--
Wilt thou destroy, in one wild shock of shame,
Thy whole high heaving
firmamental
frame,
Or patiently adjust, amend, and heal?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THOU wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine--
A green isle in the sea, love,
A
fountain
and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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:--Poems, Original and
Translated
p.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Perhaps in vain my
admonitions
fall,
Yet still the Muse repeats the solemn call;
Nor can she see unmoved your senses drown'd
By Circe's deadly spells in sleep profound.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But
standing
outdoors, hungry, in the cold,
Except in towns, at night, is not a sin.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
Bellerephon was the first to ride Pegasus when he
attacked
the Chimaera.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Complaint
was made to the king.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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but true as strange,
How much I was
mistaken!
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Poe - 5 |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase
introduced
by and extended from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this
paragraph
to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Robert Herrick |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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PRELUDE TO PART FIRST
Over his keys the musing organist,
Beginning
doubtfully and far away,
First lets his fingers wander as they list,
And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay:
Then, as the touch of his loved instrument
Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme,
First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent
Along the wavering vista of his dream.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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341, is
disingenuous
and misleading.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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My will-o'wisp fate you know: do you
recollect
a Sunday
we spent together in Eglinton woods!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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It is not fitting for the showman to
overpraise
the show, but he is
always permitted to tell you what is in his booths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"The angels, O my
brother!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
must at least have
suspected
it, for in a letter dated 5th
September, 1884, she wrote:--
MY DEAR FRIEND,-- What portfolios full of verses
you must have!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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<
che non li e
vendicata
ancor>>, diss' io,
<
fece lui disdegnoso; ond' el sen gio
sanza parlarmi, si com' io estimo:
e in cio m'ha el fatto a se piu pio>>.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[_Exeunt_
BARBARIGO
_and_ LOREDANO.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Even regarded as a piece of
literature
the 'Essay on Man' cannot, I
think, claim the highest place among Pope's works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
[Sidenote A: "Good morrow", says the lady, "ye are a
careless
sleeper to
let one enter thus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In how short a span doth all Nature change,
How quickly she
smoothes
with her hand serene--
And how rarely she snaps, in her ceaseless range,
The links that bound our hearts to the scene.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And still there's
something
in the world
At which his heart rejoices;
For when the chiming hounds are out,
He dearly loves their voices!
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is as if a dozen unacademic
painters,
separated
by temperament and distance, were to arrange to have
an exhibition every two years of their latest work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I lay my hand upon my
swelling
breast,
And grateful would, but cannot speak the rest.
| 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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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their spindles the
consenting
Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth,
Mine dares not call thee from thy sacred hill:
Yet there I've
wandered
by thy vaunted rill;
Yes!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For mighty stroke
he swung his blade, and the blow
withheld
not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Must I always stand
Lonely, a
stranger
from an unknown land?
| 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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320
Thus when that princes wrath was pacifide,
He gan renew the late
forbidden
bains,
And to the knight his daughter dear he tyde,
With sacred rites and vowes for ever to abyde.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Break no decrees or
dissolve
no orders to slacken the strength
of laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thoughts
Of ownership--as if one fit to own things could not at
pleasure
enter
upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
Of vista--suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos,
presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become
supplied--and of what will yet be supplied,
Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in
what will yet be supplied.
| 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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Some catch themselves to every mound,
Then lingeringly and slowly move
As if they knew the
precious
ground
Were opening for their fertile love:
They almost try to dig, they need
So much to plant their thistle-seed.
| 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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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Our dead lay cold and stark,
But our dying, down in the dark,
Answered
as best they might--
Lifting their poor lost arms,
And cheering for God and Right!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Whilst I, from boyhood up, a
wretched
monk,
Wander from cell to cell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Round the pond the martins flirt,
Their snowy breasts
bedaubed
with dirt,
While the mason, neath the slates,
Each mortar-bearing bird awaits:
By art untaught, each labouring spouse
Curious daubs his hanging house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I will away, and,
bringing
from within
A seemly royal robe, will straightway strive
To meet and greet my son: foul scorn it were
To leave our dearest in his hour of shame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Blind chance, let her snapper and stoyte on her way;
Be't to me, be't frae me, e'en let the jade gae:
Come ease, or come travail; come
pleasure
or pain;
My warst word is--"Welcome, and welcome again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"
He spoke; a
rustling
urges thro' the trees,
Instant new vigour strings his active knees,
Wildly he glares around, and raging cries,
"And must another snatch my lovely prize!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Three years had flown [K] 65
Since I had felt in heart and soul the shock
Of the huge town's first presence, and had paced
Her endless streets, a transient visitant: [K]
Now, fixed amid that concourse of mankind
Where
Pleasure
whirls about incessantly, 70
And life and labour seem but one, I filled
An idler's place; an idler well content
To have a house (what matter for a home?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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are lodged in my wild breast,
Which
evermore
opposing ways endeavor,
The one lives only on the joys of time,
Still to the world with clamp-like organs clinging;
The other leaves this earthly dust and slime,
To fields of sainted sires up-springing.
| 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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A paradise, the host,
And cherubim and seraphim
The most
familiar
guest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Page
Two Songs on the Lord Fauconberg, and the Lady-
Mary Cromwell 76
Second Song 79
A Din]ogue between Th3rr8is and Dorinda 82
The Match 86
3 - The Mower against Gardens 89
Damon the Mower 91
^ The Mower to the Glow Worms 96
^ The Mower's Song 96
Ametas and Thestyljs making Hay-Ropes 98
Music*8 Empire 100
To his Worthy Friend Doctor Witty, upon his Trans-
lation of the popular Errors 102
On Milton's Paradise Lost 104
|t{ An Epitaph 107
Translated from Seneca's Tragedy of Thyestes 108
"7 A Dialogue between the
Resolved
Soul, and Created
Pleasure 109
y A Drop of Dew, Translated 114
% - The Garden.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Meantime the king, his son, and Helen went
Where the rich wardrobe
breathed
a costly scent;
The king selected from the glittering rows
A bowl; the prince a silver beaker chose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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[_He goes with_
ALCESTIS
_into the house_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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But let not love from those above
Revert and fix me, as I said,
With that
inevitable
Eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Erdman has recoverd a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx
Jerusalem
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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tly
ap{er}ceyue{n}
by ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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225
And layde the greate and small upon the grounde,
And delte among them thilke a store of blowes,
Full manie a Normanne fell by him dede wounde;
So who he be that ouphant
faieries
strike,
Their soules will wander to Kynge Offa's dyke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Let
housewifery
appear; keep close, I thee command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
PALAEMON
Say on then, since on the
greensward
we sit,
And now is burgeoning both field and tree;
Now is the forest green, and now the year
At fairest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the
blindworm
battens on the root,
And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The apron's vertical long flow
Warped grandly
outwards
to display
His hale, round belly hung midway,
Whose apex was securely bound
With apron-strings wrapped round and round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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what a scroll of History thine has been;
In the first days thy sword republican
Ruled the whole world for many an age's span:
Then of the peoples wert thou royal Queen,
Till in thy streets the bearded Goth was seen;
And now upon thy walls the breezes fan
(Ah, city crowned by God,
discrowned
by man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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ON A FRIEND WHO DIED SUDDENLY UPON THE SEASHORE
Quiet he lived, and quietly died;
Nor, like the unwilling tide,
Did once
complain
or strive
To stay one brief hour more alive.
| 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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Him, in his march, the wounded princes meet,
By tardy steps
ascending
from the fleet:
The king of men, Ulysses the divine,
And who to Tydeus owes his noble line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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' quod Pandarus;
`By god, I shal no-more come here this wyke, 430
And god to-forn, that am
mistrusted
thus;
I see ful wel that ye sette lyte of us,
Or of our deeth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meanwhile
That other host, that soar aloft to gaze
And celebrate his glory, whom they love,
Hover'd around; and, like a troop of bees,
Amid the vernal sweets
alighting
now,
Now, clustering, where their fragrant labour glows,
Flew downward to the mighty flow'r, or rose
From the redundant petals, streaming back
Unto the steadfast dwelling of their joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For us the travail and the heat,
The broken secrets of our pride,
The
strenuous
lessons of defeat,
The flower deferred, the fruit denied;
But not the peace, supremely won,
Lord Buddha, of thy Lotus-throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
"Herman is a German,
therefore
economical; that explains it," said
Tomsky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| 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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The lady doth not move,
The lady doth not dream,
Yet she seeth her shade no longer laid
In rest upon the stream:
It shaketh without wind,
It parteth from the tide,
It
standeth
upright in the cleft moonlight,
It sitteth at her side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I shunned
suffering
and sorrow of
every kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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L'altra prendea, e dinanzi l'apria
fendendo i drappi, e
mostravami
'l ventre;
quel mi sveglio col puzzo che n'uscia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_
_A Watchman_
I pray the gods to quit me of my toils,
To close the watch I keep, this livelong year;
For as a watch-dog lying, not at rest,
Propped on one arm, upon the palace-roof
Of Atreus' race, too long, too well I know
The starry conclave of the midnight sky,
Too well, the splendours of the firmament,
The lords of light, whose kingly aspect shows--
What time they set or climb the sky in turn--
The year's divisions,
bringing
frost or fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Loving the brave Burgundian wine,
High sons of pith,
Whose fortunes I have frolick'd with;
Such as could well
Bear up the magic bough and spell;
And dancing 'bout the mystic Thyrse,
Give up the just
applause
to verse;
To those, and then again to thee,
We'll drink, my Wickes, until we be
Plump as the cherry,
Though not so fresh, yet full as merry
As the cricket,
The untamed heifer, or the pricket,
Until our tongues shall tell our ears,
We're younger by a score of years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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(4)
[Note 4:
Referring
to Tomi, the reputed place of exile of Ovid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I was still but a
springald
when, cleaving the Alps,
I brushed snowy periwigs off granitic scalps,
And my head, o'er the pinnacles, stopped the fleet clouds,
Where I captured the eagles and caged them by crowds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He
welcomed
William
Hausollier, now so little known.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
exquisite
dancers in gray twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Elephints
a-pilin' teak
In the sludgy, squdgy creek,
Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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THE BELLS OF SAN BLAS
What say the Bells of San Blas
To the ships that southward pass
From the harbor of
Mazatlan?
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Longfellow |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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"--
One answered: "Not so: she must live again;
Strengthen
thou her to live.
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,
_tending
to fall, fatal_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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Gareth sprang upon three and stilled them with his doughty blows, but
three scurried away through the trees; then Gareth loosened the stone
from the
gentleman
and set him on his feet.
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Tennyson |
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XIV
As we pass the summer stream without danger
That floods in winter, king of all the plain,
Rendering farmers' hopes and shepherds' vain,
In his proud flight, sinking fields in water:
As we see coward creatures at the slaughter
Outrage the dead lion after his brave reign,
Staining their jaws,
revealing
their disdain,
Daring their enemy bereft of power:
And as the least valiant Greeks at Troy
With brave Hector's corpse were wont to toy,
So those whose heads once used to bow,
When to Roman triumph they were drawn,
On dusty tombs exact their vengeance now,
The conquered daring the conqueror's scorn.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They grip their withered edge of stalk
In brief
excitement
for the wind;
They hold a breathless final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le
fremissement
d'un immense baiser:
--Le Monde a soif d'amour: tu viendras l'apaiser.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"With
friendly
speed, induced by erring fame,
To hail Ulysses' safe return I came;
But still the frown of some celestial power
With envious joy retards the blissful hour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Pitholeon
sends to me: "You know his Grace,
I want a patron; ask him for a place.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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" If the poem lacks veracity
as an account of savage life, it nevertheless overflows with the beauty
of the author's own nature, and is typical of those elements in his
poetry which have
endeared
his name to the English-speaking world.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ I charge thee by that mournful Morning Star
Which
trembles
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And
he showed me above the altar an
inscription
graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[The
gentleman
to whom this imperfect note is addressed was Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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