"A Yankee in Canada," which here, as in the
Riverside
Edition, is made
the first of the series of Excursions, was formerly published in a
volume with "Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Moonlight
It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where
moonlight
burned
Will not sting me like silver snakes;
The years will make me sad and cold,
It is the happy heart that breaks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Theophile Gautier
'Theophile Gautier'
Felix Henri Bracquemond, 1833 - 1914, The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Sonnet
To vein her brow's pallor, delicate,
Japan has granted its clearest blue;
The white porcelain is of white less true
Than her lucent neck, her temples of agate;
In her moist eye gleams a gentle light;
The nightingale's voice is harsher yet,
And, when she rises in our dark night,
We praise the moon in a cloudy dress;
Her silver eyes, burnished, move fluidly;
Caprice has pointed her pert little nose;
Her mouth has the red of raspberry, peach;
Her movements flow with a Chinese flow,
And beside her one breathes from her beauty
Something sweet, like the
fragrance
of tea.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The answer
came back that they never
followed
the advice either of a traitor or
of an enemy: Vitellius was their emperor, and they would keep their
allegiance and their arms for him so long as they had breath in their
bodies.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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When down the
beauteous
face the dew-drop flows,
What manly bosom can its force oppose!
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,
By some not
unfrequented
Garden-side.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In spite of the influence of
the free-thinking Bolingbroke, Pope still remained a member of the
Catholic church and sincerely believed himself to be an orthodox, though
liberal, Christian, and he had, in consequence, been greatly
disconcerted by a criticism of his poem published in
Switzerland
and
lately translated into English.
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Alexander Pope |
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And now the king
commands
his son to call
Old Euryclea to the deathful hall:
The son observant not a moment stays;
The aged governess with speed obeys;
The sounding portals instant they display;
The matron moves, the prince directs the way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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cum Phaethonteis
flagrasset
ab ignibus axis,
ille locus flammis inuiolatus erat;
et cum diluuium mersisset fluctibus orbem
Deucalioneas exsuperauit aquas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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he must be unbalanced,"--
"There was
something
he said that I might have challenged.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then he
returned
to sausages
and mashed potatoes.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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.
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Keats - Lamia |
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hadst thou no
clemency there, that thy
pitiless
bowels might compassionate me?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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No; for they make not my life nor
destroy!
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The breezes brought
dejected
lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
The East put out a single flag,
And signed the fete away.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
Immortal
Gods
Have much to accomplish ere that day arrive.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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CALIFORNIA
CITY LANDSCAPE
On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In the history of
literature it is difficult to parallel such a
deliberate
piece of
self-stultification.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And none did love him: though to hall and bower
He
gathered
revellers from far and near,
He knew them flatterers of the festal hour;
The heartless parasites of present cheer.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lawrence and Amy Lowell
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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(16)
At the
beginning
of winter a cold spirit comes,
The North Wind blows--chill, chill.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But why this
dwelling
place, this life
Of loneliness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--That I at last
Might stamp the image of my
glorious
dream
Upon the world, even though it be wax
And the fires are kindling that must melt it out.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at han ende may be mad
co{m}parisou{n}
[but
of thinges that ben w{i}t{h}-owtyn ende to thinges ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Quis posthac charts committat sensa loquad,
Si sua
crediderit
fata subesse stylo ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And when that Worthy thus, from branch to branch,
Examining, had led me, that we now
Approach'd the topmost bough, he
straight
resum'd;
"The grace, that holds sweet dalliance with thy soul,
So far discreetly hath thy lips unclos'd
That, whatsoe'er has past them, I commend.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Christmas celebrated anew,
mentioned
full often.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'
And therwithal he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and
sorwfully
he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Again a foe overhangs the
walls of infant Troy; and another army, and a second son of Tydeus rises
from
Aetolian
Arpi against the Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For all those poems which _1633_ contains, that edition was accepted
as the basis; for other poems, the first edition,
whichever
that
might be.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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skich, Biblioteka Narodowa, 1975,
Wikimedia
Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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His art holds the
mystic depth of the Slav, the musical
strength
of the German, and the
visual clarity of the Latin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Loud,
exulting
cries
From boat to boat, and to the echoes round,
Greet the glad miracle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Emerson - Poems |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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into a thin
And
spectral
mannikin.
| 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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s
forces�and
forced to accept a post in An Lushan?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In starlight, or in rain;
In the sunset's shrouded glow;
Ever, with joy or pain,
To you my quick
thoughts
go
Like winds or clouds, that fleet
Across the hungry space
Between, and find you, sweet,
Where life again wins grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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175_
Dampier,
discoverer
of the bread-fruit, _v.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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THE METHOD OF TRANSLATION
It is commonly asserted that poetry, when
literally
translated, ceases
to be poetry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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)
Lies eighteen
centuries
uneffaced,
While many a page of bard and sage,
Deemed once mankind's immortal gain,
Lost from Time's ark, leaves no more mark
Than a keel's furrow through the main.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Felon pagans come
cantering
in their wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot,
And thou, the Muses' seat, art now their grave,
Some gentle spirit still
pervades
the spot,
Sighs in the gale, keeps silence in the cave,
And glides with glassy foot o'er yon melodious wave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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poor fools, the
anointed
eye may trace
A dead soul's epitaph in every face!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Si des
mysticites
grotesques sont notables
Pres de la Notre-Dame ou du saint empaille,
Des mouches sentant bon l'auberge et les etables
Se gorgent de cire au plancher ensoleille.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ou]
makedest
460
me lyke to god.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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With great and lesser
heavenly
lights make free,
Spend starlight just as you desire;
No want of water, rocks or fire
Or birds or beasts to you shall be.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
)
Whatever
it touches it fills
With the life of its lambent gleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Silent,
oracular
ye'd see him
Amid a serious disputation,
Then suddenly discharge a joke
The ladies' laughter to provoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
In his _Present State of
Ireland_
(p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The triumph, and the vanity,
The rapture of the strife--[247]
The earthquake-voice of Victory,
To thee the breath of life;
The sword, the sceptre, and that sway
Which man seemed made but to obey,
Wherewith renown was rife--
All
quelled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The step was an
unfamiliar
one, and he heard the
shuffling sound of loose slippers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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' saying they only sought
To help him, strengthen him, to show him love; but he
Following them with
unrecalcitrant
tread,
Quiet, towards their town of kind captivities,
Having slain rebellion, ever turned his head
Over his shoulder, seeking still with his poor eyes
Her motionless figure on the road.
| 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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I am so sore bounde him til,
From his servyse I may not fleen; 4595
For lyf and deth,
withouten
wene,
Is in his hand; I may not chese;
He may me do bothe winne and lese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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the verse of
Aeschylus
sinks far the lower
of the two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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If he is the 'cutest of Yankees, he is also as
truly an
enthusiast
as any the most typical poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The Suns can westward sink again to rise
But we, extinguished once our tiny light, 5
Perforce
shall slumber through one lasting night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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It is invigorating to breathe the
cleansed
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
He attributes the currency of the notion
that this mode of exit was the regular one to the famous passage in
Harsnet's _Declaration of Popish
Impostures_
(p.
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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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he stood and gazed
At the wild havoc, like a monarch dazed
In
woodland
hoar, who felt the shrieking saw--
He, living oak, beheld his branches fall, with awe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,
Beauteous
thou art, therefore to be assail'd;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevail'd?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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totque tuli casus pelago
terraque
quot inter
occultum stellae conspicuumque polum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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THE PARTING VERSE OR CHARGE TO HIS
SUPPOSED
WIFE WHEN HE TRAVELLED.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Let Fortune's gifts at randoe flee,
They ne'er shall draw a wish frae me;
Supremely
blest wi' love and thee,
In the birks of Aberfeldy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" 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: |
William Wordsworth |
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And you climbed yet
further!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To hide my eyes within the night
I watch the
changeful
lighthouse gleam
Alternately with red and white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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HERMES
Thou, double-dyed in gall of bitterness,
Trickster
and sinner against gods, by giving
The stolen fire to perishable men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of
micromacrocosm
is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its matching of the oxymoron in "primum mobile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Plagiarisms
from modern authors may in some cases have been
introduced by Chatterton but in others they are the commonplaces of
poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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His son
John had now become an arrant debauchee; and it was
undoubtedly
to
supply his debaucheries that he pillaged his own father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
" His
body, before its commitment to the pile, was exhibited naked in the
Forum of Antioch, the place where the pile was erected: whether it
bore the marks of poison, remained undecided: for, people as they were
divided in their affections, as they pitied Germanicus, and
presumed
the
guilt of Piso, or were partial to him, gave opposite accounts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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And the
flybitten
horse at the old smithy post
Might stamp till his shoes and his legs they were lost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an adornment bland,
As
farewell
gift: a gentle rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
' 'Tell Him to be good to me,'
whispered
another into her ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Ye mustering
thunders
from above,
Your willing victim see!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Mais parmi les chacals, les pantheres, les lices,
Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents,
Les
monstres
glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants
Dans la menagerie infame de nos vices,
Il en est un plus laid, plus mechant, plus immonde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I've
gathered
flowers all as I came along,
At every step a flower
Fed by your last bright shower,--
[She divides an armful of all sorts of flowers with April, who
strolls away through the garden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad, --
Myself his noon could bring,
Yet interdict my blossom
And abrogate my bee,
Lest noon in
everlasting
night
Drop Gabriel and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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A bloody twain made these things be;
One was thy
bitterest
enemy,
And one the wife that lay by thee.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Contents
A Toast
Futile Petition
A Negress
Distress
Summer Sadness
The Clown Chastised
The Poem's Gift
L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
Tomb (Of Verlaine)
Prose
A Fan
Another Fan
Album Leaf
Note
Little Air
Sonnet: 'Quand l'ombre menaca.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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MNISHEK,
Governor
of Sambor.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And Goethe, with that
reaching
eye
His soul reached out from, far and high,
And fell from inner entity.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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