" orders the
Archangels
Michael and Gabriel to lead forth the
celestial armies, while the banded powers of Satan are hastening on
to set the Proud Aspirer on the very Mount of God.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Mais, si j'avais voulu t'attaquer au defaut
De l'armure, ta honte
egalerait
ta gloire,
Et tu ne serais plus qu'un foetus derisoire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of
suspicion
and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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Suddenly
he follows in the way of things that change.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But whether that she
children
hadde or noon,
I rede it naught; therfore I late it goon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Infanta
My sorrow has
increased
by being hidden.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
Classical
Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
He holds him, and a hundred others takes
From the kitchen, both good and evil knaves;
Then Guenes beard and both his cheeks they shaved,
And four blows each with their closed fists they gave,
They
trounced
him well with cudgels and with staves,
And on his neck they clasped an iron chain;
So like a bear enchained they held him safe,
On a pack-mule they set him in his shame:
Kept him till Charles should call for him again.
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Chanson de Roland |
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XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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HIS wife howe'er engaged his constant cares;
He counted e'en the number of her hairs;
And kept a hag who
followed
every hour,
Where'er she went, each motion to devour;
Duenna like, true semblance of a shade,
That never quits, yet moves as if afraid.
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La Fontaine |
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"Oti gar ouk estin anthropo kata
phusin to sarkophagein, proton men apo ton somaton
deloutai
tes
kataskeues.
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Shelley |
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' If I
had been ambitious,"
continues
Petrarch, "I might have been preferred to
a benefice of more value than yours;" and he refers to the fact of the
Pope having given him his choice of several high preferments.
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Petrarch |
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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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These are a prince's virtues: and they
that give him other
counsels
are but the hangman's factors.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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1751 First collected edition,
published
by Warburton, 9 vols.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[Exeunt
SERVANTS
with
basket] Gentlemen, I have dream'd to-night; I'll tell you my
dream.
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Shakespeare |
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Not by its fault--but thine: Our outward sense
Is but of gradual grasp--and as it is
That what we have of feeling most intense
Outstrips our faint expression; e'en so this
Outshining and o'erwhelming edifice
Fools our fond gaze, and
greatest
of the great
Defies at first our nature's littleness,
Till, growing with its growth, we thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When I uncovered my eyes, the
apparition
was no
longer apparent.
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Poe - 5 |
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]]
[Sidenote: But what shall I say with respect to sensual pleasures,
the desire of which is full of anxiety, and the
enjoyment
of them
full of repentance?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The treasures of heaven
are not
negations
of passion but realities of intellect from which
the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Trembling afar the
offending
powers appear'd,
Confused and silent, for his frown they fear'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Wherefore
again, again, since seeds of things
Exist by nature, nor were wrought with hands
After a fixed pattern of one other,
They needs must flitter to and fro with shapes
In types dissimilar to one another.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Take their
examination
yourself and bring it me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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My soul
released
at last with Love's apt keys
But issues from my heart to follow you,
Nor tears itself without much thought away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I am highly
delighted
with it; and if you should think it worthy
of your attention, I have a fair dame in my eye to whom I would
consecrate it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the
burnished
rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic
corridors
I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold suffers!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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No joy for me were too brief that arose
From her: I hope that she might guess,
For of me she'll
otherwise
not know,
Since the heart such words can scarce utter,
That the Rhone, its swollen waters there,
No fiercer than my heart flows inwardly,
Nor floods more with love, when on her I gaze.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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What mocking and scornful
negligence?
| 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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Their meeting takes place under an influence, alien I know, that of Music heard in concert; one finds there several
techniques
that seem to me to belong to Literature, I reclaim them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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It was a fatal day when the public
discovered
that the pen is
mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the
brickbat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In they rushed and killed the game,
shooting
lustily away;
And whene'er they slew a rebel, those who came too late for
slaying,
Not to lose a share of glory, fired their bullets in his clay;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Saw his sons fall dead beside him, and between them laid him
down.
| 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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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thy arts have made the godlike Hector yield,
And driven his
conquering
squadrons from the field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
By the same author
Rivers to the Sea
"There is hardly another
American
woman-poet whose poetry is generally
known and loved like that of Sara Teasdale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But thou,
imperious!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
' I have gone through so many yesterdays when I
strove with Death that I have
realised
to its full the wisdom of that
sentence; and it is to me not merely a figure of speech, but a
literal fact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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ixe_; and _Statute_ of _eight_
hundred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But when his
hapless sister knew afar the
whistling
wings of the Fury, Juturna
unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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When all the
children
sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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BOSTON HYMN
READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863
The word of the Lord by night
To the
watching
Pilgrims came,
As they sat by the seaside,
And filled their hearts with flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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These
leaves are not many dipped in one dye, as at the dye-house, but they
are dyed in light of infinitely various degrees of
strength
and left
to set and dry there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Not all our power is gone--not all our fame--
"Not all the magic of our high renown--
"Not all the wonder that encircles us--
"Not all the
mysteries
that in us lie--
"Not all the memories that hang upon
"And cling around about us as a garment,
"Clothing us in a robe of more than glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"There, there's the
villain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Dearly welcome tones
Of our own
language
in a foreign land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Where's your
handkerchief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Laura stared but did not stir,
Longed but had no money:
The whisk-tailed merchant bade her taste
In tones as smooth as honey,
The cat-faced purr'd,
The rat-faced spoke a word 110
Of welcome, and the snail-paced even was heard;
One parrot-voiced and jolly
Cried 'Pretty Goblin' still for 'Pretty Polly;'--
One
whistled
like a bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"Well,
Sourine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Might there not be
sometimes
too much of alms
About his love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
1781
Winter: A Dirge
The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or the stormy north sends driving forth
The
blinding
sleet and snaw:
While, tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
And pass the heartless day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
]
THURLOW _communicates the intention of
Parliament
to
offer_ CROMWELL _the crown_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
There is
nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not
vibrate in
terrible
and exquisite pulsation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Soon the bullets whistled
about our ears, and some arrows came
quivering
around us in the earth
and in the posts of the palisade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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at hire naturel 3260
entenc{i}ou{n}
lede?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
exclaimed
some one, as Carron foundry belched forth
flames--"look, Burns, look!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Green monkeys cry in
Sanskrit
to their souls
From lofty bamboo trees of hot Madras.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
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(Or /etext 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99,
98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92, 91 or 90)
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November
2003, with etext numbers OVER #10000, are
filed in a different way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
The
brethren
cried, and instant strode away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The breathing
pestilence
that rose like smoke!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
To whom are you
sacrificing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
He next from her of Silence makes demand,
Who of his motions easily might know;
As one who from one land to the other hied,
Kindling
and scattering fire on either side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Such a blue inner light from her eyelids outbroke,
You looked at her silence and fancied she spoke:
When she did, so
peculiar
yet soft was the tone,
Though the loudest spoke also, you heard her alone--
My Kate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
What, shrinking from thine own
delightsomeness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
CCLXXVI
Then his barons,
returning
to Carlun,
Say to their King: "Sire, we beseech of you
That you cry quits with county Guenelun,
So he may serve you still in love and truth;
Nay let him live, so noble a man 's he proved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Who even knows if the king your father, would
Wish the mystery of his absence
understood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And we, who are Americans, we pray
The splendor of strength that Gettysburg knew
May light the long generations with
glorious
ray,
And keep us undyingly true!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
The lords of war are beaten down, your
glorious
task is done;
You fought to make the whole world free, and the victory is won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
But the unit of the visit,
The
encounter
of the wise,--
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
We made our
distance
wider, boat from boat,
As each would hear the oracle alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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And others shiv'ring on the stone pilasters
* Drink
raindrops
from the hollow flower-steens,
27
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
31-2:
And if no peece of
Chronicle
wee prove
We'll build in sonnets pretty roomes .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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City Vignettes
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Dawn
The
greenish
sky glows up in misty reds,
The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,
The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,
And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Let them feel that this cold
metallic
motion
Is not all the life God fashions or reveals:
Let them prove their living souls against the notion
That they live in you, or under you, O wheels!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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tant en ai puis
souspire!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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Appoloinaire |
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que j'en ai suivi, de ces petites
vieilles!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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You were the notes
Of cold
fantastic
grief
Some few found beautiful.
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Imagists |
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And one time he was resting he
took notice of a wild briar bush, with
blossoms
on it, that was growing
beside a rath, and it brought to mind the wild roses he used to bring
to Mary Lavelle, and to no woman after her.
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Yeats |
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310
Do gently murder half my soul, and I
Shall feel the other half so
utterly!
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Keats |
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Thinking
of you, and all that was, and all
That might have been and now can never be,
I feel your honored excellence, and see
Myself unworthy of the happier call:
For woe is me who walk so apt to fall,
So apt to shrink afraid, so apt to flee,
Apt to lie down and die (ah, woe is me!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_ But
An hour ago, who dared to term me such 370
Had held his life but lightly--as it is,
I must forgive you, even as he forgave us--
Semiramis
herself would not have done it.
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Byron |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Like scrolls and rolled-up flags of silk,
He saw the fruits unfold,
And all our expectations in one wild-flower-written dream,
Confusion and death sweetness, and a thicket of crab-thorns,
Heart of a hundred midnights, heart of the
merciful
morns.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The nations that in fettered darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great
mornings
break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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