Qui des Dieux osera, Lesbos, etre ton juge,
Et condamner ton front pali dans les travaux,
Si ses balances d'or n'ont pese le deluge
De larmes qu'a la mer ont verse tes
ruisseaux?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The axles of our
chariots
touch: our short swords meet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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the spirit flown
forever!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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mine gefrǣge
(_as I learned through the
narrative
of others_), 777, 838, 1956, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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>>,
mi pinse con la forza del suo peso:
per ch'io di
coruscar
vidi gran feste.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Behold This Swarthy Face
Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes,
This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,
My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly
on the lips with robust love,
And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a
kiss in return,
We observe that salute of American
comrades
land and sea,
We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He corrupted Nero and introduced
him to every kind of depravity; then ventured on some villainies
behind his back, and finally
deserted
and betrayed him.
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Tacitus |
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"Why warbles he that skies are fair
And coombs alight," she cried, "and fallows gay,
When I have placed no
sunshine
in the air
Or glow on earth to-day?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This only would I have thee clearly note:
That so my
conscience
have no plea against me;
Do fortune as she list, I stand prepar'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pale
fireflies
pulsed within the meadow-mist
Their halos, wavering thistledowns of light;
The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst,
Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright,
Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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83-86, is that the gnomes fill the girls' minds with hopes of a
splendid
marriage
and so induce them to "deny love.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
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Li Po |
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I cannot
describe
the
delicious feeling which thrilled through me at this moment, I seized her
hand and pressed it in a transport of delight, while bedewing it with my
tears.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXI
Home, horse and foot, the Nubian host arraid
By squadrons, all, from wasted Africk go;
But to their king, first, thanks
Astolpho
paid,
And said, he an eternal debt should owe;
In that he had in person given him aid
With all his might and main against the foe.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They do but answer to the love in thine,
Yet
secretly
I wonder thou shouldst love me.
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Longfellow |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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estaat; _rest_ estate; Ten Brink _rightly
supplies_
and
_after_ Estat (_sic_).
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
It thus began: "If any certain news
Of Valdimagra and the
neighbour
part
Thou know'st, tell me, who once was mighty there
They call'd me Conrad Malaspina, not
That old one, but from him I sprang.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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The indications and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw,
indicates
itself in parts;
What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of
singers, and their words;
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark--but
the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark;
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
He is the glory and extract, thus far, of things and of the human race.
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Whitman |
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'Twas then, the studious head or generous mind,
Follower of God, or friend of human-kind,
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore
The faith and moral Nature gave before;
Re-lumed her ancient light, not kindled new;
If not God's image, yet His shadow drew:
Taught power's due use to people and to kings,
Taught nor to slack, nor strain its tender strings,
The less, or greater, set so justly true,
That touching one must strike the other too;
Till jarring interests, of
themselves
create
The according music of a well-mixed state.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Within
bestrewn
thy bridegroom see
On couch of Tyrian cramoisy
All imminent awaiting thee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ne'er, while I lived there, he
loathlier
found me,
bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons,
Herebeald and Haethcyn and Hygelac mine.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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I looked at sunrise once,
And then I looked at them,
And wishfulness in me arose
For
circumstance
the same.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a
polished
crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Come le pecorelle escon del chiuso
a una, a due, a tre, e l'altre stanno
timidette atterrando l'occhio e 'l muso;
e cio che fa la prima, e l'altre fanno,
addossandosi a lei, s'ella s'arresta,
semplici e quete, e lo 'mperche non sanno;
si vid' io muovere a venir la testa
di quella mandra
fortunata
allotta,
pudica in faccia e ne l'andare onesta.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I
mean in the way he recites when alone, or unconscious of an audience,
for before an audience he will remember the imperfection of his ear in
note and tone, and cling to daily speech, or
something
like it.
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Yeats |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Robert Herrick |
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I watch the fog float in at the window
With the whole world gone blind,
Everything, even my longing, drowses,
Even the
thoughts
in my mind.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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625
An ydole of fals portraiture
Is she, for she wil sone wryen;
She is the
monstres
heed y-wryen,
As filth over y-strawed with floures;
Hir moste worship and hir [flour is] 630
To lyen, for that is hir nature;
Withoute feyth, lawe, or mesure
She is fals; and ever laughinge
With oon eye, and that other wepinge.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes--
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair
appearance
lies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'You are a most
annoying
person.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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My Lord, I stand so
squeezed
among the crowd
I cannot lift my hands unto my head.
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Tennyson |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling
breakfast
plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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T.S. Eliot |
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_
Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston,
1912.
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| Question: |
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Imagists |
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there she stands,
Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe;
An empty urn within her withered hands,
Whose holy dust was
scattered
long ago;
The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;
The very sepulchres lie tenantless
Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow,
Old Tiber!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
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blake-poems |
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anne
parentum
15
Frustrantur falsis gaudia lacrimulis,
Vbertim thalami quas intra lumina fundunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
|
VI
Qui dira ces langueurs et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec
douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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`For which my
counseil
is, whan it is night,
Thou to hir go, and make of this an ende; 1115
And blisful Iuno, thourgh hir grete mighte,
Shal, as I hope, hir grace un-to us sende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'Tis double honour in a woman thought,
When by her charms a torpid heart is caught;
She, who in icy bosoms flame can raise,
Deserving
doubtless
is of treble praise.
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La Fontaine |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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gone was every friend of thine:
And kindred of dead husband are at best
Small help, and, after
marriage
such as mine,
With little kindness would to me incline.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"My good
fellow," said he, "I make it a point of
conscience
to allow you this
much run.
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Poe - 5 |
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(_circa_ 1120) says: "Wang An-shih,
in enumerating China's four
greatest
poets, put Li Po fourth on the
list.
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Li Po |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
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| Question: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It
mattered
nothing then.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If I
renounced
her love, she'd scorn me:
She ought not, for love it is adorns me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And you, Neptune, you, if my courage ever 1065
Cleansed your shore of those infamous murderers,
Remember that as a prize for all my labour,
You
promised
to fulfil my future prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Like
his previous works on similar matters, it was
anonymous, though the author was pretty well
♦ Rehearsal
Trainprosed^
vol.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Under the
overhanging
yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Upon the sky-line glows i' the dark
The Sun that now is but a spark;
But soon will be unfurled--
The glorious banner of us all,
The flag that rises ne'er to fall,
Republic
of the World!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Greyhounds on leash and bears and lions also,
Thousand
mewed hawks and seven hundred camels,
Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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In 1830 it was
proposed to break her up, which called forth this
indignant
poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O
isplendor
di Dio, per cu' io vidi
l'alto triunfo del regno verace,
dammi virtu a dir com' io il vidi!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Come, thou subtle bride of my
mellifluous
wooing,
Come, thou silver-breasted moonbeam of desire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not accustomed to coquetting
with the
soldiers
she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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1148)
The
Castellan
of Blaye, he flourished early to mid 12th century and probably died during the Second Crusade, 1147-9.
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Troubador Verse |
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Wherefore
dost thou start?
| Guess: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thou lyest
abhorred
Tyrant, with my Sword
Ile proue the lye thou speak'st.
| Guess: |
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ANSWER TO----'S
PROFESSIONS
OF AFFECTION.
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Byron |
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re-use it under the terms of the Project
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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137 ||
_negligis_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Versum adulterinum ratus est
Schmidt; sed _in ora uulgi_ uidetur
imitatus
Henricus Allocut.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The second volume of Nonsense, commencing with the verses, "The Owl and the
Pussy-Cat," was written at different times, and for different sets of
children: the whole being
collected
in the course of last year, were then
illustrated, and published in a single volume, by Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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SAID sister Agnes, Madam, take their word;
A remedy like this would be absurd,
If, like old death, it had a haggard look,
And you
designed
to get by hook or crook.
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La Fontaine |
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And as to things
Not mentioned here which of themselves do grow
Or of themselves are gendered, and all things
Which in the clouds condense to being--all,
Snow and the winds, hail and the hoar-frosts chill,
And freezing, mighty force--of lakes and pools
The mighty hardener, and mighty check
Which in the winter curbeth everywhere
The rivers as they go--'tis easy still,
Soon to discover and with mind to see
How they all happen, whereby gendered,
When once thou well hast
understood
just what
Functions have been vouchsafed from of old
Unto the procreant atoms of the world.
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Lucretius |
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And the
commissioned
wind to sing
His mighty psalm from fall to spring
And annual tunes commemorate
Of Nature's child the common fate.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But rather would I have
preferred
the most cruel torture to
such an abasement.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And is it only fear to thee that night
Is
thatched
with stars?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With yawning mouth the yellow hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mud cried out for blood
To the thirsty
asphalte
ring:
And we knew that ere one dawn grew fair
Some prisoner had to swing.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Oh, more
profound
than the moving sea
That never has shown myself to me!
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Sara Teasdale |
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He wearied of his long career of
attendance
upon
patrons who requited him but shabbily; and with considerable taste
for rural scenery, he longed for a more open-air existence than was
attainable in Rome.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'--I felt my cheek
Alter, to see the shadow pass away, _225
Whose grasp had left the giant world so weak
That every pigmy kicked it as it lay;
And much I grieved to think how power and will
In opposition rule our mortal day,
And why God made
irreconcilable
_230
Good and the means of good; and for despair
I half disdained mine eyes' desire to fill
With the spent vision of the times that were
And scarce have ceased to be.
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Shelley |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XLVIII
To the
assembly
her they bear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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