"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Is not this great power indeed,
which allows even wealth to be
disdained?
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Aristophanes |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by
standards
wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are
nothing!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I think the
notion that no poet can form a correct
estimate
of his own writings is
another.
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Poe - 5 |
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Both poets maintain a similar ideal in life; but they
maintain it within conditions
altogether
unlike.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to
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Meredith - Poems |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
The melody went on some moments more
Among the trees the calm moon glistened o'er,
Then trembled and was hushed; the voice's thrill
Stopped like
alighting
birds, and all was still.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing
strength
to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age prepares for noble spirits
After long careers, miserable exits!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Cursed ambition,
detestable
obsession
Whose tyranny sways the noblest of men!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Marry, we must not play
or riot too much with them, as in Paronomasies; nor use too
swelling
or
ill-sounding words!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Just in one
instance
be it yet confest
Your people, sir, are partial in the rest:
Foes to all living worth except your own,
And advocates for folly dead and gone.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O quick to prize me Love, how
suddenly
From out the tumult truth hath ta'en his own, And in this vision is our past unrolled.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A travers le treillis
recourbe
de tes cotes
Je vois, errant encor, l'insatiable aspic.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thoughts, whither have he led me, with what sweet
Compulsion thus transported to forget
What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope
Of
Paradise
for Hell, hope here to taste
Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,
Save what is in destroying, other joy
To me is lost.
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Milton |
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May I be bold
To think these
spirits?
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Shakespeare |
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For sanctity, they have, to these,
Their curious copes and surplices
Of cleanest cobweb, hanging by
In their
religious
vestery.
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Robert Herrick |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O PIONEERS
TO THE SAYERS OF WORDS
VOICES
WHOSOEVER
BEGINNERS
TO A PUPIL
LINKS
THE WATERS
TO THE STATES
TEARS
A SHIP
GREATNESSES
THE POET
BURIAL
THIS COMPOST
DESPAIRING
CRIES
THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE
TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE
UNNAMED LANDS
SIMILITUDE
THE SQUARE DEIFIC
SONGS OF PARTING:
SINGERS AND POETS
TO A HISTORIAN
FIT AUDIENCE
SINGING IN SPRING
LOVE OF COMRADES
PULSE OF MY LIFE
AUXILIARIES
REALITIES
NEARING DEPARTURE
POETS TO COME
CENTURIES HENCE
SO LONG!
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Whitman |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then,
glancing
narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not exorcised before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Desire with
loathing
strangely mixed
On wild or hateful objects fixed.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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The
falconer
has her sure.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It is true that "Poems of Places" are not meant to be photographs; and
were they simply to
reproduce
the features of a particular district, and
be an exact transcript of reality, they would be literary photographs,
and not poems.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At least, forget not the
celestial
vision.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Who will say that he saw, as
midnight
struck
Its tremulous golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
_Eighth Edition_,
_November
1909_.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine;
Yet one I would select from that proud throng,
Partly because they blend me with his line,
And partly that I did his sire some wrong,
And partly that bright names will hallow song;
And his was of the bravest, and when showered
The death-bolts
deadliest
the thinned files along,
Even where the thickest of war's tempest lowered,
They reached no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The god ordered me in plain terms to follow
the first man I should meet upon leaving the temple and to persuade him
to
accompany
me home.
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Aristophanes |
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Peter's,
Who nothing know of art beyond the color
Of cloaks and stockings, nor of any building
Save that of their own
fortunes!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Thou canst not love
disgrace
me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For there's no sequestered grot,
Lone
mountain
tarn, or isle forgot,
But Justice, journeying in the sphere,
Daily stoops to harbor there.
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Emerson - Poems |
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, _time full of troubles,
sorrowful
time_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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We will not from our
plighted
oath depart.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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carv'd with cunning ymagery,
On which true Christians bloud was often spilt,
And holy Martyrs often doen to dye,
With cruell malice and strong tyranny: 320
Whose blessed sprites from underneath the stone
To God for
vengeance
cryde continually,
And with great griefe were often heard to grone,
That hardest heart would bleede, to hear their piteous mone.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[426] A comic and
dithyrambic
poet.
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Aristophanes |
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in my head
Many
thoughts
of trouble come,
Like to flies upon a plum.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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They shine with
radiance
from God's face.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Swooning
at the sound, her
sister runs in a flutter of dismay, with torn face and smitten bosom,
and darts through them all, and calls the dying woman by her name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Tu scaldi il mondo, tu sovr' esso luci;
s'altra ragione in
contrario
non ponta,
esser dien sempre li tuoi raggi duci>>.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There is no land like England,
Where'er the light of day be,
There are no maids like English maids,
So
beautiful
as they be.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,
Her ports all up, her battle-lanterns lit,
And her leashed
thunders
gathering for their leap!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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With such
revilings
loud upon his lips
He waves the triple plumes that o'er his helm
Float overshadowing, as a courser's mane;
And at his shield's rim, terror in their tone,
Clang and reverberate the brazen bells.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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I
condemned
him because you were his accuser.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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I alter day by day in hair and mien,
Yet shun not the old dangerous baits and dear,
Nor sever from the laurel, limed and green,
Which nor the
scorching
sun, nor fierce cold sear.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert,
Nicolaes
Visscher (I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Compare another
reference
to 'The Hurricane; a Theosophical and Western
Eclogue' etc.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--He lay there, drunken, glutted with me,
And his bare falchion hung beside the bed,--
Look on it, and look on the blood I made
Go pouring thunder of
pleasure
through his brain!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I ken thy friends try ilka means,
Frae wedlock to delay thee;
Depending
on some higher chance--
But fortune may betray thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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In
rendering
justice, set all in the balance:
Your father died, yet he was the aggressor;
Justice itself commands me to be fairer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Chimene
That
happiness
so near, would fail instead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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For at eve the open windows flung their light out on the terrace
Which the
floating
orbs of curtains did with gradual shadow sweep,
While the swans upon the river, fed at morning by the heiress,
Trembled downward through their snowy wings at music in their sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Brigg,
Who
purchased
no end of a wig;
So that only his nose, and the end of his toes,
Could be seen when he walked about Brigg.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
A gust of wind blew in and the king
bared his breast to meet it, saying: "How
pleasant
a thing is this wind
which I share with the common people.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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" I decided that
if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments
of the afternoon might be collected, and I
concentrated
my attention
with careful subtlety to this end.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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THE CARVER HOLME, or
evergreen
oak, was good for carving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A demon wishing to
interrupt
her prayers extinguished the light she carried, but divine power rekindled it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
22, 23, 1847]
_This poem was written to commemorate the bringing home of the
bodies of the Kentucky
soldiers
who fell at Buena Vista, and their
burial at Frankfort at the cost of the State.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And when he raised it dripping once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only
disinterestedly
to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Box
numbered
and marked as per margin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Beautiful
lily!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I
heard the rats squeak behind the wainscots: it seemed to me that the
very mice were
consulting
on the manner of her death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
<
toujours
la meme vieille histoire!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The Mountain
THE
mountain
held the town as in a shadow
I saw so much before I slept there once:
I noticed that I missed stars in the west,
Where its black body cut into the sky.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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_the star Whose worth's unknown,
although
his height be taken_:
apparently, Whose stellar influence is uncalculated, although his
angular altitude from the plane of the astrolabe or artificial horizon
used by astrologers has been determined.
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Golden Treasury |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye,
And unto
battaill
bad them selves addresse:
Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye,
And burning blades about their heads do blesse,
The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50
With greedy force each other doth assayle,
And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse
Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle;
The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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He
laboreth
at every tree, --
A worm his utmost goal.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thus will I not too heinously regard
A woman's death who did her husband slay,
The
guardian
of her home; and if the votes
Equal do fall, Orestes shall prevail.
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I came among the Sons of God, when he
Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job
To prove him, and
illustrate
his high worth; 370
And when to all his Angels he propos'd
To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring,
I undertook that office, and the tongues
Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes
To his destruction, as I had in charge.
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Cum scholte latis genus htesit agris,
Nota quae sedes fuerat bubulcis ;
Cum, tog^ abjecta, pavidus
reliquit
Oppida doctus.
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for the great triumph
That
stretches
many a mile.
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dicere possemus quae proelia gesta sub Haemo
quaeque cruentarint fumantem
Strymona
pugnae,
quam notus clipeo, quanta ui fulminet hastam,
ni prohiberet Hymen.
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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