Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,
Beneath thy morning star advance,
Pleasure with her siren air
May delude the
thoughtless
pair;
Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptur'd sip, and sip it up.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
So wrote they,
mourning
him.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Hast thou
forgotten
that noble deed, by which
thou didst gain a regal wedlock, than which none dared other deeds bolder?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XVI
And yet, because thou
overcomest
so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou canst prevail against my fears and fling
Thy purple round me, till my heart shall grow
Too close against thine heart henceforth to know
How it shook when alone.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)
And why should I of common ills complain,
Shot by a random shaft, a
thoughtless
swain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Live and work,
strongly
because patiently!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And for a woman wert thou first created,
Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,
And by
addition
me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
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Shakespeare |
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Letts_
SONG OF THE RED CROSS
O
gracious
ones, we bless your name
Upon our bended knee;
The voice of love with tongue of flame
Records your charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Music
resembles
Poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Alexander Pope |
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Whose charmed Cup
Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape,
And downward fell into a groveling Swine)
This Nymph that gaz'd upon his clustring locks,
With Ivy berries wreath'd, and his blithe youth,
Had by him, ere he parted thence, a Son
Much like his Father, but his Mother more,
Whom therfore she brought up and Comus named,
Who ripe, and frolick of his full grown age,
Roving the Celtic, and Iberian fields, 60
At last betakes him to this ominous Wood,
And in thick shelter of black shades imbowr'd,
Excells his Mother at her mighty Art,
Offring to every weary Travailer,
His orient liquor in a Crystal Glasse,
To quench the drouth of Phoebus, which as they taste
(For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst )
Soon as the Potion works, their human count'nance,
Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd
Into som brutish form of Woolf, or Bear, 70
Or Ounce, or Tiger, Hog, or bearded Goat,
All other parts remaining as they were,
And they, so perfect is their misery,
Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,
But boast themselves more comely then before
And all their friends, and native home forget
To roule with
pleasure
in a sensual stie.
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Milton |
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From the whole tenor of his life, and from that spirit which glows
throughout the Lusiad, it
evidently
appears that the courage and manners
of Camoens flowed from true greatness and dignity of soul.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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when I see you, child, and when I hear
You sing, or try, with low voice
whispering
near,
And touch of fingers soft, my grief to cheer,
I dream this darkness, where the tempests groan,
Trembles, and passes with half-uttered moan.
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Hugo - Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Why was
Hippolytus
here with you as well?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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and being unfolded
according
to time and other
circumstances, may be called Fate.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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(This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the
Arno, near Florence, and on a day when that
tempestuous
wind, whose
temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapours
which pour down the autumnal rains.
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Shelley |
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So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though
Republics
Time might consume,
Time could not so diminish Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"--
"And dost thou
forgive?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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at chaunce so bytyde3 hor
cheuysaunce
to chaunge,
What nwe3 so ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Villon |
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And then, maybe, if you have dreamed enough, If there are strange old terrors in your eyes
And wild new fancies singing prophecies,
You may bring tribute to the king of dreams; And -he will read your eyes' weird
mysteries
And give you stranger terrors of your own, And chant you wilder fancies — 'til you know The vague old magic of the haunted wood.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Seguendo
lui, portava la mia fronte
come colui che l'ha di pensier carca,
che fa di se un mezzo arco di ponte;
quand' io udi' <>
parlare in modo soave e benigno,
qual non si sente in questa mortal marca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"The
Southern
Cross isn't worth looking at unless
someone helps you to see.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Do you forget, then, how I used to take care he knew nothing
about it when you were
stealing
something from your master?
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Aristophanes |
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Now thou art gone the use of life is past, 5
The meaning and the glory and the pride,
There is no joyous friend to share the day,
And on the
threshold
no awaited shadow.
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Sappho |
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As a boxer, as a runner, past
compare!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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ere yet, in living strains of flame,
My muse, bewildered in her circlings wide,
With names the vaunting lips of pride proclaim,
Shall dare to blend the _one_, the purer name,
Which love a treasure in my breast doth hide,--
Must the wild lay my faithful harp can sing,
Be like the hymns which mortals, kneeling, hear;
To solemn harmonies attuned the string,
As, music show'ring from his viewless wing,
On
heavenly
airs some angel hovered near.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Instant the regents of the spheres of light,
And those who rule the paler orbs of night,
With those, the gods whose delegated sway
The burning South and frozen North obey;
And they whose empires see the day-star rise,
And evening Phoebus leave the western skies,
All instant pour'd along the milky road,
Heaven's crystal
pavements
glitt'ring as they trod:
And now, obedient to the dread command,
Before their awful lord in order stand.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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' By his brother's
infernal
streams, by the banks of the pitchy
black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his
nod.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"Hear, Alfred, hero of the state,
Thy genius heaven's high will declare;
The triumph of the truly great,
Is never, never to
despair!
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Blest
distillation
rare
Of o'er-rank brightness filtered waterwise
Through all the earths in heaven -- thou always fair,
Still virgin bride of e'er-creating thought --
Dream-worker, in whose dream the Future's wrought --
Healer of hurts, free balm for bitter wrongs --
Most silent mother of all sounding songs --
Thou that dissolvest hells to make thy heaven --
Thou tempest's heir, that keep'st no tempest leaven --
But after winds' and thunders' wide mischance
Dost brood, and better thine inheritance --
Thou privacy of space, where each grave Star
As in his own still chamber sits afar
To meditate, yet, by thy walls unpent,
Shines to his fellows o'er the firmament --
Oh!
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Sidney Lanier |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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For his
relationship
to
Bēowulf, see the genealogical table under Scylfingas.
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Beowulf |
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They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins encircled are by girdles bright,
Their robes are edged with bands
Of
precious
stones--the rarest earth affords--
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Just then came the Barbarians, pouring in distinct droves: here, with
stones, with wooden javelins
hardened
in the fire, and with the broken
limbs of trees, they battered the palisade: there with hurdles, faggots
and dead bodies, they filled the trench: by others, bridges and ladders,
both before framed, were planted against the battlements; these they
violently grappled and tore, and struggled hand to hand with those who
opposed them.
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Tacitus |
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Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Hope, memory, love:
Hope for fair morn, and love for day,
And memory for the evening grey
And
solitary
dove.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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You have waited, you always wait, you dumb,
beautiful
ministers!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The old ambitions flare and burn; The old irresolutions die;
And
planetary
lustres gleam
Out of an unforgotten sky.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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All at once I saw a little village I knew
well, with a
palisade
and a belfry, on the rugged bank of the Yaik.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Diores supports him, who succeeded to
the palm, so he loudly cries, and bore off the last prize in vain, if
the highest honours be
restored
to Salius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But let the kirk-folk ring their bells,
Let's sing about our noble sel's:
We'll cry nae jads frae heathen hills
To help, or roose us;
But
browster
wives an' whisky stills,
They are the muses.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Empanoplied and plumed
We entered in, and waited, fifty there
Opposed to fifty, till the trumpet blared
At the barrier like a wild horn in a land
Of echoes, and a moment, and once more
The trumpet, and again: at which the storm
Of
galloping
hoofs bare on the ridge of spears
And riders front to front, until they closed
In conflict with the crash of shivering points,
And thunder.
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Tennyson |
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His lofty helmet, triple-tressed
with horse-hair, holds high a Chimaera breathing from her throat Aetnean
fires, raging the more and exasperate with baleful flames, as the battle
and
bloodshed
grow fiercer.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Let us commemorate her then ourselves in
festival
private
(Two constitute a whole tribe, when they are two in love).
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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that Sui emperor,
constructing
this, now fallen and rotting.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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How vain the word to
Menelaus
given
By Jove's great daughter and the queen of heaven,
Beneath his arms that Priam's towers should fall,
If warring gods for ever guard the wall!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Sone after this, though it no nede were,
Whan she swich othes as hir list devyse
Hadde of him take, hir
thoughte
tho no fere,
Ne cause eek non, to bidde him thennes ryse.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[From Of
Reformation
in England, 1641.
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
CHORUS
Lo, I desist from wrath,
appeased
by thee.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And, though I have grown serene
And strong since then, I think that God has willed
A still
renewable
fear .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You know that it's
everything
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_
I behold thee, Prometheus; yet now, yet now,
A terrible cloud whose rain is tears
Sweeps over mine eyes that witness how
Thy body appears
Hung awaste on the rocks by
infrangible
chains:
For new is the Hand, new the rudder that steers
The ship of Olympus through surge and wind--
And of old things passed, no track is behind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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= The umbrella of the
seventeenth century seems to have been used
exclusively
to protect
the face from the sun.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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17) to life, 156-65; going to Horeb, 166-73; his choosing Elisha, 174-7; burning up king Ahaziah's
messengers
(2 Kings i.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'Such has been the
felicity
of my life,' he
said to Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
'Such has been the
felicity
of my life,' he
said to Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I would my lover kneeling at my feet
In humble
manliness
should cry, `O sweet!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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How often
did she grow
sallower
in sheen than gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Some war, some plague, or famine they foresee,
Some
revelation
hid from you and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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O parents,
husbands!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
O parents,
husbands!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
" Dick walked
Torpenhow
up and down the room,
keeping silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an
unbidden
presence the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Here the performance, disdaining the trivial, unapproached in the
tremendous
audacity
of its crowds and groupings and the push of its
perspective, spreads with crampless and flowing breadth, and showers its
prolific and splendid extravagance.
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le brouillard s'en vont deux
silhouettes
grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[A] Mony klyf he ouer-clambe in contraye3 straunge,
Fer floten fro his frende3
fremedly
he ryde3;
[B] At vche war?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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--cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast--
That is a
doubtful
tale from faery land,
Hard for the non-elect to understand.
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Keats - Lamia |
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to think God hates the worthy mind,
The lover and the love of human kind,
Whose life is healthful, and whose
conscience
clear,
Because he wants a thousand pounds a year.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It happened that I once followed for several long hours
an aged and
afflicted
woman of this kind: rigid and erect, wrapped in a
little worn shawl, she carried in all her being the pride of stoicism.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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With what dull pain
Compass'd, how eagerly I sought to strike
Into that
wondrous
track of dreams again!
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Tennyson |
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An opiate vapour, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet
mountain
top.
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Poe - 5 |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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HERDAL: You've
certainly
had luck on your side.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
existing
lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
existing
lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thy
presence
grieves me--go!
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Poe - 5 |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
precious
hours she watched above His sleep
Were worth the fearful anguish of the end.
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Sara Teasdale |
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