And while In wrath to
vengeful
fiends she cries,
How from their hell would vengeful fiends arise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Upon the throne
He sat, and
suddenly
he fell; blood gushed
From his mouth and ears.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Nevertheless
we find the _offices _of the trio
marked with a sufficient distinction.
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Poe - 5 |
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"A singular
monument
of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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APRIL BYEWAY
Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend,
Be with me travelling on the byeway now
In April's month and mood: our steps shall bend
By the shut smithy with its penthouse brow
Armed round with many a felly and crackt plough:
And we will mark in his white smock the mill
Standing
aloof, long numbed to any wind,
That in his crannies mourns, and craves him still;
But now there is not any grain to grind,
And even the master lies too deep for winds to find.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I feel it all my members haunting--
The
glorious
Walpurgis night.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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inter
liuentis
pereat tibi fulgor arenas,
nec post ad superos redeat famis aurea puros!
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
At this time, an elderly Fly said it was the hour for the evening-song to
be sung; and, on a signal being given, all the Blue-Bottle-Flies began to
buzz at once in a sumptuous and sonorous manner, the melodious and
mucilaginous sounds echoing all over the waters, and resounding across the
tumultuous tops of the transitory titmice upon the
intervening
and verdant
mountains with a serene and sickly suavity only known to the truly
virtuous.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_--Leave Perth--come up
Strathearn
to
Endermay--fine, fruitful, cultivated Strath--the scene of "Bessy Bell,
and Mary Gray," near Perth--fine scenery on the banks of the May--Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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every clod
Is faint, and falters from the war of growth
And
crumbles
in a dreary dust of sloth,
Unploughed, untrod.
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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No howling sad
Sickens our fearful ewes; and we have had
Great bounty from
Endymion
our lord.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his indefatigable journey
Over that
infinite
path never did witness the like!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
I woke and chid my honest fingers, --
The gem was gone;
And now an
amethyst
remembrance
Is all I own.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He
gathered
all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The sweltrie[21] sonne dothe hie apace hys wayne[22],
From everich beme a seme[23]; of lyfe doe falle;
Swythyn[24] scille[25] oppe the haie uponne the playne;
Methynckes
the cockes begynneth to gre[26] talle.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A strangling cavern wall;
The lighted ceiling of a music-hall
Where every actor treads a bloody soil--
The hermit's hope; the terror of the sot;
The sky: the black lid of the mighty pot
Where the vast human
generations
boil!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I' vidi, e anco il cor me n'accapriccia,
uno aspettar cosi, com' elli 'ncontra
ch'una rana rimane e l'altra spiccia;
e Graffiacan, che li era piu di contra,
li
arrunciglio
le 'mpegolate chiome
e trassel su, che mi parve una lontra.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I would not [delay to set out], unless I might
approach
it on New
Year's morn, for all the lands within England, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
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License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
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associated
with Project Gutenberg-tm.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Earth, hide him,
thine
offspring!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He sends you here his noblest born barun,
Greatest
in wealth, that out of France is come;
From him you'll hear if peace shall be, or none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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With so little effort does
nature
reassert
her rule and blot out the traces of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
It was in the
irregular
song-metres of his
_ku-shih_ that he excelled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Who has
betrayed
me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"
Nay rack your brain--'tis all in vain,
I'll tell you every thing I know;
But to the thorn, and to the pond
Which is a little step beyond,
I wish that you would go:
Perhaps when you are at the place
You
something
of her tale may trace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Strange in this dream-like place, so drear and lone,
The guest
expected
should be living one!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
,
which suggested to
Wordsworth
the above lines in the 'Evening Walk', is
to be found in chapter i.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Our pass, which stated that all the
rules were "to be strictly enforced," as if they were determined to
keep up the semblance of reality to the last gasp, opened to us the
Dalhousie Gate, and we were conducted over the citadel by a
bare-legged
Highlander
in cocked hat and full regimentals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Each drinks a full
oblivion
of his cares,
And to the gifts of balmy sleep repairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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XCIV
When that so strange
adventure
to the rest
Of the wide world, from mouth to mouth was blown,
Knights out of number undertook the quest,
From neighbouring parts and distant; but unknown
To all remained the forest which possessed
The spring wherein the virtuous shield was thrown:
For she who told the action, would not say
Where was the well, nor in what land it lay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Now in the sea's red vintage melts the sun,
As Egypt's pearl dissolved in rosy wine,
And
Cleopatra
night drinks all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Now
graceful
seated on her shining throne,
To Hermes thus the nymph divine begun:
"God of the golden wand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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surely thy resolve
Is altogether fixt to perish there,
If thou indeed hast
purposed
with that throng
To mix, whose riot and outrageous acts 400
Of violence echo through the vault of heav'n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The King hath happily receiu'd, Macbeth,
The newes of thy successe: and when he reades
Thy personall Venture in the Rebels sight,
His Wonders and his Prayses doe contend,
Which should be thine, or his: silenc'd with that,
In viewing o're the rest o'th' selfe-same day,
He findes thee in the stout
Norweyan
Rankes,
Nothing afeard of what thy selfe didst make
Strange Images of death, as thick as Tale
Can post with post, and euery one did beare
Thy prayses in his Kingdomes great defence,
And powr'd them downe before him
Ang.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
His visage and the other's speech did raise
Desire in me to know the names of both,
whereof with meek
entreaty
I inquir'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
There is a copy amongst the
Trelawny
manuscripts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Fly,
messengers
that find no rest
Save in such toil as makes man blest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What
thoughts
at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
And the Franks say: "Now shall you die, gluttons;
This day shall bring you vile
confusion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
The only words
audible are_):
Frightfully
thrilling----
ACT III
SCENE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
He sketched also a new
version of our national anthem, as
addressed
to Liberty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
I don't like these
starched
up ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
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: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Again doth flash our old
ancestral
sword,
This glorious sword--the dread of dark Kazan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
1005
A
detestable
design!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
To assist his glory, he entrusted men of civil virtue, in grand continuation he
withdrew
war?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
And
this accounts for his prompt and general
acceptance
by the world of his
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
"Forty
thousand
rubles," said Herman coolly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The difference of caste roused
an equal opposition, not only on the side of her family, but of
his; and in 1895 she was sent to England, against her will, with
a special
scholarship
from the Nizam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Yea, if the Christ (called thine) now paced yon street,
Thy halfness hot with His rebuke would swell;
Legions of scribes would rise and run and beat
His fair intolerable
Wholeness
twice to hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
LI
Loitering
with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Say, what can cause such
impotence
of mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
'
Tho wordes and tho
wommanisshe
thinges,
She herde hem right as though she thennes were; 695
For, god it wot, hir herte on other thing is,
Although the body sat among hem there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Was I not once the son of
Revolution?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Not easy 'tis from lumps of frankincense
To tear their
fragrance
forth, without its nature
Perishing likewise: so, not easy 'tis
From all the body nature of mind and soul
To draw away, without the whole dissolved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Fortunate
Ancient, Propertius, for you a slave fetched the girls down
From the Aventine Hill, from Tarpeia's grove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
'393 The good man':
Pope's father, who as a devout Roman Catholic refused to take the oath
of
allegiance
(cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And from what a Bible can he choose
his text,--a Bible which needs no translation, and which no priestcraft
can shut and clasp from the laity,--the open volume of the world, upon
which, with a pen of sunshine or
destroying
fire, the inspired Present
is even now writing the annals of God!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
We came here for other purposes
than to hear the
exploits
of the chase, exploits which are only
intelligible to grooms and falconers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
In their baronial feuds and single fields,
What deeds of prowess
unrecorded
died!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The Mary here alluded to is generally supposed to be Miss Mary
Macghie,
daughter
to the Laird of Airds, in Galloway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
e
p{ur}ueaunce
of
god {and} fre wille.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
THE same in other words, I've often said;
'Tis right, at times,
disguise
with care to spread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Open, ye everlasting Gates, they sung,
Open, ye Heav'ns, your living dores; let in
The great Creator from his work returnd
Magnificent, his Six days work, a World;
Open, and
henceforth
oft; for God will deigne
To visit oft the dwellings of just Men 570
Delighted, and with frequent intercourse
Thither will send his winged Messengers
On errands of supernal Grace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
And now where
circling
hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted,
O'er listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted;
When on the fervid air there came
A strain, now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itself aflame
With day's departing splendor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Charity creates a
multitude
of sins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
The ridge of your breast is taut,
and under each the shadow is sharp,
and between the
clenched
muscles
of your slender hips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
To
those who knew her in England, all the life of the tiny figure
seemed to
concentrate
itself in the eyes; they turned towards
beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun, opening wider and
wider until one saw nothing but the eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Cousin, rememb'rest
Grandison?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the
interior
swarms with the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
From more than fiends on earth,
Thy life and love are riven,
To join the
untainted
mirth
Of more than thrones in heaven--
XII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a
glimmering
square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed
Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head
*On the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang
So eagerly around about to hang
Upon the flying
footsteps
of--deep pride--
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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 Sire of heaven on high,
By whose fierce bolts the clouds are riven,
To-day through an
unclouded
sky
His thundering steeds and car has driven.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What as a gurgling softly
simmered
through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from flowerlet unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rodd, Thomas,
_Ancient
Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada_, _iv.
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Byron |
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Hast heard that he
Shelters the brave--the
flaunting
rich man strips--
Of master makes a slave?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must each day say o'er the very same;
Counting
no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"I would sustain the cause of my kindred
No mortal man is there from whom I've fled;
Rather I'ld die than hear
reproaches
said.
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Chanson de Roland |
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pray not thou for death as though
Thine heart was whelmed beneath this woe,
Nor turn thy wrath aside to ban
The name of Helen, nor recall
How she, one bane of many a man,
Sent down to death the Danaan lords,
To sleep at Troy the sleep of swords,
And wrought the woe that
shattered
all.
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Aeschylus |
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Under such circumstances, the
most illustrious patrician and the most illustrious plebeian of
the age were entrusted with the office of arbitrating between the
angry factions; and they
performed
their arduous task to the
satisfaction of all honest and reasonable men.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Then hailed he the
helmeted
heroes all,
for the last time greeting his liegemen dear,
comrades of war: "I should carry no weapon,
no sword to the serpent, if sure I knew
how, with such enemy, else my vows
I could gain as I did in Grendel's day.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
ploughman
came up and cut short his old tune,
Hallooed "woi" to his horses and though it was June
Said he'd help them an hour ere he'd keep them adry;
Well done, said the blacksmith with hopes running high;
He moves, and, by jingo, success to the plough!
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John Clare |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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