They go, eating the azure,
Sometimes
vegetables
too,
Hard-boiled eggs, and mandarins,
And rice as white as their costume.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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He had forty-two boxes, all
carefully
packed,
With his name painted clearly on each:
But since he omitted to mention the fact,
They were all left behind on the beach.
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Lewis Carroll |
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nunc tellus inculta nouos parit ubere fetus,
nunc ratibus tutis fera non
irascitur
unda;
mordent frena tigres, subeunt iuga saeua leones.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Like Dionysus himself, they are
connected in ancient
religion
with the Renewal of the Earth in spring and
the resurrection of the dead, a point which students of the
_Alcestis_ may well remember.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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When thus thy people shall have safely pass'd
The Sirens by, think not from me to learn
What course thou next shalt steer; two will occur;
Delib'rate chuse; I shall
describe
them both.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
'They made a ful good engendring,'
Quod Love, 'for who-so soothly telle, 6115
They
engendred
the devel of helle!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Post _GOR_, aetate qui
proximus
est, _B_(_ononiensis_), cum finitus sit
anno secundo Iohannis XXIII, h.
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Latin - Catullus |
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paragraph
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Let the blessed
apparition
melt not yet to its divine!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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With
_Advent_
and _Mir Zur Feier_, both published within the following
three years, a phase of questioning commences, a dim desire begins to
stir to reach out into the larger world "deep into life, out beyond
time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ils se croient
endormis
dans un paradis rose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I really do not believe
anything
was ever written under an equal number
of limitations; and when I first came to know all the conditions of the poem
I was for a moment inclined to think that no genuine work
could be produced under them.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It was
composed
at School, and during my first two College vacations.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Modern Paris is often the background of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's
disillusioned
in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_ "The women of Beowulf are of the fine northern type; trusted
and loved by their
husbands
and by the nobles and people; generous, gentle,
and holding their place with dignity.
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Beowulf |
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Non credo che la sua madre piu m'ami,
poscia che
trasmuto
le bianche bende,
le quai convien che, misera!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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An ode quite new,
With rhymes inflated--stanzas, too,
That panted, moving lazily,
And heavy Alexandrine lines
That seemed to jostle bodily,
Like
children
full of play designs
That spring at once from schoolroom's form.
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Hugo - Poems |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Erleuchtet
nicht zu diesem Feste
Herr Mammon prachtig den Palast?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_1635-69_
To the
Countesse
of Bedford.
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John Donne |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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Thys
syngeyng
haveth whatte coulde make ytte please;
Butte mie uncourtlie shappe benymmes mee of all ease.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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BOHEMIENS EN VOYAGE
La tribu
prophetique
aux prunelles ardentes
Hier s'est mise en route, emportant ses petits
Sur son dos, ou livrant a leurs fiers appetits
Le tresor toujours pret des mamelles pendantes.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Project of 20% of the
net profits you derive calculated using the method you
already use to calculate your
applicable
taxes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Are they not those same tidings
Which
yestereve
a courier bore to Pushkin?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" "That is enough in New Year," says the groom in green,
"if I tell thee when I have
received
the tap.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Il le prend par le bras, arrache le velours
Des rideaux, et lui montre en bas les larges cours
Ou fourmille, ou fourmille, ou se leve la foule,
La foule epouvantable avec des bruits de houle
Hurlant comme une chienne, hurlant comme une mer,
Avec ses batons forts et ses piques de fer,
Ses tambours, ses grands cris de halles et de bouges,
Tas sombre de
haillons
saignants de bonnets rouges;
L'Homme, par la fenetre ouverte, montre tout
Au roi pale, et suant qui chancelle debout,
Malade a regarder cela!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I have
sojourned
in the Muse's land,
Have wandered with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all philosophies that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The sunbeam that plays on the
porchstone
wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Caves I long for and cold rocks,
Minnow-peopled country brooks,
Blundering gales of Equinox,
Sunless valley-nooks,
Daily so I might restore
Calcined heart and
shrivelled
skin,
A morning phoenix with proud roar
Kindled new within.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Let me count the ways
XLIV Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
I
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a
gracious
hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What's the matter,
husband?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"The Fourth prohibits trespassing
Where other Ghosts are quartered:
And those convicted of the thing
(Unless when pardoned by the King)
Must
instantly
be slaughtered.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme
hennissent
les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So here I'll watch the night and wait
To see the morning shine,
When he will hear the stroke of eight
And not the stroke of nine;
And wish my friend as sound a sleep
As lads' I did not know,
That
shepherded
the moonlit sheep
A hundred years ago.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I trust, in this
matter, to what you may do with the
Cardinal
Sabina.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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e sweyes of hir
to{ur}nyng
whele.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I know my hero too well to be fooled by
disguises
of actors.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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In singing-bouts
I'll see you play the
challenger
no more.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Two notes are especially struck by them: the passions and
the
absurdity
of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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If the government of the
Republic
picked him saying,
"You are wanted, your country takes you"--
if the Republic put a stethoscope to his heart
and looked at his teeth and tested his eyes and said,
"You are a citizen of the Republic and a sound
animal in all parts and functions--the Republic takes you"--
then to-day the baskets of flowers are all for the Republic,
the roses, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators--
they are all for the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of
sleeping
gods,
And sing with her in canebrakes and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CXLII
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin,
grounded
on sinful loving:
O!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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org/dirs/1/9/3/1934
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Race d'Abel, ton sacrifice
Flatte le nez du
Seraphin!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Civilized
lands
Afford few types thereof;
Here is a man who takes his rest
Beside his very Love,
Beside the one who was his wife
In our sight up above!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house,
attended
by all the families connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Porches untrod of forest houses
All before him, all day long,
"Yankee Doodle" his
marching
song;
And the evening breeze
Joined his psalms of praise
As he sang the ways
Of the Ancient of Days.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which
simulates
rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue
inspires
my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus choosing one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXXIX
Then cride she out, Fye, fye, deformed wight,
Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine
To have before
bewitched
all mens sight; 345
O leave her soone, or let her soone be slaine.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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How
delightful
it is to see
you again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Duncan was a lad o' grace;
Maggie's was a piteous case;
Duncan could na be her death,
Swelling
pity smoor'd his wrath;
Now they're crouse and canty baith:
Ha, ha, the wooing o't!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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It
bringeth
little profit, speech like this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--Ah, but I know how this infirmity
Will fail and be not, no, not memory,
When I begin the
marvellous
hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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_Angelic
Voices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Spare my Love, thou feath'ry snaw,
Drifting
o'er the frozen plain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The little supper with his companions, one of whom has already sold him
for a price; the anguish in the quiet moon-lit garden; the false friend
coming close to him so as to betray him with a kiss; the friend who still
believed in him, and on whom as on a rock he had hoped to build a house
of refuge for Man, denying him as the bird cried to the dawn; his own
utter loneliness, his submission, his acceptance of everything; and along
with it all such scenes as the high priest of orthodoxy rending his
raiment in wrath, and the magistrate of civil justice calling for water
in the vain hope of cleansing himself of that stain of innocent blood
that makes him the scarlet figure of history; the coronation ceremony of
sorrow, one of the most wonderful things in the whole of
recorded
time;
the crucifixion of the Innocent One before the eyes of his mother and of
the disciple whom he loved; the soldiers gambling and throwing dice for
his clothes; the terrible death by which he gave the world its most
eternal symbol; and his final burial in the tomb of the rich man, his
body swathed in Egyptian linen with costly spices and perfumes as though
he had been a king's son.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_ A kind of coarse
linen or cloth
stiffened
with gum or paste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
LVII
Others shall behold the sun
Through the long
uncounted
years,--
Not a maid in after time
Wise as thou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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All fled, and not
pretending
useless bravery, 1525
Each man sought refuge in the neighbouring sanctuary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
175
Hence shall we seek where fair Locarno smiles
Embower'd in walnut slopes and citron isles,
Or charms that smile on Tusa's evening stream,
While mid dim towers and woods her [I] waters gleam;
From the bright wave, in solemn gloom, retire 180
The dull-red steeps, and
darkening
still, aspire,
To where afar rich orange lustres glow
Round undistinguish'd clouds, and rocks, and snow;
Or, led where Viamala's chasms confine
Th' indignant waters of the infant Rhine, 185
Bend o'er th' abyss?
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Cognisant were ye, and you weet full well
(So saith my Pinnace) how from
earliest
age 15
Upon your highmost-spiring peak she stood,
How in your waters first her sculls were dipt,
And thence thro' many and many an important strait
She bore her owner whether left or right,
Where breezes bade her fare, or Jupiter deigned 20
At once propitious strike the sail full square;
Nor to the sea-shore gods was aught of vow
By her deemed needful, when from Ocean's bourne
Extreme she voyaged for this limpid lake.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For three of his
fourscore
he did no good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Say the Saints--His
Pleasures
please us
Before God and the Lamb.
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how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied
speaking
of your fame!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thy master and thy
mistress
live.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now is ther litel more for to doone,
But Pandare up, and shortly for to seyne,
Right sone upon the chaunging of the mone,
Whan lightles is the world a night or tweyne, 550
And that the welken shoop him for to reyne,
He
streight
a-morwe un-to his nece wente;
Ye han wel herd the fyn of his entente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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;
precedee
d'une notice sur lord Byron,
par M.
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Byron |
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Poi dentro a lei udi': <
com' io la carita che tra noi arde,
li tuoi concetti
sarebbero
espressi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Let others love the city,
And gaudy show, at sunny noon;
Gie me the lonely valley,
The dewy eve and rising moon,
Fair beaming, and streaming,
Her silver light the boughs amang;
While falling; recalling,
The amorous thrush
concludes
his sang;
There, dearest Chloris, wilt thou rove,
By wimpling burn and leafy shaw,
And hear my vows o' truth and love,
And say, thou lo'es me best of a'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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How dear to me, Sire, such
banishment!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_ A shortened form of the
asseveration
_by this light_,
or _by God's light_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I say established; for it is with literature as with law
or empire-an
established
name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in
possession.
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Poe - 5 |
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Whose is that noble
dauntless
brow?
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Robert Forst |
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So spake the Fiend, and with necessitie,
The Tyrants plea, excus'd his
devilish
deeds.
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Milton |
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Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong
Life much, bent rather how I may be quit
Fairest and easiest of this combrous charge,
Which I must keep till my appointed day
Of
rendring
up, Michael to him repli'd.
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Milton |
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West, walking towards the, 217-220;
general
tendency
towards the, 219-224.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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When words we want, Love
teacheth
to indite, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Look, all orderly
citizens!
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Whitman |
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The more important deviations from this text are
mentioned in the notes; but I have not thought it
necessary
to give a
complete list of various readings, or to mention any change except where
it might lead to misapprehension.
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the verse of
Aeschylus
sinks far the lower
of the two.
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Aristophanes |
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A throe upon the features
A hurry in the breath,
An ecstasy of parting
Denominated "Death," --
An anguish at the mention,
Which, when to
patience
grown,
I 've known permission given
To rejoin its own.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Can I pour thy wine
While my hands
tremble?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I dream'd that, as I wander'd by the way
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,
And gentle odours led my steps astray,
Mix'd with a sound of waters murmuring
Along a
shelving
bank of turf, which lay
Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling
Its green arms round the bosom of the stream,
But kiss'd it and then fled, as Thou mightest in dream.
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Golden Treasury |
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