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Shelley poems vocab Flashcards

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sicken

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fall sick, ill

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quicken

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bring to life

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heaped

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piled up

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slumber on

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continue to sleep

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wherefore

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what for

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plough

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labourer la terre

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lay ye low

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oppress you

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weave

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tisser

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toil and care

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dure labeur et soin

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clothe

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vêtir

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from the cradle to the grave

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du berceau à la tombe

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drones

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male bees

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sweat

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sueur

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nay

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no

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scourge

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whip

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stingless drones

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abeilles sans dard

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your toil

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your hard work, your endeavour

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18
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balm

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baume

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ye buy

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you buy

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the seed ye sow

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les grains que vous semez

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to reap

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récolter

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heap

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pile up, accumulate

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idle

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lazy, unproductive, oisif

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shrink

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rétrécir / reculer, battre en retraite

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your cellars

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vos caves

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ye deck

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that you decorate

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27
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dwells

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inhabits

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wrought

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made, created, forged

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tempered

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hardened in the smith’s fire

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glance on ye

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reflect on you

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plough and spade

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charrue et bêche

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hoe and loom

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houe / râteau et métier à tisser

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33
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winding-sheet

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linceul

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34
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fair / England

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beautiful England

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skylark

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alouette

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36
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hail

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salutations

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37
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blithe

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carefree

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thou never wert

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you never were

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(thou) pourest

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you pour

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profuse

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abundant, extravagant

41
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strains

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tunes, melodies

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springest

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jump / leap up

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wingest

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fly (through)

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soar

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s’envoler

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an unbodied joy

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an idea of joy

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even

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evening

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shrill

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high-pitched

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keen

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eager / sharp

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silver sphere

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the moon

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narrows

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dwindles, shrinks, wanes

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dawn

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aube

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rains out

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diffuses downwards

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overflowed

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so full it overflows

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drops

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gouttes

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showers

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coule, inonde, trempe

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unbidden

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spontaneously, uninvited

57
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wrought / to sympathy

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worked into harmony

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heeded not

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it hadn’t paid attention to

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maiden

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virgin

60
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love-laden / soul

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âme chargée d’amour

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bower

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leafy shelter, charmille

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glow-worm

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luciole

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a dell

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un vallon

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scattering

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dispersing

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unbeholden

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unseen

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hue

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colour, shade

67
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which screen it from the view

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which hide it from everyone’s eyes

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embowered

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surrounded, made comfortable by

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scent

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parfum

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vernal

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spring

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twinkling

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glittering, sparkling

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doth surpass

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does exceed

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sprite

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fairy, elf

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praise

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éloges

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panted forth

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breathed out

76
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rapture

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ravissement, extase

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hymeneal

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nuptial, for a wedding

78
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chant

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formal song

79
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matched with thine

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compared with yours

80
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vaunt

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boasting, bragging

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wherein

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inside which

82
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want

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lack, shortcoming

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joyance

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bliss, rapture

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languor

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sluggishness, lack of energy

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ne’er

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never

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satiety

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satieté, fullness, satisfaction

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deem

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judge

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to pine

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se morfondre

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with some pain is fraught

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blended with pain

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scorn

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mépriser, railler

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art thou pale

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are you pale

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gazing

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staring, contemplating

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worth its consistency

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that deserves a long look

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grazes

A

feeds

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