Scotland
lament frae coast to coast!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Scarcely
was the first course served when another noise than that of
music was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Beheld these things with terror every man,
And many said: "We in the
Judgement
stand;
The end of time is presently at hand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To suffer hardness with good cheer,
In
sternest
school of warfare bred,
Our youth should learn; let steed and spear
Make him one day the Parthian's dread;
Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Till Time betide when eld the hoar
Thy head and temples
trembling
o'er
Make nod to all things evermore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_ Then let him do it; all is
expected
by me.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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>>,
discende lasso onde si move isnello,
per cento rote, e da lunge si pone
dal suo maestro, disdegnoso e fello;
cosi ne puose al fondo Gerione
al pie al pie de la
stagliata
rocca,
e, discarcate le nostre persone,
si dileguo come da corda cocca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
III
Then saw I how the New Year
Came like a
scheming
man,
With icy eyes, his forehead
Wrinkled by care and plan
For trade and rule and profit.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Upon her aching
forehead
be there hung
The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;
And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him
The thyrsus, that his watching eyes may swim
Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage,
Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage
War on his temples.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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: so
carefully
indeed that one is tempted to think that he was
indoctrinated by the Sufi with whom he read the Poems.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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With the myriad stars in beauty
All bedight, the heavens were seen,
Radiant hopes were bright around me,
Like the light of stars serene;
Like the mellow midnight splendor
Of the Night's
irradiate
queen.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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To this rejoined the second village lout,
One diff'rence only have my wife and I:
Which plays the prettiest wiles is what we try;
Thou'lt very soon of these know how to think;
Here's to thee, neighbour; Mister Oud'net, drink;
Come, toast Antoinetta;
likewise
Jane;
The mule was granted, and the bargain plain:
Our village lawyer promised to prepare,
At once, the writings, which would all declare.
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La Fontaine |
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'
"Debarred of banquets that my heart could make
With every man on every day of life,
I homeward turn, my fires of pain to slake
In deep endearments of a
worshipped
wife.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
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John Clare |
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terms
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The snellest blast, at mirkest hours,
That round the pathless wand'rer pours
Is nocht to what poor she endures,
That's trusted
faithless
man, jo.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Within the bosom here of either knight,
Honour, be sure, and duty
strongly
sways:
For the amorous strife between them is delayed,
Till to the Moorish camp they furnish aid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I may not evermore
acknowledge
thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And thou, Euryalus, redeem thy wrong;
A
generous
heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Search
narrowly
the lines!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is
solemnest
of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Vansuythen has never told the Major; and since be insists upon
keeping up a
burdensome
geniality, she has been compelled to break her
vow of not speaking to Kurrell.
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Kipling - Poems |
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wilt Thou never, Lord, who yet dost keep
Me safe and free from common chains, which bind,
In
different
modes, mankind,
Deign also from my brow this shame to sweep?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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Young Love
I
I cannot heed the words they say,
The lights grow far away and dim,
Amid the laughing men and maids
My eyes
unbidden
seek for him.
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Sara Teasdale |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Eche mornynge I ryse, doe I sette mie maydennes, 220
Somme to spynn, somme to curdell, somme bleachynge,
Gyff any new entered doe aske for mie aidens,
Thann
swythynne
you fynde mee a teachynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That
millions
of strange shadows on you tend?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then thus: "Machaon, to the king repair,
His wounded brother claims thy timely care;
Pierced by some Lycian or
Dardanian
bow,
A grief to us, a triumph to the foe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And all night long the
captains
of the fleet
Kept their crews moving up and down the strait.
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Aeschylus |
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n (779-831) wrote a famous essay
comparing
Li Po with
Tu Fu.
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Li Po |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You may copy it, give it away or
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Imagists |
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Only to be twin
elements
of joy
In this extravagance of Being, Love,
Were our divided natures shaped in twain;
And to this hour the whole world must consent.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Only one favor I beg of you, Graces (I ask it in secret--
Fervent my prayer and deep, out of a
passionate
breast):
My little garden, my sweet one, protect it and do not let any
Evil come near it nor me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
termination
of my course
Is nearer now, much nearer; yet even then, 375
In that distraction and intense desire,
I said unto the life which I had lived,
Where art thou?
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William Wordsworth |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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William Morris saw no reason for abandoning
either the heroes or
anything
else of the epic tradition.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Nothing that he could do would admit him more
intimately
to the
secrets of Pope's mastery of his art.
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Alexander Pope |
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EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS
My new
Province
is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Everyone
knows him and ought to adore him,
Herald of Zeus: Hermes, the healing god.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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THE LETTER
Little cramped words
scrawling
all over the paper
Like draggled fly's legs,
What can you tell of the flaring moon
Through the oak leaves?
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Imagists |
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To Hygelac send, if Hild {6d} should take me,
best of war-weeds, warding my breast,
armor excellent,
heirloom
of Hrethel
and work of Wayland.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But indeed
For an
immortal
perils are there none.
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Lucretius |
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" As the chosen three,
On Tabor's mount, admitted to behold
The
blossoming
of that fair tree, whose fruit
Is coveted of angels, and doth make
Perpetual feast in heaven, to themselves
Returning at the word, whence deeper sleeps
Were broken, that they their tribe diminish'd saw,
Both Moses and Elias gone, and chang'd
The stole their master wore: thus to myself
Returning, over me beheld I stand
The piteous one, who cross the stream had brought
My steps.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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Additional
terms
will be linked to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works
posted with the permission of the copyright holder found at the
beginning of this work.
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Wilde - Poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
1.
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Stephen Crane |
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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)
Townsmen
of Moscow!
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
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John Clare |
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"
When the prophet, a complacent fat
man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my
knowledge!
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Stephen Crane |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Minas,
Where the ships, with their
wavering
shadows, were riding at anchor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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_
So, circling years went by, till in her face
Slow
melancholy
wrought a mingled grace,
Of early joy with suffering's hard alloy--
Refined and rare, no doom could e'er destroy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All their battalions, sharing the lot of peril, keep watch along the
walls, and take alternate charge of all that
requires
defence.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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is still the cause
unfound?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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There's an
insidious
viper creeps into the loveliest gardens,
Lying in wait to attack all who seek pleasure therein.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Call Claudio and some other of my men,
I'll have them sleep on
cushions
in my tent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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) The Seventy-two Religions
supposed
to divide the World,
including Islamism, as some think: but others not.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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faint outstretchd upon the plain
Wailing runs round the
vValleys
from the Mill & from the Barn
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread {"Dark" written on top of "?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nor in my madness was I silent: and, should any chance
offer, did I ever return a
conqueror
to my native Argos, I vowed myself
his avenger, and with my words I stirred his bitter hatred.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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On the 20th current I hope to have the honour of
assuring
you in
person, how sincerely I am--
R.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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" If Blake
hesitated
to choose either reading, an editor hesitates to reject either.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Shy, silent did the maid appear
As in the timid forest deer,
Even beneath her parents' roof
Stood as
estranged
from all aloof,
Nearest and dearest knew not how
To fawn upon and love express;
A child devoid of childishness
To romp and play she ne'er would go:
Oft staring through the window pane
Would she in silence long remain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Rodrigue
What are you
resigned
to?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" Which may have
been true at the time, 1864, nevertheless Manet had visited Madrid and
spent much time studying
Velasquez
and abusing Spanish cookery.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_ Can it be
That earth retains a tree
Whose leaves, like Eden foliage, can be swayed
By the
breathing
of His voice, nor shrink and fade?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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V
_Listen now to what is said
By the eighth opal,
flashing
red
And pale, by turns, with every breath--
The voice of the lover after death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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His first comedy "The Brigadier,"
procured
him the
favour of the second Catherine.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied
speaking
of your fame!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There's no longer any doubt: you love, you burn: 135
You are dying of an illness you
disguise
in turn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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A much finer
fragment of the debate, beginning--
And why should Love a footboy's place
despise?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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EJC}
Farewell the God calls me away I depart in my sweet bliss
She fled
vanishing
on the wind And left a dead cold corse
In Los's arms howlings began over the body of death {Line written over erased text.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the
remainder
of the earth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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GD} His head beamd light & in his
vigorous
voice was prophesyNor kissd nor em.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And when by grace the priest won place,
And served the Abbey well,
He reared this stone to mark where shone
That
midnight
miracle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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, _to stare, look
intently
at_: pres.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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