I seem to see them in battle-line--
Heroes with hearts of gold,
But of their victory a sign
The Fates withhold;
And the hours too tardy-footed pass,
The
voiceless
hush grows dense
'Mid the imaginings, alas!
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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With Charlemagne I soon will have thee friends;
To
Guenelun
such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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What
sickness
shall I say has lighted on thee,
So that thou canst not come?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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: spatium tituli in O
1
_bellicon
iei_ O
4 _uirginem o hymenee_ 5 _Hymen o hymenee hymen_ codd.
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Latin - Catullus |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2 November 1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O
solitary
captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I thee implore
Let not thy foe have triumph in my fall;
Remember
that our sin made God himself,
To free us from its chain,
Within thy virgin womb our image on Him take!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dindorf)
and the result ascribed to
them.
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Golden Treasury |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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you whose laughters strawberry-crammed
Are mingling with a flock of docile lambs
Everywhere grazing vows
bleating
joy the while,
Name me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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SCENT OF IRISES
A faint,
sickening
scent of irises
Persists all morning.
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Imagists |
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I it is, Prince, I whose expert assistance 655
Would have taught you the
windings
of the Labyrinth.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
The sun had now, with radiant brow, climb'd his meridian throne,
Yet still mine eye
untiringly
gazed on that lovely one.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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January
discovered
seated by the
fire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thou shalt tell me now
Why thou
refusest
the life given thee.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
How many times these low feet staggered,
Only the
soldered
mouth can tell;
Try!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Augustus
had devised this title, as best suiting the unbounded
height of his views; while avoiding the odious name of _King_ or
_Dictator_, he was yet obliged to use some particular appellation,
under it to control all other powers in the State.
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Tacitus |
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No crier to the polling summons the eager throng;
No Tribune
breathes
the word of might that guards the weak from
wrong.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She, bright-shining as the Asian myrtle florid in branchlets, which the
Hamadryads nurture for their pleasure with
besprinkled
dew.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In those eyes which maiden pride
Fain would hide,
Mark how passion's
lightnings
sleep!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Title: Of The Nature of Things
Author: [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius
Translator: William Ellery Leonard
Posting Date: July 31, 2008 [EBook #785]
Release Date: January, 1997
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OF THE NATURE OF THINGS
By Titus Lucretius Carus
A Metrical Translation
By William Ellery Leonard
BOOK I
PROEM
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
And fruitful lands--for all of living things
Through thee alone are evermore conceived,
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun--
Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
For thee waters of the unvexed deep
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
Glow with diffused
radiance
for thee!
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Lucretius |
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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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dis, si tu le sais,
A cet agonisant que le loup deja flaire
Et que
surveille
le corbeau,
A ce soldat brise, s'il faut qu'il desespere
D'avoir sa croix et son tombeau;
Ce pauvre agonisant que le loup deja flaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The clash of arms is still before my eyes, how can one make a living with a
scholar?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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even though in this case there was
probably
no diminishment in his grade in the civil service.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To her whom it adorns this sheath imparteth
The living motion from the light surrounding; And thus my nobler parts, to grief's confounding, Impart into my heart a peace which starteth
From one round whom a graciousness is cast Which
clingeth
in the air where she hath past.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Or else,
neglecting
a' that's guid,
They riot in excess!
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Robert Forst |
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will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
Therefore
we'll knock.
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Shakespeare |
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See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Formed and
impelled
its neighbour to embrace.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
But I cried out,--"That is a false prophet; for I shall be a
musician, and naught but a
musician
shall I be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Therefore, friends,
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ-
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engag'd to fight-
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb
To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
Which
fourteen
hundred years ago were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
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Shakespeare |
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And in thy court-yard grows the
untithed
rue,
Huge as the olives of Gethsemane,
And ancient as the terebinth of Hebron,
Coeval with the world.
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Longfellow |
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Come now I will not be tantalized, you
conceive
too much of
articulation,
Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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thy soul shall into
raptures
rise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For one of them denied
the
existence
of the gods and the other was a believer.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Here, your earth-born souls still speak
To mortals, of their little week;
Of their sorrows and delights;
Of their passions and their spites;
Of their glory and their shame;
What doth
strengthen
and what maim:--
Thus ye teach us, every day,
Wisdom, though fled far away.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For what could hurt us now that mighty maw
Of Nemeaean Lion, or what the Boar
Who
bristled
in Arcadia?
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Lucretius |
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When their judgments are firm, and out of
danger, let them read both the old and the new; but no less take heed
that their new flowers and
sweetness
do not as much corrupt as the
others' dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ilke inrest
attemp{er}aunce
of corages.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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" Lycius replied,
'Tis Apollonius sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly
haunting
my sweet dreams.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Muffling his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so
ruefully?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Moment when one must
break with the
living memory,
to inter it
- place it in the coffin,
hide it - with
the brutality of
placing it there,
raw contact
to see it no longer
except as
idealised
-
later, no longer him
living, there - but
the germ of his being
taken back into itself -
the germ allowing
thought for him
- sight of him
vision (ideality
of state) and
speech for him
for in us, pure
him, a refining
- become our
honour, the source
of our finer
feelings -
true re-entry
into the ideal
24.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Where are your moonlight halls, your cedarn glooms,
The
blossoming
abysses of your hills?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Shakespeare |
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Trickling
sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by
scintillations
as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And after a thousand years I climbed the holy
mountain
and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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hauberk, with its
diminutive
habergeon, < A.
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Beowulf |
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to declare
If I may gain such favour, as to gaze
Upon thine image, by no
covering
veil'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The
Wasteland
(with reference to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The side of our country must ollers be took,
An'
Presidunt
Polk, you know, _he_ is our country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps:
Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded pace
From meal to meal: some with convulsive leaps
Shake the green tussocks of malign disgrace:
And some advance by system and deep art
O'er
vantages
of wealth, place, learning, tact.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Nay, when it cannot do
all these, it is offended with his own narrowness, that excludes it from
the universal
delights
of mankind, and oftentimes dies of a melancholy,
that it cannot be vicious enough.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ordinary speech is formless, and its variety is
like the variety which separates bad prose from the regulated speech
of Milton, or
anything
that is formless and void from anything that has
form and beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Where every science--every nobler art--
That can inform the mind, or mend the heart,
Is known; as
grateful
nations oft have found
Far as the rude barbarian marks the bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The
Christians
there implore thee and beseech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Give me an amulet
That keeps
intelligence
with you,--
Red when you love, and rosier red,
And when you love not, pale and blue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Oh chill and stark was the crimson dark
Where huddled men lay deep;
His
comrades
all denied his call--
Long had they lain in sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The author seems to
have been an honest citizen, proud of the
military
glory of his
country, sick of the disputes of factions, and much given to
pining after good old times which had never really existed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I teach
straying
from me, yet who can stray from me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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You define me God with these
trinkets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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THE PARDAH NASHIN
Her life is a
revolving
dream
Of languid and sequestered ease;
Her girdles and her fillets gleam
Like changing fires on sunset seas;
Her raiment is like morning mist,
Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care,
Attending
to every word:
But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair,
When the third repetition occurred.
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Lewis Carroll |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The owls have hardly sung their last,
While our four travellers
homeward
wend;
The owls have hooted all night long,
And with the owls began my song,
And with the owls must end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O
sweetest
essence!
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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And in his minde he gan the tyme acurse
That he cam there, and that that he was born;
For now is wikke y-turned in-to worse,
And al that labour he hath doon biforn, 1075
He wende it lost, he
thoughte
he nas but lorn.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Wilkes,
it is, perhaps, the greatest misfortune of his life, that you should
have so many
compensations
to make in the closet for your former
friendship with him.
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A best disgrace a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this
involves
the grave.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas,
My
dispossessor?
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Keats |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The
laughter
and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and sorrowful things.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Partly through whim,
and partly that I wished to set about doing
something
in life, I
joined a flax-dresser in a neighboring town (Irvine) to learn his
trade.
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some abominable statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a ferocious snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a
protective
poisonous air
Always to be breathed, although we die of her.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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C'est de
rectifier
des faits d'abord--et
ensuite d'elucider un peu la disposition, a mon sens, mal litteraire,
mais concue dans un but tellement respectable!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XXVI
Arising with the morning's light,
Unto the fields she makes her way,
And with
emotional
delight
Surveying them, she thus doth say:
"Ye peaceful valleys all, good-bye!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Tecmessa's charms enslaved her lord,
Stout Ajax, heir of Telamon;
Atrides, in his pride, adored
The maid he won,
When Troy to Thessaly gave way,
And Hector's all too quick decease
Made
Pergamus
an easier prey
To wearied Greece.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This poem was written
on the morning after the
bombardment
of Fort McHenry, while the
author was a prisoner on the British fleet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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