Between the acres of the rye
These pretty country folks would lie:
This carol they began that hour,
How that life was but a flower:
And
therefore
take the present time
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonino!
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So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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SPIKKY SPARROW
THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS THE TABLE AND THE
CHAIR
NONSENSE
STORIES.
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The sun gilded with its beams
the tops of the lindens, already
yellowed
by the keen breath of autumn.
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A mon destin, desormais mon delice,
J'obeirai comme un predestine;
Martyr docile, innocent condamne,
Dont la ferveur attise le supplice,
Je sucerai, pour noyer ma rancoeur,
Le nepenthes et la bonne cigue
Aux bouts charmants de cette gorge aigue
Qui n'a jamais
emprisonne
de coeur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Our God is
marching
on.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Liue you, or are you aught
That man may
question?
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Know'st thou not the Duke
Hath banish'd me, his
daughter?
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Shakespeare |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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O
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
FAUST:
Das ist ein
allgemeiner
Brauch,
Ein Jud und Konig kann es auch.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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THE NAMING OF THEM
It would be a pleasant pastime to find
suitable
names for the hundred
varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His fair visitor then enquires how it is
that he who is so skilled in the true sport of love and so
renowned
a
knight, has never talked to her of love (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings
Hyperion
slid into the rustled air,
And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad place
Where Cybele and the bruised Titans mourn'd.
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Keats |
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"Tremendous" was a
favorite
word with Dennis.
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Alexander Pope |
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The scandal
resulted
in his flight (1229) to Provence.
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Troubador Verse |
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e
goodenes
of folk ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
Such once I sought in vain; then black despair,
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone:-- _50
Yet never found I one not false to me,
Hard hearts, and cold, like weights of icy stone
Which crushed and withered mine, that could not be
Aught but a
lifeless
clod, until revived by thee.
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Shelley |
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at he wil fonde
Whiche men of
stedfastnesse
be?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Part shares her tomb, part to her heaven is sped;
Where now, with laurel wreathed, in triumph's car
She reaps the meed of
matchless
holiness:
So might I, of this flesh discumbered,
Which holds me prisoner here, from sorrow far
With her expatiate free 'midst realms of endless bliss!
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Tennyson |
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SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In 1759 an
annotated
edition was published by Wang Ch'i, with six
_chuan_ of critical and biographical matter added to the thirty _chuan_
of the works.
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Li Po |
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Earnest I look'd
Into the depth, that open'd to my view,
Moisten'd with tears of anguish, and beheld
A tribe, that came along the hollow vale,
In silence weeping: such their step as walk
Quires chanting solemn
litanies
on earth.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Four days are sped, but with the fifth, anon,
New shores
descried
make every bosom gay;
And Cintra's mountain greets them on their way,
And Tagus dashing onward to the deep,
His fabled golden tribute bent to pay;
And soon on board the Lusian pilots leap,
And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to
despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And, if he with his verbal
imagination
did not entirely succeed,
how could a less adept manipulator of the vocabulary?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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You know how high my ideal of Art is; and to me my poor casual
little poems seem to be less than beautiful--I mean with that
final
enduring
beauty that I desire.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It lightens, it brightens
The
tenebrific
scene,
To meet with, and greet with
My Davie or my Jean!
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Robert Forst |
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Son seul esprit, son mechant esprit etait de
tourner en
ridicule
les manies de son ami.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus ne'er at all have heavier from above
Been swift to strike the lighter,
gendering
strokes
Which cause those divers motions, by whose means
Nature transacts her work.
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Lucretius |
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Spikky Sparrow said,
"Spikky,
darling!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the saddle
shooting
arrows
to the mark!
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Whitman |
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At
thirteen
I wrote a
long poem a la 'Lady of the Lake'--1300 lines in six days.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Were it thus,
How 'scape I shame, whose will was
traitorous?
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James Russell Lowell |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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De feroces oiseaux perches sur leur pature
Detruisaient
avec rage un pendu deja mur,
Chacun plantant, comme un outil, son bec impur
Dans tous les coins saignants de cette pourriture;
Les yeux etaient deux trous, et du ventre effondre
Les intestins pesants lui coulaient sur les cuisses,
Et ses bourreaux gorges de hideuses delices
L'avaient a coups de bec absolument chatre.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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: _tulsa_ O || _et_] _hac_ D:
_ac_ a
34
_negligentem_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
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Imagists |
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Young men are aroused in their passions by
obstacles
and by excitement;
I prefer to go slow, savoring pleasures secure.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Perfectly
unconscious
that they are indebted to their stupidity
for the consistency of their conduct, they plume themselves on an
imaginary virtue which has its origin in what is really their
disgrace.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Into the sky,
the red earthenware and the
galvanised
iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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Imagists |
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Forth they fared by the footpaths thence,
merry at heart the
highways
measured,
well-known roads.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O Muck, Brothel-Spawn, or
e'en loathsomer if it is
possible
so to be!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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My
memories
freeze
Like birds' cry
In hollow trees.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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How light and
laughing
my mind is,
When all the good folk have put out their bed-room candles,
And the city is still!
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Imagists |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
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blake-poems |
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)
Loverdes, how
doughtilie
the tylterrs joyne!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Li Po |
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So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet
fragrance
that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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Prison
Reading, Berkshire
July 7th, 1896
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL
I
HE did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And
murdered
in her bed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O
humankind
unhappy!
| Guess: |
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Lucretius |
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Le vent baise ses seins et deploie en corolle
Ses longs voiles berces
mollement
par les eaux;
Les saules frissonnants pleurent sur son epaule,
Sur son grand front reveur s'inclinent les roseaux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then they
described
a kind of curvilinear path upon the side of the fell, and
both these first and last appearances were bounded by the top of the
mountain.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hark to a voice that is calling
To my heart in the voice of the wind:
My heart is weary and sad and alone,
For its dreams like the
fluttering
leaves have gone,
And why should I stay behind?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud
That
beautifies
Aurora's face,
Or like the silver crimson shroud
That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace;
Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!
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Golden Treasury |
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for now I see a
thousand
eyes
Wide glaring for revenge!
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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from Heaven with
conquest
crown'd,
Our brother's arms the just success have found:
Be therefore now the Spartan wealth restor'd,
Let Argive Helen own her lawful lord;
The appointed fine let Ilion justly pay,
And age to age record this signal day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nec me animi fallit
Graiorum
obscura reperta
difficile inlustrare Latinis uersibus esse,
multa nouis uerbis praesertim cum sit agendum
propter egestatem linguae et rerum nouitatem;
sed tua me uirtus tamen et sperata uoluptas
suauis amicitiae quemuis sufferre laborem
suadet et inducit noctes uigilare serenas
quaerentem dictis quibus et quo carmine demum
clara tuae possim praepandere lumina menti,
res quibus occultas penitus conuisere possis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
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Stephen Crane |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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'23 a Birth-night Beau':
a fine
gentleman
in his best clothes, such as he would wear at a ball on
the occasion of a royal birthday.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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He had already
appointed Annius Gallus and Petilius Cerialis to the chief command,
and distinguished
officers
as they were, he was afraid the conduct of
such a war might be too much for them.
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Tacitus |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Hippolytus, when you, with ensignry
Won from the foe, and with his captive gear
Adorned our temples; and his galleys bore,
Laden with prey, to your paternal shore;
III
All the inhuman deeds which wrought by hand
Of Moor, or Turk, or Tartar ever were,
(Yet not by the Venetians' ill command,
That evermore the praise of justice bear,)
Were
practised
by that foul and evil band
Of soldiers, who their mercenaries are.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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O that was bliss without
measure!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nous etions pales
Sire, nous etions souls de
terribles
espoirs:
Et quand nous fumes la, devant les donjons noirs,
Agitant nos clairons et nos feuilles de chene,
Les piques a la main; nous n'eumes pas de haine,
--Nous nous sentions si forts, nous voulions etre doux!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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An
outlawed
murderer
Had lived seven days there: the pursuit was hot
When he was cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
He tried to run back to his house, but in vain,
For scores of fat Pigs came again and again:
They rushed out of stables and hovels and doors;
They tore off his stockings, his shoes, and his drawers;
And now from the housetops with screechings descend
Striped, spotted, white, black, and gray Cats without end:
They jumped on his shoulders and knocked off his hat,
When Crows, Ducks, and Hens made a mincemeat of that;
They
speedily
flew at his sleeves in a trice,
And utterly tore up his Shirt of dead Mice;
They swallowed the last of his Shirt with a squall,--
Whereon he ran home with no clothes on at all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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--Do pens but slily further her
advance?
| 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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God sends not ill; if rightly understood,
Or partial ill is universal good,
Or change admits, or Nature lets it fall;
Short, and but rare, till man
improved
it all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
VI
My love is
lovelier
than the sprays
Of eglantine above clear waters,
Or whitest lilies that upraise
Their heads in midst of moated waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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309) to this volume--with all the notes to that edition
of 1793--it is not quoted in the
footnotes
to the final text in the
pages which follow, except in cases which will justify themselves.
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William Wordsworth |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
| Guess: |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many cats were tame again,
Many ponies tame again,
Many pigs were tame again,
Many canaries tame again;
And the real
frontier
was his sun-burnt breast.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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That was the going out of the brigade of the
youngest
men, two thousand
strong,
Few return'd, nearly all remain in Brooklyn.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
As on a Alpine watch-tower
From heaven comes down the flame,
Full on the neck of Titus
The blade of Aulus came:
And out the red blood spouted,
In a wide arch and tall,
As spouts a
fountain
in the court
Of some rich Capuan's hall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Li Po |
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Under those bright rustling yellow
piles just ready to fall on the heads of the walkers, how can any
crudity or greenness of thought or act
prevail?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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from this plight
How can we
Persians
fare towards hope again?
| Guess: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Amid the snowdrifts which surround
A stream, by winter's ice unbound,
Impetuously clove its way
With boiling torrent dark and gray;
Two poles together glued by ice,
A fragile bridge and insecure,
Spanned the unbridled torrent o'er;
Beside the
thundering
abyss
Tattiana in despair unfeigned
Rooted unto the spot remained.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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His knowledge, for
example, is
measured
by the brief time he has to live and the brief
space he can survey.
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Great art thou,
Carthage!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Only they
set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and
sacrifice
to their
gut and their groin in their inner closets.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The variant has
_ultaprid
ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his murderous weapon.
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The
sovereign
Lord, 'gainst whom of no avail
Concealment, or resistance is, or flight,
My mind had kindled to a new delight
By his own amorous and ardent ail:
Though his first blow, transfixing my best mail
Were mortal sure, to push his triumph quite
He took a shaft of sorrow in his right,
So my soft heart on both sides to assail.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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frumgāre
(of
Bēowulf), 2857.
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Beowulf |
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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the
darkness
to betray
The black embarasst flood sheared by the stems?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A frigate fretting yonder smoothest sky,
Like
pauseless
petrel poising o'er a wreck,
Strikes bright athwart the dearly dazzled eye,
Until it lessens to scarce certain speck,
'Neath Venus, sparkling on the agate-sprinkled beach,
For fisher's sailing-signal, just and true,
Until Aurora frights her from the view.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw 510
Angels
ascending
and descending, bands
Of Guardians bright, when he from Esau fled
To Padan-aram in the field of Luz,
Dreaming by night under the open Skie,
And waking cri'd, This is the Gate of Heav'n.
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Milton |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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Pure as the babe, I ween, and all aglow
As the dear hopes, that swell the mother's breast--
Her eyes down gazing o'er her clasped charge;--
Yet gay as that twice happy father's kiss,
That well might glance aside, yet never miss,
Where the sweet mark emboss'd so sweet a targe--
Twice
wretched
he who hath been doubly blest!
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