And then at last from three to two;
And, of my fifty,
yesterday
95
I had but only one:
And here it lies upon my arm,
Alas!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--Oh, if I could ride
With my head held high-serene against the sky
Do you think I'd have a
creature
like you at my side
With your gloom and your doubt that you love me?
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Imagists |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Notwithstanding his employment on the History of London, he continued
to write incessantly in various
periodical
publications.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart,
And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave,
And many the
handsome
of face and the handsome of heart,
And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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sent a
memorandum
to the West.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O Woman, best are all things as the will
Of God ordaind them, his
creating
hand
Nothing imperfet or deficient left
Of all that he Created, much less Man,
Or ought that might his happie State secure,
Secure from outward force; within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receave no harme.
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Milton |
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So wird's Euch an der
Weisheit
Brusten
Mit jedem Tage mehr gelusten.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Here bloom'd my bliss: and I your tracks retrace,
To mark whence upward to her heaven she sprung,
Leaving her
beauteous
spoil, her robe of flesh behind!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Into thee such Vertue and Grace
Immense I have transfus'd, that all may know
In Heav'n and Hell thy Power above compare,
And this
perverse
Commotion governd thus,
To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir
Of all things, to be Heir and to be King
By Sacred Unction, thy deserved right.
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Milton |
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(since thou remind'st me of that theme)
Fame here reports that num'rous suitors haunt 270
Thy palace for thy mother's sake, and there
Much evil
perpetrate
in thy despight.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Our Passover is better here at Sychem,
For here is Ebal; here is Gerizim,
The
mountain
where our father Abraham
Went up to offer Isaac; here the tomb
Of Joseph,--for they brought his bones Egypt
And buried them in this land, and it is holy.
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Longfellow |
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And then he drank a dew
From a
convenient
grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A wafer dol'd by thee will swell
Thousands
to feed by miracle.
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Robert Herrick |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" she continued to stay,
That
vexatious
old person of Loo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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Is the east
Afraid to trust the morn
With her fastidious
forehead?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Oh, what has
happened?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Yet he is more than huge and strong--
Twelve
brilliant
colors play along
His sides until, compared to him,
The naked, burning sun seems dim.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But we are in the way of this: and man,
The more he needs to announce upon the world,
Over him going like a storming air,
That
fashioning
word which utters the divine
Imagination working in him like anger;
The more he finds his virtue caught and clogged
In the fierce luxury he hath made of woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He would fight for his own
hand, and intended that this second struggle should lead to better issue
than the first helpless surrender of the
bewildered
'Stunt.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Never was
midnight
dream
So full of error as to us his hate!
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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(Exit Page)
Leonor
Madame, each day this same wish you express;
And when she's here, I hear you ask, each day,
How far her love has
travelled
on its way.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Even for this, let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single one,
That by this
separation
I may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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All faintly through my soul to-day,
As from a bell that far away
Is tinkled by some frolic fay,
Floateth
a lovely chiming.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Now that we twain might meet, women and men
In every land where I have felt for thee
Have taken
desolation
for their home,
Crying against me,--and against thee unknowing.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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]
Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the
leafless
bough,
Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain:
See, aged Winter, 'mid his surly reign,
At thy blythe carol clears his furrow'd brow.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Mr Small says that 'no copy of the original is to be found in the Benedictine edition of Jerome's Works'; and Mr Wright states that 'others say they are first found in the
Prognosticon
futuri seculi of Julianus Pomerius, a theologian, who died in the year 690'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_
Wherefore
do you start?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When America does what was promis'd,
When through these States walk a hundred
millions
of superb persons,
When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
Then to me and mine our due fruition.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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When Dunbar and you meet, tell him that I left
Edinburgh
with the idea
of him hanging somewhere about my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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once at least
Let me drink deep of passion's wine, and slake
My parched being with the
nectarous
feast
Which even gods affect!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
And I must borrow every
changing
shape
To find expression.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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How elegant your
Frenchmen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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2 Li Chu, Prince of
Guangping
and Suzong?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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He had not yet
learned
patience
with the maiden to whom her work was all in all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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So things remain, my dear; an odd affair:--
On this Square-toes 'gan to curse and swear;
But his fond rib most earnestly besought,
His rage to stifle, as she clearly thought,
He might in person, if he'd take the pain,
Secure the rascal and redress obtain
You know, said she, the tree is near the door,
Upon the left and bears of fruit great store;
But if I may my
sentiments
express,
In cap and petticoats you'd best to dress;
His insolence is great, and you'll be right,
To give your strokes with double force to night;
Well work his back; flat lay him on the ground:--
A rascal!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Go, succour him, each with his
trenchant
lance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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It has caused too much stir to be allowed,
And already the King its end has vowed;
You know my soul,
sensitive
to your pain,
Will work to quench it at its source again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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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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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 |
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Audibly the elm-leaves whispered
Peaceful, pleasant melodies,
Like the distant murmured music
Of unquiet, lovely seas:
While the winds were hushed in slumber
In the
fragrant
flowers and trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and
now there are several little D'Cruzes
sprawling
about the verandahs of
the Central Telegraph Office.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But take heed that in thy work
Naught
unbeautiful
may lurk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Elvire
All my thoughts are still
enchanted
by them:
He esteems Rodrigue, as you love him,
Reading his soul, if I am free from error,
He'll wish you to take him as your lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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We shall not spend a large expence of time,
Before we reckon with your
seuerall
loues,
And make vs euen with you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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All the family in order
Sat before him for their pictures:
Each in turn, as he was taken,
Volunteered his own suggestions,
His
ingenious
suggestions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Stranger then strangers; One, who for a Dane,
In the Danes Massacre had sure beene slaine,
If he had liv'd then; And without helpe dies, 25
When next the Prentises'gainst
Strangers
rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And what I feel, across the inferior features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love
enhances
Nature's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There shall be read the woe, that he doth work
With his adulterate money on the Seine,
Who by the tusk will perish: there be read
The
thirsting
pride, that maketh fool alike
The English and Scot, impatient of their bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The position was a safe
one, and he hoped to inspirit his native troops with the memory of
their former
victories
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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The timid hare seems half its fears to lose,
Crouching
and sleeping neath its grassy lair,
And scarcely startles, though the shepherd goes
Close by its home, and dogs are barking there;
The wild colt only turns around to stare
At passer by, then knaps his hide again;
And moody crows beside the road forbear
To fly, though pelted by the passing swain;
Thus day seems turned to night, and tries to wake in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred
circling
camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So both ascend
In the Visions of God: It was a Hill
Of Paradise the highest, from whose top
The Hemisphere of Earth in
cleerest
Ken
Stretcht out to amplest reach of prospect lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It is
true, many bodies are the worse for the meddling with; and the multitude
of physicians hath
destroyed
many sound patients with their wrong
practice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Meet me in the green glen,
By sweet briar bushes there;
Meet me by your own sen,
Where the wild thyme
blossoms
fair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Ever new
My after fame shall grow, while
pontiffs
climb
With silent maids the Capitolian height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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at mote maden much joye,
To apere in his
presense
prestly ?
| 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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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green
wonderwork
faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came wheeling around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And here let those
Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings,
Learn how thir
greatest
Monuments of Fame,
And Strength and Art are easily outdone
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
HUMAYUN TO ZOBEIDA
(From the Urdu)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your
sweetness
in the nightingale, your whiteness in the swan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Obsession
Nearer To Us
Open Door
The
Immediate
Life
Lovely And Lifelike
The Season of Loves
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
Barely Disfigured
In A New Night
Fertile Eyes
I Said It To You
It's The Sweet Law Of Men
The Curve Of Your Eyes
Liberty
Ring Of Peace
Ecstasy
Our Life
Uninterrupted Poetry
Index of First Lines
Absence
I speak to you over cities
I speak to you over plains
My mouth is against your ear
The two sides of the walls face
my voice which acknowledges you.
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Hurtle the clouds in deeper darkness piled, 100
Gone is the raven timely rest to seek;
He seemed the only creature in the wild
On whom the elements their rage might wreak;
Save that the bustard, of those regions bleak
Shy tenant, seeing by the
uncertain
light 105
A man there wandering, gave a mournful shriek,
And half upon the ground, with strange affright,
Forced hard against the wind a thick unwieldy flight.
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Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
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Ronsard |
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The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I am going to my own hearth-stone,
Bosomed in yon green hills alone,--
secret nook in a
pleasant
land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;
Where arches green, the livelong day,
Echo the blackbird's roundelay,
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
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Emerson - Poems |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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WHEN thus engaged, the lover near her drew;
At whose approach away the damsel flew,
And tried to hide within the rocky cell;
Cried Cymon, I beneath these waters dwell,
And o'er their course a sov'reign right maintain;
Be goddess of the flood, and with me reign;
Few rivers could with you like pow'rs divide;
My crystal's clear: in me you may confide;
My heart is pure; with flow'rs I'll deck the stream,
If worthy of
yourself
the flood you deem;
Too happy should this honour you bestow,
And with me, 'neath the current, freely go.
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tior_ BRVen:
_expolitor_
OLa1
21 _lotus_ ?
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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For whanne hir housbonde was in
Iupartye
1530
To dye him-self, but-if she wolde dye,
She chees for him to dye and go to helle,
And starf anoon, as us the bokes telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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ILLUSIONS
Flow, flow the waves hated,
Accursed, adored,
The waves of mutation;
No
anchorage
is.
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CXXIII
Marvellous is the battle in its speed,
The Franks there strike with vigour and with heat,
Cutting through wrists and ribs and chines in-deed,
Through
garments
to the lively flesh beneath;
On the green grass the clear blood runs in streams.
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When I arose and saw the dawn,
I sigh'd for thee;
When light rode high, and the dew was gone,
And noon lay heavy on flower and tree,
And the weary Day turn'd to his rest,
Lingering
like an unloved guest,
I sigh'd for thee.
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Golden Treasury |
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LE BUFFET
C'est un large buffet sculpte; le chene sombre,
Tres vieux, a pris cet air si bon des
vieilles
gens;
Le buffet est ouvert, et verse dans son ombre
Comme un flot de vin vieux, des parfums engageants;
Tout plein, c'est un fouillis de vieilles vieilleries,
De linges odorants et jaunes, de chiffons
De femmes ou d'enfants, de dentelles fletries,
De fichus de grand'mere ou sont peints des griffons;
--C'est la qu'on trouverait les medaillons, les meches
De cheveux blancs ou blonds, les portraits, les fleurs seches
Dont le parfum se mele a des parfums de fruits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The minister goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the
appalling
trade,
To take the measure of the house.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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