I was that
Northern
tree and, in the South,
Amalia.
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'
Knowledge
of Good and of Ill, O Land!
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Sidney Lanier |
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TO MAKE
CRUMBOBBLIOUS
CUTLETS.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[243] Mondego, the largest
exclusively
Portuguese river.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For example, 'Guilt and Sorrow; or,
Incidents upon
Salisbury
Plain'--written in the years 1791-94--was not
published 'in extenso' till 1842.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Smite with a rending blow
Upon their heads, and bid the land be well:
Set right where wrong hath stood; and thou give ear,
O Earth, unto my prayer--
Yea, hear O mother Earth, and
monarchy
of hell!
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Aeschylus |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The church has of old a famous gizzard,
She calls it little whole lands to devour,
Yet never a surfeit got to this hour;
The church alone, dear ladies; _sans_ question,
Can give
unrighteous
gains digestion.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Together they are able to overthrow Error; but Hypocrisy deceitfully
alienates Holiness from Truth by making the latter appear
unworthy
of love.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then jealousy shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he
languishd
till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los reviving him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
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Blake - Zoas |
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e kyng was of hem sore adrad; &
graunted
hem onon.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Shuttleworthy's heart good to see the old fellow
swallow it, as he did, quart after quart; so that, one day, when the
wine was in and the wit as a natural consequence, somewhat out, he said
to his crony, as he slapped him upon the back--"I tell you what it is,
'Old Charley,' you are, by all odds, the
heartiest
old fellow I ever
came across in all my born days; and, since you love to guzzle the wine
at that fashion, I'll be darned if I don't have to make thee a present
of a big box of the Chateau-Margaux.
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Poe - 5 |
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To place 'he was' at the end of the line was in the
circumstances
to
court ambiguity, and is not metrically requisite.
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John Donne |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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a nymph of Dian's,
Weaving a coronal of tender scions
For very
idleness?
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Keats |
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'Salve, Regina' in sul verde e 'n su' fiori
quindi seder
cantando
anime vidi,
che per la valle non parean di fuori.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Shepherds on far hills have told;
And we reck not of their telling,
Deem not that the Sun of gold
Ever turned his fiery dwelling,
Or beat
backward
in the sky,
For the wrongs of man, the cry
Of his ailing tribes assembled,
To do justly, ere they die!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Then we
repaired
to the Temple of the god.
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Aristophanes |
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Beppo,/ A
Venetian
Story.
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Byron |
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"^1
The Gallant Weaver
Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea,
By mony a flower and
spreading
tree,
There lives a lad, the lad for me,
He is a gallant Weaver.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my forehead stopped,
And
wandered
in my face.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Resplendent, fleet and flowing
It hastens with the clouds; behold
An offering's-billet glowing:
It tells what it
bestowed
when cold.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor,
brilliant
and warm.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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in act
So overrun with vermin troubles,
The coarse, sharp-cornered, ugly fact
Of life
collapses
all his bubbles:
Had he but lived in Plato's day,
He might, unless my fancy errs,
Have shared that golden voice's sway
O'er barefooted philosophers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Oh, Thou who hast
darkened
the Tarn!
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Kipling - Poems |
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'
And he gan at him-self to iape faste,
And seyde, `Nece, I have so greet a pyne 1165
For love, that every other day I faste' --
And gan his beste Iapes forth to caste;
And made hir so to laughe at his folye,
That she for
laughter
wende for to dye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
— Current Opinion,
New York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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But what was she, the black-robed, with the eyes
So
fearfully
alight, the last who spoke?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I 've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the
strangest
sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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= It was
found
necessary
in 1541 to pass an act (33 Hen.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
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written explanation to the person you
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the work from.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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ey knowe hym nought; 284
That voyce sayde on that ylke a daye,
And tolde hym redyly where he laye;
'In eufamyans hous,' he sayde, 'is he, 287
That hathe my
Serwaunt
long I-be.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Whether that
blessing
[1] be deny'd or giv'n,
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to Heav'n.
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Alexander Pope |
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With dismay,
Wanton and wild her weeping thousands pour,
Convulsive
grasp the ground, its rage to stay,
Implore the angry Mount--in vain implore!
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Hugo - Poems |
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To introduce them, therefore, in the
picture of a storm is a proof, both of the taste and
judgment
of
Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And rings of riddling
scholars
all surrounding
God who sits in the very middle, expounding
The Torah.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
Everyone hastened, gulled by the dissolute boy, who feigning
Earnest, had
summoned
them all (Fame by no means lagged behind).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This cool, unasking Ox
Comes
browsing
o'er my hills and vales of Time,
And thrusts me out his tongue, and curls it, sharp,
And sicklewise, about my poets' heads,
And twists them in, all -- Dante, Keats, Chopin,
Raphael, Lucretius, Omar, Angelo,
Beethoven, Chaucer, Schubert, Shakespeare, Bach,
And Buddha, in one sheaf -- and champs and chews,
With slantly-churning jaws, and swallows down;
Then slowly plants a mighty forefoot out,
And makes advance to futureward, one inch.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The
immortals are there, they are the occasion of
splendid
poetry; they do
what they are intended to do--they declare, namely, by their speech and
their action, the importance to the world of what is going on in the
poem.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We play at paste,
Till
qualified
for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
As Ruskin
wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty
of
execution
can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the innocent lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all
contagious
taints.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Yet you see Heaven wishes
something
else.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Or
accordiamo
a tanto invito il piede;
procacciam di salir pria che s'abbui,
che poi non si poria, se 'l di non riede>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Nature ever
Finding
discordant
fortune, like all seed
Out of its proper climate, thrives but ill.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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MARGARETE:
Dahinaus?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
)
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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grievance
sore, and listless dull delay,
To waste on sluggish hulks the sweetest breeze!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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12, still another law was passed,
whereby the second offense was
declared
a felony.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your
withered
finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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no matter what you do,
My poetry is all in you;
You are my
inspiration
bright
That gives my verse its purest light.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
entreating
cries, and weeping sore,
"More than for life and soul, alas!
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O, then, beware:
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves;
Omission
to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when they sit idly in the sun.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Ah, but I fear thee, Queen: this
dreadful
mood
Will break the pleasantness of friendship thou
Hast kept for me, as a ship in a gale is broken.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[59]
Aristophanes
speaks of him in 'The Birds' as a traitor and as an
alien who usurped the rights of the city.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A moment their guns have glowed
Sun-smitten: then out of sight
They
suddenly
sink,
Like men who touch a new grave's brink!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
|
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
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even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O steadfast dweller on the selfsame spot
Where thou wast born, that still
repinest
not --
Type of the home-fond heart, the happy lot!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Grim
Cerberus
wagg'd his tail to see
Thy golden horn, nor dream'd of wrong,
But gently fawning, follow'd thee,
And lick'd thy feet with triple tongue.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O, you
deserved
a better flame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_
FOURTH OPAL
We were alone: the
perfumed
night,
Moonlighted, like a flower
Grew round us and exhaled delight
To bless that one sweet hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It was one
of the most
interesting
sights which I saw in Canada.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Speak thy desire; I grant it, if thou ask
Things possible, and
possible
to me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Not public gravings on a marble base,
Whence comes a second life to men of might
E'en in the tomb: not Hannibal's swift flight,
Nor those fierce threats flung back into his face,
Not impious Carthage in its last red blaze,
In clearer light sets forth his
spotless
fame,
Who from crush'd Afric took away--a name,
Than rude Calabria's tributary lays.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He
afterwards
married successively Miss Lin, Miss Lu, and Miss Sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
LV
Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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To male
acquaintances
he bows,
And finally he deigns let fall
Upon the stage his weary glance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It is
therefore
conceivable that the appearance of
Castor and Pollux may be become an article of faith before the
generation which had fought at Regillus had passed away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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by his
p{ro}pre
wille.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yet how sad was the speech thou spakest, thy husband
farewelling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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It is the End of all Men, and
attainable
by all, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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All the plum-leaves quiver 5
With the coolth and darkness,
After their long patience
In
consuming
ardour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Nay,
My
children
live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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seitis felices et tu simul et tua uita,
et domus in qua olim lusimus et domina,
et qui principio nobis te
tradidit
Afer,
a quo sunt primo mi omnia nata bona,
et longe ante omnes mihi quae me carior ipso est,
lux mea, qua uiua uiuere dulce mihi est.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged
manacles
I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before
Stare vacant into mine
And ask my
business
there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yes, if this present quality of war-
Indeed the instant action, a cause on foot-
Lives so in hope, as in an early spring
We see th'
appearing
buds; which to prove fruit
Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair
That frosts will bite them.
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Shakespeare |
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Best guardian of Rome's people, dearest boon
Of a kind Heaven, thou
lingerest
all too long:
Thou bad'st thy senate look to meet thee soon:
Do not thy promise wrong.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wright's
Political
Songs, for the Camden Society, 1839, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Always when Charity and Hope,
In
darkness
bounden, feebly grope,
I gaze in my two springs and see
A Light that sets my captives free.
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Sidney Lanier |
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One may add that a
combat would have been completely alien to the whole idea of the poem as
Keats
conceived
it, and as, in fact, it is universally interpreted from
the speech of Oceanus in the second book.
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Keats |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le
talisman
heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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III
Soon from out of the Southward seemed nearing
A whirr, as of wings
Waved by mighty-vanned flies,
Or by night-moths of
measureless
size,
And in softness and smoothness well-nigh beyond hearing
Of corporal things.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
And there she sits, until the moon
Through half the clear blue sky will go,
And when the little breezes make
The waters of the pond to shake,
As all the country know,
She
shudders
and you hear her cry,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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