Mais,
repondrais-je, etait-ce une raison pour publier cette chose faite a
coups de <> dans des manuels surannes ou de trop
moisis
historiens?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[MANFRED _takes some of the water into the palm of his
hand and flings it into the air,
muttering
the ajuration.
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Byron |
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_
[186] The Balkan
Mountains
separating Greece and Macedonia from the
basin of the Danube, and extending from the Adriatic to the Black
Sea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I take
Your hand, and with no
inquisition
learn
All that your eyes can tell, and that's to make
A little reckoning and brief, then turn
Away, and in my heart I hear a call,
'I love, I love, I love'; and that is all.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Let thy voice enfold me close about,
Or from this dark house, lonely and remote,
Through deep blue gardens where gray shadows float
I will pour forth my soul with hands
stretched
out .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Troia quidem tunc se mirabitur et sibi dicet
uos bene tam longa
consuluisse
uia.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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electronic
works.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A
circular
figure (of magic).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
| Guess: |
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Appoloinaire |
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more than Coney's robe
Soft, or goose-marrow or ear's lowmost lobe,
Or Age's languid yard and cobweb'd part,
Same Thallus
greedier
than the gale thou art,
When the Kite-goddess shows thee Gulls agape, 5
Return my muffler thou hast dared to rape,
Saetaban napkins, tablets of Thynos, all
Which (Fool!
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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we will have
Tribunes!
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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From me they heard, and bitter was their wrath,
How those your kinsmen strove to work you wrong,
And how of us were thwarted: then to me
This company of
spearmen
did they grant,
That honoured I might walk, nor unaware
Die by some secret thrust and on this land
Bring down the curse of death, that dieth not.
| Guess: |
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Aeschylus |
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For looking
forth from Dia's beach,
resounding
with crashing of breakers, Theseus
hasting from sight with swiftest of fleets, Ariadne watches, her heart
swelling with raging passion, nor scarce yet credits she sees what she
sees, as, newly-awakened from her deceptive sleep, she perceives herself,
deserted and woeful, on the lonely shore.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se
Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures:
Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe jocoso,
Defendente vicem modo Rhetoris atque Poetae,
Interdum
urbani, parcentis viribus, atque
Extenuantis eas consulto.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth
and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
splendor
of a Burmah,
The meteor of birds,
Departing like a pageant
Of ballads and of bards.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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She met me, and but barely took
My
proffered
warm embrace;
Preoccupation weighed her look,
And hardened her sweet face.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hast thou
perchance
repented, Saracen Sun?
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Sidney Lanier |
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) Who is this
Who cometh in dyed
garments
from the South?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To be Count
Malvolio!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Chimene
Rodrigue, who'd have
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was not, like their tragedy, their
comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a
hothouse
plant which, in
return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and
sickly fruits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Who, having competence, has all,
The tumult of the sea defies,
Nor fears Arcturus' angry fall,
Nor fears the Kid-star's sullen rise,
Though hail-storms on the vineyard beat,
Though crops deceive, though trees complain,
One while of showers, one while of heat,
One while of winter's
barbarous
reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He shall drive his
conquering
chariot to the Capitoline
height triumphant over Corinth, glorious in Achaean slaughter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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A poor, weak, palsy-stricken,
churchyard
thing,
Whose passing-bell may ere the midnight toll;
Whose prayers for thee, each morn and evening,
Were never miss'd.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Cuiaciano
(p)
5 ex XLI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
A WOMAN AND HER DEAD HUSBAND
Ah, stern cold man,
How can you lie so
relentless
hard
While I wash you with weeping water!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between:
Some gleams of sunshine 'mid
renewing
storms:
Is it departing pangs my soul alarms?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Yet I receive
The inner unseen
longings
of the soul, 10
I guide them turning towards Me; I control
And charm hearts till they grieve:
If thou desire, it yet shall come to pass,
Though thou but wish indeed to choose My love;
For I have power in earth and heaven above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
'
Page 62
402
Whon
Eufemian
hedde ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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anxia nec mater discordis maesta puellae
secubitu
caros mittet sperare nepotes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The Mountain Ephraim calld out to the
mountain
Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
[Picture: And Tibbs will have the best of it]
Then, as my tears could never bring
The friendly Phantom back,
It seemed to me the proper thing
To mix another glass, and sing
The
following
Coronach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Not light the task
of
entrance
for any of earth-born men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Those two
illustrious
persons, I will be bold to say, are not
less known in the remotest parts of the empire, than they are at
Capua, or Vercellæ [b], where, we are told, they both were born.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
At this time the
progressive and
spiritually
minded young people used to meet for
discussion and help in Boston, among them George Ripley, Cyrus Bartol,
James Freeman Clarke, Alcott, Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
_Particulars as to the
original
publication of each poem
will be found in_ '_A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde_,' _by
Stuart Mason_, _London_ 1907.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Twas nought to wonder, though begun by guess;
For Jane was lovely in her Sunday dress,
And all
expected
such a rosy face
Would be her ruin--as was just the case.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Is not yon
lingering
orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's lordliest pageants!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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No, for the Pythian oracle has
revealed
to me the name of him who
shall overthrow me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling,
seasoned
sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thy impious hand Tydides' javelin bore,
And madly bathed it in
celestial
gore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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7 Cross Rivers (
Yarkhoto)
was in the northwestern frontier region; Wuwei (Liangzhou), where Zhangsun is headed, was north of Fengxiang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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To pass thy plains with cities scant between,
Thy stately arches flung o'er deep ravine,
Thy palaces, of Moor's or Roman's time;
Or the swift makings of thy Guadalquiver,
Save in those gilded cars, where bells forever
Ring their
melodious
chime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy
divinest
Art's
Own instrument didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
At last to be
identified!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The most renown'd poems would be ashes,
orations
and plays would
be vacuums.
| 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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Too soon this
heavenly
transport sinks and dies:
When all thy soothing charms my fate removes
At thy departure from my ravish'd view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The long controversies that have raged about Pope's rank as a poet seem
at last to be drawing to a close; and it has become
possible
to strike a
balance between the exaggerated praise of his contemporaries and the
reckless depreciation of romantic critics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Do but ask of Nature why all living
creatures are less
delighted
with meat and drink that sustains them than
with venery that wastes them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
For if
Criseyde
hadde erst compleyned sore, 825
Tho gan she pleyne a thousand tymes more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour of Ionian white and gold.
| 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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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And so I would, were it not for fear,
For never has one so shaped and made
For love such
diffidence
displayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
' Thus and no further Ascanius; the
Teucrians
respond in
cheers, and shout for joy in rising height of courage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Great as thou art, even thou may'st stain with gore
These
Phrygian
fields, and press a foreign shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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No, for the
gods are immortal, and one might still find them
loitering
in
some solitary dell on the grey hillsides of Fiesole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I answer "If that ruffian Jones
Should recognise me here,
He'd bellow out my name in tones
Offensive
to the ear:
He chaffs me so on being stout
(A thing that always puts me out).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Motionless
thus they sit and dream
Until that melancholy hour
When, with the sun's last fading gleam,
The nightly shades assume their power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with painting in words,
full of
sonorous
beauty, the surrounding world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
--but _I_,
I lack your daring, up this storm-rent chasm
To fix with violent hands a kindred god,
Howbeit necessity compels me so
That I must dare it, and our Zeus commands
With a most
inevitable
word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
And as you left, suspired confused and jaded
In sighful accents the
deserted
glade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Blessed the man who has
perfected
wisdom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
At five in the morning
breakfast
was served
to the weary players.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I pause, my dreaming spirit hears,
Across the wind's unquiet tides,
The
glimmering
music of your spears,
The laughter of your royal brides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and
employees
expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
]
for se now {and}
considere
how 1500
litel {and} how voide of al prise is ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
He
received
the Order of Merit in 1910.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[810] 48 entire W, G
[811] 57 th'] thou G
[812] 58 the'are] they are 1641, G the'are are 1692 they're 1716, W
[813] 63 employ'd W, G
[814] 67 employment W, G
[815] 64 Cheaters]
_heaters_
1641
[816] 77 [_Exeunt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
III
HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD
Downward through the evening twilight,
In the days that are forgotten,
In the
unremembered
ages,
From the full moon fell Nokomis,
Fell the beautiful Nokomis,
She a wife, but not a mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
She rises
crescented!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
a vain poet and a discreet lover,"
continued
Chvabrine,
irritating me more and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
" He finally arrived at
Hochelaga
on
the 2d of October.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
As of light that is
poignant
and strong
O silence my lips with a kiss,
My lips that are weary of song!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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You
neighbour
of the Danube!
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Whitman |
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Society is a
necessary
thing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XXXIX
Then cride she out, Fye, fye, deformed wight,
Whose borrowed beautie now
appeareth
plaine
To have before bewitched all mens sight; 345
O leave her soone, or let her soone be slaine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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60
Bitter in words, too indolent for gall,
He
satirized
himself the first of all,
In men and their affairs could find no law,
And was the ill logic that he thought he saw.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid--troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended 90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the
coffered
ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Nevertheless, something more Lucretian in central
imagination, something less bound to concrete and particular event,
seems required for the
complete
development of epic purpose.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[Note 41:
Hippolyte
Bogdanovitch--b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If
the second copy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing
without further
opportunities
to fix the problem.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"There is
Thingumbob
shouting!
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Lewis Carroll |
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