" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking
monsters
girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all--(absolute
owner of all)--O banner and
pennant!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then your father, who was brave as leopard or tiger, became
Governor
of
Ping-chou[39] and put down the rebel bands.
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Li Po |
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken,
Christoph
Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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Appoloinaire |
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Most
of the poems from this volume which were
selected
to be included in
"Love Songs" also had some minor changes.
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Sara Teasdale |
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--
Because she was so innocent,
That Heaven her character had blent
With an imagination wild,
With intellect and strong volition
And a
determined
disposition,
An ardent heart and yet so mild?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O les grands pres,
La grande campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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a Droll erst while,
Or (if aught) cleverer, he with
converse
meets,
He now in dullness, dullest villain beats
Forthright on handling verse, nor is the wight 15
Ever so happy as when verse he write:
So self admires he with so full delight.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Leisure to time, and to my weakness strength,
Then shall 1 once with graver accents shake
Your regal sloth and your long slumbers wake,
Like the shrill
huntsman
that prevents the east;
Winding his horn to kings that chase the bejCst !
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Marvell - Poems |
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It was la bas
with him even in the
tortures
of his wretched love-life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Then since he has no further heights to climb,
And naught to witness he has come this endless way,
On the wind-bitten ice cap he will wait for the last of time,
And watch the crimson sunrays fading of the world's latest day:
And blazing stars will burst upon him there,
Dumb in the midnight of his hope and pain,
Speeding
no answer back to his last prayer,
And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'I sate beside the
Steersman
then, and gazing
Upon the west, cried, "Spread the sails!
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Shelley |
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Time was (my
fortunes
then were at the best)
When at my house I lodged this foreign guest;
He said, from Ithaca's fair isle he came,
And old Laertes was his father's name.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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ǣfen-sprǣce
(_recalled his evening speech_), 759; so, 871, 1130, 1260, 1271, 1291,
2115, 2432, 2607, 2679; sē þæs lēod-hryres lēan ge-munde (_was mindful of
reward for the fall of the ruler_), 2392; þæt hē Eotena bearn inne gemunde
(_that he in this should remember, take vengeance on, the children of the
Eotens_), 1142; so, hond gemunde fǣhðo genōge (_his hand remembered strife
enough_), 2490; ne ge-munde mago
Ecglāfes
þæt .
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Beowulf |
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At last to be
identified!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For each beloved hour
Sharp
pittances
of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Alchemically she is De Nerval's
feminine
principle to be fused with the masculine.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And now I only remember my dead Joy in
remembering
my dead Sorrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nor Sthenelus, with unassisting hands,
Remain'd unheedful of his lord's commands:
His panting steeds, removed from out the war,
He fix'd with straiten'd traces to the car,
Next, rushing to the Dardan spoil, detains
The
heavenly
coursers with the flowing manes:
These in proud triumph to the fleet convey'd,
No longer now a Trojan lord obey'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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FAUST:
Du holdes
Himmelsangesicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Enter
Macbeths
Lady, and a Seruant.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Upheaved like an ocean
My senses toss with strange
emotion!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
"A truth of such undoubted weight,"
He urged, "and so extreme in date,
It were
superfluous
to state.
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Lewis Carroll |
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In regard to its measure, it may be noted that if all the verses were
like the second, they might properly be placed merely in short lines,
producing a not uncommon form; but the
presence
in all the others of
one line-mostly the second in the verse" (stanza?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And the
clockmen
mark the hours as they go.
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This
cherubim
sings the praises
Of Paradise where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
|
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violates
the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's children From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the
branches
With white and silver throat.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I turned my head back to Fengxiang County,1 late in the day its banners
appeared
and faded from view.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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As
Harrington
fell, ye likewise fell--
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Often where his
translators
would make us suppose he is expressing a
fancy of his own, he is in reality skilfully utilizing some poem by T'ao
Ch'ien or Hsieh Ti'ao.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Leave my
loneliness
unbroken!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ay, lanthorn on the North Church tower,
When that thy church hath had her hour,
Still from the top of
Reverence
high
Shalt thou illume Fame's ampler sky;
For, statured large o'er town and tree,
Time's tallest Figure stands by thee,
And, dim as now thy wick may shine
The Future lights his lamp at thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Sculptor, forever shun
Clay moulded there
By the thumb
When the mind's elsewhere;
Wrestle with Carrara,
With Parian marble rare
And hard,
Keep the outline clear;
From Syracuse borrow
Bronze which the proud
Furrow
Has charmingly endowed;
With a
delicate
hand,
The vein of agate, follow
Command
The profile of Apollo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"The king was not in the hall that day for he had gone out to help some
poor maiden, but as he came back over the plains beyond Camelot he saw
the roofs rolling in smoke and thought that his
wonderfully
dear,
beautiful hall which Merlin had built for him so wonderfully was afire.
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Tennyson |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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405
[57]
XLVI
"Rough potters seemed they, trading soberly
With panniered asses driven from door to door;
But life of happier sort set forth to me, [58]
And other joys my fancy to allure--
The bag-pipe dinning on the midnight moor 410
In barn uplighted; and
companions
boon,
Well met from far with revelry secure
Among the forest glades, while jocund June [59]
Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial moon.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Copies of the Fourth Edition of 1810, which may
possibly
be genuine,
bear a water-mark, "G.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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An
assembly of the states met at Coimbra, where it was
proposed
to invest
the regent with the regal dignity.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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You always said new things about
managing
affairs, which could set the crown aright.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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See they
encounter
thee with their harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st,
Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure
The Table round.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Imagists |
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_sa-bar; sa-sud-da_,
liturgical
note, 182, 31.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" So spoke he, and slew fit
sacrifice
on the altars, a bull to
Neptune, a bull to thee, fair Apollo, a black sheep to Tempest, a white
to the prosperous West winds.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In the latter part of
James's reign he
produced
masques for the Court, and turned with distaste
from the public stage.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Blind among enemies, O worse then chains,
Dungeon, or beggery, or
decrepit
age!
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" A rival, Menalchas, was more
successful
in finding favor with
his fair neighbor.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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In Spenser's day, belief in astrology, the
pseudo-science of the
influence
of the stars on human lives, was still
common.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done--
Immortal
bliss for me too hast thou won.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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" Dorothy
Wordsworth gave this
interesting
relic to Miss Quillinan, from whose
library it passed to that of its present owner.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her
mistress
lived.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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GREGORY OTREPIEV, a young monk,
afterwards
the Pretender
to the throne of Russia.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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CHORUS
Be it mine to upraise thro' the reek of the pyre
The chant of delight, while the funeral fire
Devoureth
the corpse of a man that is slain
And a woman laid low!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Like housed-up snails we're
creeping
on,
The women all ahead are gone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet I blame not the world, nor despise it,
Nor the war of the many with one--
If my soul was not fitted to prize it,
'Twas folly not sooner to shun:
And if dearly that error bath cost me,
And more than I once could foresee,
I have found that
whatever
it lost me,
It could not deprive me of _thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
My friend was willing to
increase
my woe,
And smiling whisper'd,--"You alone may go
Confer with whom you please, for now we are
All stained with one crime.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The
bohemian
glass on the _étagère_ is no longer there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Birds cannot pass them safe; no, not the doves
Which his
ambrosia
bear to Father Jove,
But even of those doves the slipp'ry rock
Proves fatal still to one, for which the God
Supplies another, lest the number fail.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Here the
Frailest
Leaves of Me
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,
Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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As for my wife, my Martha and my Martyr,--
Whose virtues, like the stars, unseen by day,
Though numberless, do but await the dark
To manifest
themselves
unto all eyes,--
She who first won me from my evil ways,
And taught me how to live by her example,
By her example teaches me to die,
And leads me onward to the better life!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Such was Dares; at
once he raises his head high for battle,
displays
his broad shoulders,
and stretches and swings his arms right and left, lashing the air with
blows.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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II
Loveliest
of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then a mourner moveth pale
In a silence full of wail,
Raising not his sunken head
Because he wandered last that way
With that one beneath the clay:
Weeping not, because that one,
The only one who would have said
"Cease to weep,
beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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That very night the storm
occurred!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And you were heard to utter cries of joy,
When Drama gripped Paris in its teeth,
When spring chased ancient winter away,
When the wondrous star of new ideals,
Suddenly glittered in the burning sky,
And the
Hippogriff
stole Pegasus' place.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
"My own Hrothulf" will surely not forget
these favors and
benefits
of the past, but will repay them to the
orphaned boy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Robinson
he
Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
are gold and silver, the seals of
Zhangsun?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Reverence
the hope whose vital anxiousness
Gives the last human interest to his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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480
Thanne
wouldest
thou comme yn for mie renome,
Albeytte thou wouldst reyne awaie from bloddie dome?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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20
XCII
Like a red lily in the meadow grasses,
Swayed by the wind and burning in the sunlight,
I saw you, where the city chokes with traffic,
Bearing among the passers-by your beauty,
Unsullied, wild, and
delicate
as a flower.
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Sappho |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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See one straightforward conscience put in pawn
To win a world; see the obedient sphere
By bravery's simple
gravitation
drawn!
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James Russell Lowell |
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er what
blisfulnesse
or ellys
what vnselinesse is estab[l]issed in ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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L'homme se
contenta
d'emporter ses rabats.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Four times fifty living men,
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump,
They dropped down one by one.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Begin, and end the bitter
balefull
stound;?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"We have seen waves and stars,
And lost sea-beaches, and known many wars,
And
notwithstanding
war and hope and fear,
We were as weary there as we are here.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my
searching
into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to increase my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How oft I've bent me oer her fire and smoke,
To hear her gibberish tale so quaintly spoke,
While the old Sybil forged her boding clack,
Twin imps the meanwhile bawling at her back;
Oft on my hand her magic coin's been struck,
And hoping chink, she talked of morts of luck:
And still, as boyish hopes did first agree,
Mingled with fears to drop the fortune's fee,
I never failed to gain the honours sought,
And Squire and Lord were
purchased
with a groat.
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John Clare |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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net
Title: Sea Garden
Author: Hilda Doolittle
Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28665]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEA GARDEN ***
Produced by
Meredith
Bach and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling
centuries
begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[343] The Canaries, called by the
ancients
_Insulae Fortunatae_.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you must blush, blush for your silence 185
That still
embitters
your sorrow's violence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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