Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore
desire, of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--
'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Lo, Jove himself
declares
the conquest ours!
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Iliad - Pope |
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MOSALSKY
appears on
the staircase.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In another unplaced fragment of the
Assyrian
text [11] Enkidu rejects
his mistress also, apparently on his own initiative and for ascetic
reasons.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Can I forget that
miserable
hour, 1798.
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William Wordsworth |
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took
Athens, a proposal to demolish it was
rejected
through the effect
produced on the commanders by hearing part of a chorus from the Electra
of Euripides sung at a feast.
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Golden Treasury |
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is shal
mowe shewen by a short
ensample
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But, since Life at most a jest is,
As
philosophers
allow,
Still to laugh by far the best is,
Then laugh on--as I do now.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Lilly of the valley
breathing
in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
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blake-poems |
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Paths there were many,
Winding through palmy fern, and rushes fenny, 80
And ivy banks; all leading pleasantly
To a wide lawn, whence one could only see
Stems thronging all around between the swell
Of turf and slanting branches: who could tell
The
freshness
of the space of heaven above,
Edg'd round with dark tree tops?
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Keats |
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Now, pressing onward, past the burning zone,
Beneath another heaven and stars unknown,
Unknown to heroes and to sages old,
With southward prows our pathless course we hold:
Here, gloomy night assumes a darker reign,
And fewer stars emblaze the heavenly plain;
Fewer than those that gild the northern pole,
And o'er our seas their glitt'ring
chariots
roll:
While nightly thus, the lonely seas we brave,
Another pole-star[352] rises o'er the wave:
Full to the south a shining cross[353] appears,
Our heaving breasts the blissful omen cheers:
Seven radiant stars compose the hallow'd sign
That rose still higher o'er the wavy brine.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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All are not ill plots that do sometimes fail;
Nor those false vows which
ofttimes
don't prevail.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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This
part of the pier had been but lately refaced with blocks of granite,
so that it was almost clear of seaweed; but when I came to the old
part, I found it so
slippery
with green weed that I had to climb up
on to the roadway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
| Guess: |
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blake-poems |
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But,
beside the chance that a trial of this importance would hardly be
blessed to a Pagan monarch whose only motive was curiosity, we have on
the Hebrew side the comparatively recent
investigation
of James the
Fourth of Scotland.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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He put the belt around my life, --
I heard the buckle snap,
And turned away, imperial,
My lifetime folding up
Deliberate, as a duke would do
A kingdom's title-deed, --
Henceforth a
dedicated
sort,
A member of the cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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my
business
torments me, and my sins come staring me
in the face, every one telling a more bitter tale than his
fellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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For change is a kind of
refreshing
in
studies, and infuseth knowledge by way of recreation.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
e
borelych
burne on bent, ?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Him answer'd then
Penelope
discrete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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A long, low-pitched room, of antique
construction, was indeed all the accommodation
afforded
by the Cafe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Among eek, for thy lady sake, 2325
Songes and
complayntes
that thou make;
For that wol meve [hem] in hir herte,
Whan they reden of thy smerte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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' When Tarchon
had spoken in such wise, his
comrades
rise on their oar-blades and carry
their ships in foam towards the Latin fields, till the prows are fast on
dry land and all the keels are aground unhurt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My conscience bids me speak----
NATHAN: See what a charming silk I bought for you
In Babylon, and these
Damascus
jewels.
| 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 |
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Is not every
continent
worked over and over with sour dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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What though from pole to pole
resounds
her name!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Silly rich
peasants
stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Though my view travel utmost heaven athwart
No planet there
condemns
me thus to grieve:
Why, if the body's veil obscure my sight,
Blame to the stars impart.
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| Answer: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It has been seen, however, that
his Worldly Ambition was not exorbitant; and he very likely takes a
humorous or perverse
pleasure
in exalting the gratification of Sense
above that of the Intellect, in which he must have taken great
delight, although it failed to answer the Questions in which he, in
common with all men, was most vitally interested.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men
worshipped
him,
They named my bridegroom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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That a
passionate
intense
Love be sired,
One by my body well-desired,
Yet I'd rather of you demand
A kiss than any other woman,
So why does my love refuse me
When she knows I need her truly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Now let us see, without more talk or fears,
If I know how to forge the
bantling
ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"A
glorious
devil, large in heart
and brain, that did love beauty only.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
She fled to him, and wildly clasped his feet
When human steps were heard:--he moved nor spoke, _1910
Nor changed his hue, nor raised his looks to meet
The gaze of strangers--our loud entrance woke
The echoes of the hall, which circling broke
The calm of its recesses,--like a tomb
Its sculptured walls vacantly to the stroke _1915
Of
footfalls
answered, and the twilight's gloom
Lay like a charnel's mist within the radiant dome.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Thy lord shall curb that
insolence
of tongue;
Know, to Telemachus I tell the offence;
The scourge, the scourge shall lash thee into sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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I too saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
Looked at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head
in the sun-lit water,
Looked on the haze on the hills southward and southwestward,
Looked on the vapour as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,
Looked toward the lower bay to notice the arriving ships,
Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
Saw the white sails of
schooners
and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
The sailors at work in the rigging, or out astride the spars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But close around the body, where stood the little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain,
No cries were there, but teeth set fast, low
whispers
and black
frowns,
And breaking up of benches, and girding up of gowns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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LXV
Now lofty Fancy, which one course to run
Permits not, calls me hence in sudden wise;
And thither I return, where paynims stun
Fair France with hosile din and angry cries,
About the tent, wherein Troyano's son
They holy empire in his wrath defies,
And
boastful
Rodomont, with vengeful doom,
Gives Paris to the flames, and levels Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Tring,
Who embellished his nose with a ring;
He gazed at the moon every evening in June,
That
ecstatic
Old Person of Tring.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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By the more height of thy sweet stature grown,
Twice-eyed with thy gray vision set in mine,
I ken far lands to
wifeless
men unknown,
I compass stars for one-sexed eyes too fine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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O, to see him when anointed he is
plunging
in the flood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Although to-day I walk in tedious ways,
To-day His staff is turned into a rod,
Yet will I wait for Him the
appointed
days
And stay upon my God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Whene'er you speak, each word has double force;
At table, you've
precedency
of course,
And oft will get the very nicest parts;
Well pleased who serves you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild:
Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields,
Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled,
And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields;
There the blithe bee his fragrant
fortress
builds,
The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain air;
Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds,
Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare;
Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
How does pretty
Mistress
Anne?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
let thy tears no longer swell
The torrent of the
Egyptian
river: Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful
Athenian
courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Ben m'accorsi ch'elli era da ciel messo,
e volsimi al maestro; e quei fe segno
ch'i' stessi queto ed
inchinassi
ad esso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
O Herod, thy
vengeance
is swift!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
XXI
I can tell not only about a
discomfort
far greater than others,
But of a horror besides, thinking of which will arouse
Every fiber in me to revulsion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
CATHLEEN
picks
up the parchment and signs, and then turns towards the
peasants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
TEMPORE SENECTUTIS OR we are old
And the earth passion dieth;
We have watched him die a
thousand
times, When he wanes an old wind crieth,
For we are old
And passion hath died for us a thousand times
But we grew never weary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy,
happiness
all the night long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thou movest--but increasing with th' advance,
Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise,
Deceived
by its gigantic elegance;
Vastness which grows--but grows to harmonise--
All musical in its immensities;
Rich marbles--richer painting--shrines where flame
The lamps of gold--and haughty dome which vies
In air with Earth's chief structures, though their frame
Sits on the firm-set ground--and this the clouds must claim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I was
disturbed
at this;
I accosted the man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such
strength
and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the
shatterd
bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Poi che di riguardar
pasciuto
fui,
tutto m'offersi pronto al suo servigio
con l'affermar che fa credere altrui.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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setes' tomb
observed
the foes,(105)
High on the mound; from whence in prospect lay
The fields, the tents, the navy, and the bay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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The things Heaven made
Man was meant to use;
A thousand guilders
scattered
to the wind may come back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"What need has he of your
_touloup_?
| 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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The
hourlies
and half-hourlies, the
dailies and weeklies, whirl on well-worn tracks, round and round his
house, as if it were the goal in the stadium, and still he sits within
in unruffled serenity, with no show of retreat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Of the critics of
Edinburgh
he said, they spun the thread of
their criticisms so fine that it was unfit for either warp or weft;
and of its scholars, he said, they were never satisfied with any
Scottish poet, unless they could trace him in Horace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I can easily fancy a more
agreeable
companion for my journey of life;
but, upon my honour, I have never seen the individual instance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Oui, meme apres la mort, dans les squelettes pales
Il veut vivre, insultant la
premiere
beaute!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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 |
|
His
large water-dog was
acquainted
with the fact, and upon the approach
of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of
deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw
not altogether unworthy of a dog.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
There is a circumstance in their
contract
of marriage that merits
attention, and it strongly marks the predatory spirit of the times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the
conflict
of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
_ Why hate
Thy craft most plainly
innocent
of all
These pending ills?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Well, as much
As star
transcends
a sequin, and just such
As temple is to rubbish-heap, I say,
You do eclipse their beauty every way.
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Hugo - Poems |
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So beautiful their bodies were,
Built with so
exquisite
a care:
So young and fit and lithe and fair.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And doth
punishment
now give me its place for a home?
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Longfellow |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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`Eek al my wo is this, that folk now usen
To seyn right thus, "Ye,
Ialousye
is love!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Gold, gold can pass the tyrant's sentinel,
Can shiver rocks with more
resistless
blow
Than is the thunder's.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Is there a man, whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs, himself, life's mad career,
Wild as the wave;
Here pause--and, through the starting tear,
Survey this grave.
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Robert Forst |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Wreaths
One feels obliged
to throw into this earth
that opens before
the child - the loveliest
wreaths of flowers -
the
loveliest
flowery
products, of that
earth - sacrificed
- in order to veil
or pay his toll
for him
64.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to
Destruction
from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and
counterchange
of death; in
even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other
knows of retreat.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly illegible in the
manuscript
and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The hour was morning's prime, and on his way
Aloft the sun
ascended
with those stars,
That with him rose, when Love divine first mov'd
Those its fair works: so that with joyous hope
All things conspir'd to fill me, the gay skin
Of that swift animal, the matin dawn
And the sweet season.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Forever let the equal record stand--
A
thousand
winters for this Spring of Springs,
That to a warring world, through thee, millennial longing brings.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
She was not
altogether
correct.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Nor do thou fear the want of these
_In everlasting properties_,
Since we fresh
strewings
will bring hither,
Far faster than the first can wither.
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Robert Herrick |
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Perished
is all that grieves;
And lo, our old-new joys
Are gathered as in sheaves,
Held in love's equipoise.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He married his 'step-daughter' Anor, to his son, later Guilhem X, and in turn their
daughter
Alianor (Eleanor), Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou, became Queen of France, and by her second marriage to Henry, Duke of Normandy, later Henry II, became Queen of England also.
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Troubador Verse |
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