" A tremor pervaded his frame; his tongue
grew parched, and he was at times delirious: on the fourth day after
his return, when his attendant, James Maclure, held his
medicine
to
his lips, he swallowed it eagerly, rose almost wholly up, spread out
his hands, sprang forward nigh the whole length of the bed, fell on
his face, and expired.
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Robert Burns |
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Di lui si fecer poi diversi rivi
onde l'orto catolico si riga,
si che i suoi
arbuscelli
stan piu vivi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte,
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen,
May nought endure on it to see for
brighte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
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Beowulf |
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`Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,
Men mighten deme that he loveth me; 730
What
dishonour
were it un-to me, this?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a
marriage
pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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He even
thought of resigning his
commission
and going to Paris to force a
fortune from conquered fate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Then having felt the shock of being obliged to
conform to church usage, as stated prayer when the spirit did not move,
and
especially
the administration of the Communion, he honestly laid his
troubles before his people, and proposed to them some modification of
this rite.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And
trolleys
jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But covet not the abode--O do not sigh
As many do, repining while they look;
Intruders who would tear from Nature's book
This
precious
leaf with harsh impiety:
--Think what the home would be if it were thine,
Even thine, though few thy wants!
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Golden Treasury |
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Torpenhow
was on the top floor, and Dick burst into his room,
to be received with a hug which nearly cracked his ribs, as Torpenhow
dragged him to the light and spoke of twenty different things in the
same breath.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"
The King
commands
his provost then, Basbrun:
"Go hang them all on th' tree of cursed wood!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now know I, made by sad experience wise,
That Fate would teach me by a life of tears,
On wings how
fleeting
fast all earthly rapture flies!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While
Jozerans
and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his trenchant spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The Son of God presents to his Father the Prayers of our first Parents
now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares
that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a Band of
Cherubim to
dispossess
them; but first to reveal to Adam future things:
Michaels coming down, Adam shews to Eve certain ominous signs; he
discerns Michaels approach, goes out to meet him: the Angel denounces
thir departure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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CHORUS
Yea till my
brooding
heart moaned out with pain.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Your brother
is as tall as you are, but slender rather than otherwise; and I have
the satisfaction to inform you that he is getting the better of those
consumptive symptoms which I suppose you know were
threatening
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Through this May night, if one great ghost should stray
With deep remembering eyes,
Where that old meadow of battle smiles away
Its blood-stained memories,
If
Washington
should walk, where friend and foe
Sleep and forget the past,
Be sure his unquenched heart would leap to know
Their souls are linked at last.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXV
To him the charge did sainted John commit,
When to
Provence
by that winged courser borne,
Him nevermore with saddle or with bit
To gall, but let him to his lair return.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not in the lyre of Orpheus,
Not in the songs of Musaeus,
Lurked the
unfathomed
bewitchment
Wrought by the wind in the grasses, 10
Held by the rote of the sea-surf,
In early summer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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That such a human voice should dare intrude,
Where all was full of ghostly tones and
features!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| 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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Thou shalt buy this dear,
If ever I thy face by
daylight
see;
Now, go thy way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXXIX
Who travels by the wearie
wandring
way,?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet, in this search, the wisest may mistake,
If second
qualities
for first they take.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
"When
windflowers
blossom on the sea
And fishes skim along the plain,
Then we who part this weary day,
Then you and I shall meet again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Th'
enchaunter
vaine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A questa voce vid' io piu fiammelle
di grado in grado
scendere
e girarsi,
e ogne giro le facea piu belle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It soothes my accusations sour
'Gainst thoughts that fray the restless soul:
The stain of death; the pain of power;
The lack of love 'twixt part and whole;
The yea-nay of Freewill and Fate,
Whereof both cannot be, yet are;
The praise a poet wins too late
Who starves from earth into a star;
The lies that serve great parties well,
While truths but give their Christ a cross;
The loves that send warm souls to hell,
While cold-blood neuters take no loss;
Th' indifferent smile that nature's grace
On Jesus, Judas, pours alike;
Th' indifferent frown on nature's face
When
luminous
lightnings strangely strike
The sailor praying on his knees
And spare his mate that's cursing God;
How babes and widows starve and freeze,
Yet Nature will not stir a clod;
Why Nature blinds us in each act
Yet makes no law in mercy bend,
No pitfall from our feet retract,
No storm cry out `Take shelter, friend;'
Why snakes that crawl the earth should ply
Rattles, that whoso hears may shun,
While serpent lightnings in the sky,
But rattle when the deed is done;
How truth can e'er be good for them
That have not eyes to bear its strength,
And yet how stern our lights condemn
Delays that lend the darkness length;
To know all things, save knowingness;
To grasp, yet loosen, feeling's rein;
To waste no manhood on success;
To look with pleasure upon pain;
Though teased by small mixt social claims,
To lose no large simplicity,
And midst of clear-seen crimes and shames
To move with manly purity;
To hold, with keen, yet loving eyes,
Art's realm from Cleverness apart,
To know the Clever good and wise,
Yet haunt the lonesome heights of Art;
O Psalmist of the weak, the strong,
O Troubadour of love and strife,
Co-Litanist of right and wrong,
Sole Hymner of the whole of life,
I know not how, I care not why,
Thy music brings this broil at ease,
And melts my passion's mortal cry
In satisfying symphonies.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Petrarch was not afraid, for he was not
aware of his danger; but Galeazzo
Visconti
and his people dismounted to
rescue the poet, who escaped without injury.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Superior
spirit and perseverence were always the share of the wretched; and the gods themselves now seemed to compassionate the Britons, by ordaining the absence of the general, and the detention of his army in another island.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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DOTH still before thee rise the
beauteous
image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The fire glows and the smoke puffs and curls;
From the incense-burner rises a
delicate
fragrance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I alone, for your love, have preserved her: 1020
And pitying both her
distress
and your fears,
Despite myself, I've served to explain her tears.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
He rapidly learns the customs of men, becomes a
shepherd
and a mighty
hunter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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{and} by resou{n} of supplicac{i}ou{n}
ben
conioigned
[[pg 159]]
to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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that's the nightingale,
Telling the self-same tale
Her song told when this ancient earth was young:
So echoes
answered
when her song was sung
In the first wooded vale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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[_Exit_
COURTENAY
_guarded_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
That merry day the year begins,
They bar the door on frosty win's;
The nappy reeks wi' mantling ream,
An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam;
The luntin pipe, an'
sneeshin
mill,
Are handed round wi' right guid will;
The cantie auld folks crackin crouse,
The young anes rantin thro' the house--
My heart has been sae fain to see them,
That I for joy hae barkit wi' them.
| 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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) The
poems have been
reprinted
by the late Professor Churton Collins.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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O valleys, hills, O forests, floods, and plains,
Witnesses of my
melancholy
life!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Seals in all periods frequently
represent
Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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ENOUGH of this:--no sooner had our wight
The belle possessed, and passed the month's delight;
But he perceived what
marriage
must be here,
With such a demon in our nether sphere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
The child so taught by the paths,
Resigns her ecstasy
Says the word:
Anastasius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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They sing, and lash the wet-flanked wind:
Sing, from Col to Hafod Mynd,
And fling their voices half a score
Of miles along the mounded shore:
Whip loud music from a tree,
And roll their pæan out to sea
Where crowded
breakers
fling and leap,
And strange things throb five fathoms deep.
| 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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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One parting, but ten
thousand
regrets:
As I take my seat, my heart is unquiet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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 |
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org
Title: The
Hesperides
& Noble Numbers: Vol.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
e whiche to vs
purchaced
ene,
ffro helle he vs wan.
| 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 |
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Hast thou, since the dawn,
To the eye of a stranger thy veil
withdrawn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Always
thinking
of my own country,
My heart sad within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare
Blaspheme
the twisted tendril as a Snare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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None the less I cannot really believe that, if we make
patient use of our available knowledge, the _Alcestis_
presents
any
startling enigma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I was called by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they
saw me approaching or passing,
Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the
negligent
leaning of their
flesh against me as I sat;
Saw many I loved in the street, or ferry-boat, or public assembly, yet
never told them a word;
Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing,
sleeping;
Played the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
The same old role, the role that is what we make it,--as great as we like,
Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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She op'nd, but to shut
Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n stood,
That with extended wings a Bannerd Host
Under spread Ensigns
marching
might pass through
With Horse and Chariots rankt in loose array;
So wide they stood, and like a Furnace mouth
Cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a
splendid
dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long melodious moan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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He
says — " He had before I came in, as I was told,
considered what to do with the gold ; and but
that I by all means
prevented
the offer, I had
* MarvelPs Letters, pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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"A change in the arrangement of the stanzas of 'May-Day,' in the part
representative of the march of Spring, received his
sanction
as
bringing them more nearly in accordance with the events in Nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the
tamarind
tree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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limitation
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Lo, all my service
trampled
down and scorned!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
And there is only
Holofernes
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Pugatchef, whom I met in the
ante-room, was dressed in a
travelling
suit, a pelisse and Kirghiz cap.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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X
Not so much does the palace, fair to see,
In riches other
princely
domes excel,
As that the gentlest, fairest, company
Which the whole world contains, within it dwell:
Of either sex, with small variety
Between, in youth and beauty matched as well:
The fay alone exceeds the rest as far
As the bright sun outshines each lesser star.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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See, I give up the
gauntlets
of Eryx; dismiss thy
fears; and do thou put off thy Trojan gloves.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Hide in thy skies, O
sovereign
lamp!
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Emerson - Poems |
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o lutum, lupanar,
Aut si
perditius
potest quid esse.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Lucretius, nobler than his mood,
Who dropped his plummet down the broad
Deep universe and said "No God--"
Finding no bottom: he denied
Divinely
the divine, and died
Chief poet on the Tiber-side
By grace of God: his face is stern
As one compelled, in spite of scorn,
To teach a truth he would not learn.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sunshine,
And crystal lakes, and over-arching forests,
And mountains, around whose
towering
summits the winds
Of Heaven untrammelled flow--which air to breathe
Is Happiness now, and will be Freedom hereafter
In days that are to come?
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Poe - 5 |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Li Po |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own
nurslings
stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_chaunged hir disceyuable_--chaungyd hyre deceyuable
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[Headnote:
PHILOSOPHY APPEARS TO BOETHIUS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's
successive
heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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8 Such as these have come, touched by
imperial
grace, how can those feeble slaves grapple with them?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Good
precepts
we must firmly hold,
By daily learning we wax old.
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Robert Herrick |
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds unassailed its argent armoury
From all the
gathering
gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now even had his authorities been
well informed, which they were not by any means, and had Chatterton
never misread or misunderstood them, which he very
frequently
did, it
was impossible that his work should have been anything better than
a mosaic of curious old words of every period and any dialect.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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None of them thought that thence their steps
to the folk and
fastness
that fostered them,
to the land they loved, would lead them back!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But his was not the love of living dame,
Nor of the dead who rise upon our dreams,
But of ideal Beauty, which became
In him existence, and o'erflowing teems
Along his burning page,
distempered
though it seems.
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Byron |
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What
heartache
-- ne'er a hill!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He wrote to the Cardinal
expressing his regrets, but seems to console himself by recalling to his
old friend the days they had spent together at Vaucluse, and their long
walks, in which they often strayed so far, that the servant who came to
seek for them and to
announce
that dinner was ready could not find them
till the evening.
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Petrarch |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting
all save beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My mind, its frailty feeling, cannot climb,
And shrinks alike from polish'd and sublime,
While my vain
utterance
frozen terrors let.
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Petrarch |
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The suns go on without end:
The
universe
holds no friend:
And so I come back to you.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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