The strange night-wonder of your eyes Dies not, though passion flieth
Along the star fields of
Arcturus
And is no more unto our hands;
My lips are cold
And yet we twain are never weary,
And the strange night-wonder is upon us,
The leaves hold our wonder in their flutterings, The wind fills our mouths with strange words
For our wonder that grows not old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Combustion thro' our boroughs rode,
Whistling his roaring pack abroad
Of mad
unmuzzled
lions;
As Queensberry blue and buff unfurl'd,
And Westerha' and Hopetoun hurled
To every Whig defiance.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I can't, because _my_ legs
Are so
extremely
short.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Heedless
they enter'd, all,
But I remain'd, suspicious of a snare.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou canst not love disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,
I will
acquaintance
strangle, and look strange;
Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
picktooth
in
the mouth, the flower in the eare, the brush upon the beard; .
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In no wise am I
dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the
Phrygians
insolently
advance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet
harmonious
voice
Like a murmuring stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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La forma general di paradiso
gia tutta mio sguardo avea compresa,
in nulla parte ancor fermato fiso;
e volgeami con voglia riaccesa
per
domandar
la mia donna di cose
di che la mente mia era sospesa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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My retainer was so astounded by the turn affairs had taken that he did
not address a single
question
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Heracles indeed, half-way on his road from
the roaring reveller of the Satyr-play to the suffering and erring
deliverer of tragedy, is a little foreign to our notions, but quite
intelligible and
strangely
attractive.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Cosi parlar
conviensi
al vostro ingegno,
pero che solo da sensato apprende
cio che fa poscia d'intelletto degno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No
friendly
shade thy shade shall company!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Our
conditions
mend;
In a change of mates we shall both rejoice;
I hoped that it thus might end!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'173-206'
In this section Pope
reproves
those who are dissatisfied with man's
faculties.
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Alexander Pope |
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He the
greatest
of our poets!
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Aristophanes |
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[44] The Chorus throws itself between Cleon and
Agoracritus
to protect
the latter.
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Aristophanes |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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E
Dionisio
con tanto disio
a contemplar questi ordini si mise,
che li nomo e distinse com' io.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post 307 The Emperor said: ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad:
vnnaturall
deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The creed which dominated poetic composition during this
period is discussed in the
introduction
to the Essay on Criticism, (see
p.
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Alexander Pope |
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PAGE 17
[[And]] Enion blind & age bent wept upon the
desolate
wind
Why does the Raven cry aloud and no eye pities her?
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Blake - Zoas |
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_
MY EVER DEAR OLD ACQUAINTANCE,
I was equally surprised and pleased at your letter, though I dare say
you will think by my delaying so long to write to you that I am so
drowned in the intoxication of good fortune as to be
indifferent
to
old, and once dear connexions.
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Robert Burns |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite
indifferent!
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Whitman |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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30
Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard
Descend, and sit on each important card:
First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore,
Then each, according to the rank they bore;
For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, 35
Are, as when women,
wondrous
fond of place.
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Alexander Pope |
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Nor was that the meanest of mighty helps
which Hrothgar's orator offered at need:
"Hrunting" they named the hilted sword,
of old-time heirlooms easily first;
iron was its edge, all etched with poison,
with battle-blood hardened, nor blenched it at fight
in hero's hand who held it ever,
on paths of peril
prepared
to go
to folkstead {21b} of foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[78]
What has become of my
strength?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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But Business forbid that they should give him an
increase of pay at his present ridiculously
immature
age!
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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In the midst of all his zealous pleading, he stooped
neither to satire nor personality against the
opposing
party.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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It was obviously
absurd that
Peythroppe
should marry her.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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in soft
Delight they die & they revive in spring with music & songs
Enion said
Farewell
I die I hide.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In that fatal hour he saw a lady, a little younger than himself[B]
in a green mantle
sprinkled
with violets, on which her golden hair fell
plaited in tresses.
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Petrarch |
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[149] "The same day were all the
fountains
of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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I tell you what I dreamed last night:
A spirit with
transfigured
face
Fire-footed clomb an infinite space.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The thought hath
poisoned
all my years.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And then I saw, hard by,
A shepherd lad with shining eyes,
And round him
gathered
one by one
Countless sheep, snow-white;
More and more they crowded
With tender cries,
Till all the field was full
Of voices and of coming sheep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For it was an age not only of
spontaneous transition, but of bold experiment: it includes not only
such
divergences
of thought as distinguished the "Rape of the Lock" from
the "Parish Register," but such vast contemporaneous differences as lie
between Pope and Collins, Burns and Cowper.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen,
To
trappings
of the tomb!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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How beautiful and perfect are the
animals!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Her dowff excuses pat me mad:
"Conscience," says I, "ye
thowless
jad!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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{39}
incorruptible progeny of a divine and incorporeal nature*, or whatever
other appellation they may think fit to give it; those who thus hope,
(but I say this in accordance with Divinity,) in this respect think
rightly, that those who have lived well in this life will be blessed,
but that those who have been
entirely
unjust, will be involved in
endless evils.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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yet howsoever
posterity
shall take the deed, love of country
and limitless passion for honour shall prevail.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In a
cottaged
vale She dwells,
Listening to the Sabbath bells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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_The old woman comes in
burdened
with her sack_.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
"I saw him in gaunt gardens lone,
Where
laughter
used to be;
That he as phantom wanders there
Is known to none but me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some flee the memory of their childhood's home;
And others flee their fatherland; and some,
Star-gazers drowned within a woman's eyes,
Flee from the tyrant Circe's witcheries;
And, lest they still be changed to beasts, take flight
For the
embrasured
heavens, and space, and light,
Till one by one the stains her kisses made
In biting cold and burning sunlight fade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And
therefore
borne in a speedy
craft by favouring breezes, he came to the imperious Minos and his superb
seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Once again, the
formless
void of a world-wreck
Gropes its way through the echoing dark of chaos;
Tide on tide, to the calling, lost horizons,--
One in the darkness.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nor, though a prince, to be a man refused ;
But rather than in his Eliza's pain
Not love, not grieve, would neither live nor
reign;
And in himself so ofl
immortal
tried.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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"
XXI
Thus in a style _obscure_ and _stale_,(64)
He wrote ('tis the romantic style,
Though of romance therein I fail
To see aught--never mind meanwhile)
And about dawn upon his breast
His weary head
declined
at rest,
For o'er a word to fashion known,
"Ideal," he had drowsy grown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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There he droned on,--a grim old sinner,
Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner,
Unpitied quite, uncared for much
(The rate-payers not favoring such),
Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare;
Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear
Danced back, a
haunting
memory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: "Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our
immortal
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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What gentle winds
perspire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their spindles the
consenting
Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Stockings
were not knitted in the fifteenth century (_AElla_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But, to
conclude
my lang epistle,
As my auld pen's worn to the grissle;
Twa lines frae you wad gar me fissle,
Who am, most fervent,
While I can either sing or whissle,
Your friend and servant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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that record could with a
backward
look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It is no mosaic of
brilliant
epigrams, but an organic
creation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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It strikes me as curious that
European people who know
something
about Chinese poetry should prefer
Li T'ai-po.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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_The Poet's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Anna, I will confess it; since Sychaeus mine
husband met his piteous doom, and our household was
shattered
by a
brother's murder, he only hath [22-55]touched mine heart and stirred
the balance of my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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90
'The song is old and simple that I sing;
But old and simple are
despised
as cheap,
Though hardest to achieve of human things:
Good were the days of yore, when men were tried
By ring of shields, as now by ring of words;
But while the gods are left, and hearts of men,
And wide-doored ocean, still the days are good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Her sons are as stones in the way--
They are masses of senseless clay--
They are trodden, and move not away,--
The
abortion
with which SHE travaileth
Is Liberty, smitten to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Each
diligently
bends
Towards common thoughts and things for very fear;
Striving their ghastly malady to cheer,
By thinking it a thing of yes and no,
That housewives talk of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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could another ever share
This wayward, loveless heart, it would be thine:
But checked by every tie, I may not dare
To cast a
worthless
offering at thy shrine,
Nor ask so dear a breast to feel one pang for mine.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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II
De sa
fourrure
blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee une fois, rien qu'une.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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_Spirits
of the Trees.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Though bitter sneers and
stinging
scorns
Did throng the muse's dangerous way,
Thy powers were past such little thorns,
They gave thee no dismay;
The scoffer's insult passed thee by,
Thou smild'st and mad'st him no reply.
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John Clare |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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And thus she
brenneth
bothe in love and drede,
So that she niste what was best to rede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge
seaworms
in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
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Tennyson |
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To go directly to the etext collections, use FTP or any
Web browser to visit a Project
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O THOU yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men
Cam
Hobhouse!
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Byron |
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Roused by the shock he started from his trance--
The cold white light of morning, the blue moon
Low in the west, the clear and garish hills,
The
distinct
valley and the vacant woods, _195
Spread round him where he stood.
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Shelley |
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