Happy then be your life, too: in it
antiquity
lives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It
bringeth
little profit, speech like this.
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Euripides - Electra |
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In the course of this
tour,
Wordsworth
wrote a letter to his sister, dated "Sept.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Byron |
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PALACE OF THE TSAR
The
TSAREVICH
is drawing a map.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croit et se
fortifie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For, sir, this wot we wel biforn;
If riche men doon you homage,
That is as fooles doon outrage;
But ye shul not
forsworen
be, 6025
Ne let therfore to drinke clarree,
Or piment maked fresh and newe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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2
_celerrimum_
(_celerimum_ O) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the rear of such a
guard-house, in a large
graveled
square or parade ground, called the
Champ de Mars, we saw a large body of soldiers being drilled, we being
as yet the only spectators.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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at Volusi annales Paduam
morientur
ad ipsam
et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The winds grow wearied, warring with the tower,
The noisy North is out of breath, nor power
Has any blast old Corbus to defeat,
It still has strength their
onslaughts
worst to meet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thence through his breast its bloody passage tore;
Flat falls he thundering on the marble floor,
And his crush'd
forehead
marks the stone with gore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Ein
Halbgott
hat sie zerschlagen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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IN THE
MOUNTAINS
ON A SUMMER DAY
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt, sitting in a green wood.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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New power, like new wine, seems to
intoxicate
the
strongest heads.
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Petrarch |
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d'avoir dit qu'il avait
(Rimbaud) un visage parfaitement ovale d'ange en exil, une forte bouche
rouge au pli amer et (_in cauda
venenum!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At last beside the brook they stood,
With
Winthrop
and his followers;
The maid in flake-embroidered hood,
The magistrate well cloaked in furs,
That, parting, showed a glimpse beneath
Of ample, throat-encircling ruff
As white as some wind-gathered wreath
Of snow quilled into plait and puff.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Abortive then and shapeless ye remain,
Like the
untimely
embryon of a worm!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In all her letters,
written in exquisite English prose, but with an ardent imagery
and a vehement sincerity of emotion which make them, like the
poems, indeed almost more directly, un-English, Oriental, there
was always this intellectual, critical sense of humour, which
could laugh at one's own
enthusiasm
as frankly as that enthusiasm
had been set down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Meanwhile Phaeacia's peers in council sate;
From his high dome the king
descends
in state;
Then with a filial awe the royal maid
Approach'd him passing, and submissive said:
"Will my dread sire his ear regardful deign,
And may his child the royal car obtain?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Spirit," said I,
"Who for thy rise are
tutoring
(if thou be
That which didst answer to me,) or by place
Or name, disclose thyself, that I may know thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I see every
day new musical
publications
advertised; but what are they?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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To whom thus Zephon,
answering
scorn with scorn.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Such and so
shameful
is the chain
Which Heaven's new tyrant doth ordain
To bind me helpless here.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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-- "Think each man as he will, but well I read,"
(The
landlord
said,) "You fondly are deceived:
Your rash replies to one conclusion lead,
That you are all of common sense bereaved;
And so too must believe this noble knight,
Unless he would persuade us black is white.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I trusted the brook barrier, but feared
The road would fail; and on that side the fire
Died not without a noise of
crackling
wood--
Of something more than tinder-grass and weed--
That brought me to my feet to hold it back
By leaning back myself, as if the reins
Were round my neck and I was at the plough.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Yes, as I roamed where Loiret's waters glide
Through rustling aspens heard from side to side, 625
When from October clouds a milder light
Fell where the blue flood rippled into white;
Methought from every cot the watchful bird
Crowed with ear-piercing power till then unheard;
Each clacking mill, that broke the murmuring streams, 630
Rocked the charmed thought in more delightful dreams;
Chasing those pleasant dreams, [180] the falling leaf
Awoke a fainter sense [181] of moral grief;
The measured echo of the distant flail
Wound in more welcome cadence down the vale; 635
With more majestic course the water rolled,
And
ripening
foliage shone with richer gold.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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[3]
In youth's keen [4] eye the
livelong
day was bright,
The sun at morning, and the stars at night,
Alike, when first the bittern's hollow bill
Was heard, or woodcocks [D] roamed the moonlight hill.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Wherefore that faint smile of thine,
Shadowy, dreaming
Adeline?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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DER HERR:
Wenn er mir auch nur
verworren
dient,
So werd ich ihn bald in die Klarheit fuhren.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We are sometimes told by
Frenchmen
or Russians that Oscar Wilde
is greater than Shakespeare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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For whan he saugh that she ne mighte dwelle,
Which that his soule out of his herte rente, 1700
With-outen more, out of the
chaumbre
he wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Give the enclosed epigram to my much-valued friend Cunningham, and
tell him, that on
Wednesday
I go to visit a friend of his, to whom his
friendly partiality in speaking of me in a manner introduced me--I
mean a well-known military and literary character, Colonel Dirom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No
drearier
can prevail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy
portioned
hour of death,
By murdering her .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Born to no pride,
inheriting
no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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760
When I've
abandoned
control of my senses so!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
receiving
it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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8164
(unpublished) _al-gar_, _al-gar-balag_ in list with _(gis)-a-la_,
also an
instrument
of music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Make the way smooth for me,
When I, thy Herrick,
Honouring
thee, on my knee
Offer my lyric.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Metres and
imitation
of Pindar absurdly modern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_templa_
R: num _fana_?
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Therefore 'tis time their empire over man
And converse with the living, should be o'er;
Tyrants, behold your tomb your eyes before;
Vampires
and dogs, your sepulchre is here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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BRUMES ET PLUIES
O fins d'automne, hivers, printemps trempes de boue,
Endormeuses
saisons!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Aye, she would not give
My soul to a sad old age,
mourning
for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And there, O sight
forlorn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'
Then Maeve: 'O Aengus, Master of all lovers,
A
thousand
years ago you held high talk
With the first kings of many-pillared Cruachan.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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nam tu solacia praebes,
tu curae requies, tu
medicina
uenis.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un
triomphe
passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Royalty payments must be paid within 60
days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally
required to
prepare)
your periodic tax returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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* * * * *
In the above
criticisms
I feel that I may have done what critics are so
apt to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Noi repetiam
Pigmalion
allotta,
cui traditore e ladro e paricida
fece la voglia sua de l'oro ghiotta;
e la miseria de l'avaro Mida,
che segui a la sua dimanda gorda,
per la qual sempre convien che si rida.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then cloudier become;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without
disclosing
what it be,
'T were blessed to have seen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I watch'd the
symptoms
o' the great,
The gentle pride, the lordly state,
The arrogant assuming;
The fient a pride, nae pride had he,
Nor sauce, nor state, that I could see,
Mair than an honest ploughman.
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[51] Note _BUL(tu-ku)_
eratatu_
(falsely entered in Meissner,
SAI.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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{106a} As Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne; and beware of
letting them taste Gower or Chaucer at first, lest, falling too much in
love with antiquity, and not
apprehending
the weight, they grow rough and
barren in language only.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Bolswert, Abraham Bloemaert, Anonymous, 1590 - 1662
The Rijksmuseum
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,
Longing to be a girl again,
Talking like this, more or less:
'Oh, old age, proud in wickedness,
You've
battered
me so, and why?
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Villon |
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If folk would but stop attributing to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd
con|sider
an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the
tempests
kill the earth's foul peace, And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson, And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, op-
posing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Indeed to me the obligation is
stronger than to any other
individual
of our society; as "Anacharsis"
is an indispensable desideratum to a son of the muses.
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Robert Forst |
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[Footnote A: It is
unfortunate
that in this, as in many other similar
occasions in these delightful volumes by the poet's nephew, the
reticence as to names--warrantable perhaps in 1851, so soon after the
poet's death--has now deprived the world of every means of knowing to
whom many of Wordsworth's letters were addressed.
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William Wordsworth |
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I had a vision and a gleam,
I heard a sound more sweet than these
When rippled by the wind:
Did you see the Dove with wings
Bathed in golden glisterings
From a sunless light behind,
Dropping
on me from the sky,
Soft as mother's kiss, until
I seemed to leap and yet was still?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Even now
Hippolyte
prepares to leave us too:
And I fear that if he appears, in that storm,
The fickle crowd will follow him in swarms.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Richly caparisoned, a ready row
Of armed horse, and many a warlike store,
Circled the wide-extending court below;
Above, strange groups adorned the corridor;
And
ofttimes
through the area's echoing door,
Some high-capped Tartar spurred his steed away;
The Turk, the Greek, the Albanian, and the Moor,
Here mingled in their many-hued array,
While the deep war-drum's sound announced the close of day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The perfidies I recollect
Should make me much more circumspect,
Reform me both in deed and word,
And this fifth canto ought to be
From such
digressions
wholly free.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching
their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Wilde - Poems |
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but the
Bridegroom
lingereth
For all thy sweet youth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Once I saw thee idly rocking
--Idly rocking--
And chattering girlishly to other girls,
Bell-voiced, happy,
Careless
with the stout heart of unscarred
womanhood,
And life to thee was all light melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Yeats in his "Celtic Twilight" treated of such, and I because in such a mood, feeling myself divided between my-
" woodland," eternal because simple in
elements
"Aetemus quia simplex naturae.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The stream, adown its hazelly path,
Was rushing by the ruin'd wa's,
Hasting to join the
sweeping
Nith,
Whase distant roaring swells and fa's.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I cannot hope to wed here
Such
happiness
and grace,
On the day when I see her
Weightlessness I taste.
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Troubador Verse |
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that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in
character
was done!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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þæt rǣd talað (_counts that a gain_), 2028; ēcne rǣd (_the eternal
gain,
everlasting
life_), 1202; acc.
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Beowulf |
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The night renews the day
distracting
theme,
And airy terrors sable every dream.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He hath conquered, he cometh to free us
With
garlands
new-won,
More high than the crowns of Alpheus,
Thine own father's son:
Cry, cry, for the day that is won!
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Euripides - Electra |
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7 They journey on from
strength
to strength
With joy and gladsom cheer
Till all before our God at length
In Sion do appear.
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Milton |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Tennyson |
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"There is
Thingumbob
shouting!
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Lewis Carroll |
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As to the nerveless hand of some old warrior The sword-hilt or the war-worn wonted helmet
Brings
momentary
life and long-fled cunning, So to my soul grown old
Grown old with many a jousting, many a foray, Grown old with many a hither-coming and hence-
going
Till now they send him dreams and no more deed ; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle, Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him; So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
But that old Sage looked calmly up, and with his awful book,
At those two Bachelors' bald heads a certain aim he took;
And over Crag and
precipice
they rolled promiscuous down,--
At once they rolled, and never stopped in lane or field or town;
And when they reached their house, they found (besides their want
of Stuffin'),
The Mouse had fled--and, previously, had eaten up the Muffin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Wid that we wint aff to the widdy's, next door, and ye may well say it
was an
illigant
place; so it was.
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Poe - 5 |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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