I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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But let not such upon the stage be brought
Which better should behind the scenes be wrought;
Nor force the
unwilling
audience to behold
What may with vivid elegance be told.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait
of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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It is really a
glorious
book.
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Robert Burns |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And as he to the court-yard pass'd along,
Each third step did he pause, and listen'd oft
If he could hear his lady's matin-song,
Or the light whisper of her
footstep
soft;
And as he thus over his passion hung,
He heard a laugh full musical aloft;
When, looking up, he saw her features bright
Smile through an in-door lattice, all delight.
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Keats |
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Gleam of
sunshine
on the wall
Poured a deeper cheer than all
The revels of the Carnival.
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Emerson - Poems |
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She loves Rodrigue, I gave her him again,
Through me Rodrigue
conquered
his disdain;
Having thus forged these lovers' heavy chains,
I wish to see an end to all their pains.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And out of his
handsome
body
His startled spirit departed.
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Tennyson |
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A while these nights and days will burn
In song with the bright frailty of foam,
Living in light before they turn
Back to the
nothingness
that is their home.
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Sara Teasdale |
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no thought
We give them; Punic seaman's fear
Is all of Bosporus, nor aught
Recks he of
pitfalls
otherwhere;
The soldier fears the mask'd retreat
Of Parthia; Parthia dreads the thrall
Of Rome; but Death with noiseless feet
Has stolen and will steal on all.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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who wast
yesterday
a guest
Beneath my roof, and didst enjoin me then
A voyage o'er the sable Deep in quest
Of tidings of my long regretted Sire!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pero, se 'l mondo
presente
disvia,
in voi e la cagione, in voi si cheggia;
e io te ne saro or vera spia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The
conscience
of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And thus to Betty's question, he
Made answer, like a
traveller
bold,
(His very words I give to you,)
"The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo,
"And the sun did shine so cold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You were the notes
Of cold
fantastic
grief
Some few found beautiful.
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Imagists |
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What
festival
is this?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The air of that place so attempre was
That never was grevaunce of hoot ne cold; 205
Ther wex eek every holsom spyce and gras,
Ne no man may ther wexe seek ne old;
Yet was ther Ioye more a
thousand
fold
Then man can telle; ne never wolde it nighte,
But ay cleer day to any mannes sighte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nǣnigne ic under swegle sēlran hȳrde
hord-māððum hæleða,
syððan
Hāma ætwæg
1200 tō þǣre byrhtan byrig Brōsinga mene,
sigle and sinc-fæt, searo-nīðas fealh
Eormenrīces, gecēas ēcne rǣd.
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Beowulf |
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As no one point, nor dash,
Which are but accessaries to this name,
The showers and tempests can outwash, 15
So shall all times finde mee the same;
You this intirenesse better may fulfill,
Who have the
patterne
with you still.
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John Donne |
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[It was
proposed
to publish a new edition of the poems of Michael
Bruce, by subscription, and give the profits to his mother, a woman
eighty years old, and poor and helpless, and Burns was asked for a
poem to give a new impulse to the publication.
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Robert Burns |
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Valuable
screw!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
MENALCAS
"These truly- nor is even love the cause-
Scarce have the flesh to keep their bones together
Some evil eye my
lambkins
hath bewitched.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Copyright
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Appoloinaire |
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[Sent with the
following
_Songe to AElla.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sorrows divided amongst many, less
Discruciate
a man in deep distress.
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Robert Herrick |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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On
mechanical
slavery, on the slavery of the
machine, the future of the world depends.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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T.S. Eliot |
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_The eyes be first that
conquered
are.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
I explain the
silvered
passing of a ship
at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving,
The little cry of a man to a man,
A shadow falling across the greyer night,
And the sinking of the small star;
Then the waste, the far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.
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Stephen Crane |
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tu uero, regina, tuens cum sidera diuam
placabis
festis luminibus Venerem, 90
sanguinis expertem non ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" I asked,
hastening
to obey.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And after a thousand years I climbed the holy
mountain
and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
I was a little maid
When here we came to live
From
somewhere
by the sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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740
My visible
passions
dared to appear abroad.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"And his last
promotion
was due to you?
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Kipling - Poems |
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In tender accents, faint and low,
Well-pleased I hear the
whispered
"No!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A sudden trust from sudden liking grew;
She told her name, her race, and all she knew,
'I too (she cried) from
glorious
Sidon came,
My father Arybas, of wealthy fame:
But, snatch'd by pirates from my native place,
The Taphians sold me to this man's embrace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Into new hours of
beautiful
delight,
Out of the shadow where she has lain,
Bring the earth awake for glee,
Shining with dews as fresh and clear
As my beloved's voice upon the air.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Der Dichter sollte wohl das hochste Recht,
Das Menschenrecht, das ihm Natur vergonnt,
Um deinetwillen
freventlich
verscherzen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thys merkness doe affraie mie
wommanns
breaste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CCXIII
That Emperour sets Rollant on one side
And Oliver, and the
Archbishop
Turpine;
Their bodies bids open before his eyes.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For Constantine to have that town was bent
Anew, late won by the
Bulgarian
foe.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Yours, yes,
Retaining alone of the vanished sky, this
Trace of
childish
triumph as you spread each tress,
Gleaming as you show it against the pillows,
Like the helmet of war of a child-empress
From which, to denote you, would pour down roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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sought backe to turne againe;
For light she hated as the deadly bale,
Ay wont in desert
darknesse
to remaine,
Where plain none might her see, nor she see any plaine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Who could had seen Rollanz and Oliver
With their good swords to strike and to
slaughter!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sometimes I hear, as 'twere a sigh,
The sea's deep
yearning
far above,
'Thou hast the secret not,' I cry,
'In deeper deeps is hid my Love.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Lie still, my son, the mother said,
Tis but a little space
And half an hour has
scarcely
passed
Since she did pass this place.
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John Clare |
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Oh, many a Cup of this
forbidden
Wine
Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I have
struggled
in vain, my decision was fruitless,
Why then do I wait?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Cradock
writes:
"As to Mary Hutchinson's pool, I think that it was not on the beck
anywhere, but some
detached
little pool, far up the hill, to the
eastwards of the Hall, in 'the woods.
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William Wordsworth |
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True, he was over forty when he
produced it, but it is noticeably
different
from the works of his old age.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Close at his side was Titus
On an Apulian steed,
Titus, the
youngest
Tarquin,
Too good for such a breed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Round every crook
Of the ample cavern, for his kine, Apollo
Looked sharp; and when he saw them not, he took _320
The
glittering
key, and opened three great hollow
Recesses in the rock--where many a nook
Was filled with the sweet food immortals swallow,
And mighty heaps of silver and of gold
Were piled within--a wonder to behold!
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Shelley |
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Reeds in a trice are
sprouting
and rustling in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
The Parson, too, appeared, a man austere,
The
instinct
of whose nature was to kill;
The wrath of God he preached from year to year,
And read, with fervor, Edwards on the Will;
His favorite pastime was to slay the deer
In Summer on some Adirondac hill;
E'en now, while walking down the rural lane,
He lopped the wayside lilies with his cane.
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Longfellow |
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Terrified & drinking tears of woe
Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights
Sleepless
her food was tears
Wondring she saw her woof begin to animate.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The coxcomb bird, so
talkative
and grave,
That from his cage cries c**d, w**e, and knave,
Though many a passenger he rightly call,
You hold him no philosopher at all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Therefore, it would seem that I have some title to speak to you
to-day; and considering what that title is, and the
occasion
that has
called us together, I need offer no apology if I invite your
attention, for the few moments that are allotted me, to a purely
scientific subject.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_He_ (_constant_, and with noble _anger_ hot)
His haughty
_menace_
weighs not at _two chips_.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Unless
otherwise
noted, changes are to all related forms of
the word.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The mist before us lifted,
And in their bravery fine
Came rushing to their ruin
The
fearless
British line.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Instead
Of
answering
my question,
"Well!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I am not valiant neither,
But every puny
whipster
gets my sword.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Come, child, to prayer; the busy day is done,
A golden star gleams through the dusk of night;
The hills are trembling in the rising mist,
The rumbling wain looms dim upon the sight;
All things wend home to rest; the
roadside
trees
Shake off their dust, stirred by the evening breeze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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In the mountains my wife and
children
weep facing the heavens, 12 from your stables I need the wind-chasing brown charger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Would thou hadst lesse deseru'd,
That the
proportion
both of thanks, and payment,
Might haue beene mine: onely I haue left to say,
More is thy due, then more then all can pay
Macb.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Eager, I seized
such heap from the hoard as hands could bear
and
hurriedly
carried it hither back
to my liege and lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Begin the
mournful
stave,
Melpomene, to whom the Sire of all
Sweet voice with music gave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Thus while he speaks the ruddy sun descends,
And
twilight
grey her evening shade extends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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--What mother could confide
Her
offspring
to the wild and watery waste?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'Twas well enough when summer came,
The long, warm,
lightsome
summer-day,
Then at her door the _canty_ dame
Would sit, as any linnet gay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sincerely loving him, Eugene
Assuredly should not have been
Conventionality's dull tool--
Not a mere hot,
pugnacious
boy,
But man of sense and probity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your imperishable bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your
renascent
loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these pomegranate groves.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Erschien darauf mit bunten Farben
Die junge Konigin im Glas,
Hier war die Arzenei, die
Patienten
starben,
Und niemand fragte: wer genas?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Such, O
monarchs
of earth!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Lāstas wǣron
æfter wald-swaðum wīde gesȳne,
1405 gang ofer grundas; gegnum fōr þā
ofer myrcan mōr, mago-þegna bær
þone sēlestan sāwol-lēasne,
þāra þe mid
Hrōðgāre
hām eahtode.
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Beowulf |
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ofer fǣgum (_over the
warriors
fallen in the
battle_), 3026.
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Beowulf |
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_When he shifts from side to side
Earthquakes gape and open wide;_
_When a
nightmare
makes him snore,
All the dead volcanoes roar.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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* But much it to our work would add,
* If here your hand, your face, we had : i3o
* By it we would our Lady touch ;
* Yet thus she you
resembles
much.
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Marvell - Poems |
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