Literature, also, from which my spirit asks voluptuousness, that will be the agonised poetry of Rome's last moments, so long as it does not breathe a breath of the reinvigorated stance of the Barbarians or stammer in childish Latin like
Christian
prose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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CHORUS
A mine of
treasure
in the earth, a fount of silver ore!
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Aeschylus |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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1365
`And if yow lyketh knowen of the fare
Of me, whos wo ther may no wight discryve,
I can no more but, cheste of every care,
At
wrytinge
of this lettre I was on-lyve,
Al redy out my woful gost to dryve; 1370
Which I delaye, and holde him yet in honde,
Upon the sight of matere of your sonde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Surely if skill in song the shears may stay
And of its purpose cheat the charmed abyss,
If our poor life be lengthened by a lay,
He shall not go,
although
his presence may,
And the next age in praise shall double this.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's
mightily
able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the ruthless glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
yond the sonne, the candel of
Ielosye!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nay; it was sure, and was wrought
Under
inscrutable
powers:
Bravely the two armies fought
And left the land, that was greater than they, still theirs and ours!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
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T.S. Eliot |
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LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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Stephen Crane |
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PLACES
I
~Twilight~
(_Tucson_)
Aloof as aged kings,
Wearing like them the purple,
The
mountains
ring the mesa
Crowned with a dusky light;
Many a time I watched
That coming-on of darkness
Till stars burned through the heavens
Intolerably bright.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--
O must none close my dying feet,
And must none close my hands,
And may none bind my yellow locks
As death for all
demands?
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"
Chinese prosody
distinguishes
between two tones, a "flat" and a
"deflected.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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]
41 (return)
[
Notwithstanding
the manner of fighting is so much changed in modern times, the arms of the ancients are still in use.
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Tacitus |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Speak--say how perish'd our unhappy
friends?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly
twisting
the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A more
pleasant
one to like,
Was that (one) she had under her control.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And the moist no less departs
Into all regions that demand the moist;
And many heaped-up particles of hot,
Which cause such burnings in these bellies of ours,
The liquid on arriving dissipates
And quenches like a fire, that
parching
heat
No longer now can scorch the frame.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And groans, that rage of racking famine spoke,
Where looks inhuman dwelt on
festering
heaps!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--If men did know what shining
fetters, gilded miseries, and painted happiness thrones and sceptres were
there would not be so frequent strife about the getting or holding of
them; there would be more
principalities
than princes; for a prince is
the pastor of the people.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He must be rare if even / have not And lost mid-page
Such age
As his pardons the habit,
He
analyzes
form and thought to see
How I 'scaped immortality.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
"Suffer without regret," they seem to cry,
"Though dark your suffering is, it may be music,
Waves of blue heat that wash
midsummer
sky;
Sea-violins that play along the sands.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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See around us, drawing nearer,
Those faint
yearning
shapes of air--
Friends than whom earth holds none dearer!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wenn ich euch auf dem
Blocksberg
finde,
Das find ich gut; denn da gehort ihr hin.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The ancient sea that made men young is dry,
Youth has no fountain, now there's no more Styx,
And the grim reaper with his pointed scythe
Steps forward, thoughtfully, to clear the field;
My turn arrives; night fills my
troubled
eye,
That from doves' flights, alas, reads coming days,
Weeps over cradles, smiles to see new graves.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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| Answer: |
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Villon |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Complete Works of Robert Burns:
Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Let me clasp my dear boy,
embracing
what is left,
To expiate the madness of a prayer I now detest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,
And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me,
shrouded
in the living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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First his patrimony was mangled;
secondly
the
Pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream
knoweth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which
husbandry
in honour might uphold,
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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While Summer loves to sport
Beneath thy lingering light;
While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves;
Or Winter, yelling through the troublous air,
Affrights thy shrinking train,
And rudely rends thy robes;
So long, regardful of thy quiet rule,
Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace,
Thy gentlest influence own,
And love thy
favourite
name!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
State briefly what
historical
events are connected with
Ischia, Chertsey, Whitehaven, Boulak, and Jellibolee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The larger portion of the
original
draft
subsequently became the property of the present editor, but it is not
considered just to the poet's memory to publish it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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But, for his ugly sins
The saintly maid
rebuking
him, away
Scamp'ring he turn'd, fast as his hide-bound corpse
Would bear him.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But the main quality of these
poems is that of extraordinary grasp and insight, uttered with an
uneven vigor sometimes exasperating,
seemingly
wayward, but really
unsought and inevitable.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Trigon & cubes divide the elements in finite bonds
Multitudes without number work incessant: the hewn stone
Is placd in beds of mortar mingled with the ashes of Vala
{Alternate
reading of "on" for "in.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
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codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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So through the
moonlight
lanes they go,
And far into the moonlight dale,
And by the church, and o'er the down,
To bring a doctor from the town,
To comfort poor old Susan Gale.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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peaceful, pure, and light;
Oh, happy
worship!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Astonishd & Confounded he beheld
Her shadowy form now Separate he shudderd & was silent
Till her caresses & her tears revivd him to life & joy
Two wills they had two intellects & not as in times of old
This Urizen percievd & silent brooded in
darkning
Clouds
To him his Labour was but Sorrow & his Kingdom was Repentance
He drave the Male Spirits all away from Ahania {Alternate reading of "drove" for "drave.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my
tremulous
hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In _The Well at the World's End_ green trees and enchanted waters are
shown to us, as they were understood by old writers, who thought that
the
generation
of all things was through water; for when the water that
gives a long and fortunate life and that can be found by none but such
a one as all women love is found at last, the Dry Tree, the image of
the ruined land, becomes green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I cannot shake off the god;
On my neck he makes his seat;
I look at my face in the glass,--
My eyes his
eyeballs
meet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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A tiny box of nard shall bring to light
The cask that in
Sulpician
cellar lies:
O, it can give new hopes, so fresh and bright,
And gladden gloomy eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Whose smile can make a poet, and your glance
Dash all bad poems out of countenance;
So that an author needs no other bays
For coronation than your only praise,
And no one
mischief
greater than your frown
To null his numbers, and to blast his crown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
In the later drama the figure of the projector appears several times,
but it lacks the timeliness of Jonson's satire, and the conception
must have been largely derived from
literary
sources.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
CONTENTS
PAGE
SEA ROSE 1
THE
HELMSMAN
2
THE SHRINE 4
MID-DAY 7
PURSUIT 8
THE CONTEST 10
SEA LILY 12
THE WIND SLEEPERS 13
THE GIFT 14
EVENING 17
SHELTERED GARDEN 18
SEA POPPIES 20
LOSS 21
HUNTRESS 23
GARDEN 24
SEA VIOLET 25
THE CLIFF TEMPLE 26
ORCHARD 29
SEA GODS 30
ACON 33
NIGHT 35
PRISONERS 36
STORM 39
SEA IRIS 40
HERMES OF THE WAYS 41
PEAR TREE 43
CITIES 44
THE CITY IS PEOPLED 47
SEA GARDEN
SEA ROSE
Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
more precious
than a wet rose
single on a stem--
you are caught in the drift.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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'The thridde good of greet comfort
That yeveth to lovers most disport,
Comith of sight and biholding, 2895
That clepid is Swete-Loking,
The whiche may noon ese do,
Whan thou art fer thy lady fro;
Wherfore
thou prese alwey to be
In place, where thou mayst hir se.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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s
tortuous
route in flight to Chengdu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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{a}t natur{e} desireth / and
requereth al-wey // that is to sein the werk of gen{er}aciou{n} /
by the whiche gen{er}aciou{n} only / dwelleth {and} is sustenyd
the longe
durablete
of mortal thinges //
[Sidenote: Self-love possessed by every creature is not the
product of volition, but proceeds from a natural impression or
intention of nature.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" of the crow,
Shall pass by many a haunted rood
Of the nutty, odorous wood;
Or, where the
hemlocks
lean and loom,
Shall fill my heart with bitter gloom;
Till, lured by light, reflected cloud,
I burst aloft my watery shroud,
And upward through the ether sail
Far above the shrill wind's wail;--
But, falling thence, my soul involve
With the dust dead flowers dissolve;
And, gliding out at last to sea,
Lulled to a long tranquillity,
The perfect poise of seasons keep
With the tides that rest at neap.
| 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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MARIANA IN THE NORTH
All her youth is gone, her
beautiful
youth outworn,
Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home
No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn
Where she was wont to roam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
"Will ye go wi' me,
graunie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The Foundation's principal office is in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its
volunteers and
employees
are scattered throughout numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Thy sister doth not haunt these fields, Pandion is not here,
Here is no cruel Lord with
murderous
blade,
No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving comrades made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
With half-shut book, and many a winding walk
Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
, by Lewis Carroll
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
What conscience
dictates
to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than Hell to shun,
That, more than Heaven pursue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Mentr' io diceva, dentro al vivo seno
di quello
incendio
tremolava un lampo
subito e spesso a guisa di baleno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
So much the fury still outran the wit,
The
pleasure
missed her, and the scandal hit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And ladies fair from silken tent
Peep forth, and every eye is bent
On the
cavalcade
that comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
I believe that
Whitman is one of the huge, as yet mainly unrecognised, forces of our time;
privileged to evoke, in a country hitherto still asking for its poet, a
fresh, athletic, and American poetry, and predestined to be traced up to by
generation after
generation
of believing and ardent--let us hope not
servile--disciples.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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_--"He was a man of rank, who, in order to
avoid the legal punishment to which several crimes
rendered
him
obnoxious, put himself at the head of a party of freebooters.
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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Still from side to side his eyes went roaming, As in fever earnestly he moaned
Old
forgotten
ecstasies and splendors Ebbed from out my heart forevermore.
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His father's ghost too
whispered
him one note.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yet the sibyl with
Latinate
face still sleeps
Under the arch of Constantine
- And the austere portico nothing disturbs.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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a
cumbrous
load,
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refin'd!
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Robert Forst |
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"There's not a modest maiden elf
But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
And half some local
strumpet!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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that do this hideous act behold,
And heavenly virgin thus outraged see,
How can ye vengeance just so long withold
And hurle not
flashing
flames upon that Paynim bold?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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FLINT
Trees 53
Lunch 55
Malady 56
Accident 58
Fragment
60
Houses 62
Eau-Forte 63
D.
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Imagists |
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As in the old poetic fame
The gods are blind and lame,
And the simular despite
Betrays the more
abounding
might,
So call not waste that barren cone
Above the floral zone,
Where forests starve:
It is pure use;--
What sheaves like those which here we glean and bind
Of a celestial Ceres and the Muse?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rien ne peut l'egayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,
Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon,
Du bouffon favori la
grotesque
ballade
Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade;
Son lit fleurdelise se transforme en tombeau,
Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau,
Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette
Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And
opposition
of the stars.
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Marvell - Poems |
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LE DORMEUR DU VAL
C'est un trou de verdure ou chante une riviere
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent; ou le soleil, de la
montagne
fiere,
Luit: c'est un petit aval qui mousse de rayons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ei ben of wicked
m{er}ite
of whiche shrewes ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If ye meddle nae mair wi' the matter,
Ye may hae some
pretence
to havins and sense,
Wi' people that ken ye nae better,
Barr Steenie!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_starr'd Ethiop queen_: Cassiopeia, the legendary Queen of Ethiopia, and
thence
translated
amongst the constellations.
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Golden Treasury |
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No less these loaded the lordly gifts,
thanes' huge treasure, than those had done
who in former time forth had sent him
sole on the seas, a
suckling
child.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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