Quare hinc, o pueri, malas
abstinete
rapinas.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
Some abject louse asking leave to be, cringing for it,
Some milk-nosed maggot
blessing
what lets it wrig to its hole.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
Triumphs
of Augustus in the East_
SED tempus lustrare aliis Helicona choreis,
et campum Haemonio iam dare tempus equo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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False art is not
expressive, but mimetic, not from
experience
but from observation, and
is the mother of all evil, persuading us to save our bodies alive at no
matter what cost of rapine and fraud.
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Yeats |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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_ The
Macmillan
Company, New York; and
Macmillan & Co.
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Imagists |
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With clank of scabbards and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred
Pennsylvanians
close
On twice ten thousand gallant foes.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_
THOUGH NOT SECURE AGAINST THE WILES OF LOVE, HE FEELS
STRENGTH
ENOUGH TO
RESIST THEM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our master made
That order, that the
stranger
must not know.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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'
'Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,'
The shade replied,--
'If you seek for
Eldorado!
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Poe - 5 |
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INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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blake-poems |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so fragrant with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of imaginative wizardry of exultation,
even when the
immediate
subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow darkness
stealing
on my sight.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Now there were some
Who
gathered
great heaps--
Having opportunity and skill--
Until, behold, only chance blossoms
Remained for the feeble.
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Stephen Crane |
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At twenty-four, in a
disinterested
description of himself for the benefit
of a friend whom he had not yet met, he declares, "the walk of the whole
man indicates _indolence capable of energies_.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Regarded
as god of light, 157,
1 ff.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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Imagists |
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]
XXIV
But such is not my project now,
So let us to the ball-room haste,
Whither at headlong speed doth go
Eugene in hackney
carriage
placed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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that dwellest where,
In the deep sky,
The
terrible
and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Poe - 5 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Charming
literary
person!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But the usurper either did not hear or
pretended
not to
hear this ill-judged remark.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The
slippery
asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sara Teasdale |
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wherefore
all this wormy circumstance?
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Keats |
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' We have
accounts
of his sitting
up writing nearly the whole of the night, and his cousin was almost
afraid to share a room with him 'for to be sure he was a spirit and
never slept.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Thee, too, Ismarus, proud nations saw aiming
wounds and arming thy shafts with poison,--thee, of house
illustrious
in
Maeonia, where the rich tilth is wrought by men's hands, and Pactolus
waters it with gold.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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XXXV _AD CECILIVM IVBET
LIBELLVM_
(_-LO_ GRVenD) _LOQVI_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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active links or
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access to the full terms of the Project
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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blake-poems |
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Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst,
And
champion
me to th' vtterance.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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* The Duke of York was thought to have an
intrigue
with
Sir John Denham^s lady.
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Marvell - Poems |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://www.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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This power of
rapidly dramatizing a dry fact into flesh and blood and the vivid
conception of Joe as a human
thermometer
strike me as showing a poetic
sense that may be refined into faculty.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Beyond the city, gardens hidden from view
Sent odors of sweet
blossoms
on the breeze
And singing sounded through the far off trees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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[J]
No notion have they--not a thought,
That is from joyless regions
brought!
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William Wordsworth |
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And send us prying into the abyss,
To gather what we shall be when the frame
Shall be
resolved
to something less than this
Its wretched essence; and to dream of fame,
And wipe the dust from off the idle name
We never more shall hear,--but never more,
Oh, happier thought!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The thought that Marya Ivanofna
had not been able to get away
terrified
me to death.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Opens the
Mandamus
and hands it to BELLINGHAM; and, while he is
reading, ENDICOTT walks up and down the room.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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My glance at length fell into
a nook of the frame--work of the bridge, and upon the figure of a little
lame old
gentleman
of venerable aspect.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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A noi venia la creatura bella,
biancovestito e ne la faccia quale
par
tremolando
mattutina stella.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lancelot
mounted the steps to the
king's dragon-carved chair, the trumpets blew and the jousts began.
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Tennyson |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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DAYA: A young knight Templar lately captive ta'en,
But
pardoned
by the sultan.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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If thou,
composed
of gentle mould,
Art so unkind to me;
What dismal stories will be told
Of those that cruel be!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
V
Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton
trees bow down in a stream of air.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I want thy steed,"
(Cried Roland) and advanced with
wrathful
cheer.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not far remote my
Ithacans
I saw
Fires kindling on the coast; but me with toil
Worn, and with watching, gentle sleep subdued;
For constant I had ruled the helm, nor giv'n
That charge to any, fearful of delay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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_Song_
Mary, leave thy lowly cot
When thy thickest jobs are done;
When thy friends will miss thee not,
Mary, to the
pastures
run.
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John Clare |
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The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
Who slew to-day a riotous gentleman
Lately
attendant
on the Duke of Norfolk.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
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agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this
quatrain
from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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He next
followed his father's business of
carpenter
and builder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those
of the earth,
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
theory of the earth,
No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
rectitude
of
the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
There were those who thought of their own firesides, who regretted their
sullen,
faithless
wives, and their noisy progeny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Ah," said he, "it was but a short time Andrej
Petrovitch
was your age,
and now he has got a fine fellow of a son.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and
given away - you may do practically _anything_ with public domain
eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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5
This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor,
all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what
was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response
likewise ungovernable,
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all
diffused, mine too diffused,
Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling
and deliciously aching,
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of
love, white-blow and delirious nice,
Bridegroom
night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In either case
the origin of true government as of true
religion
was love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
5
Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating
undirected
materials,
America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Bright with the stars comes the evening, ringing with songs that are tender,
And the glow of the moon,
brighter
than northern sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Page 54
324
Atte
seuentene
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I am your native land who bred
No driven heart, no driven head;
I fly a flag in every sea
Round the old Earth, of
Liberty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Holy Land a mountain-summit showed,
At finishing their rough and salvage way;
Where HEAVENLY LOVE a willing
offering
stood,
And washed away our errors with his blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
5
I who am not great enough to
Love thee with this mortal body
So
impassionate
with ardour,
But oh, not too small to worship
While the sun shall shine,-- 10
I would build a fragrant temple
To thee, in the dark green forest,
Of red cedar and fine sandal,
And there love thee with sweet service
All my whole life long.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The little that we see
From doubt is never free;
The little that we do
Is but half-nobly true;
With our laborious hiving
What men call treasure, and the gods call dross,
Life seems a fest of Fate's contriving, 80
Only secure in every one's conniving,
A long account of nothings paid with loss,
Where we poor puppets, jerked by unseen wires,
After our little hour of strut and rave,
With all our pasteboard passions and desires,
Loves, hates, ambitions, and immortal fires,
Are tossed pell-mell
together
in the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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_), 1335; mid þǣre sorge þē him sīo sār belamp (_with
the sorrow
wherewith
the pain had visited him_), 2469; pl.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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c1207)
Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll, travelling the sea,
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Guillem de Cabestan (1162-1212)
Aissi cum selh que baissa?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Returning care
Had roused th'
industrious
hag, with footstep bare,
And loins ungirt, the sleeping fire to light;
And lovers thrill'd that season of despight,
Which wont renew their tears, and wake despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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--Of hearts who have been stabbed
By knowledge that their mates were in the earth,
Yet never could come near enough to be healed;
Of those who have gone longing all a life,
Because a voice heard singing or a gesture
Seen from afar gospell'd them of love;
And no more than the mere
announcement
had.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
--
Maugre the fact that in same place and spot
Another's mind is
meditating
things
All far unlike.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
And when thou to a rose shalt come
That hath begun to show her bloom,
Say, I send her
greeting!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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At this time he was
meditating
to recross the
Alps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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These shall conduct me forth, for well I know
That evil threatens you, such, too, as none
Shall 'scape of all the suitors, whose delight
Is to insult the unoffending guest
Received
beneath this hospitable roof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Permit me; is it worth the trouble
For your
instruction
here to tell
What I by relatives conceive?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And love gave me great knowledge of the trees,
And singing birds, and earth with all her flowers;
Wisdom I knew and
righteousness
in these,
I lived in their atonement all my hours;
Love taught me how to beauty's eye alone
The secret of the lying heart is known.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I muse my Lord of
Gloucester
is not come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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LVI
"Nor stands it with our haste, which all delay,
All let forbids, that you beside that tower
Be forced to stop and mingle in the fray:
For grant that you be conquerors in the stower,
(And as your presence warrants well, you may,)
'Tis not a thing
concluded
in an hour.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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LIFE'S ALCHEMY By Abigail Fithian Halsey
For love that came with laughter And left us all in tears,
The sting that followed after
And haunted all our years
With love's
remembered
laughter And unforgotten tears;
For life that came with singing And changed with time to pain, Till years the meaning bringing
Had turned our loss to gain And given back the singing Made sweeter by the pain;
For all that love has taken, For all that life has left,
Say not, "We are forsaken," Nor cry, "We are bereft.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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When with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold
I breathe the burning odours of your breast,
Before my eyes the hills of happy rest
Bathed in the sun's
monotonous
fires, unfold.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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and then
We'll riot, man; for then, at last
"`We'll make with heaven a
contract
fair
To call, each hour, from town to town,
And carry the dead folks' souls up there,
And bring the unborn babies down!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There's reason, too,
Why clouds make sounds, as through them blow the winds:
We see, borne down the sky, oft shapes of clouds
Rough-edged or
branched
many forky ways;
And 'tis the same, as when the sudden flaws
Of north-west wind through the dense forest blow,
Making the leaves to sough and limbs to crash.
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Lucretius |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Heracles, who rose to tragic rank from a very homely cycle of myth, was
apt to bring other homely
characters
with him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"I am
suffering
terribly with colic," I told him, "and
am going to the closet.
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Aristophanes |
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The poet himself is never cynical; his
joyousness is all too
apparent
in the very manner and intensity of
expression.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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