Ah, parted by whirlpools
Widest, yon
truculent
main where yields it power of passage?
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Thou hast the
knowledge
clear, but lo, I bring
More also.
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I
imagined
I could save my happy life by forfeiting
my honour; and the result is that I have lost both.
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[Sidenote E: Our knight
consents
to remain for another night.
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Kynge
Haroldes
knyghts desir'de for hendie stroke, 95
And marched furious o'er the bloudie pleyne,
In bodie close, and made the pleyne to smoke;
Theire sheelds rebounded arrowes back agayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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at
neuermore
schal blinne.
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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PAUL KING: All of you who have been lately in China must be struck
with the extraordinary difference between the China
described
in these
poems and the China which has come into being since the revolution.
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Li Po |
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And, in that pause, a
sinister
whisper ran:
Burial at Sea!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--They shall not see thee, when I display at large
The riches and the honour; I've enough
Possession, without thee, to stupify
The
assembly
of my men, my herd of kings.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The first who mark'd them was the Cretan king;
High on a rising ground, above the ring,
The monarch sat: from whence with sure survey
He well
observed
the chief who led the way,
And heard from far his animating cries,
And saw the foremost steed with sharpen'd eyes;
On whose broad front a blaze of shining white,
Like the full moon, stood obvious to the sight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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As the punishment of your folly
and
blindness
you shall love me as I truly am.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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All is now secure and fast;
Not the gods can shake the Past;
Flies-to the
adamantine
door
Bolted down forevermore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
LXXXI
His ceaseless strokes scarce one the other wait:
Speedily
all his foemen are in flight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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Lucretius |
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_God's deathless plaything rolls an eye
Five hundred
thousand
cubits high.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Only the maidens question not
The bridges that lead to Dream;
Their
luminous
smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
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Rilke - Poems |
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fremmað
gē nū lēoda þearfe, 2801; inf.
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Beowulf |
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CHORUS
Forth from the royal halls by high command
I bear
libations
for the dead.
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Aeschylus |
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Hither came at noon
Mournful
?
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Tennyson |
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195 BCE) established the Han, his advisor Shusun Tong recommended that Confucian
scholars
of Lu be summoned to make Liu Bang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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outen strijf,
Rome forto gouerne; 954
we
defenden
holy chirche
A?
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Below are the blatant lights in a huddled squalor;
Above are futile fires in
freezing
space.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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something
in a trance!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus may Cyprus' heavenly queen,
Thus Helen's brethren, stars of
brightest
sheen,
Guide thee!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But greater far and heavier ills than this
The suitors plan, whose
counsels
Jove confound!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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There is a Book
By seraphs writ with beams of
heavenly
light,
On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
A chronicle of actions just and bright--
There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
And since, thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
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Golden Treasury |
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Let it be but the witless mating of beasts,
Tamed and
curiously
knowing itself
And cunning in its own delight: What then?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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compares this
Dantesque
tarn and scenery with the
poetical accounts of _AEneid_, vii.
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Beowulf |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A
thousand
cups of gold,
In Judah deemed divine--[ly]
Jehovah's vessels hold
The godless Heathen's wine!
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Byron |
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William Wordsworth |
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'
"'But I have no money at all,'
insisted
my grandmother.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Explicit,
_following_
And longe
haue red (_see note to_ 7694); Th.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Wilde - Poems |
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How their mouths water while they are looking
At miles of slaughter and sniffing the
cooking!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke,
At least wee'l dye with
Harnesse
on our backe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The world of imagination is infinite
and eternal, whereas the world of generation or
vegetation
is finite
and temporal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Now the cat has ta'en her seat,
With her tail curled round her feet;
Patiently she sits to watch
Sparrows
fighting
on the thatch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, _320
The vaporous exultation not to be
confined!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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For now the
moanings
bitter,
Left by the rain, make harmony
With the swallow's matin-twitter,
And the robin's note, like the wind's in a tree.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Aux yeux du
souvenir
que le monde est petit!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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1 Taibai
Mountain
and Wugong county were near Fengxiang.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Lucullus, when
frugality
could charm,
Had roasted turnips in the Sabine farm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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and
wherefore
wert thou chosen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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After so long, sister, to see
And hold thee, and then part, then part,
By all that chained thee to my heart
Forsaken, and
forsaking
thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Sing, with the joy the joyless would have known
Who for this visioned
happiness
so gladly gave their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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once my soul and life
Calista, whom I fondly cherished long;
Calista, whose
affection
was so strong;
Is gold more dear than hearts in union twined?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,
Yet
persevered
toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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While through that
wilderness
of primy sweets
That never fade, suspense I walk'd, and yet
Expectant of beatitude more high,
Before us, like a blazing fire, the air
Under the green boughs glow'd; and, for a song,
Distinct the sound of melody was heard.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But what their care
bequeathed
us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was blighted in a day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And
wherefore
say not I that I am old?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,
Came
stealing
through the Dusk an Angel Shape,
Bearing a vessel on his Shoulder; and
He bid me taste of it; and 'twas--the Grape!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There
happened
to be an old farm labourer
Who came by chance that way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
Bellerephon was the first to ride Pegasus when he
attacked
the Chimaera.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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LVI
It never can be mine
To sit in the door in the sun
And watch the world go by,
A pageant and a dream;
For I was born for love, 5
And
fashioned
for desire,
Beauty, passion, and joy,
And sorrow and unrest;
And with all things of earth
Eternally must go, 10
Daring the perilous bourn
Of joyance and of death,
A strain of song by night,
A shadow on the hill,
A hint of odorous grass, 15
A murmur of the sea.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But where repose the all
Etruscan
three--
Dante, and Petrarch, and, scarce less than they,
The Bard of Prose, creative spirit!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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*****
And men
contending
to ensepulchre
Pile upon pile the throng of their own dead:
And weary with woe and weeping wandered home;
And then the most would take to bed from grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
So to the Gate of the three Queens we came,
Where Arthur's wars are rendered mystically,
And thence
departed
every one his way.
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Tennyson |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Io era ben del suo ammonir uso
pur di non perder tempo, si che 'n quella
materia non potea
parlarmi
chiuso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Und mich wiegst du indes in
abgeschmackten
Zerstreuungen, verbirgst mir
ihren wachsenden Jammer und lassest sie hilflos verderben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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She had lived humble and retired, and had devoted herself to the good of
her family;
virtuous
amidst the prevalence of corrupted manners, and,
though a beautiful woman, untainted by the breath of calumny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Vox Corporis
The beast to the beast is calling,
And the soul bends down to wait;
Like the
stealthy
lord of the jungle,
The white man calls his mate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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While the forest quakes surprise,
And the wild wind sobs and sighs,
My home rocks as like to fall,
On its pillar green and tall;
When the
pattering
rain drives by
Clock-a-clay keeps warm and dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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i-ip-pu-us ul-sa-am
is-si-ma i-ni-i-su
i-ta-mar a-we-lam
iz [32]-za-kar-am a-na harimti
sa-am-ka-at uk-ki-si [33] a-we-lam
a-na mi-nim il-li-kam
zi-ki-ir-su lu-us-su [34]
ha-ri-im-tum is-ta-si a-we-lam
i-ba-us-su-um-ma i-ta-mar-su
e-di-il [35] e-es-ta-hi-[ta-am]
mi-nu a-la-ku-zu na-ah- [36] [ -]ma
e pi-su i-pu-sa-am-[ma]
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluEn-[ki-du]
bi-ti-is e-mu-tim [ ]
si-ma-a-at ni-si-i- ma
tu-sa [37]-ar pa-a-ta-tim [38]
a-na ali dup-sak-ki-i e si-en
UG-AD-AD-LIL e-mi sa-a-a-ha-tim
a-na sarri Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [39] a-na ha-a-a-ri
a-na
iluGilgamis
sarri sa Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [40]
a-na ha-a-a-ri
as-sa-at si-ma-tim i-ra-ah-hi
su-u pa-na-nu-um-ma
mu-uk wa-ar-ka-nu
i-na mi-il-ki sa ili ga-bi-ma
i-na bi-ti-ik a-pu-un-na-ti-su [41]
si- ma- az- zum
a-na zi-ik-ri id-li-im
i-ri-ku pa-nu-su
REVERSE II
.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as eternity at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century
terrified
at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
Depth of basalt and lavas
By even the enslaved echoes
Of a trumpet without power
What
sepulchral
shipwreck (you
Know it, slobbering there, foam)
Among hulks the supreme one
Flattened the naked mast too
Or that which, furious mistake
Of some noble ill-fate
All the vain abyss spread wide
In the so-white hair's trailing
Would have drowned miser-like
The childish flank of some Siren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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For now she
worcheth
me ful wo, 815
And I wol telle sone why so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
All morning I heard him fret:
"Oh, when will she come,
Fleurette?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Piso having crossed the sea of Dalmatia, and left his ships at Ancona,
took first the road of Picenum and then the
Flaminian
way, following the
legion which was going from Pannonia to Rome, and thence to garrison
in Africa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Unless it came as a woman at whose beauty
His lust hath never sipt; for into his flesh
To drink unknown desirable limbs as wine
Torments him still, like a thirst when fever pours
A man's life out in
drenching
sweats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It was la bas
with him even in the tortures of his
wretched
love-life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ierat_ R: _peierat_ ACDa ||
_Vatinius_
OD || _uac.
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Latin - Catullus |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais
debarques
a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
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I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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Girt in the cloud he
passes amid them, wonderful to tell, and
mingling
with the throng is
descried of none.
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Can blaze be done in cochineal,
Or noon in
mazarin?
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead;
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed,
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"To soothe the throbbing
passions
into peace.
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At length, in the afternoon, under a charming autumnal sky, one of those
skies that let fall hosts of
memories
and regrets, she seated herself
remotely in a garden, to listen, far from the crowd, to one of the
regimental bands whose music gratifies the people of Paris.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Wilt overtread
The eternal judgment, and abate
And spoil the
portions
of the dead?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off
Attendant
Censor Fan (23) on his Way to a Post 289 Troops massed beneath Mounts Qi and Liang, 8 having crossed over back from the desert?
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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He had won all the
world and brought it to Maisie in a cartridge-box, but she turned it
over with her foot, and, instead of saying "Thank you," cried--"Where is
the grass collar you
promised
for Amomma?
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Kipling - Poems |
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PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS
" "DEING no longer human, why should I -D Pretend
humanity
or don the frail attire?
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Are not our lowing heifers sleeker than
Night-swollen
mushrooms?
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow
sharpened
in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
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{39a} The line may mean: till
Hrethelings
stormed on the hedged
shields, -- i.
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