What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Could mortal lip divine
The undeveloped freight
Of a
delivered
syllable,
'T would crumble with the weight.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Condensed
mythological
references abound.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Gib nur erst acht, die Bestialitat
Wird sich gar
herrlich
offenbaren.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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June Nights
In summer, when day has fled, when covered with flowers
The distant plain sheds sweet intoxication;
Eyes closed, and ears half-open to muted hours,
We lie only half-asleep in
transparent
slumber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Each is the master of a habitation and
household
of his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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TMOLUS, a
mountain
of Lydia, commended for its vines, its saffron, its
fragrant shrubs, and the fountain-head of the Pactolus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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I too; I hate a thing I cannot skill;
And thee and all that lives in thee, O Queen,
I would keep
friendly
to my spirit; yet
I do suspect something amazing in thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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326)
Calpurnius
(T.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
CCXIV
Now to be off would that
Emperour
Charles,
When pagans, lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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quippe etenim iam tum diuum mortalia saecla
egregias animo facies uigilante uidebant
et magis in somnis mirando
corporis
auctu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He hath thee maked vicaire and
maistresse
140
>>
Et que mal hyer et pis m'est hui,
Tost apres si me ranvite,
Vierge douce, se pren fuite,
Se je fui a la poursuite,
Ou fuiray, qu'a mon refui?
| 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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Thus we see that the main
incident
of the story, the murder of Lorenzo,
is passed over in a line--'Thus was Lorenzo slain and buried in,' the
next line, 'There, in that forest, did his great love cease,' bringing
us back at once from the physical reality of the murder to the thought
of his love, which is to Keats the central fact of the story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Or unfold to our gaze thy most
wonderful
book,
So feared by hell and Satan;
At its hermits and martyrs in gold let us look,
At the virgins, and bishops with pastoral crook,
And the hymns and the prayers in Latin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
For nought
unprosperous
shall thy ways attend,
Born with good omens, and with heaven thy friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Suffice that Reason keep to Nature's road,
Subject,
compound
them, follow her and God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
There was no need for them
to be "long
choosing
and beginning late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
James had appeared on a gray horse at the head
of the
Castilian
adventurers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
But the fatal consequences of the
principles and policy he denounced, were happily
averted by the
Bevolution
of 1688.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
at is to seyn to ben
gouerned
4384
{and} passe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
And yester-eve I would not tell you of it,
But kept it for a sweet
surprise
at morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
And when a dance ended and the
pipers laid down their pipes and lifted their horn noggins, they stood
a little from the others waiting pensively and silently for the dance
to begin again and the fire in their hearts to leap up and to wrap them
anew; and so they danced and danced Pavane and Saraband and Gallead and
Morrice through the night long, and many stood still to watch them,
and the peasants came about the door and peered in, as though they
understood that they would gather their children's children about them
long hence, and tell how they had seen
Costello
dance with Dermott's
daughter Oona, and become by the telling themselves a portion of
ancient romance; but through all the dancing and piping Namara of the
Lake went hither and thither talking loudly and making foolish jokes
that all might seem well with him, and old Dermott of the Sheep grew
redder and redder, and looked oftener and oftener at the doorway to see
if the candles there grew yellow in the dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Below the ice, the unheard stream's
Clear heart thrilled on in ecstasy;
And lo, a
visionary
blush
Stole warmly o'er the voiceless wild;
And in her rapt and wintry hush
The lonely face of Nature smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
They are led to the palace of Thetis, where, during
a divine feast, they hear the glorious victories and conquests of the
heroes who are to succeed them in their Indian expedition, sung by a
siren; and the face of the globe itself, described by the goddess,
discovers the universe, and
particularly
the extent of the eastern
world, now given to Europe by the success of GAMA.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
[Note 22: Refers to two of the most
interesting
productions of
the poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her
stubborn
ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Was it mine eyes' imposture I have seen
Flit with the
moonbeams
on from shade to sheen
Through the wood-openings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
if yet you thirst for more,
Bleed all his sons, and Ilion float with gore:
To boundless
vengeance
the wide realm be given,
Till vast destruction glut the queen of heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
[Sidenote A: Then was Gawayne glad,]
[Sidenote B: and
consents
to tarry awhile at the castle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
e hym see; 846
A gode
fridayes
morowenyng
he shal wende to heuene kyng,
?
| 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 |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle
In an
Imperiall
charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
It is for me only that he exposed himself to
all the misfortunes which have
overtaken
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
at is
Maidenes
spouse.
| 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 |
|
_S' Amor novo
consiglio
non n' apporta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Fitzdottrel is the Lady
Elizabeth
Hatton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg Literary
Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by
U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
So I, the
undivine
abode
Of his elect content,
Conform my soul as 't were a church
Unto her sacrament.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And before our
husbands?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
We outgrow love like other things
And put it in the drawer,
Till it an antique fashion shows
Like
costumes
grandsires wore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
So art thou thanne desirous 2510
A sight of hir for to have,
If thou thine honour mightest save,
Or any erand
mightist
make
Thider, for thy loves sake;
Ful fayn thou woldist, but for drede 2515
Thou gost not, lest that men take hede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
(Exit,
followed
by Politian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
No matter; his heels have deserv'd it, in
usurping
his
spurs so long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
_ Drummond in _HN_ writes 'torments',
probably
a
conjectural emendation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Behold Beatrice with Dante; Selvaggia, she
Brought her Pistoian Cino; Guitton may be
Offended
that he is the latter named:
Behold both Guidos for their learning famed:
Th' honest Bolognian: the Sicilians first
Wrote love in rhymes, but wrote their rhymes the worst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
exquisite dancers in gray
twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The masqueraders, by this time, had recovered, in some measure,
from their alarm; and,
beginning
to regard the whole matter as a
well-contrived pleasantry, set up a loud shout of laughter at the
predicament of the apes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Yet the heroes of chivalry think it no
disgrace
to
take every advantage afforded by invulnerable hides and enchanted
armour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The
henchmen
saw, and straight
Flew to their spears, a host of them to set
Against those twain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Unfortunates
on earth, we see at last
All death-shadows, and glooms that overcast 990
Our spirits, fann'd away by thy light pinions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin
creators
that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all scientific genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
She also, like the plebeians she mingled with and did not see, looked
upon the luminous world with a profound eye, and
listened
with a toss of
her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
It
does not blow till towards the month of July--you then
perceive
it gradually open its petals--expand them--fade
and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
He was about to embark on
new explanations when Pugatchef
interrupted
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
And would that I, of your own fellowship,
Or dresser of the ripening grape had been,
Or
guardian
of the flock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
"
Oeil-de-Perdrix, grand farceur,
Sans reproche et sans pudeur,
Dans son patois de Bourgogne,
Bredouillait comme un ivrogne,
"Bons amis,
J'ai danse chez
Agassiz!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Yours, yes,
Retaining alone of the
vanished
sky, this
Trace of childish triumph as you spread each tress,
Gleaming as you show it against the pillows,
Like the helmet of war of a child-empress
From which, to denote you, would pour down roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The native Irish had steadily withstood his claim to the estate,
and continually
harassed
him with lawsuits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
THE CHILDREN OF THE SEVEN
FAMILIES
ARE SENT AWAY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Soft moss the pillow
For oh, a softer cheek; 10
Broad leaves cast shadow
Upon the heavy eyes:
There winds and waters
Grow lulled and
scarcely
speak;
There twilight lingers
The longest in the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
" cried Torquil,
following
with his eye
The sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Doughface, _a
contented
lick-spittle_; a common variety of Northern
politician.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
I tell you this--When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming
shoulders
of the Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
A SINGLE blow he patiently endured;
The second, howsoe'er, his patience cured;
The third was more severe, and each was worse;
The punishment he now began to curse;
Two lusty wights, with cudgels thrashed his back
And regularly gave him thwack and thwack;
He cried, he roared, for grace he begged his lord,
Who marked each blow, and would no ease accord;
But carefully observed, from time to time,
That lenity he always thought sublime;
His gravity preserved; considered too
The blows
received
and what continued due.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus
originally
did not know
his guest, and received not so much the reward of exceptional virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons, together with all those
Containing rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with
centuries
of snows;
Infinite rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
So with the spell of all the Powers of Sense
That e'er have swayed the
savagery
of hot blood
Raying from her whole body beautiful,
She held the eyes and wills of all the crowd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
To-day picked my
Isabella
grapes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth:
Beware Macduffe,
Beware the Thane of Fife:
dismisse
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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She'd no recourse to that nobility,
Who by their
exploits
won themselves glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away
When the glow of early thought
declines
in feeling's dull decay;
'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone which fades so fast,
But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
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Golden Treasury |
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Therefore
I will not answer.
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Longfellow |
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As through
translucent
and smooth glass, or wave
Clear and unmov'd, and flowing not so deep
As that its bed is dark, the shape returns
So faint of our impictur'd lineaments,
That on white forehead set a pearl as strong
Comes to the eye: such saw I many a face,
All stretch'd to speak, from whence I straight conceiv'd
Delusion opposite to that, which rais'd
Between the man and fountain, amorous flame.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Tattiana learns the intelligence--
Of her provincial innocence
The unaffected traits she now
Unto a carping world must show--
Her toilette's
antiquated
style,
Her antiquated mode of speech,
For Moscow fops and Circes each
To mark with a contemptuous smile.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Carmen
reliquum
in futurum tempus relegatum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But here the weary Muse
forsakes
the throng,
Too numerous for the bounds of mortal song.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
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Sappho |
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_Birnie_, birnie ground is where thick heath has been burnt, leaving
the birns, or
unconsumed
stalks, standing up sharp and stubley.
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Robert Forst |
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Big
perilous
theorem, hard for king and priest:
`Pursue the West but long enough, 'tis East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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