And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as
silently
steal away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They have
many faults, but are seen at their worst when
Chatterton
is trying
to exhibit some eternal truth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Other previous
contributors
are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell McCarthy and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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270
XXXI
But very uncouth sight was to behold,
How he did fashion his untoward pace,
For as he forward moov'd his footing old,
So backward still was turnd his
wrincled
face,
Unlike to men, who ever as they trace, 275
Both feet and face one way are wont to lead.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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)
MEPHISTOPHELES (mit
ernsthafter
Gebarde):
Falsch Gebild und Wort
Verandern Sinn und Ort!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops, slanting rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit
resounds
upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically
accelerate
or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
Boeotians
were the allies of Sparta.
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Aristophanes |
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Charles the great in vain your aid will seek--
None such as he till God His
Judgement
speak;--
Here must you die, and France in shame be steeped;
Here perishes our loyal company,
Before this night great severance and grief.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me
Why thou
complainest
now when in one hour thou fade away:
Then we shall seek thee but not find: ah Thel is like to thee.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For the son is brought with the father,
(In the
foremost
ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Therefore
I will even take sixpence in
earnest of the berrord and lead his apes into hell.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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_
7
_caelesti
numine_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now swift pursue, now thunder uncontroll'd:
Give me to seize rich Nestor's shield of gold;
From Tydeus' shoulders strip the costly load,
Vulcanian
arms, the labour of a god:
These if we gain, then victory, ye powers!
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And just as drama,
whatever
grandeur of purpose it may attempt,
must be a good play, so epic must be a good story.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ne nought wiste I if that ther were 515
Eyther hole or place [o]-where,
By which I mighte have entree;
Ne ther was noon to teche me;
For I was al aloon, y-wis,
Ful wo and
anguissous
of this.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Than shal thee come a
remembraunce
2565
Of hir shape and hir semblaunce,
Wherto non other may be pere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If one can imagine that the seers or that I
myself or another had read of these images and forgotten it, that the
supernatural artist's knowledge of what was in our buried memories
accounted for these visions, there are
numberless
other visions to
account for.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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If she be shy, her sister try,
Ye'll maybe fancy Jenny;
If ye'll
dispense
wi' want o' sense--
She kens hersel she's bonie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O newborn Passion, glorious charioteer,
Goading, restraining,
swerving
these the steeds That draw my life, what founts of.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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There is no mask but he will wear;
He
invented
oaths to swear;
He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays,
And holds all stars in his embrace.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a thousand dead lovers are buried in shrouds of
withered
kisses.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--Oui l'Homme est triste et laid, triste sous le ciel vaste,
Il a des vetements, parce qu'il n'est plus chaste,
Parce qu'il a sali son fier buste de Dieu,
Et qu'il a rabougri, comme une idole au feu,
Son corps olympien aux
servitudes
sales!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What shall I do to tell you all my
thoughts?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If you seek us
afterwards
in other terms, you
shall find us in our salt-water girdle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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m
The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the
listless
air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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) so inspired,
Nor food my hapless appetite availed
Nor sleep in quiet rest my eyelids veiled, 10
But o'er the
bedstead
wild in furious plight
I tossed a-longing to behold the light,
So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Did you not
On one
occasion
hide your husband's saddle
To hinder him from coming to the sessions?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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LXXI
A void was at the bottom, where a wide
Portal conducted to an inner room:
From thence a light shone out on every side,
As of a torch
illumining
the gloom.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The last was first in fame; but brighter beams
His
follower
flung around in solar streams.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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That very Caesar, born in Scipio's days,
Had aimed, like him, by
chastity
at praise.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ay, joy from super-earthly
fountains!
| 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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Daring all, their goal to win,
Men tread forbidden ground, and rush on sin:
Daring all, Prometheus play'd
His wily game, and fire to man convey'd;
Soon as fire was stolen away,
Pale Fever's stranger host and wan Decay
Swept o'er earth's
polluted
face,
And slow Fate quicken'd Death's once halting pace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ten we count--ten who
ventured
unquailing--ten there were--and ten are
no more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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IV
Phasellus
ille, quem uidetis, hospites,
ait fuisse nauium celerrimus,
neque ullius natantis impetum trabis
nequisse praeterire, siue palmulis
opus foret uolare siue linteo.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Now, one would
naturally suppose that all the poems, in this set of five, were composed
during the same
pedestrian
tour, and that they all referred to the same
time.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Therefore to mee thir doom he hath assig'n'd;
That they may have thir wish, to trie with mee
In Battel which the
stronger
proves, they all,
Or I alone against them, since by strength 820
They measure all, of other excellence
Not emulous, nor care who them excells;
Nor other strife with them do I voutsafe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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LXXXVI cum LXXXV
continuant
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The hippo's feeble steps may err
In compassing
material
ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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But other doubt
possessed
me, lest harm
Befall thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The waves have now a redder glow--
The hours are
breathing
faint and low--
And when, amid no earthly moans,
Down, down that town shall settle hence,
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ocean-tides with your arms ye covered,
with
strenuous
hands the sea-streets measured,
swam o'er the waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
War, sorrow,
suffering
gone--the rank earth purged--nothing but joy left!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
What use in
darkness
mirror to uphold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Farther in summer than the birds,
Pathetic from the grass,
A minor nation celebrates
Its
unobtrusive
mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
_79 rightly Wise manuscript; nightly Hunt manuscript,
editions
1832, 1839.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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He was afterwards killed by a lance while
kneeling at the altar; after,
according
to tradition, he had built 3300
stately churches, many of which were rebuilt, cir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Professor
Picavet, of the
Sorbonne, Paris, was kind enough to read in proof my notes on Donne's
allusions to Scholastic doctrines, and to make suggestions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
THE SECOND BATTLE, AND THE
DISTRESS
OF THE GREEKS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Unconscious of
the
feelings
of a Camoens, they knew not that a carelessness in securing
the smiles of fortune, and an open honesty of indignation, are almost
inseparable from the enthusiasm of fine imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
But while Christ did not say to men, 'Live for others,' he pointed out
that there was no
difference
at all between the lives of others and one's
own life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And Betty's
drooping
at the heart,
That happy time all past and gone,
"How can it be he is so late?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And when he came home at night, driving in
all his sheep,
Two of my
soldiers
more
At once he snatched up, and to supper went.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
but then the whirl of fashion,
The natural
fickleness
of passion,
The torrent of opinion,
And the fair sex as light as down!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"
V
"Yet," said they, "his frail speech,
Hath accents pitched like thine--
Thy mould and his define
A
likeness
each to each--
But go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Run-deils,
downright
devils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Quick, 'neath the spiral round
Of the deep
staircase
fly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
M'Murdo, of Drumlanrig, and her
daughters,
something
has been said in the notes on the songs: the poem
alluded to was the song of "Bonnie Jean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
SECOND ECHO:
Fallen and
vanquished!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Nor long his falchion in the scabbard slept,
His warlike arm increasing laurels reap'd:
From Leyra's walls the baffled Ismar flies,
And strong
Arroncha
falls his conquer'd prize;
That hononr'd town, through whose Elysian groves
Thy smooth and limpid wave, O Tagus, roves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
No poet in fact is so far
from dwelling in a past or foreign world: it is the England, if not of
1648, at least of his youth, in which he lives and moves and loves: his
Bucolics show no trace of Sicily: his Anthea and Julia wear no 'buckles
of the purest gold,' nor have
anything
about them foreign to Middlesex
or Devon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
Thus wail'd the father,
grovelling
on the ground,
And all the eyes of Ilion stream'd around.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
This conviction was pressed upon me by
having been a witness, during a long
residence
in revolutionary
France, of the spirit which prevailed in that country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
"But I sent on my messenger,
With cunning arrows poisonous and keen,
To take forthwith her
laughing
life from her,
And dull her little een,
"And white her cheek, and still her breath,
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her side;
So, when he came, he clasped her but in death,
And never as his bride.
| 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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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
AGASSIZ
TO HOLMES, ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM
ON
RECEIVING
A COPY OF MR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a
precipice
that seems to sink
Into everlasting gulfs below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
"But at the brook we'll meet,
That ripples down the
boundary
line;
There you may wed, and Heaven shall see't.
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"
"I tire of my beauty, I tire of this
Empty
splendour
and shadowless bliss;
"With none to envy and none gainsay,
No savour or salt hath my dream or day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing atmosphere display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the elemental worlds in harmony,
[But
monstrous
delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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je vous aime et vous loue
D'envelopper ainsi mon coeur et mon cerveau
D'un linceul
vaporeux
et d'un vague tombeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
President
plied me like a tool.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
With _Das Buch der Bilder_ the dream is ended, the veil of mist is
lifted and before us are
revealed
pictures and images that rise before
our eyes in clear colourful contours.
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Rilke - Poems |
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More barren--ay, those arms will never lean
Down through the trellised vines and draw my soul
In sweet reluctance through the tangled green;
Some other head must wear that aureole,
For I am hers who loves not any man
Whose white and
stainless
bosom bears the sign Gorgonian.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Love,
faithful
love recall'd thee to my mind--
But how could I forget thee?
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Golden Treasury |
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The mother dreads you for her son,
The thrifty sire, the new-wed bride,
Lest, lured by you, her
precious
one
Should leave her side.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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