--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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And I must be obedient in all things;
Give up my will to yours; go where you please;
Come when you call; sit at the council-board
Among the
unshapely
bodies of old men.
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Yeats |
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many fearful natures in one name,
I know ye; and these lakes and echoes know
The darkness and the
clangour
of your wings.
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Shelley |
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In this process is to be found the
explanation
of much of
the peculiar quality of the songs of Burns.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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are,
he fond [him] redy
sittinde
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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swythynne
speeke, or instante thou shalte die.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
Starboard
it was--and so,
Like a black squall's lifting frown,
Our mighty bow bore down
On the iron beak of the Foe.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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at brout hys mete,
Prev[i]ly he
shoullde
hym gete
A lytyll ynke and perchemyne, 265
And all hys lyffe he wrote there In.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
Are met--as if at home they could not die--
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And
fertilise
the field that each pretends to gain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-colored Ass;
But the length of its ears so
promoted
his fears,
That it killed that Old Man of Madras.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The golden cups, remaining in vain, were taken, 28 no more, the
tasseled
curtains blowing lightly.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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then trimm'd with brazen shears
The wretch, and shorten'd of his nose and ears;
His hands and feet last felt the cruel steel:
He roar'd, and
torments
gave his soul to hell.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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active links or
immediate
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Robert Forst |
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And doc^ in the
pomegranates
close.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE BRIDGE OF CLOUD
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant
visions, as of old!
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Longfellow |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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How should we seek to Thee for power
Who scorned Thee
yesterday?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To what benevolent demon, then, do I owe being thus
surrounded
with
mystery, with silence, with peace, and sweet odours?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me
regardais
il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The hunting and
unlacing
the wild boar (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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290
Thir glittering Tents he passd, and now is come
Into the blissful field, through Groves of Myrrhe,
And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and Balme;
A Wilderness of sweets; for Nature here
Wantond as in her prime, and plaid at will
Her Virgin Fancies, pouring forth more sweet,
Wilde above rule or art;
enormous
bliss.
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Milton |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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_egit_ h
392 _certatum_ GORVenCh ||
_ruentes_
ap: _tuentes_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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ATOSSA
Disaster
to the army came, through ruin on the deep!
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Aeschylus |
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I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We to one side retir'd, into a place
Open and bright and lofty, whence each one
Stood
manifest
to view.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Who dares forgive what none can
overlook?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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O to be a
Carolinian!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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J
[Illustration]
J was a jackdaw
Who hopped up and down
In the principal street
Of a
neighboring
town.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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KATE: In which of your
characters
may we address you?
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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To the songs I sing the moon
flickers
her beams;
In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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This casket India's glowing gems unlocks,
And all Arabia
breathes
from yonder box.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My Love in her attire doth shew her wit,
It doth so well become her;
For every season she hath
dressings
fit,
For Winter, Spring, and Summer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Again,
ourselves
whatever in the dark
We touch, the same we do not find to be
Tinctured with any colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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my native shore
Fades o'er the waters blue;
The night-winds sigh, the
breakers
roar,
And shrieks the wild sea-mew.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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while he
Still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
Should fall on me, this
hireling
shepherd here
Wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
Filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then, let thine eyes their lordly might admire,
And mark the thunder of their arms of fire:
The shore, with trembling, hears the
dreadful
sound,
And rampir'd walls lie smoking on the ground.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Soon as the noise
of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls
and
enwreathe
the wine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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As when the piercing blasts of Boreas blow,
And scatter o'er the fields the driving snow;
From dusky clouds the fleecy winter flies,
Whose dazzling lustre whitens all the skies:
So helms succeeding helms, so shields from shields,
Catch the quick beams, and
brighten
all the fields;
Broad glittering breastplates, spears with pointed rays,
Mix in one stream, reflecting blaze on blaze;
Thick beats the centre as the coursers bound;
With splendour flame the skies, and laugh the fields around,
Full in the midst, high-towering o'er the rest,
His limbs in arms divine Achilles dress'd;
Arms which the father of the fire bestow'd,
Forged on the eternal anvils of the god.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Is that a
happening
unknown among us?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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she held the sceptre like a flower;
Timid yet gay, imprudent for the hour,
And
careless
too.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When such music sweet
Their hearts and ears did greet
As never was by mortal finger strook--
Divinely-warbled voice
Answering the stringed noise,
As all their souls in blissful rapture took:
The air, such
pleasure
loth to lose,
With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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OSWALD Most
willingly!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thine is the stillest night,
Thine the
securest
fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I see men's faces grin with helpless lust
About me; crooked hands reach out to please
Their hot nerves with the flower of my skin;
I see the eyes
imagining
enjoyment,
The arms twitching to seize me, and the minds
Inflamed like the glee-kindled hearts of fiends.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Vesper adest, iuvenes, consurgite: Vesper Olympo
Expectata
diu vix tandem lumina tollit.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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1540
What nedeth yow to tellen al the chere
That
Deiphebus
un-to his brother made,
Or his accesse, or his siklych manere,
How men gan him with clothes for to lade,
Whan he was leyd, and how men wolde him glade?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For henceforth, from to-night,
I am wholly gone into the bright
Safety of the beauty of love:
Not only all my waking vigours plied
Under the searching glory of love,
But knowing myself with love all satisfied
Even when my life is hidden in sleep;
As high clouds, to themselves that keep
The moon's white company, are all possest
Silverly with the presence of their guest;
Or as a darken'd room
That hath within it roses, whence the air
And
quietness
are taken everywhere
Deliciously by sweet perfume.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Here are a
thousand
books!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In the country of the Hermunduri rises the Elbe; 222 a river formerly
celebrated
and known among us, now only heard of by name.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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There, through the summer day
Cool streams are laving:
There, while the
tempests
sway,
Scarce are boughs waving;
There thy rest shalt thou take,
Parted for ever,
Never again to wake
Never, O never!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Such verse must inevitably
forfeit whatever
advantage
lies in the discipline of public criticism
and the enforced conformity to accepted ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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On morwe, as sone as day bigan to clere,
This Troilus gan of his sleep tabrayde, 520
And to Pandare, his owene brother dere,
`For love of god,' ful
pitously
he seyde,
`As go we seen the paleys of Criseyde;
For sin we yet may have namore feste,
So lat us seen hir paleys at the leste.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But lures the pirate, and
corrupts
the friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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For why should I conceal this
weakness
of my soul?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends Houghton Mifflin Co.
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That wight that list to have knowing
Of Fals-Semblant, ful of flatering, 6140
He must in worldly folk him seke,
And, certes, in the
cloistres
eke;
I wone no-where but in hem tweye;
But not lyk even, sooth to seye;
Shortly, I wol herberwe me 6145
There I hope best to hulstred be;
And certeynly, sikerest hyding
Is undirneth humblest clothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
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Li Po |
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As haply by the way, if want of food
Compel the traveller to relax his speed,
Losing that strength which first his steps endued,
So feeling, for my weary life, the need
Of that dear nourishment Death rudely stole,
Leaving the world all bare, and sad my soul,
From time to time fair
pleasures
pall, my sweet
To bitter turns, fear rises, and hopes fail,
My course, though brief, that I shall e'er complete:
Cloudlike before the gale,
To win some resting-place from rest I flee,
--If such indeed my doom, so let it be.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Grandmother
made some
excuse for not having brought any money, and began to punt.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This which we have seen is eternally ours,
No others shall tread in the glade which now we see;
Their hands shall not touch the frail
tranquil
flowers,
Nor their hearts faint in wonder at the wild white tree.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This was the Lamentation of Enion round the golden Feast
[[End of the First Night]]y
Eternity groand and was troubled at the image of Eternal Death
Without the body of Man an
Exudation
from his sickning limbs
Now Man was come to the Palm tree & to the Oak of Weeping
Which stand upon the edge of Beulah & he sunk down
From the Supporting arms of the Eternal Saviour; who disposd
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
Upon The Rock of Ages.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--
But the sin
forgiven
by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway!
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--Prince of the Powers
Of
Darkness
and the Tomb, O pity me!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Therewithal the
Tyrians are gathered full in the wide
feasting
chamber, and take their
appointed places on the broidered cushions.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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; as if it needed only a little foreign
accent, a few more liquids and vowels
perchance
in the language, to
make us locate our ideals at once.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Famished and lame, I came at last to Dieppe,
But Dawn had made his way across the sea,
And, as I climbed with heavy feet the cliff,
Was even then upon the sky-built towers
Of that great capital where nations all,
Teuton, Italian, Gallic, English, Slav,
Forget long hates in one
consummate
faith.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the
severing
clouds in yonder East.
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Shakespeare |
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"
The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Thus, by an arm divine, and mortal spear,
Wounded, at once,
Patroclus
yields to fear,
Retires for succour to his social train,
And flies the fate, which heaven decreed, in vain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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xv
2a post 3a
statuebat
Muretus
3a _primipesue al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Imagists |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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ou
misseist
hym ou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We leave behind pale traces of achievement:
Fires that we kindled but were too tired to put out,
Broad gold fans
brushing
softly over dark walls,
Stifled uproar of night.
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Imagists |
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Writing to his friend and fellow-poet Hooft, in
1630, he says:[13]
'I think I have often
entertained
you with reminiscences of
Dr.
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John Donne |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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'
Little
thinking
if we work our SOULS as nobly as our iron,
Or if angels will commend us at the goal of pilgrimage.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Twined with the wreaths
Parnassian
laurels yield,
Or reaped in iron harvests of the field?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Strange armed men beside the dwelling there
Lie
ambushed!
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Euripides - Electra |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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' cries the soothsayer; 'retire from all the grove; and
thou, stride on and
unsheath
thy steel; now is need of courage, O
Aeneas, now of strong resolve.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Dear heart, make a soft cradle of old tales,
And songs, and music:
wherefore
should you sadden
For wrongs you cannot hinder?
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Yeats |
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II
Dryads
haunting
the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and Assyrian wine
to shatter her fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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