Arias
Bend your pride to the king's authority:
He takes an interest, and his irritation
Will be displayed in no
uncertain
fashion.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This
happened
many years ago.
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Longfellow |
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--But for thee, the band
Of Spirits dread, down, down, in very wrath,
Shall sink beside that Hill, making their path
Through a dim chasm, the which shall aye be trod
By
reverent
feet, where men may speak with God.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Then
hovering
down on her brow would I light,
'Midst her golden tresses entwining;
That gleam like the corn when the fields are bright,
And the sunbeams upon it shining.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It had no waste but some memorial lent _895
Which strung me to my toil--some monument
Vital with mind; then Cythna by my side,
Until the bright and beaming day were spent,
Would rest, with looks
entreating
to abide,
Too earnest and too sweet ever to be denied.
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Shelley |
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Let glory be more than mere
vengeance
now,
Carry it further, let valour influence
The king to pardon, and Chimene to silence;
If you love her, then return the victor,
The one way that is left to you to win her.
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And all was well:
Old
circumstance
resumed its former show,
And on my head the dews of comfort fell
As ere my woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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th
stedfast
of lijf;
His werkes shullen ben made rijf
Ouer al fer & neere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that
_Nin-lil_ is an
erroneous
reading for _Nin-sun_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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God knows 't were better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in
blissful
sleep
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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622 IN THE
BODLEIAN
LIBRARY BY
F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The poor brat gasped an hour or so,
A goodly child, a
thoughtful
child;
Perceiving nought for us but woe
It stretched and sudden died;
But I, when Spring breaks fresh and mild,
To Baldon lane return again,
For there's my home, and women vain
Must hold their homes in pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Call me not "love", call me your
conquered
foe,
That now, since you have battered down her gates,
Gives you the keys that lock the highest tower
And mounts with you to prove her homage true;
Oh bid me go no farther lest I fall,
My foot has slipped upon the rain-worn stones,
Why are the stairs so narrow and so steep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the
Pavilion
of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song expressive of
his mood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
| 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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But when these wearied limbs from labour free
Were on my
couchlet
strewn half-dead to lie, 15
For thee (sweet wag!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Amazement
of an anger
Against created shape and narrowness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering
Chaplain
robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the Scythians did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the
sweetest
joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
" Or there 's no
Purgatory
for the dead ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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" I decided that
if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments
of the afternoon might be collected, and I
concentrated
my attention
with careful subtlety to this end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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t beg my
freedome
55
From your affayres, this day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
More than this, his delight in the
Mediaeval--the Gothic--and his content with what may be termed a
purely
impressionistic
view of the past, was singularly akin to the
Bristol poet's own outlook on these matters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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[Illustration: _The Old Marlborough Road_]
THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD
Where they once dug for money,
But never found any;
Where
sometimes
Martial Miles
Singly files,
And Elijah Wood,
I fear for no good:
No other man,
Save Elisha Dugan,--
O man of wild habits,
Partridges and rabbits,
Who hast no cares
Only to set snares,
Who liv'st all alone,
Close to the bone,
And where life is sweetest
Constantly eatest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
"I see no reason, then, why our metaphysical poets should plume
themselves so much on the utility of their works, unless indeed they
refer to instruction with eternity in view; in which case, sincere
respect for their piety would not allow me to express my contempt for
their judgment; contempt which it would be difficult to conceal, since
their
writings
are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is
the many who stand in need of salvation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
"
The prince, obedient to the sage command,
To
Euryclea
thus: "The female band
In their apartments keep; secure the doors;
These swarthy arms among the covert stores
Are seemlier hid; my thoughtless youth they blame,
Imbrown'd with vapour of the smouldering flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
, and rents were
beginning
to fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
I should perhaps
apologize
for wasting so much space on a mere legend of a so-calld saint's life.
| 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 |
|
Thus, ever thus, at day's decline
In
converse
sweet to wander far--
O bring with thee my Caroline,
And thou shalt be my Ruling Star!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
" In Mennis's _Musarum
Deliciae_ the
brotherhood
is celebrated in a poem headed "The Tytre Tues;
or, a Mocke Song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Perhaps the kingdom of Heaven 's
changed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
There can
be as little doubt that the family of an eminent man would
preserve a copy of the speech which had been
pronounced
over his
corpse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
_--Leave Crieff--Glen Amond--Amond river--Ossian's
grave--Loch Fruoch--Glenquaich--Landlord and
landlady
remarkable
characters--Taymouth described in rhyme--Meet the Hon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Nous nous aimions a cette epoque,
Bleu laideron:
On
mangeait
des oeufs a la coque
Et du mouron!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
But from the time when he
appeared
beneath
The ancient town Olgin with the Lithuanians,
Hardy avenger of his injuries,
Rumour hath held her tongue concerning him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Hast thou ne'er heard men say
That, in the Black Wood, 'twixt Cologne and Spire,
Upon a rock flanked by the
towering
mountains,
A castle stands, renowned among all castles?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Yet it spake the gift
Of Nicholas, which on the maidens he
Bounteous bestow'd, to save their
youthful
prime
Unblemish'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
--
I had forgot
Manasses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Frēsena
cyn, 1094; Wedera (gara, MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Two notes are especially struck by them: the
passions
and
the absurdity of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
To think the
difference
will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond
the difference.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without
permission
and
without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Thou Celtiber art, in Celtiberia born,
Where man who's urined
therewith
loves a-morn
His teeth and ruddy gums to scour and score;
So the more polisht are your teeth, the more 20
Argue they sipping stale in ampler store.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
sawest thou the impious Polypheme _370
Feasting upon your loved
companions
now?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Sanborn brought out a book
entitled
"Poems of
Nature by Henry David Thoreau," in which were collected "perhaps two
thirds of [the poems] which Thoreau preserved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Perishing
gloomily,
Spurr'd by contumely,
Cold inhumanity,
Burning insanity,
Into her rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Cuchulain has killed kings,
Kings and sons of kings,
Dragons out of the water and witches out of the air,
Banachas
and Bonachas and people of the woods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
And now the
profundity
of the sky dismays me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
"
Thus having spoke, the
illustrious
chief of Troy
Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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A most gentle maid
Who dwelleth in her
hospitable
home
Hard by the Castle, and at latest eve,
(Even like a Lady vow'd and dedicate
To something more than nature in the grove)
Glides thro' the pathways; she knows all their notes,
That gentle Maid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
" and all other
references
to Project Gutenberg,
or:
[1] Only give exact copies of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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,
ballad-making is now as
completely
my hobby-horse as ever
fortification was Uncle Toby's; so I'll e'en canter it away till I
come to the limit of my race--God grant that I may take the right side
of the winning post!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
But he himself is coming
To his ancestral throne with
dreadful
escort.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
It must
give it up because, as a wise man once said many
centuries
before
Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone; there is no such
thing as governing mankind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
First, from all things
We see soever, evermore must flow,
Must be
discharged
and strewn about, about,
Bodies that strike the eyes, awaking sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
I see the long river-stripes of the earth,
I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,
I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River,
the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the
Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder,
I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the
Venetian
along the Po,
I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
But cruel day, so wel-awey the
stounde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
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COMB in the death-foreboded park, to view
How yonder smiling bank in radiance shimmers,
The virgin cloudlets'
unexpected
blue
Upon the tarn and tinted pathway glimmers.
| 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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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Chvabrine
was very witty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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'Our great protestant divines' are one of his courts of appeal,
and
included
Luther and Calvin of whom he never speaks but with the
deepest respect.
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John Donne |
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The little dog
retreated under the sofa cushion, and showed by the fat white back of
him that he really had no further
interest
in the discussion.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Why is Time such a niggard of
hair, being, as it is, so
plentiful
an excrement?
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Shakespeare |
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Spotless
the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing precisely in its place.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Most strange of all that we so young
Dared learn but would not speak love's tongue,
Love pledged but in the reveries
Of our sad and
dreaming
eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For while
under the present system a very large number of people can lead lives of
a certain amount of freedom and expression and happiness, under an
industrial-barrack system, or a system of
economic
tyranny, nobody would
be able to have any such freedom at all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, old owl, you should
eternally
pray God for me and my lads
that you and your master do not swing up there with the other rebels.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Bishop Colonna and
Petrarch had
intended
to remain for some time at Toulouse; but their
sojourn was abridged by their horror at a tragic event[D] in the
principal monastery of the place.
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Petrarch |
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How mighte it ever y-red ben or y-songe,
The pleynte that she made in hir
distresse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A war on tick's ez dear 'z the deuce,
But it wun't leave no lastin' traces, 50
Ez 'twould to make a sneakin' truce
Without no moral specie-basis:
Ef
greenbacks
ain't nut jest the cheese,
I guess ther' 's evils thet's extremer,--
Fer instance,--shinplaster idees
Like them put out by Gov'nor Seymour.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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