L'altra e colei che s'ancise amorosa,
e ruppe fede al cener di Sicheo;
poi e
Cleopatras
lussuriosa.
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Besides, he was a husband, which is worse
With these each sin
receives
a double curse.
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O silent and secretly-moving throng,
In your fifty
thousand
strong,
Coming at dusk when the wreaths have dropt,
And streets are empty, and music stopt,
Silently coming to hearts that wait
Dumb in the door and dumb at the gate,
And hear your step and fly to your call--
Every one of you won the war,
But you, you Dead, most of all!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The wanderer halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the
glimmering
weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now to my theme--but from thy holy haunt
Let me some remnant, some
memorial
bear;
Yield me one leaf of Daphne's deathless plant,
Nor let thy votary's hope be deemed an idle vaunt.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Eufeniens was his name;
Of
godenesse
was his fame
In ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The character of Faust
especially, the man whose burning, untiring heart can neither enjoy
fortune nor do without it, who gives himself unconditionally and watches
himself with mistrust, who unites the enthusiasm of passion and the
dejectedness of despair, is not this an
eloquent
opening up of the most
secret and tumultuous part of the poet's soul?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It holds intimate relations with either extreme;
but from the Moral Sense is separated by so faint a
difference
that
Aristotle has not hesitated to place some of its operations among the
virtues themselves.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Still, in the midst of the arctic day, we may trace the summer to its
retreats, and
sympathize
with some contemporary life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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From the cool cisterns of the midnight air
My spirit drank repose;
The
fountain
of perpetual peace flows there,--
From those deep cisterns flows.
| Guess: |
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Longfellow |
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Mt mind was once the true survey
Of all these meadows fresh and gay,
And in the
greenness
of the grass
Did see its hopes as in a glass,
When Juliana came, and she,
What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts
and me.
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Marvell - Poems |
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With dun-red bark
The fir-trees, and the
unfrequent
slender oak,
Forth from this tangle wild of bush and brake
Soar up, and form a melancholy vault
High o'er me, murmuring like a distant sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I must have talked for about ten minutes or so, though it seemed an
eternity to me, when I heard Kitty's clear voice outside
inquiring
for
me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To phrase you and praise you,
Ye ken your Laureat scorns:
The pray'r still you share still
Of
grateful
Minstrel Burns.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Our nations melting thy
Colossus
frame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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EPITAPH
ON A BAD MAN
Under this stone does Walter
Harcourt
lie,
Who valued nought that God or man could give;
He lived as if he never thought to die;
He died as if he dared not hope to live!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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--Fire, which
consuming
flies
Through all my frame!
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
)
The
cannoneers
bent to obey,
And worked with a will at his word:
And the black guns moved as if _they_ had heard.
| Guess: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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mouerat
ingenium
totam cantata per Vrbem
nomine non uero dicta Corinna mihi.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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112
In that cyte was an Image,
That was lyke goddes wysage, 114
Many a
pylgryme
had hit sought,
For hit was neuer with honde wrought.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for
crossing
the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the
wandering
eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Tomorrow
your Dictator
Shall bring in triumph home
The spoils of thirty cities
To deck the shrines of Rome!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Tania well nigh expired when he
Turned to her and discordantly
Intoned it,
manuscript
in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Perhaps 't is some strange charm to draw him here, 'Thout which he may not leave his new-found crew That ride the two-foot
coursers
of the deep,
And laugh in storms and break the fishers' nets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
What evil flame stifled in my heart
appears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Alcinous calls a council, in which it is
resolved
to transport
Ulysses into his country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Rutilius Cassus, Philo next in sight
Appear'd, like
twinkling
stars that gild the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Vaster and still more vast,
Peak after peak, pile after pile,
Wilderness still untamed,
To which the future is as was the past,
Barrier spread by Gods,
Sunning their shining foreheads,
Barrier broken down by those who do not need
The joy of time-resisting storm-worn stone,
The mountains swing along
The south horizon of the sky;
Welcoming
with wide floors of blue-green ice
The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my powerful controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a
schoolmaster
to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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It is not love, it is not hate,
Nor low Ambition's honours lost,
That bids me loathe my present state,
And fly from all I prized the most:
It is that weariness which springs
From all I meet, or hear, or see:
To me no
pleasure
Beauty brings;
Thine eyes have scarce a charm for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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As o'er the fresh grass her fair form its sweet
And graceful passage makes at evening hours,
Seems as around the newly-wakening flowers
Found virtue issue from her
delicate
feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
"Old man, I am impressed by what you say,
But my soul is not
fashioned
like other men's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Upon the
mountain
did they feed;
They throve, and we at home did thrive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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With grief, O
queen, did I quit thy brow, with grief: I swear to thee and to thine head;
fit ill befall
whosoever
shall swear lightly: but who may bear himself peer
with steel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And
tediousness
the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Lord Byron's Coat of Arms,
with Coronet,
Supporters
and Motto, is stamped in gold on the cover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Shall I never miss
Home-talk and
blessing
and the common kiss
That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,
When I look up, to drop on a new range
Of walls and floors, another home than this?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
I mourn upon this battle-field,
But not for those who
perished
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
'T was universe that did applaud
While,
chiefest
of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself distinguished God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The willow trees glisten,
The
sparrows
chirp under the eaves; but the face in my heart
Is a secret of music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The Governor was strong upon
The
Regulations
Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
50
That when the knight beheld, his mightie shild
Upon his manly arme he soone addrest,
And at him fiercely flew, with courage fild,
And eger
greedinesse
through every member thrild.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The fast increasing darkness of the night might have saved me from any
more difficulties, when, looking back, I
discovered
that Saveliitch was
no longer with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I feel, O maiden,
circling
me,
Thy spirit of grace and fulness hover,
Which daily like a mother teaches thee
The table-cloth to spread in snowy purity,
And even, with crinkled sand the floor to cover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion with a
stirring
child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Meet me by the sweet briar,
By the mole hill
swelling
there;
When the West glows like a fire
God's crimson bed is there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Surely some
fortunate
hour 5
Phaon will come, and his beauty
Be spent like water to plenish
Need of that beauty!
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rime,
While he insults o'er dull and
speechless
tribes:
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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So those
passionate
letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of tenderness and love.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They wish
for it, they embrace it, they adore it, while yet it is
possessed
with
greater stir and torment than it is gotten.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Both_
bigynneth
to amende.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the still
Valkyrie
hover panting for hallowed souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Scotchman
dissatisfied with Canada, a, 75.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And if you have failed in this duty, if out of honest and
pure-minded men you have made rogues, what
punishment
do you think is
your meet?
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Aristophanes |
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I whisper'd to my heart, Nay,
wherefore
fear?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Red, from
mainmast
to bitts!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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MARMADUKE My Office is fulfilled--the Man is now
Delivered
to the Judge of all things.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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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[294] Ceuta, a small Spanish
possession
on the Mediterranean coast of
Morocco.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There
revenges
are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The first bold javelin, urged by Hector's force,
Direct at Ajax' bosom winged its course;
But there no pass the
crossing
belts afford,
(One braced his shield, and one sustain'd his sword.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Not for mere stress of need, but purpose set,
That never day nor night God may forget
Aegisthus' sin: aye, and
perchance
a cry
Cast forth to the waste shining of the sky
May find my father's ear.
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Euripides - Electra |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies;
Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,
Emprison
her soft hand, and let her rave,
And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
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Keats |
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My dear babe,
Who, capable of no articulate sound,
Mars all things with his
imitative
lisp,
How he would place his hand beside his ear,
His little hand, the small forefinger up,
And bid us listen!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He drew a
portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, at eighteen, and
executed
miniatures
of many contemporaries.
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John Donne |
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The two Battles of Hastings were written during this
period, and it appears that Barrett the surgeon, on being shown the
first poem, was for once very insistent in asking for the original,
whereupon
Chatterton
in a momentary panic confessed he had written the
verses for a friend; but he had at home, he said, the copy of what was
really the translation of Turgot's Epic--Turgot was a Saxon monk of
the tenth century--by Rowley the secular priest of the fifteenth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Her looks are like the vernal May,
When ev'ning Phoebus shines serene,
While birds rejoice on every spray;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Is it not plain, that 'tis Zeus hurling it at the
perjurers?
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Aristophanes |
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His
strength
he trusted,
hand-gripe of might.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His
righteous
sentence by the dim and flaring lamps.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE
CREPUSCULAR
SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the lethargy of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sifting soft winds with
sentence
and rhyme_.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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GD} Los now
repented
that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins To heal the wound of his smiting
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous [bloody] wine *
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Blake - Zoas |
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She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
Her audit (though
delayed)
answered must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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