is, god of heuene:
To mychel ioye he tourne my
sweuene!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Yet the great herd, the multitude, that in all other things
are divided, in this alone
conspire
and agree--to love money.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Floats round about the anxious-quivering air
'Twixt narrow
Schuylkill
and broad Delaware.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Beaupre was
sleeping
on his bed the sleep of the just.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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There stands the
Inspector
at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.
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Lewis Carroll |
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all the clustering suns and planets;
All the
dazzling
days, all the mystic nights with dreams,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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XXXIII
A thousand times they their embrace renew,
And closely each is by the other prest;
While so delighted are those lovers two,
Their joys are ill
contained
within their breast.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thy thunder, conscious of the new command, 60
Rumbles reluctant o'er our fallen house;
And thy sharp lightning in unpractised hands
Scorches
and burns our once serene domain.
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Keats |
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Methinks thy brother haunts thee, being forlorn;
Aye, and
perchance
thy father, whom they slew.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er
weppenes
to welde, I wene wel als,
Bot for I wolde no were, my wede3 ar softer.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as
bustling
go, --
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[323] I shall send
more than six hundred
porphyrions
clothed in leopards' skins[324] up to
heaven against him; and formerly a single Porphyrion gave him enough to
do.
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Aristophanes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_"
[The "Auld man and the Widow," in Ramsay's
collection
is said, by
Gilbert Burns, to have suggested this song to his brother: it first
appeared in the Museum.
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Robert Burns |
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Sheridan hastened to the
front, rallied his men, and won a
complete
victory.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Imagists |
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And while he hears,
I speak this word for omen in his ears:
"Aegisthus dies,
Aegisthus
dies.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Whence also hoofed horses are kept
away from Trivia's temple and consecrated groves, because,
affrighted
at
the portents of the sea, they overset the chariot and flung him out upon
the shore.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Evidently
a picture painted on mist for the men
and animals that came to the falls to look at; but for what special
purpose beyond this, I know not.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The thought hath
poisoned
all my years.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Steady and long he struggles,
He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength
holds out,
The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away,
they roll him, swing him, turn him,
His beautiful body is borne in the
circling
eddies, it is
continually bruis'd on rocks,
Swiftly and ought of sight is borne the brave corpse.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
So even now, too,
Come and release me
From mordant love pain,
And all my heart's will 35
Help me
accomplish!
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Sappho |
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whose absolute command
Thus drives the
stranger
from our court and land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XII
As while at feed, in full security,
A troop of fowl along the marish wend,
If
suddenly
a falcon from the sky
Swoop mid the crowd, and one surprise and rend,
The rest dispersing, leave their mate to die,
And only to their own escape attend;
So scattering hadst thou seen the frighted throng,
When young Rogero pricked that crowd among.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Soon as the muddie natyon theie espie, 245
Inne one blacke cloude theie to the erth descende;
Feirce as the fallynge
thunderbolte
they flie;
In vayne do reedes the speckled folk defend:
So prone to heavie blowe the arrowes felle,
And peered thro brasse, and sente manie to heaven or helle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Their offspring bold
fares hither to seek the
steadfast
friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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On this decay the sun shone hot from heaven
As though with chemic heat to broil and burn,
And unto Nature all that she had given
A
hundredfold
return.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A Woman Waits for Me
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the
moisture
of the
right man were lacking.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Our
penitent
most humbly pardon sought;
Said he, if e'er to life again I'm brought,
No jealousy, suspicion's hateful bane,
Shall ever enter my distracted brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I know your face, for now 'twill do;
A distinguished lady is
visiting
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet she wrote verses in great
abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all
conventional rules, had yet a rigorous
literary
standard of her own,
and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own
tenacious fastidiousness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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By sloth debas'd, no more the ancient fire
Of patriot loyalty can now inspire;
And each pale lip seem'd opening to declare
For tame submission, and to shun the war;
When glorious Nunio, starting from his seat,
Claim'd every eye, and clos'd the cold debate:
Singling
his brothers from the dastard train,
His rolling looks, that flash'd with stern disdain,
On them he fix'd, then snatch'd his hilt in ire,
While his bold speech[286] bewray'd the soldier's fire,
Bold and unpolish'd; while his burning eyes
Seem'd as he dar'd the ocean, earth, and skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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_Scudding
along on black horses_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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iuuat, optime, tecum
degere cumque tuis
uirtutibus
omne per aeuum
carminibus certare meis: sublimior ibo,
si famae mihi pandis iter, si detrahis umbram.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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TAVERN ON THE LITHUANIAN FRONTIER
MISSAIL and VARLAAM,
wandering
friars; GREGORY in secular attire; HOSTESS
HOSTESS.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Parallel
to this, and fifteen miles further west, beyond the
deep and broad valley in which lie Groton, Shirley, Lancaster, and
Boylston, runs the Wachusett range, in the same general direction.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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let me die; 'twere
happiness
above
A longer life, if I must cease to love.
| Guess: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You know they still _140
Call themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,
And everything relating to a Bull
Is popular and
respectable
in Thebes.
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Shelley |
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" In a word, Baudelaire, into whose brain had entered too much
moonlight, was the father of a lunar school of poetry,
criticism
and
fiction.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Though our love pleads now in your favour,
My soul must equal yours in honour:
Though
offending
me, you prove worthy too;
I must, by your death, prove worthy yet of you.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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how oft shall he
Lament that faith can fail, that gods can change,
Viewing the rough black sea
With eyes to
tempests
strange,
Who now is basking in your golden smile,
And dreams of you still fancy-free, still kind,
Poor fool, nor knows the guile
Of the deceitful wind!
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
despairing
minor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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BEATRICE [NOT
NOTICING
THE WORDS OF CENCI]:
Dare no one look on me?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Why might he not o'erpass Croesus in
wealth, he who in one demesne
possesses
so much?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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AH SUNFLOWER
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my
Sunflower
wishes to go!
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blake-poems |
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that Father held it for a rule, 380
It was a sin to call our neighbour fool:
That
harmless
Mother thought no wife a whore:
Hear this, and spare his family, _James Moore!
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Alexander Pope |
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[58] It was customary in Athens for the
plaintiff
himself to fix the fine
to be paid by the defendant.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Recovery
came with food: but still, my brain
Was weak, nor of the past had memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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While he is writing a letter Osip interrupts him with earnest
assurances that it will be prudent to depart
speedily
from the town;
for people have been mistaking him for somebody else, and awkward
complications may ensue.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Losing a very large imperial army to a
scholar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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And there, as darkness gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who
prospers
music
Shall give me skill to play.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Gyas shoots
out in front of the noisy crowd, and glides foremost along the water;
whom
Cloanthus
follows next, rowing better, but held back by his
dragging weight of pine.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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holding Thee in sight,
I'll drain this cup of gall,
And scale with step
resolved
that dangerous height,
Which rather seems a fall.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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' So speaks she, and is silent,
while pallor
overruns
her face.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Every line is
an idea conveying either the beauty and playfulness of the fawn, or the
artlessness of the maiden, or her love, or her admiration, or her
grief, or the fragrance and warmth and _appropriateness _of the little
nest-like bed of lilies and roses which the fawn
devoured
as it lay upon
them, and could scarcely be distinguished from them by the once happy
little damsel who went to seek her pet with an arch and rosy smile on
her face.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's
Plutonian
shore!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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No one will
recognise
you if you use
The side-door by the corner.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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That
Emperour
has bid them sound trumpets;
And the olifant sounds over all its knell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Merrily carol the
revelling
gales
Over the islands free:
From the green seabanks the rose downtrails
To the happy brimmed sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous mendiants morts saouls de biere
Vous les
aveugles
comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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1069-1160,
containing
the Finn episode, cf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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_The Scene is laid in the
mountains
of Argos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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An almes, sir
prieste!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Must you needs be so cruel, you
beautiful
Broom,
Because you are covered with paint?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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a glorious time,
A happy time that was;
triumphant
looks 755
Were then the common language of all eyes;
As if awaked from sleep, the Nations hailed
Their great expectancy: the fife of war
Was then a spirit-stirring sound indeed,
A black-bird's whistle in a budding grove.
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William Wordsworth |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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BLUE WATER
Sea-violins are playing on the sands;
Curved bows of blue and white are flying over the pebbles,
See them attack the chords--dark basses,
glinting
trebles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
What man could doubt but Troy's
victorious
power
Should humble Greece, and this her fatal hour?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour--well,
I often wonder what the
Vintners
buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To the throne's lawful successor
Allegiance
thou hast sworn; but what if one
More lawful still be living?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Contact the
Foundation
as set
forth in Section 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
For me
nevermore
the bliss,
The thrill of a woman's kiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the
fragmentary
stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui tremblait dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les dernieres venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux
centurions
emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns pourrissent dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la tristesse disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ENVOI
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth,
Pierced of the point that
toucheth
lastly all,
'Gainst that grey fencer, even Death,
Behold the shield !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And if, with these dainties to drink and eat,
You prefer not a vestige of grass or tree,
And a chronic state of wet in your feet,
Then--I
recommend
the Sea.
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[Cromek says that Alexander Dalzel
introduced
the poetry of Burns to
the notice of the Earl of Glencairn, who carried the Kilmarnock
edition with him to Edinburgh, and begged that the poet would let him
know what his views in the world were, that he might further them.
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Robert Forst |
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sang musing, as you hastened
Within the
fragrant
thicket.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[_The_ PEASANT _goes to the_ ARMED
SERVANTS
_at the back, to help them
with the baggage.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Just then,
Clarissa
drew with tempting grace
A two-edged weapon from her shining case:
So ladies, in romance, assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight; 110
He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends
The little engine on his fingers' ends;
This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,
As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head.
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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320
Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee:[ft]
Ev'n Azrael,[147] from his deadly quiver
When flies that shaft, and fly it must,[fu]
That parts all else, shall doom for ever
Our hearts to
undivided
dust!
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Byron |
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Otherwise,
Let all these
questions
sleep and just obey
My counsel.
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