Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
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Speeding Saturn cannot halt;
Linger,--thou shalt rue the fault:
If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift
repulsions
play.
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Emerson - Poems |
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My father is a
dreamer himself, a great dreamer, a great man whose life has been
a
magnificent
failure.
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My lady shows herself, not to my good,
A woman indeed, scorns my behest,
Since she wishes not what she should
But what's
forbidden
her finds best.
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Troubador Verse |
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From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf,
From
monument
and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of HALE shall burn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Imagists |
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24, 1585 (he must have been
born some months earlier, if this date be right, for his sister Martha
was
baptized
in the following January), and alive in 1629, when he acted
as one of the executors of his mother's will.
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Robert Herrick |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
VIII
Aphrodite of the foam,
Who hast given all good gifts,
And made Sappho at thy will
Love so greatly and so much,
Ah, how comes it my frail heart 5
Is so fond of all things fair,
I can never choose between
Gorgo and
Andromeda?
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Sappho |
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Quindi
sentimmo
gente che si nicchia
ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa,
e se medesma con le palme picchia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And the soul,
Who spake with me among the other lights
Did move away, and mix; and with the choir
Of heav'nly
songsters
prov'd his tuneful skill.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
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Sappho |
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Seeming is but a garment I wear--a
care-woven garment that protects me from thy
questionings
and thee
from my negligence.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Azzo's daughter Beatriz was the
addressee
of one of his poems.
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Troubador Verse |
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Those
familiar fascinating
anecdotes
have gone the way of all such jerry-built
spooks.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[8] The name of the mother of
Gilgamish
has been erroneously read
_ri-mat ilat_Nin-lil, or _Rimat-Belit_, see Dhorme 202, 37; 204,
30, etc.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To regulate all
household
affairs, and attend to her
infant race, was, at that time, the glory of the female character.
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Tacitus |
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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
MENALCAS
"I am all hers; she wept to see me go,
And,
lingering
on the word, 'farewell' she said,
'My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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God pardons those who do through frailty sin,
But never those that
persevere
therein.
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Robert Herrick |
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As every animal assists his kind
Just so are these in blood and business joined;
Yet both in different colours hide their art,
And each as suits his ends
transacts
his part.
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John Clare |
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tells us that John Tuce,
'dweling neere Shorditch Church', first
attained
perfection in the
manufacture of cloth of tissue.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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3 The Earl of the South is worthy in
handling
matters,4 16 you will go to where he stands and chats.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Arm
yourself
then: Battle you'll have to-day.
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Chanson de Roland |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When Society laid by the rapier, it buckled on the more subtle
blade of etiquette wherewith to keep
obtrusive
vulgarity at bay.
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James Russell Lowell |
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When you shall read the
testimony
given
Before the Court in all the other cases,
I am persuaded you will find the proof
No less conclusive than it was in this.
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Longfellow |
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Affections
are as thoughts to her,
The measures of her hours;
Her feelings have the flagrancy,
The freshness of young flowers;
And lovely passions, changing oft,
So fill her, she appears
The image of themselves by turns,--
The idol of past years!
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Poe - 5 |
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The culture, too, which licks the world to shape,
The devil himself cannot escape;
The phantom of the North men's
thoughts
have left behind them,
Horns, tail, and claws, where now d'ye find them?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Evidently
he is coming to oppose the peace.
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Aristophanes |
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Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst,
And
champion
me to th' vtterance.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Dans cette grande plaine ou l'autan froid se joue,
Ou par les longues nuits la girouette s'enroue,
Mon ame mieux qu'au temps du tiede renouveau
Ouvrira
largement
ses ailes de corbeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'
ROSALINE
A REQUIEM
A PARABLE
SONG, 'O
MOONLIGHT
DEEP AND TENDER'
SONNETS.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ay,
something
must be done;
What, yet I know not.
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Shelley |
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If he were not a pirate, still there
was no excuse for giving such warlike foreigners any footing in a
country already supplied with all that nature and
commerce
could give.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" For these he proposes to substitute "a correct if short
memoir:" but, kindly and
appreciative
as may be Mr.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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CCLVII
Now very well strikes the King Charlemagne,
Naimes the Duke, also Oger the Dane,
Geifreid
d'Anjou, who that ensign displays.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'
Floats round about the anxious-quivering air
'Twixt narrow
Schuylkill
and broad Delaware.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_A further
edition_ (_making the seventh_) _with some omissions from the issue of
1908_, _but including two new poems_, _was published in
September
1909_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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ad tua sustinuit fluctus spectacula pontus
assuetasque
sibi desiit perfundere ripas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Azo, that next
approaching
form shall be,
And, his good brother dead, the Insubri sway.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is a significant fact that Rilke dedicated this book to Gerhart
Hauptmann, "in love and
gratitude
for his Michael Kramer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
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John Donne |
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By this, sad Una fraught with anguish sore,
Led with their noise, which through the aire was thrown:
Arriv'd, wher they in erth their
fruitles
bloud had sown.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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what the king accords
Do thou make
perfect!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Who are the infants, some playing, some
slumbering?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Countess
Cathleen
comes!
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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On this
last virtue faction first fixed its
envenomed
fangs.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And Pandarus, with a ful good entente,
Leyde him to slepe, and seyde, `If ye ben wyse,
Swowneth
not now, lest more folk aryse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Compie 'l cantare e 'l volger sua misura;
e attesersi a noi quei santi lumi,
felicitando
se di cura in cura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The
laughter
of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then Wiglaf, one of
his followers,
advances
to help him.
| Guess: |
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Beowulf |
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"
Then
Tomlinson
looked up and down, and little gain was there,
For the naked stars grinned overhead, and he saw that his soul was bare:
The Wind that blows between the worlds, it cut him like a knife,
And Tomlinson took up his tale and spoke of his good in life.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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friend, no
anecdotes
for me, thank you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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more
horrible
than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The birds around me hopp'd and play'd:
Their
thoughts
I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made,
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Come, the oaks all dark appear,
Twilight
now will soon depart,
Railing sparrows laugh to hear
Chains thou puttest round my heart.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
Then quickly from the foughten field he sent
Ulfius, and Brastias, and Bedivere,
His new-made knights, to King Leodogran,
Saying, 'If I in aught have served thee well,
Give me thy daughter
Guinevere
to wife.
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Tennyson |
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Long winding caverns,
glittering
far
Into a crystal distance!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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All of these seemed
desirous to come on board, but only four, who by their dress seemed
officers, were admitted; nor were these allowed, till
stripped
of their
arms.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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unto the mighty
presence
of the shepherd,
unto the place of the .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Take heed, for now on haunted ground they tread;
There bowed a
mightier
war lord to his fall:
Fear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nascere praeque diem ueniens age, Lucifer, almum,
coniugis indigno Nysae deceptus amore
dum queror et diuos, quamquam nil testibus illis
profeci, extrema moriens tamen
adloquor
hora.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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are you
That Psyche, wont to bind my
throbbing
brow,
To smoothe my pillow, mix the foaming draught
Of fever, tell me pleasant tales, and read
My sickness down to happy dreams?
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Tennyson |
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I wish there to be in my house:
O lion, miserable image
Don't be fearful and lascivious
There's another cony I remember
With his four dromedaries
Sweet days, the mice of time,
I carry treasure in my mouth,
Look at this
pestilential
tribe
Work leads us to riches.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I passed the pretty
milkmaid
with her red and rosy face;
I knew not where I met her, I was strange to the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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WITH handsome person and a pleasing mien,
Gallant, a
polished
air, and soul serene;
A certain fair of noble birth he sought,
Whose conquest, doubtless, brilliant would be thought;
Which in our lover doubly raised desire;
Renown and pleasure lent his bosom fire.
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La Fontaine |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Reprinted
in an edition of
the 'Cambridge Prize Poems' from 1813 to 1858 inclusive, by Messrs.
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Tennyson |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre
tentious
journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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mais l'air est tout plein d'une odeur de
bataille!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now let
him perish, and pay forfeit to the Trojans of his
innocent
blood.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Gentle thou art, and
therefore
to be won,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevail'd?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
The cobbles see this all along the street
Coming--coming--on
countless
feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But ye, O happy husbands, ye
With him were friends eternally:
The crafty spouse caressed him, who
By Faublas in his youth was schooled,(5)
And the suspicious veteran old,
The pompous,
swaggering
cuckold too,
Who floats contentedly through life,
Proud of his dinners and his wife!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He often does this in his later poetry as well, but the clarity of the
problems
in the current political crisis gives these poems an edge.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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NOTE: Though written and
engraved
by Blake, "A DIVINE IMAGE" was never
included in the SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I bring an
unaccustomed
wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At present I ask not you to sound;
Not at the head of my cavalry, all on their spirited horses,
With their sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines
clanking
by their
thighs--(ah, my brave horsemen!
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Whitman |
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" Gawayne answers
with great wroth, "Thrash on, thou fierce man, thou
threatenest
too
long; I believe thy own heart fails thee.
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Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow,
Whose streams through Nature
circling
go?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Bestir ye, and remove the dead; command
Those women also to your help; then cleanse
With bibulous sponges and with water all
The seats and tables; when ye shall have thus 510
Set all in order, lead those women forth,
And in the centre of the spacious court,
Between the scull'ry and the outer-wall
Smite them with your broad faulchions till they lose
In death the mem'ry of their secret loves
Indulged
with wretches lawless as themselves.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How poor, how strange, how wrong,
To dream He wrote the little song
I made to Him with love's
unforced
design!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Nec sterilem te crede» licet,
mulieribus
exul,
Falcem virginese nequeas immittere messi,
Et nostro peccare modo.
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Marvell - Poems |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Poetry is reality's essence
visioned
and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with
flowering
herbs bestrewn the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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