How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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Yet was displayed amid the mournful gloom
Some copper vessels, and some
crockery
ware.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
inhabitants
came out of their
houses, offering bread and salt.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the
reddened
light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And thus his will and hardy wisdom won;
And forward thus he fared afar, beyond
The flaming
ramparts
of the world, until
He wandered the unmeasurable All.
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Lucretius |
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How
beautiful
thou art!
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Keats |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'196 the Turk':
it was
formerly
the practice for a Turkish monarch when succeeding to
the throne to have all his brothers murdered so as to do away with
possible rivals.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dear Lord, the bad are
miserable
all,
Be not Thou deaf, like them, unto my prayer,
It is for them I call.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[Note 37: It is thus that I am
compelled
to render a female
garment not known, so far as I am aware, to Western Europe.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This school has been widely discussed by those
interested
in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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You may use this eBook
for nearly any purpose such as
creation
of derivative works, reports,
performances and research.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal
belief that the pupils of the Imam
Mowaffak
will attain to fortune.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The pad of his strong feet, that ceaseless sound
Of supple tread behind the iron bands,
Is like a dance of
strength
circling around,
While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your
sickness
is your soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Say,
Have I in Argos any still to trust;
Or is the love, once borne me, trod in dust,
Even as my
fortunes
are?
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Euripides - Electra |
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My story has a moral:
I have a missing friend, --
Pleiad its name, and robin,
And guinea in the sand, --
And when this mournful ditty,
Accompanied
with tear,
Shall meet the eye of traitor
In country far from here,
Grant that repentance solemn
May seize upon his mind,
And he no consolation
Beneath the sun may find.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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II
Hear him but speak, and you will feel
The shadows of the Portico 50
Over your tranquil spirit steal,
To modulate all joy and woe
To one subdued, subduing glow;
Above our squabbling business-hours,
Like Phidian Jove's, his beauty lowers,
His nature satirizes ours;
A form and front of Attic grace,
He shames the
higgling
market-place,
And dwarfs our more mechanic powers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In some respects, indeed, the line which separated an
Icilius or a Duilius from a Posthumius or a Fabius was even more
deeply marked than that which separated the rower of gondola from
a
Contarini
or a Morosini.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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195 BCE) established the Han, his advisor Shusun Tong recommended that Confucian
scholars
of Lu be summoned to make Liu Bang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Festivals no longer
celebrate
Ceres, the nourishing goddess
Who replaced acorns of old, giving man golden wheat.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sweet are the
blooming
cheeks of the living--sweet are the musical
voices sounding,
But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead with their silent eyes.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--
In that, said Nuto, only persevere,
And then perhaps the confessor thou'lt find,
With their
factotum
carelessly inclined;
No fears nor dark suspicions of a mute:
Thou'lt ev'ry way, my friend, their wishes suit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
One morning thus, by
Esthwaite
lake,
When life was sweet I knew not why,
To me my good friend Matthew spake,
And thus I made reply.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Now comm the warrynge Sarasyns to fyghte;
Kynge Rycharde, lyche a lyoncel[56] of warre,
Inne
sheenynge
goulde, lyke feerie[57] gronfers[58], dyghte[59],
Shaketh alofe hys honde, and seene afarre.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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What blow has
snatched
him?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were withering and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I
journeyed
down here!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood
To
Syracusan
strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Farewell
then, lang hale then,
An' plenty be your fa;
May losses and crosses
Ne'er at your hallan ca'!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And I made great
provision
for my journey.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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stateliest
of our maids!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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s sound speeds its morning marker, colors of spring in the ninefold palace make
immortal
peaches drunk.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It soothes my accusations sour
'Gainst thoughts that fray the restless soul:
The stain of death; the pain of power;
The lack of love 'twixt part and whole;
The yea-nay of Freewill and Fate,
Whereof both cannot be, yet are;
The praise a poet wins too late
Who starves from earth into a star;
The lies that serve great parties well,
While truths but give their Christ a cross;
The loves that send warm souls to hell,
While cold-blood neuters take no loss;
Th'
indifferent
smile that nature's grace
On Jesus, Judas, pours alike;
Th' indifferent frown on nature's face
When luminous lightnings strangely strike
The sailor praying on his knees
And spare his mate that's cursing God;
How babes and widows starve and freeze,
Yet Nature will not stir a clod;
Why Nature blinds us in each act
Yet makes no law in mercy bend,
No pitfall from our feet retract,
No storm cry out `Take shelter, friend;'
Why snakes that crawl the earth should ply
Rattles, that whoso hears may shun,
While serpent lightnings in the sky,
But rattle when the deed is done;
How truth can e'er be good for them
That have not eyes to bear its strength,
And yet how stern our lights condemn
Delays that lend the darkness length;
To know all things, save knowingness;
To grasp, yet loosen, feeling's rein;
To waste no manhood on success;
To look with pleasure upon pain;
Though teased by small mixt social claims,
To lose no large simplicity,
And midst of clear-seen crimes and shames
To move with manly purity;
To hold, with keen, yet loving eyes,
Art's realm from Cleverness apart,
To know the Clever good and wise,
Yet haunt the lonesome heights of Art;
O Psalmist of the weak, the strong,
O Troubadour of love and strife,
Co-Litanist of right and wrong,
Sole Hymner of the whole of life,
I know not how, I care not why,
Thy music brings this broil at ease,
And melts my passion's mortal cry
In satisfying symphonies.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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CANTO XXIV
IN the year's early nonage, when the sun
Tempers his tresses in Aquarius' urn,
And now towards equal day the nights recede,
When as the rime upon the earth puts on
Her dazzling sister's image, but not long
Her milder sway endures, then riseth up
The village hind, whom fails his wintry store,
And looking out beholds the plain around
All whiten'd, whence impatiently he smites
His thighs, and to his hut returning in,
There paces to and fro, wailing his lot,
As a discomfited and
helpless
man;
Then comes he forth again, and feels new hope
Spring in his bosom, finding e'en thus soon
The world hath chang'd its count'nance, grasps his crook,
And forth to pasture drives his little flock:
So me my guide dishearten'd when I saw
His troubled forehead, and so speedily
That ill was cur'd; for at the fallen bridge
Arriving, towards me with a look as sweet,
He turn'd him back, as that I first beheld
At the steep mountain's foot.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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some statue you would swear, }
Stepped from its
pedestal
to take the air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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As little
children
resting,
No more the battle breasting to the rumble of the drums,
Enlinked by duty's tether, the blue and gray together,
They wait the great hereafter when the last assembly comes.
| 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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Translated
from the Swedish by
STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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At least I count it a great gain that He
Kaiser nor
chancellor
has made of me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
LVIII
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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]
[Footnote B: There is
something
characteristic in Wordsworth's
addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In a house was one who arose from the feast
And went forth to wander in distant lands,
Because there was
somewhere
far off in the East
A spot which he sought where a great Church stands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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)
Note
Not meaningless flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans
Whistler
there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Throwe the merke[56] shade of twistynde trees hee rydes; 55
The flemed[57] owlett[58] flapps herr eve-speckte[59] wynge;
The lordynge[60] toade ynn all hys passes bides;
The berten[61] neders[62] att hymm darte the stynge;
Styll, stylle, hee passes onn, hys stede astrodde,
Nee hedes the
daungerous
waie gyff leadynge untoe bloodde.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There lay the glade and neighbouring lawn,
And through the dark green wood
The white sun
twinkling
like the dawn
Out of a speckled cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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But as,
although
a squint lefthandednesse 5
Be'ungracious, yet we cannot want that hand,
So would I, not to encrease, but to expresse
My faith, as I beleeve, so understand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Ah, hope of bliss too high--the
princely
dames
Refus'd, dread rage the father's breast inflames;
He, with an old man's wintry eye, surveys
The youth's fond love, and coldly with it weighs
The people's murmurs of his son's delay
To bless the nation with his nuptial day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Then Socrates and
Xenophon
were seen;
With them a bard of more than earthly mien,
Whom every muse of Jove's immortal choir
Bless'd with a portion of celestial fire:
From ancient Argos to the Phrygian bound
His never-dying strains were borne around
On inspiration's wing, and hill and dale
Echoed the notes of Ilion's mournful tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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15
" musical
entertainments
(drum and fife six months).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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James Russell Lowell |
|
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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For when saw he that well-nigh everything
Which needs of man most urgently require
Was ready to hand for mortals, and that life,
As far as might be, was established safe,
That men were lords in riches, honour, praise,
And eminent in goodly fame of sons,
And that they yet, O yet, within the home,
Still had the anxious heart which vexed life
Unpausingly with
torments
of the mind,
And raved perforce with angry plaints, then he,
Then he, the master, did perceive that 'twas
The vessel itself which worked the bane, and all,
However wholesome, which from here or there
Was gathered into it, was by that bane
Spoilt from within,--in part, because he saw
The vessel so cracked and leaky that nowise
'T could ever be filled to brim; in part because
He marked how it polluted with foul taste
Whate'er it got within itself.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Hast thou no vers, no hymn, or solemn strein,
To welcom him to this his new abode,
Now while the Heav'n by the Suns team untrod,
Hath took no print of the
approching
light, 20
And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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C'est que la voix des mers, comme un immense rale,
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau
cavalier
pale,
Un pauvre fou s'assit, muet, a tes genoux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou
awakened
the sleeper?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
net
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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nulla tamen subeunt mihi tempora densius illis,
quae uellem uitae summa fuisse meae,
cum domus ingenti subito mea lapsa ruina
concidit
in domini procubuitque caput.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To my revenge and to her
desperate
fears
Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Haste into sight then
Blancandrins
and Guene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
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Meredith - Poems |
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At the banquet would be
assembled
a crowd of warriors
and statesmen, among whom Manius Curius Dentatus would take the
highest room.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The themes of
_Traumgekront_ are extended somewhat beyond the immediate environment
of Prague and some of the most beautiful poems are
luminous
pictures of
villages hidden in the snowy blossoming of May and June, out of which
rises here and there the solitary soft voice of a boy or girl singing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Nor lives in Greece a
stranger
to his name.
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Iliad - Pope |
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THE ENTERTAINMENT; OR, PORCH-VERSE, AT THE
MARRIAGE
OF MR.
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XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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That the extent of a poetical work is,
_ceteris
paribus, _the measure
of its merit, seems undoubtedly, when we thus state it, a proposition
sufficiently absurd--yet we are indebted for it to the Quarterly
Reviews.
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travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
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Blake - Zoas |
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After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
Vaunted Ionia's, India's--Homer, Shakspere--the long, long times'
thick dotted roads, areas,
The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars--Nature's pulses reap'd,
All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,
All ages'
plummets
dropt to their utmost depths,
All human lives, throats, wishes, brains--all experiences' utterance;
After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,
Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print--something lacking,
(Who knows?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In thy girlhood
Already a woe-stricken widow, ever
Bewailing thy dead
bridegroom!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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When I enjoyed
a position in society, rather higher than yours, I should have done
exactly the same thing, Good
Heavens!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ever the words of the gods resound;
But the porches of man's ear
Seldom in this low life's round
Are
unsealed
that he may hear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sir, They had giu'n him potions,
That did enamour him on the
counterfeit
_Lady_--
EVE.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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HE EXCUSES HIMSELF FOR
VISITING
LAURA TOO OFTEN, AND LOVING HER TOO
MUCH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Deduit fu biaus et lons et drois,
James en terre ne venrois
Ou vous truissies nul plus bel homme:
La face avoit cum une pomme,
Vermoille
et blanche tout entour,
Cointes fu et de bel atour.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Half his anoy he shal have ay,
And comfort [him] what that he may;
And of his blisse parte shal he,
If love wol
departed
be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But *who
considers
right, will find indeed,
'Tis Holy Island parts us, not the Tweed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Robert Herrick |
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--Une vieille servante, alors, en a pris soin:
Les petits sont tout seuls en la maison glacee;
Orphelins de quatre ans, voila qu'en leur pensee
S'eveille, par degres, un
souvenir
riant.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I have a right to share in sorrow, and he who can look at the loveliness
of the world and share its sorrow, and realise
something
of the wonder of
both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to
God's secret as any one can get.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Her heart had still an answer for her lord
Murdered, but if the child's blood spoke, what word
Could meet the hate
thereof?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Prague and the surrounding country are the ever
recurring
theme of
almost every one of these poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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We'd have our change of hope and fear,
Small quarrels,
reconcilements
sweet:
I'd perch by you to chirp and cheer,
Or hop about on active feet,
And fetch you dainty bits to eat.
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Christina Rossetti |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Meantime
a glorious revelry began
Before the Water-Monarch.
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Keats |
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In history he took no pleasure,
The dusty chronicles of earth
For him were but of little worth,
Yet still of
anecdotes
a treasure
Within his memory there lay,
From Romulus unto our day.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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She would not, for no words of ours, unveil,
And
something
held us back from handling her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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