Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,
The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living
alight, the hearse uncloses,
The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on
the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
The mound above is flatted with the spades--silence,
A minute--no one moves or speaks--it is done,
He is
decently
put away--is there any thing more?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Wandering Willie--Revised Version
Here awa, there awa,
wandering
Willie,
Here awa, there awa, haud awa hame;
Come to my bosom, my ain only dearie,
Tell me thou bring'st me my Willie the same.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Baudelaire's labours as a
translator
lasted over ten years.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
I should willingly have refused the
proposed
honour, but I could not get
out of it.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thoughtest
thou my feet, O father,
could retire and abandon thee?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
disputes are all upon these last, and, I will venture to say, they have
less
sharpened
the wits than the hearts of men against each other, and
have diminished the practice more than advanced the theory of Morality.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Out of this grew the
Red-Cross
Associations
of Europe.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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What madman's he, that when it
sparkles
so,
Will cool his flames or quench his fires with snow?
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Robert Herrick |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Stephen Crane |
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Et ses yeux et sa danse
superieurs
encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Then we ask'd from Jove a sign,
And by a sign
vouchsafed
he bade us cut
The wide sea to Euboea sheer athwart,
So soonest to escape the threat'ned harm.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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La Fontaine |
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Come avarizia spense a ciascun bene
lo nostro amore, onde operar perdesi,
cosi
giustizia
qui stretti ne tene,
ne' piedi e ne le man legati e presi;
e quanto fia piacer del giusto Sire,
tanto staremo immobili e distesi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The debtor was imprisoned, not in a public jail
under the care of impartial public functionaries, but in a
private
workhouse
belonging to the creditor.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What would she with a cheek
So bright in strange men's eyes, unless she seek
Some
treason?
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Euripides - Electra |
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'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He asked, but all the
Heavenly
Quire stood mute,
And silence was in Heaven.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Les
Silhouettes
135
II.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'tis my
sweetest
No-brains: mine!
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Sidney Lanier |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Each
character
on which my eye reposes
Nature in act before my soul discloses.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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e
emperour
him say ?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_
When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead,
And that thou thinkst thee free
From all solicitation from mee,
Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,
And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see; 5
Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke,
And he, whose thou art then, being tyr'd before,
Will, if thou stirre, or pinch to wake him, thinke
Thou call'st for more,
And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke, 10
And then poore Aspen wretch,
neglected
thou
Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye
A veryer ghost then I;
What I will say, I will not tell thee now,
Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent, 15
I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent,
Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.
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John Donne |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Here stand it still to dignify our Muse,
Your sober handmaid, who doth wisely choose
Your name to be a laureate wreath to her
Who doth both love and fear you,
honoured
sir.
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Robert Herrick |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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Stepped out upon the old walls
children
dark
With horns to mock the notes and hoot the ark.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A vendre les corps, les voix, l'immense
opulence
inquestionable, ce
qu'on ne vendra jamais.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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All Nature carefully the law reveres,
That
gratitude
and fealty endears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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For our king is
returned
as from prison,
The old king, to be master again,
Our beloved in justice re-risen:
With guile he hath slain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Owing to the
fineness
of the grain of the stone, it
may be quite possible to letter the native rock; but it has been
difficult to fix on a style of lettering for the inscription that
shall be at once in good taste, forcible, and plain.
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William Wordsworth |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Good Heaven forbid, that I should blast their glory,
Who know how like Whig ministers to Tory,
And, when three
sovereigns
died, could scarce be vexed,
Considering what a gracious prince was next.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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' 50
I've allus foun' 'em, I allow, sence then
About ez good for talkin' tu ez men;
They'll take edvice, like other folks, to keep,
(To use it 'ould be holdin' on 't tu cheap,)
They listen wal, don' kick up when you scold 'em,
An' ef they've tongues, hev sense enough to hold 'em;
Though th' ain't no denger we shall lose the breed,
I gin'lly keep a score or so for seed,
An' when my sappiness gits spry in spring,
So's't my tongue itches to run on full swing, 60
I fin' 'em ready-planted in March-meetin',
Warm ez a lyceum-audience in their greetin',
An' pleased to hear my spoutin' frum the fence,--
Comin', ez 't doos,
entirely
free 'f expense.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He did not think of the nightingale as an individual bird, but
of its song, which had been beautiful for
centuries
and would continue
to be beautiful long after his generation had passed away; and the
thought of this undying loveliness he contrasted bitterly with our
feverishly sad and short life.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"
And through the chant a second melody
Rose like the
throbbing
of a single string:
"I am an Angel, and thou art the King!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And he is in truth a natural
Who
reprehends
her for her longing,
Or praises to her what is not fitting.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Here's where I sat at a table surrounded by good-natured Germans;
Over on that side the girl, finding a seat for herself
Next to her mother where, frequently shifting her bench, she arranged
Nicely for me to perceive profile and curve of her neck;
Speaks just a little more loudly than women in Rome are accustomed;
Significant glance as she pours--misses the glass with the wine
So that it spills on the table, and she with a
delicate
finger
Over its surface can draw circles in damp arabesque:
Her name entwining in mine, while my eyes most eagerly follow
All that her fingertip writes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A present deity the prince confess'd,
And wrapp'd with ecstasy the sire address'd:
"What miracle thus dazzles with
surprise!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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There sleeps in
Shrewsbury
jail to-night,
Or wakes, as may betide,
A better lad, if things went right,
Than most that sleep outside.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a
complete
abandonment
to the feelings of the moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Non diu
remoratus
es,
Iam venis.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Degas and Zuloaga seem to have combined their
art on one canvas to give to this dancer the abundant elasticity of
grace and the
splendid
fantasy of colour.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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And I know that this passes:
This implacable fury and torment of men,
As a thing insensate and vain:
And the
stillness
hath said unto me,
Over the tumult of sounds and shaken flame,
Out of the terrible beauty of wrath,
_I alone am eternal.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Imagists |
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what a
wretched
Mother I!
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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_ My Lord, the
deputation
is in waiting;
But add, that if another hour would better
Accord with your will, they will make it theirs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
XXI
I can tell not only about a discomfort far greater than others,
But of a horror besides,
thinking
of which will arouse
Every fiber in me to revulsion.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She, in after time,
Gave o'er the throne, as
birthgift
to a god,
Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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Fixing her eyes upon the beach,
As though
unconscious
of his speech,
She said "Each gives to more than each.
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Is it perfume from a dress
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That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn
marvellously!
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And little Dagonet, skipping, "Arthur, the king's;
For when thou playest that air with Queen Isolt,
Thou makest broken music with thy bride,
Her daintier
namesake
down in Brittany--
And so thou breakest Arthur's music too.
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Far off he stands
In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears
The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth,
Whose top is heaven, and its
ponderous
load
Too great for any grasp.
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Mochte selbst solch einen Herren kennen,
Wurd ihn Herrn
Mikrokosmus
nennen.
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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And who avers the
contrary?
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Je regrette les temps ou la seve du monde,
L'eau du fleuve, le sang rose des arbres verts
Dans les veines de Pan
mettaient
un univers!
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" Fire shall devour
and wan flames feed on the
fearless
warrior
who oft stood stout in the iron-shower,
when, sped from the string, a storm of arrows
shot o'er the shield-wall: the shaft held firm,
featly feathered, followed the barb.
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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