Then Criticism the Muse's handmaid prov'd,
To dress her charms, and make her more belov'd:
But
following
wits from that intention stray'd,
Who could not win the mistress, woo'd the maid; 105
Against the Poets their own arms they turn'd,
Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift
extremity
can seem but slow?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His entire physiognomy was
interestingly
saturnine--even cadaverously
pale.
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Poe - 5 |
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I thought how yellow it would look
When Richard went to mill;
And then I wanted to get out,
But
something
held my will.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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" Then stretch'd he forth
Hands to the bark; whereof my teacher sage
Aware,
thrusting
him back: "Away!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Luna by night, with heavenly influence
Illumined!
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William Wordsworth |
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But Jove with
conquest
crowns the Trojan train:
And, Jove our foe, all human force is vain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
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T.S. Eliot |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams blotched by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a
melancholy
garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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2380
Yeve it in yift al quit fully,
And make thy yift debonairly;
For men that yift [wol] holde more dere
That yeven is with
gladsome
chere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The precise sense to be
attached
to them may be open
to some difference of opinion.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Whitman |
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"
So pass the
wondering
words away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Vast as some mighty column's bulk, on high
The huge trunk rose, and heaved into the sky;
Around the tree I raised a nuptial bower,
And roof'd defensive of the storm and shower;
The
spacious
valve, with art inwrought conjoins;
And the fair dome with polished marble shines.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Oxford, MS 38655-4109
Contact us if you want to arrange for a wire
transfer
or payment
method other than by check or money order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And if he spoke, what name was best,
What first,
What one broke off with
At the
drowsiest?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To think how much
pleasure
there is!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Ed elli a me: <
non puoi fallire a
glorioso
porto,
se ben m'accorsi ne la vita bella;
e s'io non fossi si per tempo morto,
veggendo il cielo a te cosi benigno,
dato t'avrei a l'opera conforto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wee'l haue thee, as our rarer
Monsters
are
Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ,
Heere may you see the Tyrant
Macb.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Undaunted are their courages,
Right
Cossacks
in their forages;
Fleeter they than any creature,--
They are his steeds, and not his feature;
Inquisitive, and fierce, and fasting,
Restless, predatory, hasting;
And they pounce on other eyes
As lions on their prey;
And round their circles is writ,
Plainer than the day,
Underneath, within, above,--
Love--love--love--love.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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_
They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
They roused him with mustard and cress--
They roused him with jam and
judicious
advice--
They set him conundrums to guess.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
It would be easier to climb to Heaven
than to walk the
Szechwan
Road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Sit here until the house
is a little quiet--I must attend to my guests--and
afterwards
go to bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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)
Red, from
mainmast
to bitts!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I reel, I burn
Such another peerless queen
Sudden gusts came full of meaning
Tell me, maiden, dost thou use
Tell men what they knew before
Test of the poet is knowledge of love
Thanks to the morning light
That book is good
That each should in his house abide
That you are fair or wise is vain
The April winds are magical
The
archangel
Hope
The Asmodean feat is mine
The atom displaces all atoms beside
The bard and mystic held me for their own
The beggar begs by God's command
The brave Empedocles, defying fools
The brook sings on, but sings in vain
The cold gray down upon the quinces lieth
The cup of life is not so shallow
The days pass over me
The debt is paid
The gale that wrecked you on the sand
The green grass is bowing
The heavy blue chain
The living Heaven thy prayers respect
The lords of life, the lords of life
The low December vault in June be lifted high
Theme no poet gladly sung
The mountain and the squirrel
The Muse's hill by Fear is guarded
The patient Pan
The prosperous and beautiful
The rhyme of the poet
The rocky nook with hilltops three
The rules to men made evident
The sea is the road of the bold
The sense of the world is short
The solid, solid universe
The South-wind brings
The Sphinx is drowsy
The sun athwart the cloud thought it no sin
The sun goes down, and with him takes
The sun set, but set not his hope
The tongue is prone to lose the way
The water understands
The wings of Time are black and white
The word of the Lord by night
The yesterday doth never smile
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes
There are beggars in Iran and Araby
There is in all the sons of men
There is no great and no small
There is no architect
They brought me rubies from the mine
They put their finger on their lips
They say, through patience, chalk
Thine eyes still shined for me, though far
Think me not unkind and rude
This is he, who, felled by foes
This shining moment is an edifice
Thou foolish Hafiz!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Then 'tis said Peleus burned with desire for Thetis, then
Thetis
contemned
not mortal hymenaeals, then Thetis' sire himself
sanctioned her joining to Peleus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The tradition, indeed, would start afresh with
him; but how the novel tradition fared as it grew old with his
successors, is
difficult
guesswork.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Let us learn
First, what the curse is that befell the maid,--
Her own voice telling her own wasting woes:
The
sequence
of that anguish shall await
The teaching of thy lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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A li se tint de l'autre part
Li Diex d'Amors, cil qui depart 870
Amoretes
a sa devise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Let Greece then know, my purpose I retain:
Nor with new
treaties
vex my peace in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
_"
[The bard was in one of his
Jacobitical
moods when he wrote this song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Yet ere the varlet Marcus again might seize the maid,
Who clung tight to Muraena's skirt, and sobbed, and shrieked for
aid,
Forth through the throng of gazers the young Icilius pressed,
And stamped his foot, and rent his gown, and smote upon his
breast,
And sprang upon that column, by many a minstrel sung,
Whereon three mouldering helmets, three rusting swords, are hung,
And
beckoned
to the people, and in bold voice and clear
Poured thick and fast the burning words which tyrants quake to
hear.
| 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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E'en from to-day we hail you as the
deliverer
of mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I wondered what machine of ages gone
This
represented
an improvement on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected
from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
"Make some day a decent end,
Shrewder
fellows than your friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the
thinking
self, the fanciful self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" he says,
"For winning me from one
Who ever in her living days
Was pure as
cloistered
nun!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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]
Grant me, indulgent Heav'n, that I may live
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give,
Deal Freedom's sacred
treasures
free as air,
Till slave and despot be but things which were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I knew his perils from of old,
I know them now, when I behold
The bitter faring of my King,
Whose love is taken, and his life
Left
evermore
an empty thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Code of Hammurapi IV 52 and Streck in
_Babyloniaca_
II 177.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He minded the prizes his prince had given him,
wealthy seat of the
Waegmunding
line,
and folk-rights that his father owned
Not long he lingered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Good-bye, my
darling!
| 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 |
|
Silent and slow, by tower and town
The freighted barges come and go,
Their pendent shadows gliding down
By town and tower
submerged
below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
We grew in age--and love--together,
Roaming the forest, and the wild;
My breast her shield in wintry weather--
And, when the friendly
sunshine
smil'd,
And she would mark the opening skies,
_I_ saw no Heaven--but in her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Self-love but serves the
virtuous
mind to wake,
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Cachez les palais morts dans des niches de planches
L'ancien jour effare
rafraichit
vos regards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
745
And how his blushes
increased
my sense of shame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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No, neither he, nor his
compeers
by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But there was something else, something hardly
personal, something which
belonged
to a consciousness older than the
Christian, which I realised, wondered at, and admired, in her passionate
tranquillity of mind, before which everything mean and trivial and
temporary caught fire and burnt away in smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Fitzdottrel, another type of the gull,
is more closely related to
_Tribulation
Wholesome_ in _The Alchemist_,
and even in some respects to Corvino and Voltore in _The Fox_.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But there's no bottome, none
In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters,
Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp
The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire
All continent
Impediments
would ore-beare
That did oppose my will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their
jingling
keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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I should find
Some way incomparably light and deft,
Some way we both should understand,
Simple and
faithless
as a smile and shake of the hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The latter,
who succeeded the
Countess
of Bedford as patroness to the poet Michael
Drayton and as the 'Idea' of his sonnets, married Sir Henry Raynsford.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Nor need'st thou then
to hide my head; {6c} for his shall I be,
dyed in gore, if death must take me;
and my blood-covered body he'll bear as prey,
ruthless devour it, the roamer-lonely,
with my life-blood redden his lair in the fen:
no further for me need'st food
prepare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Always the whine of the shell,
Always the roar of its burst,
Always the tortures of hell,
As waiting and wincing we cursed
Our luck and the guns and the _Boche_,
When our
Corporal
shouted, "Stand to!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Or of my uncurtained window and the bare floor
Spattered
with moonlight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Though I be formed of clay,
And thou of beams
More bright than those of day
On Eden's streams, 100
Thine
immortality
can not repay
With love more warm than mine
My love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
My passion grew
The more, the more I saw her dainty hue 410
Gleam delicately through the azure clear:
Until 'twas too fierce agony to bear;
And in that agony, across my grief
It flash'd, that Circe might find some relief--
Cruel
enchantress!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
At length Epeus dealt a weighty blow
Full on the cheek of his unwary foe;
Beneath that ponderous arm's resistless sway
Down dropp'd he, nerveless, and
extended
lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
is
compayny
of court com ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
"
Scarce had he spake, when, turning to the strand,
Amphinomos survey'd the
associate
band;
Full to the bay within the winding shores
With gather'd sails they stood, and lifted oars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Fiercest
attack
Was as a perfumed breeze to them, which drew
Their souls still closer unto God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
How
penetrating
is the end of an autumn day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
One such indeed I saw, but,
Ichabod!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Poor gapin', glowrin'
Superstition!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
O had I known as then joy had left the paths of men,
I had watched her night and day, be sure, and never slept agen,
And when she turned to go, O I'd caught her mantle then,
And wooed her like a lover by my lonely side to stay;
Ay, knelt and worshipped on, as love in beauty's bower,
And clung upon her smiles as a bee upon a flower,
And gave her heart my posies, all cropt in a sunny hour,
As keepsakes and pledges all to never fade away;
But love never heeded to
treasure
up the may,
So it went the common road to decay.
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Ye glorious oaks will still increase in solitude profound,
Where the far west in
distance
lies as evening veils around;
Ye willows, to the earth your arms in mournful trail will bend,
And back again your mirror'd forms the water's surface send.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But before he fell--
(O
blessedness
ineffable!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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" And then he wolfish howled,
And hurled off towards the
snarling
and the baying.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CHORUS
Alack, how vainly have they
striven!
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Aeschylus |
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The
following
evening he went again.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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-- The hardy Scylding,
battle-thane best, {16i} on his
balefire
lay.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[3] Collins's Ode on the death of Thomson, the last written, I
believe, of the poems which were
published
during his
life-time.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thus Rilke's
monograph
on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's testament on Life and Art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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As he grew older he seemed to hunt for more acrid
odours; he often
presents
an elaborately chased vase the carving of
which transports us, but from which the head is quickly averted.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And you, ye five wild
torrents
fiercely glad!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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680
He felle, and dyd the Norman rankes dyvide;
So when an oke, that shotte ynto the skie,
Feeles the broad axes peersynge his broade syde,
Slowlie hee falls and on the grounde doth lie,
Pressynge all downe that is wyth hym anighe, 685
And stoppynge wearie travellers on the waie;
So straught upon the playne the Norman hie
* * * * *
Bled, gron'd, and dyed; the
Normanne
knyghtes astound
To see the bawsin champyon preste upon the grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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End of Project Gutenberg's Poems of Coleridge, by Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF
COLERIDGE
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This file should be named 8208-8.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Now neither lives his life, but he
Marks
precious
days that pass and flee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sometimes
the writer delights us, when we grow to understand him, with new forms
of virtue discovered in persons where one had not
hitherto
looked for
it, and sometimes, and this is more and more true of modern art, he
changes the values not by the persons he sets before one, who may be
mean enough, but by his way of looking at them, by the implications
that come from his own mind, by the tune they dance to as it were.
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Yeats |
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" I thus replied:
"Say who thou wast, if thou wouldst have mine aid;
And if I
extricate
thee not, far down
As to the lowest ice may I descend!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Santa Spirita, breather, life,
Beyond the light, lighter than light,
Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,
Beyond Paradise,
perfumed
solely with mine own perfume,
Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including
Saviour and Satan,
Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were all?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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