10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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Sappho |
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The father-in-law agrees to keep his daughter for some time after the
marriage; for which the son-in-law binds himself to give him the
profits of the first
Michaelmas
moon!
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Robert Forst |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So well had weened the wisest Scyldings
that not ever at all might any man
that bone-decked, brave house break asunder,
crush by craft, -- unless clasp of fire
in smoke
engulfed
it.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The horror and pity which he excites
as he sits by the river in the storm and darkness, rejoicing in the
consummation of his scheme of revenge, have something of that awfulness
which is the note of
veritable
tragedy.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons,
together
with all those
Containing rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with centuries of snows;
Infinite rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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That he might not, however, offend his
friend Roberto Bardi and the
University
of Paris, he despatched a
messenger to Cardinal Colonna, asking his advice upon the subject,
pretty well knowing that his patron's opinion would coincide with his
own wishes.
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Petrarch |
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The
pedigree
of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Falstaff,
Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have
already waylaid;
yourself
and I will not be there; and when they
have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head off
from my shoulders.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Is there no other
entrance
to the chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'But stay, here comes Tityrus Griswold, and leads on
The flocks whom he first plucks alive, and then feeds on,--
A loud-cackling swarm, in whose
leathers
warm drest,
He goes for as perfect a--swan as the rest.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not
mysterious
at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that
abhorred
abode
Where hope and he part company, --
For he is grasped of God.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
His
cleverness
and the acuteness of his sense of smell alike astonished
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Jupiter denies thee the
Dictaean
fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Swallows
were flying about us, and the
chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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)
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
Brought safely for a
thousand
miles o'er land and tide,
Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,
A bunch of orange buds by mall from Florida.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
"Sir, it is the
greatest
movement of modern times, and one in which all
educated men like us must join.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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If you
received
this etext on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
vociferated
the
metaphysician, as his eye fell upon something which lay stretched at
full length upon the bed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
2: 'Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds
of
Israel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Even here, amid the sweep of endless woods,
Blue pomp of lakes, high cliffs and falling floods,
Not undelightful are the
simplest
charms, 145
Found by the grassy [34] door of mountain-farms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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þāra þe þis līf
ofgeaf,
gesāwon
sele-drēam (referring to the joy of heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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at
fulfilde
were ?
| 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 |
|
_ It is in truth
An easy thing to stand aloof from pain
And lavish
exhortation
and advice
On one vexed sorely by it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Why an Ear, a
whirlpool
fierce to draw creations in?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
We see only a
little part in which are many details that have
purposes
beyond our ken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a
Periodical
so courageous, gracious and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The Iliad alone, in epic conduet (as already
observed)
bears
a strong resemblance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Say, if my spouse maintains her royal trust;
Though tempted, chaste, and
obstinately
just?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There, aping Gulnare's bard, he spanned
His Hellespont from bank to bank,
And then a cup of coffee drank,
Some
wretched
journal in his hand;
Then dressed himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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King
You lack respect; I'll allow for your age,
Excuse the ardour of your
youthful
courage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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_Sudden Shower_
Black grows the southern sky, betokening rain,
And humming hive-bees
homeward
hurry bye:
They feel the change; so let us shun the grain,
And take the broad road while our feet are dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
" "That is enough in New Year," says the groom in green,
"if I tell thee when I have
received
the tap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
2l7
Before them entered, equal in command,
Apslej and
Brotherick
marching hand in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
See the snakes that they rear
How they hiss in their hair,
And the
sparkles
that flash from their eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
And
answered
Guenes: "So be it, as you command!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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LES PAUVRES A L'EGLISE
Parques entre des bancs de chene, aux coins d'eglise
Qu'attiedit puamment leur souffle, tous leurs yeux
Vers le coeur
ruisselant
d'orrie et la maitrise
Aux vingt gueules gueulant les cantiques pieux;
Comme un parfum de pain humant l'odeur de cire,
Heureux, humilies comme des chiens battus,
Les Pauvres au bon Dieu, le patron et le sire,
Tendent leurs oremus risibles et tetus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The
ascriptions in this
collection
are many of them purely fanciful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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All at once
Pugatchef
broke upon my reflections.
| 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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Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
"
'Tis real hangmen, real
scourges
bear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Ay, to the proof, as
mountains
are for winds,
That shake not though they blow perpetually.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
He was in the habit
of signing himself 'Gentleman' and this seems to be
satirized
in 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
X
Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
790
Greedily
she ingorg'd without restraint,
And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length,
And hight'nd as with Wine, jocond and boon,
Thus to her self she pleasingly began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Dark clouds
blackened
the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
O benigna vertu che si li 'mprenti,
su t'essaltasti, per
largirmi
loco
a li occhi li che non t'eran possenti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Who, though by me much reverenc'd and belov'd,
So seldom com'st, say,
wherefore
comest now?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
But Dagonet with one foot poised in his hand,
"Friend, did ye mark that
fountain
yesterday
Made to run wine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
You would have snared me,
and
scattered
the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And I am the only thing he could not endure:
And is it him I should
undertake
to defend?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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As Harrington fell, ye
likewise
fell--
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The acolyte
Amid the chanted joy and
thankful
rite
May so fall flat, with pale insensate brow,
On the altar-stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
But why
does he want to treat us in that scurvy
fashion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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" the Poker he sang,
"You have perfectly
conquered
my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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So when she was gone I said
In rather a dreary voice
To him of the opposite bed:
"Ah, friend, how you must
rejoice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
--"
He
lingered
for some word she wouldn't say,
Said it at last himself, "Good-night," and then,
Getting no answer, closed the telephone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Say, would you change for all the wealth possest
By rich Achaemenes or Phrygia's heir,
Or the full stores of Araby the blest,
One lock of her dear hair,
While to your burning lips she bends her neck,
Or with kind cruelty denies the due
She means you not to beg for, but to take,
Or
snatches
it from you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
In
lodgings
by the Sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
We will not from our
plighted
oath depart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
One of the "Poems
referring
to the Period of Old Age" in 1815 and
1820.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Biglow, but
merely take to myself the credit of having fulfilled toward them the
office of taster (_experto crede_), who, having first tried, could
afterward bear witness (_credenzen_ it was aptly named by the Germans),
an office always arduous, and sometimes even dangerous, as in the case
of those devoted persons who venture their lives in the deglutition of
patent medicines (_dolus latet in generalibus_, there is deceit in the
most of them) and thereafter are wonderfully
preserved
long enough to
append their signatures to testimonials in the diurnal and hebdomadal
prints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
TO JUVENTIUS
CONCERNING
THE CHOICE OF A FRIEND.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Scattered over the valley are to be found eleven stones, with
this inscription, 1388, the year the battle was fought, marking out as I
was told upon the spot, the several places where the Austrians
attempting to make a stand were
repulsed
anew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more
sensitive
than we
are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A
charlatan
of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Eine
Meerkatze
sitzt bei dem Kessel und schaumt ihn und sorgt, dass er nicht
uberlauft.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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From the
pedestrian
excursion of the Table and the Chair, we cannot resist
making a brief quotation, though in this, as in every case, the inability
to quote the drawings also is a sad drawback:--
"So they both went slowly down,
And walked about the town,
With a cheerful bumpy sound,
As they toddled round and round.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But all the fear I keep
obedient
by me
Now to the gather'd world I openly shew.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thou sat'st with
Thrasybulus
and his train,
Couldst thou forebode the dismal hour which now
Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain?
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Byron |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This is the Month, and this the happy morn
Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King,
Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,
Our great
redemption
from above did bring;
For so the holy sages once did sing,
That he our deadly forfeit should release,
And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.
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Milton |
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'Our life is given us as a blank;
Ourselves
must make it blest or curst:
Who dooms me I shall only be
The second, not the first?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The midmorn empties you of men, save me;
Speak to your lover,
meadows!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He was
thinking
what he would say
to Mary Carton.
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Yeats |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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