My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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We minded my lord's word, that he be shewn
All the seized women which are
strangely
fair.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United
States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She'd come in light, a-skimming up the Bay
Like a white ghost with
topsails
bellying full;
And all her noble lines from bow to stern
Made music in the wind; it seemed she rode
The morning air like those thin clouds that turn
Into tall ships when sunrise lifts the clouds
From calm sea-courses.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap,
wet-weather clothes, whip
carefully
chosen,
Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you
loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,
Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out,
last out, turning-in at night,
To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he
there takes no interest in them.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Let him not shrink in terror from a
friendly
face.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Moult a Largece pris et los;
Ele a les sages et les fos
Outreement
a son bandon,
Car ele savoit fere biau don;
S'ainsinc fust qu'aucuns la haist,
Si cuit-ge que de ceus feist 1150
Ses amis par son biau servise;
Et por ce ot-ele a devise
L'amor des povres et des riches.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In
rendering
justice, set all in the balance:
Your father died, yet he was the aggressor;
Justice itself commands me to be fairer.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The distant clock forgot, and
chilling
dew,
Pleas'd thro' the dusk their breaking smiles to view,
Only in the edition of 1793.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Stung to misery, Dido wanders in frenzy all down the city, even as an
arrow-stricken deer, whom, far and heedless amid the Cretan woodland, a
shepherd archer hath pierced and left the flying steel in her unaware;
she ranges in flight the
Dictaean
forest lawns; fast in her side clings
the deadly reed.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Is it possible that there can have been
commandants
base and
cowardly enough to obey this robber?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Love is not love
Which alters when it
alteration
finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"
She spoke: and furious, with
distracted
pace,
Fears in her heart, and anguish in her face,
Flies through the dome (the maids her steps pursue),
And mounts the walls, and sends around her view.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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How long ago,
And on what pilgrimage and journey far Was lost this land
remembered
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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{114a}
It is true, there is no sound but shall find some lovers, as the
bitterest
confections
are grateful to some palates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Stop,
passenger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It is
interesting to know that Crashaw was the main
influence
upon Coleridge
while writing "Christabel," and that the "Hymn to the Name and Honour of
the admirable S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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_l_) O sed Madano _Ge(l)lius_ potius
uisum est: _Lelius_ GCDB Laurentiani ||
_solere_
Parthenius:
_flere_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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E ScholU Wintoniensi ad Academiam Oxonii,
Inde ad
Interioris
Templi Hospitium^ gradum
fecerat
Summas spei, summaB iiidolis, ubique vefttigia
reliquit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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e court arered were,
His
sacrifise
he dude to god; & gan to hym crie:
"Lorde!
| 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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Take up the steel, and show us if indeed
Rumour speak true," Right swift Orestes took
The Dorian blade, back from his
shoulders
shook
His brooched mantle, called on Pylades
To aid him, and waved back the thralls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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That it should be one the first away alone, and
by itself, no man that hath tasted letters ever would say, especially
having required before a just
magnitude
and equal proportion of the parts
in themselves.
| 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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"
And the
ploughman
settles the share
More deep in the grudging clod;
For he saith: "The wheat is my care,
And the rest is the will of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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1110
Tel clarte de la pierre yssoit,
Que Richece en resplendissoit
Durement
le vis et la face,
Et entor li toute la place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The dull nights go over, and the dull days also,
The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,
The physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look
for an answer,
The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are
sent for;
Medicines stand unused on the shelf--(the camphor-smell has long pervaded
the rooms,)
The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
The breath ceases, and the pulse of the heart ceases,
The corpse
stretches
on the bed, and the living look upon it,
It is palpable as the living are palpable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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One can, at home, enough
retirement
get.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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We'll have from the rampart walls a glance
Of the air his steed assumes;
His proud neck swells, his glad hoofs prance,
And on his head unceasing dance,
In a
gorgeous
tuft, red plumes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Whence the straitened cries roll
From its terrified flock;
With
incendiary
grips
It loosens a block,
Which smokes and then slips
From its place by the shock;
To the surface first sheers,
Then melts, disappears,
Like the glacier, the rock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of thralled discontent,
Whereto th'
inviting
time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They examined him, and
ascertained that the matter was true; and,
although
they were
exceedingly troubled, yet they determined upon their measures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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A low wing the messenger
This fan if it is the one
The same by which behind you there
Some mirror has shone
Limpidly (where will fall
pursued grain by grain
a little
invisible
dust, all
that can give me pain)
So may it always bless
Your hands free of idleness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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They
embraced
the theory
that "by bringing himself into harmony with Nature" man can escape every
evil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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) the thongs
unbound!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
* * * *
Such Dares was, and such he strode along,
And drew the wonder of the gazing throng
His brawny breast and ample chest he shows;
His lifted arms around his head he throws,
And deals in
whistling
air his empty blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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 |
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Gianni de' Soldanier credo che sia
piu la con
Ganellone
e Tebaldello,
ch'apri Faenza quando si dormia>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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No one of us in a literary society is safe even to-day
from this
midnight
peril.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The greete kynge Brutus thanne theie dyd hym greete, 25
Prepared
for battle, mareschalled the syghte;
Theie urg'd the warre, the natyves fledde, as flete
As fleaynge cloudes that swymme before the syghte;
Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie,
Theie uncted[21] Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Then let him pass, a
blessing
on his head!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Sped a
herdsman
from the vale,
Mounting like a flame,
All on fire to hear and see
With floating locks he came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
| 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 |
|
"
interrupted
his Majesty; "say no more--I
see how it is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Yes, even more:--she sought excuse to find,
Not
doubting
that she should be forced to say,
Some cause for keeping her so long away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
See, the elder and younger move
At the garden's edge, and beside them
White
carnations
with long frail stems,
Stirred by the wind, in a marble urn,
Lean, watching them, live and motionless,
And, trembling with shade there, seem to be
Butterflies caught in flight, frozen ecstasy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
_tu_ D
130 _es_ (_est_ D) _flauo_ Da: _efflauo_ O:
_eflauo_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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and (thy evening-mess 720
Eaten) depart; to-morrow come again,
Bringing
fair victims hither; I will keep,
I and the Gods, meantime, all here secure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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e freke in his fyue fyngres,
[B] & alle his
afyaunce
vpon folde wat3 in ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
_] A French coin,
the twelfth of a sou;
originally
of silver, but from the 16th c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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fine cause for
lamentation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
I arrived at
Simbirsk
during the night, where I was to stay twenty-four
hours, that Saveliitch might do sundry commissions entrusted to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I went and peered, and could descry
No cause for her
distressful
cry;
But yet for her dear lady's sake
I stooped, methought, the dove to take,
When lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
V 25 of the Assyrian text, [7]
where
Gilgamish
begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Botte, gyff thou fyghteste mee, thou shalt have mede[93];
Somme odherr I wylle champyonn toe affraie[94];
Perchaunce fromme hemm I maie possess the daie,
Thenn I schalle bee a
foemanne
forr thie spere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But wherefore could not I
pronounce
Amen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
What when we fled amain, pursu'd and strook
With Heav'ns
afflicting
Thunder, and besought
The Deep to shelter us?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
SARA TEASDALE
WISDOM
It was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was
scarcely
broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened for what was never spoken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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t haue
countenance
of women, 40
To draw di?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Do not gaze at me in such surprise;
I seek death, having dealt it likewise,
My judge is my love, my judge Chimene,
I merit death for bringing her such pain,
And I come to receive, as
sovereign
good,
The sentence, from her lips, that seeks my blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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_1612-25:_ there, _1633-69_]
[137 wonne] worne _1612-25:_ woon _1633_]
[140 to _1612-25:_ too _1633-69_]
[146 Accident _1612-25:_ accident _1633-69_]
[156 Death _1612-25:_ death _1633-69_]
[161 thee, both _1612-25:_ thee both _1633-69_]
[172 first-built _1612-25:_ first built _1633-69_]
[173 didst] dost _1669_]
[177 the rage _1612-25:_ a rage _1633-69_]
[179 Death _1612-25:_ death _1633-69_]
[181 Peece, discharg'd, _1612:_ Peece, discharg'd _1625:_
Peece discharg'd _1633:_ Peece discharg'd, _1635-69_]
[183 This _1612-25:_ this _1633-69_]
[185 soule, _1612-21:_ soule _1625-69_]
[187 Twenty, perchance,] Twentie, perchance _1625:_ Twenty
perchance _1633-69_]
[197
_Venus_]
_no ital.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
"
But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
After the lapse of half an hour, at the
very utmost, it flags--fails--a
revulsion
ensues--and then the poem is,
in effect, and in fact, no longer such.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
1175)
Estat ai en greu cossirier
I've been in great
distress
of mind,
A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu no volria
Now I must sing of what I would not do,
Arnaut de Mareuil (late 12th century)
Bel m'es quan lo vens m'alena
It's sweet when the breeze blows softly,
Arnaut Daniel (fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
thy
stubborn
choice availed--
First to beget, then, in the after day
And for the city's sake,
The child to slay!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
The New Pleasure
Last night I
invented
a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
And a guitar
produced
we see,
And Heavens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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wāt, 1332, 2657; ic on
Higelāce
wāt þæt hē .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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e
oppiniou{n}
of sittyng is so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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First, mighty Saladin, his country's boast,
The scourge and terror of the
baptized
host.
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"
Mandevylle
ought
next to be cited.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The characteristic Roman triumphs are the
triumphs of
material
civilization.
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But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh--Long, long I gazed;
Then on the earth partially reclining, sat by your side, leaning my chin in
my hands;
Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours, with you, dearest comrade--
Not a tear, not a word;
Vigil of silence, love, and death--vigil for you, my son and my soldier,
As onward
silently
stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole;
Vigil final for you, brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your
death,
I faithfully loved you and cared for you living--I think we shall surely
meet again;)
Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appeared,
My comrade I wrapped in his blanket, enveloped well his form,
Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head, and carefully
under feet;
And there and then, and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in
his rude-dug grave, I deposited;
Ending my vigil strange with that--vigil of night and battlefield dim;
Vigil for boy of responding kisses, never again on earth responding;
Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget--how as day
brightened
I rose from the chill ground, and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
And buried him where he fell.
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My reader noble,
Are all your
relatives
quite well?
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And
solemnly
tolled on his bell.
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Horatius
There can be little doubt that among those parts of early Roman
history which had a
poetical
origin was the legend of Horatius
Cocles.
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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It was as though we saw the Secret Will,
It was as though we floated and were free;
In the south-west a planet shone serenely,
And the high moon, most reticent and queenly,
Seeing the earth had
darkened
and grown still,
Misted with light the meadows of the sea.
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composed
a good deal all the morning.
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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blake-poems |
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THE FREEDOM OF GREECE
First at Artemisium
The children of the
Athenians
laid the shining
Foundation of freedom,
And at Salamis and Mycale,
And in Plataea, making it firm
As adamant.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The ridiculous
misunderstanding on both sides grows more
confused
every minute.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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En cest sonnet coind'e leri
To this light tune, graceful and slender,
I set words, and shape and plane them,
So they'll be both true and sure,
With a little touch, and the file's care;
For Amor gilds and
smoothes
the flow
Of my song she alone inspires,
Who nurtures worth and is my guide.
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Troubador Verse |
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Chimene
Is it to your
boasting
I must listen?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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is this my strong
assurance?
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