--With wary steps and slow
We pass'd; and I attentive to the shades,
Whom
piteously
I heard lament and wail;
And, 'midst the wailing, one before us heard
Cry out "O blessed Virgin!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For albeit he 'scape
The race of gods and men, he yet must dread
'Twill not be hid forever--since, indeed,
So many, oft
babbling
on amid their dreams
Or raving in sickness, have betrayed themselves
(As stories tell) and published at last
Old secrets and the sins.
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Lucretius |
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THE usual greetings o'er, our envious dame,
With
scowling
brow exclaim'd,--my dear, your fame,
I love too much not fully to detail,
What I have witnessed, and with truth bewail;
Will you continue, in your house to keep
A girl, whose conduct almost makes me weep?
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La Fontaine |
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How
thinketh
God on him?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Needs it a Magus begot of son upon mother who bare him,
If that impious faith, Persian religion be fact,
So may their issue adore busy gods with
recognised
verses 5
Melting in altar-flame fatness contained by the caul.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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All round the yard it is cluck, my brown hen,
Cluck, and the rain-wet wings,
Cluck, my
marigold
bird, and again
Cluck for your yellow darlings.
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Imagists |
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Its feathers float
Between the ends of his blue dress-coat;
With pea-green
trowsers
all so neat,
And a delicate frill to hide his feet
(For though no one speaks of it, every one knows
He has got no webs between his toes).
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The strengthe of Iohan they
undirstonde
7185
The grace in which, they seye, they stonde,
That doth the sinful folk converte,
And hem to Iesus Crist reverte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
On the top of a
neighbouring
crag,
Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
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Lewis Carroll |
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'
To that
Cryseyde
answerde right anoon,
And with a syk she seyde, `O herte dere,
The game, y-wis, so ferforth now is goon,
That first shal Phebus falle fro his spere, 1495
And every egle been the dowves fere,
And every roche out of his place sterte,
Er Troilus out of Criseydes herte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would
scarcely
know that we were gone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But when he flees on riches' wings,
He
laugheth
at his foes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Will never my wheels which whirl the sun
And
satellites
have rest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The uprooted trees swayed and tottered for a
moment like drunken giants in the gloom, and then fell prone among their
fellows with a
thunderous
crash.
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Kipling - Poems |
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]
"Sir Bors and I rode along
together
and when we reached the city our
horses stumbled over heaps of ruined bits of houses that fell as they
trod along the streets.
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Tennyson |
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additional
contact information:
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Achaians sorrow for their heroes slain;
With
conquering
shouts the Trojans shake the plain,
And crowd to spoil the dead: the Greeks oppose;
An iron circle round the carcase grows.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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Make all our
Trumpets
speak, giue the[m] all breath
Those clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
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Imagists |
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About nine o'clock in
the
forenoon
we reached St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But never I mind the bridges,
And never I mind the sea;
Held fast in
everlasting
race
By my own choice and thee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Wallace
makes use of an
identical
phrase in describing an occasion
when he was frostbitten whilst sledging in Russia.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of implied warranties or
the exclusion or limitation of consequential damages, so the
above disclaimers and
exclusions
may not apply to you, and you
may have other legal rights.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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inges ben
referred
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Claus, that night
(A most
superior
woman she!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Not all the streams that water the bright earth,
Not all the trees to which its breast gives birth,
Can cooling drop or healing balm impart
To slack the fire which
scorches
my sad heart,
As one fair brook which ever weeps with me,
Or, which I praise and sing, as one dear tree.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I would not feign a single tale
Thy
kindness
or thy love to seek;
Nor sigh for Jenny of the Vale,
Her ruby smile or rosy cheek.
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John Clare |
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at louked ful clene;
A better
barbican
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The hoary Nestor consecrated first
Both cakes and water, and with earnest pray'r
To Pallas, gave the
forelock
to the flames.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But if by chance they lose, inside a body,
Their own sense and another sense take on,
What, then, avails it to assign them that
Which is withdrawn
thereafter?
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Press down through the leaves of the
jasmine,
Dig through the
interlaced
roots--nevermore will you find me;
I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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1281 let lyk
oppeared
pleased.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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MONEY MAKES THE MIRTH
When all birds else do of their music fail,
Money's the still-sweet-singing
nightingale!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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When I asked the man to whom I have referred, if there were any falls
on the Riviere au Chien,--for I saw that it came over the same high
bank with the
Montmorenci
and St.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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org/dirs/2/0/0/2002
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Here no man treadeth oft nor loud,
Through
casement
comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Or to the joint stools
reconcile
the chairs ?
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Finishing
the figure of the coins, coined,
stamped, and given their value by her, Donne passes on to a couple of
new images.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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If a black suit were declared, Maniilio
was the two of trumps; if a red suit,
Manillio
was the seven of trumps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw
creations
in?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the
minstrels
in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the clashing time!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Aus dieser Erde quillen meine Freuden,
Und diese Sonne
scheinet
meinen Leiden;
Kann ich mich erst von ihnen scheiden,
Dann mag, was will und kann, geschehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Farthest away, I
oftenest
dreamed
That I was with her.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I
was surprised, however, to find, upon his having made the circuit of
the square, that he turned and
retraced
his steps.
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Poe - 5 |
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Il me semble, berce par ce choc monotone,
Qu'on cloue en grande hate un
cercueil
quelque part.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The same practice has also been
observed
among the people of Otaheite; who occasionally devour vast quantities of food.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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And henceforth there shall be no chain,
Save
underneath
the sea
The wires shall murmur through the main
Sweet songs of liberty.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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His neck will shake off this whitest agony
Space
inflicts
on a bird that denies it wholly,
But not earth's horror that entraps his feathers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The
punishment
of the others then begins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Where is your
Husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such
heavenly
touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and
question
and discover knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Oh, what has
happened?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Are they not
BRIDLED?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What if assail they whom their souls in secrecy
cherish?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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(10)
[Note 10: _Denis Von Wisine_ (1741-92), a
favourite
Russian
dramatist.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
The Man who makes this feverish complaint 45
Is one of giant stature, who could dance
Equipped
from head to foot in iron mail.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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KAU}
The
wondrous
work flow forth like visible out of the invisible
For the Divine Lamb Even Jesus who is the Divine Vision
Permitted all lest Man should fall into Eternal Death
For when Luvah sunk down himself put on the robes of blood
Lest the state calld Luvah should cease.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Then yet again
Melantho
with rude speech
Opprobrious, thus, assail'd Ulysses' ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As no trace of an opening could be found, Doctor
Ponnonner
was preparing
his instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past
two o'clock.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I will bestow a
breakfast
to make you friends; and we'll
be all three sworn brothers to France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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1440
But
wherefore
comes old Manoa in such hast
With youthful steps?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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E'en as you spoke--and gentle words were those
Spoken by you,--the silver moon uprose;
How that mysterious union of her ray,
With your impassioned accents, made its way
Straight
to my heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Letts_
SONG OF THE RED CROSS
O
gracious
ones, we bless your name
Upon our bended knee;
The voice of love with tongue of flame
Records your charity.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Perchance
she cannot meet him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Lastly this, from whom
Thy look on me reverteth, was the beam
Of one, whose spirit, on high musings bent,
Rebuk'd the ling'ring
tardiness
of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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donations
should be made to "Project Gutenberg/CMU": and are
tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE TRANSFIGURATION
Immortal
clothing
I put on
So soon as, Julia, I am gone
To mine eternal mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain
tournant
leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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Lastly those images
Which to our eyes in mirrors do appear,
In water, or in any shining surface,
Must be, since
furnished
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Fashioned from images of things sent out.
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Terrestrial Heav'n, danc't round by other Heav'ns
That shine, yet bear thir bright officious Lamps,
Light above Light, for thee alone, as seems,
In thee concentring all thir precious beams
Of sacred influence: As God in Heav'n
Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou
Centring receav'st from all those Orbs; in thee,
Not in themselves, all thir known vertue appeers 110
Productive in Herb, Plant, and nobler birth
Of
Creatures
animate with gradual life
Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summ'd up in Man.
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Far be he banish'd from this stately scene
Who wrongs his
princess
with a thought so mean.
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We have emptied the bunkers in open sea,
Their
shrapnel
bursts where our coal should be.
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Ye who have yearn'd 830
With too much passion, will here stay and pity,
For the mere sake of truth; as 'tis a ditty
Not of these days, but long ago 'twas told
By a cavern wind unto a forest old;
And then the forest told it in a dream
To a sleeping lake, whose cool and level gleam
A poet caught as he was journeying
To Phoebus' shrine; and in it he did fling
His weary limbs, bathing an hour's space,
And after,
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He sang the story up into the air,
Giving it universal freedom.
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These, with a courteous welcome, led the knight
To this sweet
Paradise
of soft delight.
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Nor could I go
burdened
with grief, but made merry
Till I came to the gate of that overgrown ground
Where scarce once a year sees the priest come to bury.
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long
disgrace
and scorn,
You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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_Willyart-glower_, a
bewildered
dismayed stare.
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His wrath came on us to the uttermost,
His
covenanted
and most righteous wrath.
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XXXIII
Then groning deepe, Nor damned Ghost, (quoth he,)
Nor
guileful
sprite to thee these wordes doth speake, 290
But once a man Fradubio,?
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His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
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