produced that sweet lyric, beginning
"Blythe, blythe and merry was she;" and the lady who inspired it was
at his side, when he wrote this letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Elvire
Chimene is at the palace, bathed in tears,
She'll be
accompanied
when she appears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His sire was child of Sesamas, and he
From
Megabates
sprang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Thus, a red lion,[11] a bold suitor, married
The silver lily, in the
lukewarm
bath,
And, from one bride-bed to another harried,
The two were seen to fly before the flaming wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
What a tale their terror tells
Of
Despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
From the dark
barriers
of that rugged clime,
E'en to the centre of Illyria's vales,
Childe Harold passed o'er many a mount sublime,
Through lands scarce noticed in historic tales:
Yet in famed Attica such lovely dales
Are rarely seen; nor can fair Tempe boast
A charm they know not; loved Parnassus fails,
Though classic ground, and consecrated most,
To match some spots that lurk within this lowering coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
XXII
In greene vine leaves he was right fitly clad; 190
For other clothes he could not weare for heat,
And on his head an yvie girland had,
From under which fast
trickled
downe the sweat:
Still as he rode, he somewhat still did eat,
And in his hand did beare a bouzing can, 195
Of which he supt so oft, that on his seat
His dronken corse he scarse upholden can,
In shape and life more like a monster, then a man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
THE
POETICAL
WORKS
OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
EDITED BY
WILLIAM KNIGHT
VOL.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Gliddon, and, in a peremptory tone,
demanded
in general terms
what we all meant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
When his days are told,
that is the warrior's
worthiest
doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Nowhere a
statelier
abbey rears
Dome huger o'er a shrine,
Though seek ye from old Rome itself
To even Seville fine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Within, some Goddess or some woman wove
An ample web,
carolling
sweet the while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Explicit
prohemium Tercii Libri.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
wut Nothun town d' ye know
Would take a totle
stranger
up an' treat him gratis so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
You descended through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on
nocturnal
waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Then since for me nor fruit nor blossom hangs,
Why should I longer pine in
hopeless
pangs?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment
receiving,
A few idly owning, and they the wheat
continually
claiming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
At times we went through
particular
hardship, 20 a whole day spent covering just a few leagues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Quiet and very wise he seemed,
With skull-like face, bald head that gleamed;
Through
spectacles
his eyes looked kind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd, Man's
Forgiveness
give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Why am I the
neighbour
always
Of those who force to sing thy trembling strings?
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Rilke - Poems |
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`Of Ector nedeth it nought for to telle:
In al this world ther nis a bettre knight
Than he, that is of
worthinesse
welle;
And he wel more vertu hath than might.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But all remembered beauty is no more
Than a vague prelude to the thought of you--
You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
My
thoughts
seek you as waves that seek the shore,
And when I think of you, I am at rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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ON A FRIEND WHO DIED SUDDENLY UPON THE SEASHORE
Quiet he lived, and quietly died;
Nor, like the unwilling tide,
Did once
complain
or strive
To stay one brief hour more alive.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I scowl on him with my cloud,
With my north wind chill his blood;
I lame him,
clattering
down the rocks;
And to live he is in fear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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That heaven, where two fair stars, with genial ray,
Shed their kind
influence
on life's dim way?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my
thoughts
could hide.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And whan she herde him werne hir so, 1485
She hadde in herte so gret wo,
And took it in so gret dispyt,
That she,
withoute
more respyt,
Was deed anoon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply
resembles
you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They fawn upon me, all the lusts of the world,
Bewildering my steps with straining close,
And breathe their
horrible
spittle against me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In what part of her body stands
Ireland?
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Shakespeare |
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Petrarch used to compare Convennole to a whetstone, which is blunt
itself, but which
sharpens
others.
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Petrarch |
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Despite being
fragments
the pieces communicate some part of the loss suffered, and the thoughts engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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II
MY child came home,
The sea-breeze in his hair still blows,
His gait still bears
The traveller's proven fear and
youthful
glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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Thou'st slain my son, I know that very well;
Most
wrongfully
my land thou challengest;
Become my man, a fief from me thou'lt get;
Come, serving me, from here to the Orient!
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Chanson de Roland |
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