The horseman did his horse's colours show
In his own dress; and hence might be divined,
He, as the mournful hue o'erpowered the clear,
Was less
inclined
to smile, than mournful tear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[B] Abof a launde, on a lawe, loken vnder bo3e3,
Of mony
borelych
bole, aboute bi ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet you may bear me witness, it was
intended
only
to divert a few young Ladies, who have good sense and good humour enough
to laugh not only at their sex's little unguarded follies, but at their
own.
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Alexander Pope |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Je sais l'art d'evoquer les minutes
heureuses!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ashamed of a passionate lover's designs 1015
The criminal desire
reflected
in his eyes,
Phaedra was dying.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ross a fine fellow, like
Professor
Tytler,--Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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_ No, I will
languish
still;
And all the while my part shall be to weep,
And with my sighs, call home my bleating sheep:
And in the rind of every comely tree
I'll carve thy name, and in that name kiss thee.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Where love is great, the
littlest
doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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Shakespeare |
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There was a day, when with the
scornful
great
I swell'd in pomp and arrogance of state;
Proud of the power that to high birth belongs;
And used that power to justify my wrongs.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To whom the
guileful
Tempter thus reply'd.
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Milton |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's
Paradise
to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' It seems rather to mean 'roguish,' a
common
colloquial
use.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Come here, come and learn about your good luck, you who are
Fortune's
favourite!
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Aristophanes |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(kommt):
Geschwind!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Enough, O deed
impromptu
and secret!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The pile is ours: we dragged it bough on bough
Down dark
converging
paths between the pines.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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" Lycius replied,
'Tis Apollonius sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly
haunting
my sweet dreams.
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Keats - Lamia |
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An Invitation to Maecenas_
TYRRHENA regum progenies, tibi
non ante uerso lene merum cado
cum flore, Maecenas, rosarum et
pressa tuis balanus capillis
iamdudum apud me est: eripe te morae
nec semper udum Tibur et Aefulae
decliue
contempleris
aruom et
Telegoni iuga parricidae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Phials full of sinister fluids,
alternating
with
shining knives and instruments of surgery, hung from this living girdle.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Again her soft
mysterious
voice:
"I am thy only Love.
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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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Old age through spectacles too peers,
Although the
destined
coffin nears,
Having lost all in life we prize.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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1329
Veronae)
haec habet Catulli _De errore_.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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In
Ashburnham
and
afterward, as we were whirled rapidly along, I noticed the woodbine
(_Ampelopsis quinquefolia_), its leaves now changed, for the most part
on dead trees, draping them like a red scarf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Chalmers
and _Punch_:--"Guns of Verdun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Noble Hesperian dragon, I call you
courageous
and forthright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And I think shows fairest where
These
rummaging
small rogues have been at work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Had I
believed
that Death could set me free
From the anxious amorous thoughts my peace that mar,
With these my own hands which yet stainless are,
Life had I loosed, long hateful grown to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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I am
poisoned
with the rage of song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Ja, eure Reden, die so
blinkend
sind,
In denen ihr der Menschheit Schnitzel krauselt,
Sind unerquicklich wie der Nebelwind,
Der herbstlich durch die durren Blatter sauselt!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Face unto face, then, say,
Eyes mine own meeting,
Is your heart far away,
Or with mine
beating?
| 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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" she cries, and, eager as a lover,
Leaps up and holds her husband to her breast;
Her
greeting
kisses all his vesture cover;
"'Tis I, good wife!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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LXIV
"Other the same
illustrious
name will bear,
And who will flourish many years before.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O soir, aimable soir, desire par celui
Dont les bras, sans mentir, peuvent dire: Aujourd'hui
Nous avons
travaille!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Said I, "And what path of wisdom
followest
thou?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The _mise-en-scene_ is
borrowed
from earlier times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Somebody
found my chrysalis
And shut it in a match-box.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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but let not thy
compassion
warm
Thy words to cheering falsehood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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His nostrils breathe--and on the spot
The
churning
waves turn seething hot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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5 Reed pipes were
associated
with the music of non-Han peoples.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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From that district I
proceeded
to Bath, Bristol, and so on to the
banks of the Wye; where I took again to travelling on foot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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A little oak spreads oer it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The
greenest
ever found:
There is not a woodland nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
II
MY child came home,
The sea-breeze in his hair still blows,
His gait still bears
The traveller's proven fear and
youthful
glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"'
'It is my cousin over there is wanting to see you,' said the man of the
house, and he called over a young frieze-coated man, who was listening
to the song, and said, 'This is Red
Hanrahan
you have the message for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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_Foreign
Quarterly
Review (adapted)_
THE CYMBALEER'S BRIDE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If mortals on yon planet's shadowy face,
Can match the tenor of my heavenly race,
I strive with
fruitless
speed from year to year
To keep precedence o'er a lower sphere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The
cheerful
hearts now broken!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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ALCHIMIE
DE LA DOULEUR
L'un t'eclaire avec son ardeur
L'autre en toi met son deuil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I have not translated the vidas, or
biographical
lives of the poets, which are highly unreliable, though charming as legend, but have referred to them where relevant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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You
daughter
or son of England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and drinking milk, but the
beautiful
barbarian understands not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Again the restless orb his toil renews,
Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat
descends
in dews.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Wright
1918
TO THE MEMORY OF
AUGUSTE RODIN
THROUGH WHOM I CAME TO KNOW
RAINER MARIA RILKE
POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry--A magazine of Verse, and Poet Lore, the
translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this
book--also to the compilers of the following anthologies--Amphora II
edited by Thomas Bird Mosher--The Catholic
Anthology
of World Poetry
selected by Carl van Doren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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[167] 590
Hail
Freedom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"Oh, my
fathers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So saying, he number'd
carefully
the gold,
The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260
But nothing miss'd of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Farewell, my
brothers
true,
My betters, yet my peers;
How desert without you
My few and evil years!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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LXV
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor
boundless
sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Like
Wotton, Goodyere, Roe, and others of Donne's circle he followed Essex
to Ireland and was
knighted
at Dublin in 1599.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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To our
"Parlez-vous
Anglais?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Of the old heroes when the warlike shades
Saw Douglas marching on the Elysian glades,
They all, consulting, gathered in a ring,
Which of the poets should his welcome sing ;
And, as a
favourable
penance, chose
Cleveland, on whom they would that task impose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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I do not know the
air; and until I am
complete
master of a tune, in my own singing (such
as it is), I can never compose for it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And as no fire, nor rust can spend or waste 35
One dramme of gold, but what was first shall last,
Though it bee forc'd in water, earth, salt, aire,
Expans'd in infinite, none will impaire;
So, to your selfe you may
additions
take,
But nothing can you lesse, or changed make.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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E 'l mio maestro: <
e
ritrarre
a color che vi mandaro
che 'l corpo di costui e vera carne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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how aft in haughty mood,
God's
creatures
they oppress!
| 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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WHAT IS 'POPULAR POETRY'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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ou
misseist
hym ou?
| 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 |
|
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
" Spenser had spent the first three years of his residence at
Kilcolman at work on this masterpiece, which had been begun in England,
under the
encouragement
of Sidney, probably before 1580.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Surtout une facture solide, meme un peu trop, qui dit
l'extreme
jeunesse
de l'auteur quand il s'en servit d'apres la formule
parnassienne exageree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And groans, that rage of racking famine spoke,
Where looks inhuman dwelt on
festering
heaps!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The praise of Bacchus then the sweet
musician
sung:
Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young:
The jolly god in triumph comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
No portion where the maidens throng to praise
Castor--my Castor, whom in ancient days,
Ere he passed from us and men
worshipped
him,
They named my bridegroom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Twelve times the crowd made at him; five times they seized his
gown;
Small chance was his to rise again, if once they got him down:
And sharper came the pelting; and
evermore
the yell,--
"Tribunes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Maisie said
nothing, but she felt
grateful
that there was no chance of disputing
with this big man who took everything for granted and managed a
squealing horse with one hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
] and on the banks of it stood Arminius, with the other
chiefs: he inquired whether
Germanicus
was come; and being answered that
he was there, he prayed leave to speak with his brother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
_140
Luther caught thy wakening glance;
Like lightning, from his leaden lance
Reflected, it
dissolved
the visions of the trance
In which, as in a tomb, the nations lay;
And England's prophets hailed thee as their queen, _145
In songs whose music cannot pass away,
Though it must flow forever: not unseen
Before the spirit-sighted countenance
Of Milton didst thou pass, from the sad scene
Beyond whose night he saw, with a dejected mien.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The cold earth slept below,
Above the cold sky shone;
And all around, with a
chilling
sound,
From caves of ice and fields of snow,
The breath of night like death did flow _5
Beneath the sinking moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shelley |
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Some, too fragile for winter winds,
The
thoughtful
grave encloses, --
Tenderly tucking them in from frost
Before their feet are cold.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this eBook or online at
www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a
couplement
of proud compare'
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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35
Ipolita his wyf, the hardy quene
Of Cithia, that he
conquered
hadde,
With Emelye, hir yonge suster shene,
Faire in a char of golde he with him ladde,
That al the ground aboute hir char she spradde 40
With brightnesse of the beautee in hir face,
Fulfild of largesse and of alle grace.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Over and above all, was the damning lip-strapped Waterbury, ticking away
in the palm of her shaking,
withered
hand.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Let thy glory here
Be
manifest
and clear.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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460
A deacon he, you saw it in each limb,
And well he knew to deacon-off a hymn,
Or lead the choir through all its wandering woes
With voice that gathered unction in his nose,
Wherein a
constant
snuffle you might hear,
As if with him 'twere winter all the year.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Suddenly
One helper, thrusting
pitchfork
in the ground,
Marched himself off the field and home.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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