Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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I mean this
with respect to a certain passion _dont j'ai eu l'honneur d'etre un
miserable esclave_: as for friendship, you and Charlotte have given me
pleasure,
permanent
pleasure, "which the world cannot give, nor take
away," I hope; and which will outlast the heavens and the earth.
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Cæterum
nitor, et summa in excolendis operibus manus,
magis videri potest temporibus, quam ipsis defuisse.
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His
suspicions
of the evening before were quite gone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway,
Or did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe,
And vantage; or that with both he labour'd
In his
Countreyes
wracke, I know not:
But Treasons Capitall, confess'd, and prou'd,
Haue ouerthrowne him
Macb.
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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No pain now was mine, but a wish that I spoke,--
A mastering wish to serve this man
Who had
ventured
through hell my doom to revoke,
As only the truest of comrades can.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We feel the great
elemental
nature of the Titans in
these powerful similes.
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Ic
gefremman
sceal
"eorlīc ellen, oððe ende-dæg
"on þisse meodu-healle mīnne gebīdan.
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Beowulf |
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ou
merciable
to widewe; & to faderles childe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
Gives them the keys of Sarraguce her gates;
Both
messengers
their leave of him do take,
Upon that word bow down, and turn away.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Say, virgins, seated round the throne divine,
All-knowing
goddesses!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How shall his rashness stand the dire alarms,
If heaven's
omnipotence
descend in arms?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Keats |
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It cannot be by an entire
accident
that these poems thus recur in
manuscripts which have so far as we can see no common origin.
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John Donne |
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Return
forgetful
Muse, and straight redeem,
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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' He was High
Commissioner
to the Parliament held at
Edinburgh in 1624, where he secured the passing of the Five Articles
of Perth.
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John Donne |
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The very tint
Of her that I was
speaking
of but now.
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Yeats |
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The balance of
private good and general welfare is at the bottom of
civilized
morals;
but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on
nothing else.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He
believes!
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Yeats |
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e
belleward
him wend.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It is no mere
appreciation
of the
Beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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additional terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Here lilac, with a branch of pine,
Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pulled off a live-oak in Florida,
as it hung trailing down,
Here some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me--and returns again, never to
separate
from me,
And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades--this Calamus-
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Interchange it, youths, with each other!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Whoso walks in solitude
And
inhabiteth
the wood,
Choosing light, wave, rock and bird,
Before the money-loving herd,
Into that forester shall pass,
From these companions, power and grace.
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Emerson - Poems |
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2 White hair, a
thousand
stalks of snow.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'
'How may a mortal whose life gutters out
Help them that wander with hand
clasping
hand,
Their haughty images that cannot wither
For all their beauty's like a hollow dream,
Mirrored in streams that neither hail nor rain
Nor the cold North has troubled?
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Yeats |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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She is contemporary with the other persons, but I have no strict warrant for dragging her name into this
particular
affair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
XLIV
He in this time a mighty lance had spanned,
And spurred at once against Sir Berlinghier,
Who Argaliffa guided with his hand,
And broke his helmet's frontal with the spear,
Cast him on earth, and with the cruel brand
Unhorsed perhaps eight other
warriors
near.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Their speed is
extreme; but their habits of life are domestic and superfluous, and their
general
demeanor
pensive and pellucid.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This grasp of the
deeper significance of all art gives to the book on Rodin its well-nigh
religious aspect of thought and its
hymnlike
rhythm of expression.
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Rilke - Poems |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of
priceless
dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array
the flagons and
engarland
the wine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Blessed be she who shaped mine erring course
To better port, by turns who curb'd and lured
My bold and
passionate
will where safety was secured.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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II
SIX weeks our
guardsman
walked the yard,
In the suit of shabby grey:
His cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay,
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Praised be thy counsel, and thy timely aid;
Else had I seen my native walls in vain,
Like great Atrides, just
restored
and slain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It ceased, and from the mute and moveless frame
A radiant spirit arose,
All
beautiful
in naked purity.
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Shelley |
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds unassailed its argent armoury
From all the
gathering
gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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Wilde - Poems |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Bist du, Geselle
Ein
Fluchtling
der Holle?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LXXX
He marks mighty pool of
porridge
spilled,
And asks what in that symbol should be read,
And hears 'twas charity, by sick men willed
For distribution, after they were dead.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In the
same manner the
Christian
Gnostics, of the sect of Valentinus, held
their ?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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ORESTES
I know thy
yearning
for Orestes deep.
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Aeschylus |
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The Spirit in us
Hath, like
imagination
in a prison,
Kindled itself free of all boundary,
So that it hath no room but its own joy,
Ample as at the first, before it fell
Into this burthenous habit of a world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And if its power a
thousand
thousand years
Endure in your descendants, let them then
Before a wiser judge than I appear,
And he'll decide the cause.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I would not proud persume -- but I'll boldly make reques';
Sence Jacob had dat wrastlin'-match, I, too, gwine do my bes';
When Jacob got all underholt, de Lord he
answered
Yes!
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Sidney Lanier |
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O irresistible, with fleshless face,
Say to these dancers in their dazzled race:
"Proud lovers with the paint above your bones,
Ye shall taste death, musk-scented
skeletons!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And when I use such a phrase as that, I need not
say that I am not
alluding
to any external sanction or command.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ah, if I seek to
approach
what doth so haunt me,
If from this spot I dare to stir,
Dimly as through a mist I gaze on her!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Three armies have grown gray and old,
Fighting ten
thousand
leagues away from home.
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Li Po |
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And
swaddled
in's own papers sewn times,
Wears a close jacket of poetic buff.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Laurentine columns rush forth against them; again
from the other side Trojans and
Agyllines
and Arcadians in painted
armour flood thickly in: so hath one passion seized all to make decision
by the sword.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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(_circa_ 1120) says: "Wang An-shih,
in
enumerating
China's four greatest poets, put Li Po fourth on the
list.
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Li Po |
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The reticent volcano keeps
His never
slumbering
plan;
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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--Affliction teacheth a wicked person some time
to pray:
prosperity
never.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But
they rose when human life was respected by the
Minister
in power; such
was not the case during the Administration which excited Shelley's
abhorrence.
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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What
freezings
have I felt, what dark days seen!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then, too, we see, that, just as body takes
Monstrous diseases and the dreadful pain,
So mind its bitter cares, the grief, the fear;
Wherefore
it tallies that the mind no less
Partaker is of death; for pain and disease
Are both artificers of death,--as well
We've learned by the passing of many a man ere now.
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Lucretius |
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Hail, brother August, flushed and warm
And
scatheless
from my storm.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sovra tutto 'l sabbion, d'un cader lento,
piovean di foco
dilatate
falde,
come di neve in alpe sanza vento.
| Guess: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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aldorþegn
þone
dēorestan, 1310.
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Beowulf |
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So must be fulfilled the rite
That giveth me the dead year's might;
And at dawn I shall arise
A spirit, though with human eyes,
A human form and human face;
And where'er I go or stay,
There the summer's
perished
grace
Shall be with me, night and day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lyde mine, be bold,
Broach the
treasured
Caecuban,
And batter Wisdom in her own stronghold.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Banquets
and game tables, operas, balls, promenades down the Corso?
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with
filthiest
kiss.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Se la gente ch'al mondo piu traligna
non fosse stata a Cesare noverca,
ma come madre a suo figlio benigna,
tal fatto e fiorentino e cambia e merca,
che si sarebbe volto a Simifonti,
la dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
sariesi
Montemurlo
ancor de' Conti;
sarieno i Cerchi nel piovier d'Acone,
e forse in Valdigrieve i Buondelmonti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He
spent his days under the oak-shades of Windsor Great Park; and the
magnificent
woodland
was a fitting study to inspire the various
descriptions of forest scenery we find in the poem.
| Guess: |
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Shelley |
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II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost
labyrinthine
hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Verum id non inpune feres: nam te omnia saecla
Noscent, et qui sis fama
loquetur
anus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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AUTOMNE MALADE
Automne malade et adore
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neige
Dans les vergers
Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits murs
Au fond du ciel
Des eperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aime
Aux lisieres lointaines
Les cerfs ont brame
Et que j'aime o saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la foret qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille a feuille
Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'ecoule
HOTELS
La chambre est veuve
Chacun pour soi
Presence neuve
On paye au mois
Le patron doute
Payera-t-on
Je tourne en route
Comme un toton
Le bruit des fiacres
Mon voisin laid
Qui fume un acre
Tabac anglais
O La Valliere
Qui boite et rit
De mes prieres
Table de nuit
Et tous ensemble
Dans cet hotel
Savons la langue
Comme a Babel
Fermons nos Portes
A double tour
Chacun apporte
Son seul amour
CORS DE CHASSE
Notre histoire est noble et tragique
Comme le masque d'un tyran
Nul drame
hasardeux
ou magique
Aucun detail indifferent
Ne rend notre amour pathetique
Et Thomas de Quincey buvant
L'opium poison doux et chaste
A sa pauvre Anne allait revant
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
VENDEMIAIRE
Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais a l'epoque ou finissaient les rois
Tour a tour ils mouraient silencieux et tristes
Et trois fois courageux devenaient trismegistes
Que Paris etait beau a la fin de septembre
Chaque nuit devenait une vigne ou les pampres
Repandaient leur clarte sur la ville et la-haut
Astres murs becquetes par les ivres oiseaux
De ma gloire attendaient la vendange de l'aube
Un soir passant le long des quais deserts et sombres
En rentrant a Auteuil j'entendis une voix
Qui chantait gravement se taisant quelquefois
Pour que parvint aussi sur les bords de la Seine
La plainte d'autres voix limpides et lointaines
Et j'ecoutai longtemps tous ces chants et ces cris
Qu'eveillait dans la nuit la chanson de Paris
J'ai soif villes de France et d'Europe et du monde
Venez toutes couler dans ma gorge profonde
Je vis alors que deja ivre dans la vigne Paris
Vendangeait le raisin le plus doux de la terre
Ces grains miraculeux qui aux treilles chanterent
Et Rennes repondit avec Quimper et Vannes
Nous voici o Paris Nos maisons nos habitants
Ces grappes de nos sens qu'enfanta le soleil
Se sacrifient pour te desalterer trop avide merveille
Nous t'apportons tous les cerveaux les cimetieres les murailles
Ces berceaux pleins de cris que tu n'entendras pas
Et d'amont en aval nos pensees o rivieres
Les oreilles des ecoles et nos mains rapprochees
Aux doigts allonges nos mains les clochers
Et nous t'apportons aussi cette souple raison
Que le mystere clot comme une porte la maison
Ce mystere courtois de la galanterie
Ce mystere fatal fatal d'une autre vie
Double raison qui est au-dela de la beaute
Et que la Grece n'a pas connue ni l'Orient
Double raison de la Bretagne ou lame a lame
L'ocean chatre peu a peu l'ancien continent
Et les villes du Nord repondirent gaiement
O Paris nous voici boissons vivantes
Les viriles cites ou degoisent et chantent
Les metalliques saints de nos saintes usines
Nos cheminees a ciel ouvert engrossent les nuees
Comme fit autrefois l'Ixion mecanique
Et nos mains innombrables
Usines manufactures fabriques mains
Ou les ouvriers nus semblables a nos doigts
Fabriquent du reel a tant par heure
Nous te donnons tout cela
Et Lyon repondit tandis que les anges de Fourvieres
Tissaient un ciel nouveau avec la soie des prieres
Desaltere-toi Paris avec les divines paroles
Que mes levres le Rhone et la Saone murmurent
Toujours le meme culte de sa mort renaissant
Divise ici les saints et fait pleuvoir le sang
Heureuse pluie o gouttes tiedes o douleur
Un enfant regarde les fenetres s'ouvrir
Et des grappes de tetes a d'ivres oiseaux s'offrit
Les villes du Midi repondirent alors
Noble Paris seule raison qui vis encore
Qui fixes notre humeur selon ta destinee
Et toi qui te retires Mediterranee
Partagez-vous nos corps comme on rompt des hosties
Ces tres hautes amours et leur danse orpheline
Deviendront o Paris le vin pur que tu aimes
Et un rale infini qui venait de Sicile
Signifiait en battement d'ailes ces paroles
Les raisins de nos vignes on les a vendanges
Et ces grappes de morts dont les grains allonges
Ont la saveur du sang de la terre et du sel
Les voici pour ta soif o Paris sous le ciel
Obscurci de nuees fameliques
Que caresse Ixion le createur oblique
Et ou naissent sur la mer tous les corbeaux d'Afrique
O raisins Et ces yeux ternes et en famille
L'avenir et la vie dans ces treilles s'ennuyent
Mais ou est le regard lumineux des sirenes
Il trompa les marins qu'aimaient ces oiseaux-la
Il ne tournera plus sur l'ecueil de Scylla
Ou chantaient les trois voix suaves et sereines
Le detroit tout a coup avait change de face
Visages de la chair de l'onde de tout
Ce que l'on peut imaginer
Vous n'etes que des masques sur des faces masquees
Il souriait jeune nageur entre les rives
Et les noyes flottant sur son onde nouvelle
Fuyaient en le suivant les chanteuses plaintives
Elles dirent adieu au gouffre et a l'ecueil
A leurs pales epoux couches sur les terrasses
Puis ayant pris leur vol vers le brulant soleil
Les suivirent dans l'onde ou s'enfoncent les astres
Lorsque la nuit revint couverte d'yeux ouverts
Errer au site ou l'hydre a siffle cet hiver
Et j'entendis soudain ta voix imperieuse
O Rome
Maudire d'un seul coup mes anciennes pensees
Et le ciel ou l'amour guide les destinees
Les feuillards repousses sur l'arbre de la croix
Et meme la fleur de lys qui meurt au Vatican
Macerent dans le vin que je t'offre et qui a
La saveur du sang pur de celui qui connait
Une autre liberte vegetale dont tu
Ne sais pas que c'est elle la supreme vertu
Une couronne du triregne est tombee sur les dalles
Les hierarques la foulent sous leurs sandales
O splendeur democratique qui palit
Vienne le nuit royale ou l'on tuera les betes
La louve avec l'agneau l'aigle avec la colombe
Une foule de rois ennemis et cruels
Ayant soif comme toi dans la vigne eternelle
Sortiront de la terre et viendront dans les airs
Pour boire de mon vin par deux fois millenaire
La Moselle et le Rhin se joignent en silence
C'est l'Europe qui prie nuit et jour a Coblence
Et moi qui m'attardais sur le quai a Auteuil
Quand les heures tombaient parfois comme les feuilles
Du cep lorsqu'il est temps j'entendis la priere
Qui joignait la limpidite de ces rivieres
O Paris le vin de ton pays est meilleur que celui
Qui pousse sur nos bords mais aux pampres du nord
Tous les grains ont muri pour cette soif terrible
Mes grappes d'hommes forts saignent dans le pressoir
Tu boiras a longs traits tout le sang de l'Europe
Parce que tu es beau et que seul tu es noble
Parce que c'est dans toi que Dieu peut devenir
Et tous mes vignerons dans ces belles maisons
Qui refletent le soir leurs feux dans nos deux eaux
Dans ces belles maisons nettement blanches et noires
Sans savoir que tu es la realite chantent ta gloire
Mais nous liquides mains jointes pour la priere
Nous menons vers le sel les eaux aventurieres
Et la ville entre nous comme entre des ciseaux
Ne reflete en dormant nul feu dans ses deux eaux
Dont quelque sifflement lointain parfois s'elance
Troublant dans leur sommeil les filles de Coblence
Les villes repondaient maintenant par centaines
Je ne distinguais plus leurs paroles lointaines
Et Treves la ville ancienne
A leur voix melait la sienne
L'univers tout entier concentre dans ce vin
Qui contenait les mers les animaux les plantes
Les cites les destins et les astres qui chantent
Les hommes a genoux sur la rive du ciel
Et le docile fer notre bon compagnon
Le feu qu'il faut aimer comme on s'aime soi-meme
Tous les fiers trepasses qui sont un sous mon front
L'eclair qui luit ainsi qu'une pensee naissante
Tous les noms six par six les nombres un a un
Des kilos de papier tordus comme des flammes
Et ceux-la qui sauront blanchir nos ossements
Les bons vers immortels qui s'ennuient patiemment
Des armees rangees en bataille
Des forets de crucifix et mes demeures lacustres
Au bord des yeux de celle que j'aime tant
Les fleurs qui s'ecrient hors de bouches
Et tout ce que je ne sais pas dire
Tout ce que je ne connaitrai jamais
Tout cela tout cela change en ce vin pur
Dont Paris avait soif
Me fut alors presente
Actions belles journees sommeils terribles
Vegetation Accouplements musiques eternelles
Mouvements Adorations douleur divine
Mondes qui vous rassemblez et qui nous ressemblez
Je vous ai bus et ne fut pas desaltere
Mais je connus des lors quelle saveur a l'univers
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers
Sur le quai d'ou je voyais l'onde couler et dormir les belandres
Ecoutez-moi je suis le gosier de Paris
Et je boirai encore s'il me plait l'univers
Ecoutez mes chants d'universelle ivrognerie
Et la nuit de septembre s'achevait lentement
Les feux rouges des ponts s'eteignaient dans la Seine
Les etoiles mouraient le jour naissait a peine
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Lo, how dismay
Is fallen on the camp in a strange wind:
The ground, that seemed as spread with yellow embers,
Leaps into blazing, and like cinders whirled
And scattered up among the flames, are black
Bands of frantic men
flickering
about!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Laugh at the unshed leaf, say what you will,
Call me in all things what I was before,
A
flutterer
in the wind, a woman still;
I tell you I am what I was and more.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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60
Behind me did they stretch in solemn train,
Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched
Till all was
tranquil
as a summer sea.
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William Wordsworth |
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XIX
Vladimir, hourly more a slave
To
youthful
Olga's beauty bright,
Into delicious bondage gave
His ardent soul with full delight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ce
proclaime
thy wisdom with those woders,
Rarer then sommers snowes, or winters thunders.
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John Donne |
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THOU wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine--
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All
wreathed
with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
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Poe - 5 |
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erinne oure lord was ybore; in
Bethleem
iwis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were elected
Censors at a
momentous
crisis.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when
strewing
her glorious presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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