At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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As a barque rights itself, -- the sheet untied,
Which held its sail, -- by growing wind opprest;
So speedily Sir
Rodomont
arose,
Though a hill had been uprooted by the blows.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A
princely
lodging.
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Longfellow |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
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Christina Rossetti |
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, it is most exact
measure, and yet, let them both be sung before a real critic, one
above the biases of prejudice, but a
thorough
judge of nature,--how
flat and spiritless will the last appear, how trite, and lamely
methodical, compared with the wild warbling cadence, the heart-moving
melody of the first!
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Robert Burns |
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It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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Golden Treasury |
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)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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25
But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I
promised
Toffile to be cruel to them
For helping them be cruel once to him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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From his proud car the prince
impetuous
springs,
On earth he leaps, his brazen armour rings.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The
houseless
am I not?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Good
_madame_
giue me leaue to goe a?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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A little space he let his greedy eyes
Rest on the
burnished
image, till mere sight
Half swooned for surfeit of such luxuries,
And then his lips in hungering delight
Fed on her lips, and round the towered neck
He flung his arms, nor cared at all his passion's will to check.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Tis excellent, cried they: things well you frame;
And at the
promised
hour, the heroes came.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Round them, with black slime choked and hideous weed,
Cocytus winds; there lies the unlovely swamp
Of dull dead water, and to pen them fast,
Styx with her
ninefold
barrier poured between.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Thus we know,
That
moisture
is dispersed about in bits
Too small for eyes to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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See, not one tree but what has lost its leaves--
And yet the landscape wears a
pleasing
hue.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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When Li Yang-ping became
Governor
of T'ang-tu, Po went to live near him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A strange numbing terror
unnerves
his limbs,
his hair thrills up, and the accents falter on his tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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and life and death
are
altogether
for it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My Lord, a deadly sight,
Her hand
quenching
her eyes' innocent light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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; on
geogoðe
(_in youth_),
409, 466; on geogoð-fēore, 537; so, 1844; on orlege (_in, during, battle_),
1327; hū lomp ēow on lāde (_on the way_), 1988; on gange (_in going, en
route_), 1885; on sweofote (_in sleep_), 1582.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars,[gw]
Till he had peopled them with beings bright
As their own beams; and earth, and earth-born jars,
And human frailties, were
forgotten
quite:
Could he have kept his spirit to that flight
He had been happy; but this clay will sink
Its spark immortal, envying it the light
To which it mounts, as if to break the link
That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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in thy bright, clear flow
Of crystal, wandering water,
Thou art an emblem of the glow
Of beauty--the unhidden heart--
The playful maziness of art
In old Alberto's daughter;
But when within thy wave she looks--
Which glistens then, and trembles--
Why, then, the prettiest of brooks
Her
worshipper
resembles;
For in my heart, as in thy stream,
Her image deeply lies--
His heart which trembles at the beam
Of her soul-searching eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Though various are the titles men can plead,
Some for a time enjoy the glorious meed
That merit claims; yet unrelenting fate
On all the doom pronounces soon or late;
And whatsoe'er the vulgar think or say,
Were not your lives thus shorten'd to a day,
Your eyes would see the consummating power
His countless
millions
at a meal devour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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What with some
fisherman
drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by
and pause?
| 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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Relentless fate has laid their
guardian
low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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how may vows or shrines help her
madness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Nereus and Doris, from whose nuptials sprung
The lovely Nereid train, for ever young,
Who people ev'ry sea on ev'ry strand,
Appear'd, attended with their filial band;
And
changeful
Proteus, whose prophetic mind[411]
The secret cause of Bacchus' rage divin'd,
Attending, left the flocks, his scaly charge,
To graze the bitter, weedy foam at large.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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XLV
The false Duessa leaving noyous Night,
Returnd to stately pallace of Dame Pride;
Where when she came, she found the Faery knight
Departed thence, albe his woundes wide 400
Not throughly heald,
unreadie
were to ride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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See her whose darling child a long year past
Has dwelt beyond the wild Carpathian foam;
That long year o'er, the envious southern blast
Still bars him from his home:
Weeping and praying to the shore she clings,
Nor ever thence her straining
eyesight
turns:
So, smit by loyal passion's restless stings,
Rome for her Caesar yearns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Goldsmith and Sheridan and Burke had become so much a part
of English life, were so greatly moulded by the
movements
that were
moulding England, that, despite certain Irish elements that clung
about them, we could not think of them as more important to us than
any English writer of equal rank.
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Yeats |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
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La Fontaine |
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So feble he wex, for hete and for his wo,
That nigh he swelt, he mighte unnethe endure;
He passeth but oo steyre in dayes two,
But ner the les, for al his hevy armure, 130
He foloweth hir that is his lyves cure;
For whos
departing
he took gretter yre
Thanne for al his brenning in the fyre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale |
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Friends and
confederates!
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Iliad - Pope |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thus, hast thou not,
Achilles!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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* * * * *
The
background
against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet,
as many readers are
infected
with the _sang froid_ of a Bossu or a
Perrault, an observation in defence of our poet cannot be thought
impertinent.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" KAU}
And
Enitharmon
joyd Plotting to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely beautiful the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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