You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber
I
distinguish
the scent of your hair; so now the limber
Lightning falls from heaven.
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Imagists |
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Euery sonenday
houseled
he was,
And shryuen also of vche trespas
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I kept on hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing
answered
"yes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I have
discovered
this from a letter
which he wrote and which I saw was addressed "Post Office Street.
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And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches
rhetoric
can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better us'd
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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{33c} From the barrow's keeper
no
footbreadth
flee I.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Their sharp, full cheer, from rank on rank,
Rose joyously, with a willing breath---
Rose like a
greeting
hail to death.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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{33c} From the barrow's keeper
no
footbreadth
flee I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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Hesitated
so
This side the victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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When, hasty, we had thus our
strength
renew'd, 100
I order'd forth my people to inquire
(Two I selected from the rest, with whom
I join'd an herald, third) what race of men
Might there inhabit.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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If thou the
circling
year my stay control,
To raise a bounty noble as thy soul;
The circling year I wait, with ampler stores
And fitter pomp to hail my native shores:
Then by my realms due homage would be paid;
For wealthy kings are loyally obeyed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
We have not struck, he
composedly
cries, we have just begun our part
of the fighting.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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>>
Et l'Ange,
chatiant
autant, ma foi!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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LXXXIX _IN
GELLIVM_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Came to their wicked maister, and gan tell
Their
bootelesse
paines, and ill succeeding night:
Who all in rage to see his skilfull might
Deluded so, gan threaten hellish paine 15
And sad Proserpines wrath, them to affright.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And help me god so at my moste nede
As
causeles
ye suffren al this drede!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Whence I address them: "O perennial flowers
Of gladness
everlasting!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Everything
takes place, in sections, by supposition; narrative is avoided.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Be but thy
inspiration
given,
No matter through what danger sought,
I'll fathom hell or climb to heaven,
And yet esteem that cheap which love has bought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
To the broad column which rolls on, and shows
More like the fountain of an infant sea
Torn from the womb of
mountains
by the throes
Of a new world, than only thus to be
Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly,
With many windings through the vale:--Look back!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He is really a poet
with a splendid lyrical inspiration; but he
combines
this in his plays
with an acquired but effective talent for stage-craft.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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To think just how the fire will burn,
Just how long-cheated eyes will turn
To wonder what myself will say,
And what itself will say to me,
Beguiles the
centuries
of way!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Where is the
developed
Soul?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"
Then I left my friend and
approached
the blind man and greeted him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Hart
through the Project
Gutenberg
Association (the "Project").
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"What need hath He of flesh
Made
flawless
now afresh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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His face looked broad and honest, his hands were brown and tough,
The clothes he wore upon him were homespun, coarse, and rough;
But one there was who watched him, who long time
lingered
nigh,
And cast at him sweet glances from the corner of her eye.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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sed _e_ iam
superscripta
in La1
23 _a marei_ Lachm.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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ere hadde hys gerners ful of corne {and}
comaundede
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But, if perchance thou
thinkest
that the soul,
From outward winding in its way, is wont
To seep and soak along these members ours,
Then all the more 'twill perish, being thus
With body fused--for what will seep and soak
Will be dissolved and will therefore die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Upon the
mountain
did they feed;
They throve, and we at home did thrive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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make falling arts your care,
Erect new wonders, and the old repair;
Jones and Palladio to themselves restore,
And be whate'er Vitruvius was before:
'Till kings call forth the ideas of your mind
(Proud to accomplish what such hands denied)
Bid
harbours
open, public ways extend,
Bid temples, worthier of the god, ascend;
Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain,
The mole projected break the roaring main;
Back to his bounds their subject sea command,
And roll obedient rivers through the land:
These honours peace to happy Britain brings,
These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
In the Jin, L� Qian had a sword that was said to be
suitable
for someone who was to become one of the Three Lords; L� Qian gave it to Wang Xiang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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or what it meant--
The
shrieking
and the whistling and the stink
He'd lived in fourteen days and nights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And no doubt on some of these occasions Chatterton
was copying the legal precedents of which 370 folio pages, neatly
written in a well-formed handwriting, remain to this day as evidence
of
legitimate
industry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fierce is that King, with 's hoary beard, and proud,
And
Bramimunde
hath yielded up her towers;
But ten ere great, and lesser fifty around.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To Ireland, I:
Our
seperated
fortune shall keepe vs both the safer:
Where we are, there's Daggers in mens smiles;
The neere in blood, the neerer bloody
Malc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
On Chloris Requesting me to give her a Spring of
Blossomed
Thorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
"I am like thee, O, Night, wild and terrible; for my ears are crowded
with cries of
conquered
nations and sighs for forgotten lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I, too, sang
over the grave when the king of Morven came to green Erin to fight with
the car-borne
Cairbar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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omnis haec magnis uaga turba terris
ibit ad manis
facietque
inerti
uela Cocyto: tibi crescit omne,
et quod occasus uidet et quod ortus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Paul
Verlaine
(1844-1896)
Paul Verlaine
'Paul Verlaine'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p248, 1896) Internet Book Archive Images
The piano kissed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
| 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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Now that his main force had capitulated at Bedriacum,
Otho had no
sufficient
army to fight with, since the
Vitellians lay between him and his Danube army at Aquileia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and
forgotten
it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us,
O God of waters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the
fluttering
leaves have gone,
And why should I stay behind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Daring the venture,
Glorious
the pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
crude_ GVen et
sic R, in quo tamen _crude_
recentius
exaratum uidetur ||
_lucei_ Scaliger: _lucet_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Ayr, gurgling, kiss'd his pebbled shore,
O'erhung with wild-woods, thickening green;
The
fragrant
birch and hawthorn hoar,
'Twin'd amorous round the raptur'd scene:
The flowers sprang wanton to be prest,
The birds sang love on every spray;
Till too, too soon, the glowing west,
Proclaim'd the speed of winged day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend, ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The waters stir,
Not as with air, but by some
subterrane
80
And rocking Power of the internal world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere--
Our
memories
were treacherous and sere;
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year--
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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not money so precious are you, nor farm produce you, nor the
material good nutriment,
Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships;
Not the superb ships, with sail-power or steam-power,
fetching
and carrying
cargoes,
Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues,--But you, as henceforth I see
you,
Running up out of the night, bringing your cluster of stars, ever-enlarging
stars;
Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touched by the sun, measuring the
sky,
Passionately seen and yearned for by one poor little child,
While others remain busy, or smartly talking, for ever teaching thrift,
thrift;
O you up there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Isabel has not yielded up her breath,
But lives a life she would
exchange
for death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
II
Full Moon
(_Santa Barbara_)
I listened, there was not a sound to hear
In the great rain of moonlight pouring down,
The
eucalyptus
trees were carved in silver,
And a light mist of silver lulled the town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
_Asiatic
Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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45, 46:--
To the red and baleful sun
That faintly
twinkles
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Though various are the titles men can plead,
Some for a time enjoy the glorious meed
That merit claims; yet unrelenting fate
On all the doom pronounces soon or late;
And whatsoe'er the vulgar think or say,
Were not your lives thus shorten'd to a day,
Your eyes would see the consummating power
His countless
millions
at a meal devour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
" The "i" in "slithy" is long,
as in "writhe"; and "toves" is
pronounced
so as to rhyme with "groves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
From
trampling
steeds, and thundering charioteers;
The dusky clouds from labour'd earth arise,
And roll in smoking volumes to the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Therefore
I rede you, bring no shame on me
Now when man's eye beholds your maiden prime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
O'er land, o'er sea the great Pacheco strews
The
prostrate
spearmen, and the founder'd proas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now drew they nigh
The western point, where those half-rounding guards
Just met, & closing stood in
squadron
joind
Awaiting next command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Belinda now, whom thirst of fame invites, 25
Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights,
At Ombre singly to decide their doom;
And swells her breast with
conquests
yet to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The foremost and most energetic in
instituting
this search was the bosom
friend of Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
A ribibe meant
originally a musical instrument, and was
synonymous
with rebec.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
My holy
Zouaves!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
"I will hope and trust in heaven,
Nancy, Nancy;
Strength
to bear it will be given,
My spouse, Nancy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Love, thou who seest each secret thought display'd,
And the sad steps I take, with thee sole guide;
This
throbbing
breast, to thee thrown open wide,
To others' prying barr'd, thine eyes pervade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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But
Wordsworth
is as yet too near us for
such an editorial treatment of his Works to be successful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Hesiod old,
Who,
somewhat
blind and deaf and cold,
Cared most for gods and bulls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Some of the rhetoric of his poem Coleridge
got from the German poetess; the
imagination
is all his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Time was when, with the crowd's
farewell
'Hurrah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
Low spake the voice within his head,
In words imagined more than said,
Soundless
as ghost's intended tread:
"If thou art duller than before,
Why quittedst thou the voice of lore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
O lordly conqueror, Child of Zeus on high,
Be
blessed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
They all
listened
to him as an oracle; and they
allowed him, by common consent, to have not only all
the divinity, but more wit, too, than all the rest of the
family put together.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It would be easier to climb to Heaven than to walk the
Szechwan
Road;
and those who hear the tale of it turn pale with fear.
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Li Po |
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In terms more full,
And clearer far, thy brother hath set forth
This
revelation
to us, where he tells
Of the white raiment destin'd to the saints.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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I
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this afternoon for you";
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An
atmosphere
of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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caste hym to
t{ra}nsporten
vpon al ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Well, believe this:
No
ceremony
that to great ones longs,
Not the king's crown nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.
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Shakespeare |
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que d'amours
splendides
j'ai revees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Magnified
apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
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Robert Forst |
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He was, at the period of writing "Queen
Mab", a great
traveller
within the limits of England, Scotland, and
Ireland.
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Shelley |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as
elsewhere
the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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