Quando s'ebbe
scoperta
la gran bocca,
disse a' compagni: <
che quel di retro move cio ch'el tocca?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then up came the blacksmith: Sir Barley, said he,
I should just like to storm your old tower for a spree;
And my
strength
for your strength and bar your renown
I'd soon try your spirit by cracking your crown.
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John Clare |
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The critics have,
I think, failed somewhat to reckon with this stratum in Donne's songs,
of poems Petrarchian in
convention
but with a Petrarchianism coloured
by Donne's realistic temper and impatient wit.
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John Donne |
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_Quel ch'
infinita
providenza ed arte.
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Petrarch |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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In the parching August wind,
Cornfields
bow the head,
Sheltered in round valley depths,
On low hills outspread.
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Christina Rossetti |
|
LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Louis, Missouri, where she
attended
a
school that was founded by the grandfather of another great poet from
St.
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Sara Teasdale |
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To Gavarni, the poet of chloroses,
I leave his troupes of
beauties
sick and wan;
I cannot find among these pale, pale roses,
The red ideal mine eyes would gaze upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Apropos--Is your play then
accepted
at last?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
That Emperour stood still and
listened
then:
"My lords," said he, "Right evilly we fare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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What profit will thy dead wife gain
thereby?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Euripides - Electra |
|
_
When I tell you, my dear Sir, that a friend of mine in whom I am much
interested, has fallen a
sacrifice
to these accursed times, you will
easily allow that it might unhinge me for doing any good among
ballads.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
_A25_ (with its partial
duplicate
_C_) is the only manuscript which
attributes to 'J.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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are we to let
ourselves
be bested by a mob of women?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
|
1470
`Ye shal eek seen, your fader shal yow glose
To been a wyf, and as he can wel preche,
He shal som Grek so preyse and wel alose,
That
ravisshen
he shal yow with his speche,
Or do yow doon by force as he shal teche.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
You light
surfaces
only, I force surfaces and depths also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Look to him, father, lest he wink, and the golden apple be stol'n away,
For his ancient heart is drunk with over-watchings night and day,
Round about the
hallowed
fruit tree curled--
Sing away, sing aloud evermore in the wind, without stop,
Lest his scaled eyelid drop, For he is older than the world.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
* * * * *
_Wilde's Poems were first
published
in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Peire Raimon de
Toulouse
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
" In
1845 it found its
appropriate
place in the "Selections from Chaucer
modernised.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The earliest version of these lines
appeared
in the "Southern Literary
Messenger" for September, 1835, as "Lines written in an Album," and was
addressed to Eliza White, the proprietor's daughter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with resonant hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows
shuddered
then!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[1]
I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the orchards --
And they the
daffodils!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
It is
impossible
to pray for
tsar Herod; the Mother of God forbids it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (fur sich):
Nun mach ich mich
beizeiten
fort!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The Critic else
proceeds
without remorse,
Seizes your fame, and puts his laws in force.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And in the 'Epistle to Arbuthnot' we recognize in Pope ideals of
independence, of devotion to his art, of simple living, of loyal
friendship, and of filial piety which shine in
splendid
contrast with
the gross, servile, and cynically immoral tone of the age and society in
which he lived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then in the silent cabinet
He in imagination saw
The time when Melancholy's claw
'Mid worldly
pleasures
chased him yet,
Caught him and by the collar took
And shut him in a lonely nook.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
He told Spence in the last years of his
life: "I had once thought of
completing
my ethic work in four
books.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
* Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
bird whose eye takes in the Green
Mountains
on the one side, and the
ocean on the other, need not be at a loss to find its way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Though I am
different
from you,
We were born involved in one another:
Nor by any means can we escape
The intimate sharing of good and ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The last volume of the 'Iliad' appeared in the spring of 1720, and in it
Pope gave a renewed proof of his
independence
by dedicating the whole
work, not to some lord who would have rewarded him with a handsome
present, but to his old acquaintance, Congreve, the last survivor of the
brilliant comic dramatists of Dryden's day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Je n'ai pas oublie, voisine de la ville,
Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille,
Sa Pomone de platre et sa vieille Venus
Dans un bosquet chetif cachant leurs membres nus;
Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe,
Qui, derriere la vitre ou se brisait sa gerbe,
Semblait, grand oeil ouvert dans le ciel curieux,
Contempler nos diners longs et silencieux,
Repandant
largement
ses beaux reflets de cierge
Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The Moon was shining
slobaciously
from the star-bespangled sky,
while her light irrigated the smooth and shiny sides and wings and backs of
the Blue-Bottle-Flies with a peculiar and trivial splendor, while all
Nature cheerfully responded to the cerulean and conspicuous circumstances.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Oh, sweetest eyes, like founts of liquid blue;
And little hands that evil never knew,
Pure as the new-formed snow;
Thy feet are still
unstained
by this world's mire,
Thy golden locks like aureole of fire
Circle thy cherub brow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
These leaves were on the side of the twig or
stubble opposite to the sun, meeting it for the most part at right
angles, and there were others standing out at all possible angles upon
these and upon one another, with no twig or stubble
supporting
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
)
Writing to Sir Walter Scott (October 16, 1803), Wordsworth enclosed a
copy of this sonnet, with the
variation
of text which has been quoted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Witless surely the wight whose sense is less than of boy-babe
Two-year-old and a-sleep on
trembling
forearm of father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Tattiana wakes
Betimes, and sees, when morning breaks,
Park, garden, palings, yard below
And roofs near morn blanched o'er with snow;
Upon the windows tracery,
The trees in silvery array,
Down in the
courtyard
magpies gay,
And the far mountains daintily
O'erspread with Winter's carpet bright,
All so distinct, and all so white!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Since to part,
Go heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger,
Sent from whose sovran
goodness
I adore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Upsall, I thank you
For
speaking
words such as some younger man,
I, or another, should have said before you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes a coverlet,
A coverlet for his
contented
slumber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd
Bedowee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Have not I caught,
Already, a more healthy
countenance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Je suis les membres et la roue,
Et la victime et le
bourreau!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Many translations exist, the best
being those of Legge in English and of
Couvreur
in French.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
We at time of year
Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees,
Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,
With too much riches it
confound
itself;
Had he done so to great and growing men,
They might have Ev'd to bear, and he to taste
Their fruits of duty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
[Sidenote: Do you think that God imposes a necessity on things by
beholding
them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"
Again the whirl of words, but this time they
conveyed
a meaning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Wander aloof do I,
Lean over gates and sigh,
Making friends with the bee and the
butterfly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"Within your house will strangers sit,
And wonder how first it came;
They'll talk of their schemes for
improving
it,
And will not mention your name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite Life unrolls its
boundless
space .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
But, at a turn her martial courser made,
Marphisa
needed young Rogero's aid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair
Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and
thistle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Liberty
On my
notebooks
from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The strong sea-lion of England's wars
Hath left his
sapphire
cave of sea,
To battle with the storm that mars
The stars of England's chivalry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
hoc tibi, quod potui,
confectum
carmine munus
pro multis, Alli, redditur officiis, 150
ne uestrum scabra tangat rubigine nomen
haec atque illa dies atque alia atque alia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
I onward go, I stop,
With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,
One turns to me his
appealing
eyes--poor boy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod
oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
When Rhea Silvia,
princess
and virgin, came down to the Tiber
Just to fetch water, a god seized her and that is the way
Mars begat himself sons, a pair of twins whom a she wolf
Suckled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Paraunter I was therto most able
As a whyt wal or a table; 780
For hit is redy to cacche and take
Al that men wil therin make,
Wher-so men wol
portreye
or peynte,
Be the werkes never so queynte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Then each and all they
strongly
bend
their bows into a curve and pull shafts from their quivers.
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So she gan wepen
tendrely!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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No
gracious
weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of spring.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Threatened with excommunication several times for his dissolute life and
challenges
to Church authority, he was later reconciled.
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Troubador Verse |
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In re-editing the present romance-poem I have been saved all labour of
transcription by using the very accurate text
contained
in Sir F.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Tacitus |
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On the fairest time of June
You may go, with sun or moon, 20
Or the seven stars to light you,
Or the polar ray to right you;
But you never may behold
Little John, or Robin bold;
Never one, of all the clan,
Thrumming on an empty can
Some old hunting ditty, while
He doth his green way beguile
To fair hostess Merriment,
Down beside the pasture Trent; 30
For he left the merry tale
Messenger
for spicy ale.
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Infanta
My
inclination
has changed its object.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis flambent aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les serpents ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre atmosphere s'eleve un theatre
Que
construisit
le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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_ That _I_ shall stand sole exile finally,--
Made desolate for
fruition?
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The title-page states that it
contains
'The Poems of D.
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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The lofty song (for paleness o'er her spread)
The nymph suspends, and bows the languid head;
Her falt'ring words are breathed on plaintive sighs:
"Ah, Belisarius, injur'd chief," she cries,
"Ah, wipe thy tears; in war thy rival see,
Injur'd Pacheco falls despoil'd like thee;
In him, in thee dishonour'd Virtue bleeds,
And Valour weeps to view her fairest deeds,--
Weeps o'er Pacheco, where, forlorn he lies
Low on an alms-house bed, and
friendless
dies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" 's a cuckoo sang
That's unco easy said ay;
The poets, too, a venal gang,
Wi' rhymes weel-turn'd and ready,
Wad gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang,
But ay
unerring
steady,
On sic a day.
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Robert Forst |
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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Keats |
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The subject,
and some lines of the original version, having been
suggested
by the
poet's friend, Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In costly sheen and gaudy cloak arrayed,
But all afoot, the light-limbed matadore
Stands in the centre, eager to invade
The lord of lowing herds; but not before
The ground, with
cautious
tread, is traversed o'er,
Lest aught unseen should lurk to thwart his speed:
His arms a dart, he fights aloof, nor more
Can man achieve without the friendly steed--
Alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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