on wæl-bedde
wrīðan
þōhte, 965.
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Beowulf |
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)
FRIEND
Laments the advice that sour'd a milky queen--
(For "bloody" all enlighten'd men confess
An
antiquated
error of the press:)
Who, rapt by zeal beyond her sex's bounds,
With actual cautery staunch'd the Church's wounds!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Perhaps some Allegory less liable to mistake or abuse
had been better among so inflammable a People: much more so when, as
some think with Hafiz and Omar, the abstract is not only likened to,
but identified with, the sensual Image; hazardous, if not to the
Devotee himself, yet to his weaker Brethren; and worse for the Profane
in
proportion
as the Devotion of the Initiated grew warmer.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Whither is fled that Power whose frown severe
Awed sober Reason till she
crouched
in fear?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Above the
plunging
surge's play
Dream-like they hovered, day by day.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--Yet
There is
something
at my heart,
Gnawing, I would fain forget,
And an aching and a smart.
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Christina Rossetti |
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'
Yours was my heart, though turn'd my eyes away;
Grieve you, as cruel, that their grace was such,
As kept the little, gave the good and much;
Yet oft and openly as they withdrew,
Far oftener furtively they dwelt on you,
For pity thus, what prudence robb'd, return'd;
And ever so their
tranquil
lights had burn'd,
Save that I fear'd those dear and dangerous eyes
Might then the secret of my soul surprise.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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XXX
Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the
breathless
night I too
Shiver now, 'tis nothing new.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'118 the Petticoat':
the huge hoop skirt which had
recently
become fashionable.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
|
{34a}
For winters this war-gear
Weohstan
kept,
breastplate and board, till his bairn had grown
earlship to earn as the old sire did:
then he gave him, mid Geats, the gear of battle,
portion huge, when he passed from life,
fared aged forth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So, in this narrow wooden house's bound,
Stride through the whole creation's round,
And with considerate
swiftness
wander
From heaven, through this world, to the world down yonder.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Would ye, to please
The house of Godunov, uplift a hand
Against the lawful tsar, against the grandson
Of
Monomakh?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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)
Now in those camps of green--in their tents dotting the world;
In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them--in the old and young,
Sleeping under the sunlight,
sleeping
under the moonlight, content and
silent there at last;
Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of us and ours and all,
Of our corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and
generals all,
And of each of us, O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fight,
There without hatred we shall all meet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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But since fact teaches this is not the case,
'Tis thine to know things are not mixed with things
Thuswise; but seeds, common to many things,
Commixed
in many ways, must lurk in things.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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To glut so
barbarous
and so base a foe!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But since he never tasted wine or flesh--the
wall that
separates
people from spirits became crystal to him.
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Tennyson |
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Li Po |
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With curses, shrieks, and cries,
Horses and wagons and men
Tumbled back through the
shuddering
glen,
And above us the fading skies.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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CANTO 45
ARGUMENT
Young Leo doth from death Rogero free;
For him Rogero
Bradamant
hath won,
Making that maid appear less strong to be,
Disguised in fight like Leo; and, that done,
Straight in despite would slay himself; so he
By sorrow, so by anguish is foredone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dover's
Cotswold
games by presenting him with a suit of the king's
clothes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Herrick |
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CAESAR'S house
Enter
OCTAVIUS
CAESAR, reading a letter; LEPIDUS, and their train
CAESAR.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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A few grave words, a
question
asked;
Eyelids that with the answer fell
Like falling petals;--form that tasked
Brief time;--and so was wrought the spell!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It is the world's
original
sin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Und mein
Gefangner
warst denn du?
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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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What
beauties
doth Lisboa first unfold!
| 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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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive Catalogue of the Medusae of the
Australian
Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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2 Sions fair Gates the Lord loves more
Then all the
dwellings
faire
Of Jacobs Land, though there be store,
And all within his care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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But the traveller,
travelling
through it,
May not--dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
For the uninitiated I would also suggest reading a little about the
Troubadours
on Wikipedia, which leads the reader on to a vast amount of interesting material online, especially the music.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Oh, return--come here
With laugh and babble--and no fear
When with your shadow you obscure
The book I read, for I am sure,
Oh, madcaps
terrible
and dear,
That you were right and I was wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The hermit therefore
seconding
her care,
Who, for his age, was sound and full of might,
They on his mournful horse Zerbino placed,
And traversed many a day that woodland waste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
For the king of Erech of the wide places
open,
addressing
thy speech as unto a husband.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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was thine,
The
graceful
fabric and the fair design;
For loved by Pallas, Pallas did impart
To him the shipwright's and the builder's art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
We would prefer to send you
information
by email.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
That Earth now
Seemd like to Heav'n, a seat where Gods might dwell,
Or wander with delight, and love to haunt 330
Her sacred shades: though God had yet not rain'd
Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground
None was, but from the Earth a dewie Mist
Went up and waterd all the ground, and each
Plant of the field, which e're it was in the Earth
God made, and every Herb, before it grew
On the green stemm; God saw that it was good:
So Eev'n and Morn
recorded
the Third Day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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While pensive in this solitary den,
Far from gay cities and the ways of men,
I linger life; nor to the court repair,
But when my constant queen commands my care;
Or when, to taste her
hospitable
board,
Some guest arrives, with rumours of her lord;
And these indulge their want, and those their woe,
And here the tears and there the goblets flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
So those two
pilgrims
dwelt there, fortified
In that strong city men had thought so frail.
| 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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Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Item
This I give to my poor mother
As a prayer now, to our Mistress
- She who bore bitter pain for me,
God knows, and also much sadness -
I've no other castle or fortress,
That my body and soul can summon,
When I'm faced with life's distress,
Nor has my mother, poor woman:
Ballade
'Lady of Heaven, earthly queen,
Empress of the
infernal
regions,
Receive me, a humble Christian,
To live among the chosen ones,
Though I'm worth less than anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Tell me, was Werther
authentic?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
But man would mar them with an impious hand:
And when the Almighty lifts his fiercest scourge
'Gainst those who most
transgress
his high command,
With treble vengeance will his hot shafts urge
Gaul's locust host, and earth from fellest foemen purge.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I Love My Love In Secret
My Sandy gied to me a ring,
Was a' beset wi'
diamonds
fine;
But I gied him a far better thing,
I gied my heart in pledge o' his ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no
recognition
in those orbs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangled spray,
All heart-broke, I heard her say:
'O my
children!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Whether a Boileaugunge or Babylon,
I know not how the
wretched
Thing is done,
The Items of Receipt grow surely small;
The Items of Expense mount one by one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Obverse III 28-32
describes
Enkidu the slayer of lions and
panthers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Il te faut, pour gagner ton pain de chaque soir,
Comme un enfant de choeur, jouer de l'encensoir,
Chantes des _Te Deum_ auxquels tu ne crois guere,
Ou, saltimbanque a jeun, etaler les appas
Et ton rire trempe de pleurs qu'on ne voit pas,
Pour faire
epanouir
la rate du vulgaire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
My dress still smells of the
lavender
you gave:
My hand still holds the letter that you sent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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To mortal combat I defy you both
Singly; or, if you will, I'm nothing loth
With two
together
to contend; choose here
From out the heap what weapon shall appear
Most fit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Elles assoient l'enfant devant une croisee
Grande ouverte ou l'air bleu baigne un
fouillis
de fleurs,
Et dans ses lourds cheveux ou tombe la rosee
Promenent leurs doigts fins, terribles et charmeurs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Even as now
God is mistaken by your
doubting
hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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what
worrisome
fiend hath possest thee,
Nosing and snuffling so round the door?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent
with their music,
Well pleased, accepting all, curiously
prepared
for by them,
Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In this place Jonson seems to have more
particularly
in mind _Epig.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
"
Has heard him well that
Archbishop
Turpin,
No man he'ld hate so much the sky beneath;
Spurs of fine gold he pricks into his steed,
To strike that king by virtue great goes he,
The hauberk all unfastens, breaks the shield,
Thrusts his great spear in through the carcass clean,
Pins it so well he shakes it in its seat,
Dead in the road he's flung it from his spear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and
complete
a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the
churchyard
rang;
And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Reaching
Zhaoling on My Travels 345 Cold and dreary is Datong Palace, desolate is the White Beast Gate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I say to-night
There's
something
thwarts me when I wish to pray,
And thrusts into my mind, instead of prayers,
Hate and revenge, and things that are not prayers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
They have even gathered into their
ceremonies the
ceremonies
of more ancient faiths, for fear a grain of
the dust turned into crystal in some past fire, a passion that had
mingled with the religious idea, might perish if the ancient ceremony
perished.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The sunlit
southern
slopes produce numinous mushrooms; 8 on shadowy north slope rest Oxherd and Dipper Fanning out, tall pines hang inverted, jutting jagged, weird rocks rush.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Amaz'd I stood, harrow'd with grief and fear,
And O poor hapless
Nightingale
thought I,
How sweet thou sing'st, how neer the deadly snare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
They
showed plenty of inexperience, especially in the minor characters, but
it was the first performance I had seen since I
understood
these things
in which the actors kept still enough to give poetical writing its
full effect upon the stage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The soul for ever flies; on all sides round
Streams the black blood, and smokes upon the ground
The beast they then divide and disunite
The ribs and limbs, observant of the rite:
On these, in double cauls involved with art,
The
choicest
morsels lay from every part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Not for mere stress of need, but purpose set,
That never day nor night God may forget
Aegisthus' sin: aye, and
perchance
a cry
Cast forth to the waste shining of the sky
May find my father's ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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poem read to me when an under-graduate, by
my
schoolfellow
and friend Charles Farish, long since deceased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their banquets been dreaded,
Yelling with
brassiest
voice orders to great and to small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
The
compleynt
of Mars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Tis a known principle in war,
The eyes be first that
conquered
are.
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Robert Herrick |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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No, no;
But to our own work, to the blaze we
kindled!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I fear I shall never return from my
westward
wandering; the way is
steep and the rocks cannot be climbed.
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Li Po |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Moon 319 Each line of your recent poems is good, 8 you should let this old fellow pass them around.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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LXI
There is no more to say now thou art still,
There is no more to do now thou art dead,
There is no more to know now thy clear mind
Is back
returned
unto the gods who gave it.
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Sappho |
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_Abishag_ presents the contrast between the dawning and
the fading life; _David Singing Before Saul_ shows the
impatience
of
awakening ambition, and _Joshua_ is the man who forces even God to do
his will.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Revering Heaven, you rule below;
Be that your base, your coping still;
'Tis Heaven
neglected
bids o'erflow
The measure of Italian ill.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--the dog to kick
And tumble about to make the
courtiers
laugh?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To what a
dreadful
end are we all come!
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Shelley |
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During several moments I obstinately
endeavoured
to comprehend this
mystery; but irresistible Indifference soon threw herself upon me, nor
was I more heavily dejected thereby than they by their crushing
Chimaeras.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Now for such causes I, enrolled in host of the Heavens,
By a new present,
discharge
promise thou madest of old:
Maugre my will, O Queen, my place on thy head I relinquished,
Maugre my will, I attest, swearing by thee and thy head; 40
Penalty due shall befall whoso makes oath to no purpose.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And
wherefore
gone?
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Longfellow |
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_My Prew_,
Prudence
Baldwin.
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Robert Herrick |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I'm not in love; but
altogether
posed
I am by lovers.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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charge them with the
bayonet!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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