WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The
shouting
and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There revenges are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the
bridegroom
all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Which sages
venerate
and bards adore,
As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Night and the Madman
"I am like thee, O, Night, dark and naked; I walk on the flaming
path which is above my day-dreams, and
whenever
my foot touches
earth a giant oak tree comes forth.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Page 18
[THE first
following
version of the Life of St Alexius, from Laud 622, is the longest--and latest, no doubt*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Then I might see the joyfu' sight,
My
Highland
Harry back again.
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Robert Forst |
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The
difference
of caste roused
an equal opposition, not only on the side of her family, but of
his; and in 1895 she was sent to England, against her will, with
a special scholarship from the Nizam.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Once my
proudest
dress,
Now prouder still, Maria's temples press.
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Robert Burns |
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Shemus, you are late home: you have been lounging
And
chattering
with some one: you know well
How the dreams trouble me, and how I pray,
Yet you lie sweating on the hill from morn,
Or linger at the crossways with all comers,
Telling or gathering up calamity.
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Yeats |
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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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The Jew Of Malta
I
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this afternoon for you";
And four wax candles in the
darkened
room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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DAMAYANTE TO NALA IN THE HOUR OF EXILE
(A fragment)
Shalt thou be
conquered
of a human fate
My liege, my lover, whose imperial head
Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nor was all love shut from him, though his days
Of passion had
consumed
themselves to dust.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And deemest thou as those who pore,
With aged eyes, short way before,--
Think'st Beauty
vanished
from the coast
Of matter, and thy darling lost?
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Emerson - Poems |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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How have you come to dwell with me,
Compassing
me with the four circles of your mystic lightness,
So that I say "Glory!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pale through
pathless
ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
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blake-poems |
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whatte menes yis
leathalle
knelle?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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This is the giddy air, and I must spread
Wide pinions to keep here; nor do I dread
Or height, or depth, or width, or any chance
Precipitous: I have beneath my glance 360
Those towering horses and their
mournful
freight.
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Keats |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Be so very good as by
return of post to enclose me
_another_
note: I trust you can do so
without inconvenience, and it will seriously oblige me.
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Robert Burns |
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" There is no evidence that his association with them was
otherwise than transient, though legend (see "Memoires
Concernant
les
Chinois" and Giles, Biographical Dictionary) has invested the incident
with an undue importance.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And outmatch the bubbling call
From the
beechwoods
in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
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Sappho |
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Is it worth while, dear, since
As mates in Mellstock churchyard we can lie,
Till the last crash of all things low and high
Shall end the
spheres?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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my slow heart was only sad, when first
I scanned that face of feeble infancy:
For dimly on my
thoughtful
spirit burst
All I had been, and all my child might be!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The oaks of the mountains fall; the
mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows
again; the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the
same, rejoicing in the
brightness
of thy course.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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)
I will not dwell on other
criticisms
of this type.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And all beside the river's winding bed
Fresh flowers in gay confusion deck'd the mead,
Painting
the sod with every scent and hue
That Flora's breath affords, or drinks the morning dew,
And many a solemn bower, with welcome shade,
Over the dusky stream a shelter made.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
parchment
is stained with brown,
except one corner, and the first line written in a legal texting hand.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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est tibi (sitque precor) multorum filius instar,
parsque tui partus it tibi salua prior;
est coniux, tutela hominum, quo sospite uestram,
Liuia,
funestam
dedecet esse domum.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The selfsame day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy
footstool
Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
"What will you give me if I tell you a sure short-cut to
everything
you
want,--the trouble and the fuss and the tangle and all the rest?
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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All ye friends,
Farewell!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Je sais les cieux crevant en eclairs, et les trombes,
Et les ressacs, et les courants, je sais le soir,
L'aube exaltee ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes,
Et j'ai vu
quelquefois
ce que l'homme a cru voir.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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On this subject we had long and animated discussions--he
maintaining the utter
groundlessness
of faith in such matters,--I
contending that a popular sentiment arising with absolute spontaneity-
that is to say, without apparent traces of suggestion--had in itself the
unmistakable elements of truth, and was entitled to as much respect
as that intuition which is the idiosyncrasy of the individual man of
genius.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an
adornment
bland,
As farewell gift: a gentle rhyme.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could sweare in both
the Scales against eyther Scale, who
committed
Treason
enough for Gods sake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen:
oh come in, Equiuocator.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On warm
hillsides
its stems are ripe
by the twenty-third of August.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The marvellous was with him better than the
natural; and he chose to
surprise
and dazzle, rather than merit the
approbation of sober judgement.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Once with what joy the generous prince would hear
Of every chief who fought this
glorious
war,
Participate their fame, and pleased inquire
Each name, each action, and each hero's sire!
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Montreal
(Que.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
e
emperour
with his erles bolde,
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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His sister may have helped him, and he may possibly have gone mad
afterwards; but these painful issues are kept
determinedly
in the shade.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Day the stately,
Sunken lately
Into the violet sea,
Backward
hovers
Over lovers,
Over thee, Marie, and me,
Over me and thee.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And then, good upright Macae shall decide;
Thus things arrang'd, the ladies
homeward
plied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"Without is
everything
that I feel within myself, and without
and within myself everything is immeasurable, illimitable.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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At last they mount on their swift
coursing
steeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Each year brings forth its millions; but how long
The tide of generations shall roll on,
And not the whole
combined
and countless throng
Compose a mind like thine?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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gone was every friend of thine:
And kindred of dead husband are at best
Small help, and, after
marriage
such as mine,
With little kindness would to me incline.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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)
Perhaps these
wretches
have bewitch'd our wives,
And made us fancy errors in their lives.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The compressed and
punctuated
translation is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I was for leaving
something
to the whetter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Lord Raoul drew rein with all his company,
And urged his horse i' the crowd, to gain fair view
Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat
Still,
underneath
where Gris Grillon was laid,
And heard, somewhile, with languid scornful gaze,
The friar putting blame on priest and knight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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When from its proper soil the tree is moved
Which Phoebus loved erewhile in human form,
Grim Vulcan at his labour sighs and sweats,
Renewing ever the dread bolts of Jove,
Who
thunders
now, now speaks in snow and rain,
Nor Julius honoureth than Janus more:
Earth moans, and far from us the sun retires
Since his dear mistress here no more is seen.
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| Answer: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Quiet, quiet, above,
beneath!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
IV
REVEILLE
Wake: the silver dusk returning
Up the beach of
darkness
brims,
And the ship of sunrise burning
Strands upon the eastern rims.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[13] Our search
will not take us far before we notice something very remarkable; poems
which look superficially like epic turn out to have scarce anything of
real epic intention; whereas epic
intention
is apt to appear in poems
that do not look like epic at all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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My every power's
incipient
decay--
My wearied soul--alike, in warning say
"Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Pride answers, "'Tis for mine:
For me kind Nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower;
Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew
The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew;
For me, the mine a
thousand
treasures brings;
For me, health gushes from a thousand springs;
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise;
My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Soon the sage old sire {38e} of Ohtere,
ancient and awful, gave
answering
blow;
the sea-king {38f} he slew, and his spouse redeemed,
his good wife rescued, though robbed of her gold,
mother of Ohtere and Onela.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
70
The grete Ioye that was betwix hem two,
Whan they be met, ther may no tunge telle,
Ther is no more, but unto bed they go,
And thus in Ioye and blisse I let hem dwelle;
This worthy Mars, that is of
knighthod
welle, 75
The flour of fairnes lappeth in his armes,
And Venus kisseth Mars, the god of armes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
--_The London
Saturday
Review,_ Feb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Superfetation
of [Greek text inserted here],
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Canto VIII
Solea creder lo mondo in suo periclo
che la bella
Ciprigna
il folle amore
raggiasse, volta nel terzo epiciclo;
per che non pur a lei faceano onore
di sacrificio e di votivo grido
le genti antiche ne l'antico errore;
ma Dione onoravano e Cupido,
quella per madre sua, questo per figlio,
e dicean ch'el sedette in grembo a Dido;
e da costei ond' io principio piglio
pigliavano il vocabol de la stella
che 'l sol vagheggia or da coppa or da ciglio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I have seen the he-bird also;
I have paused to hear him, near at hand,
inflating
his throat, and joyfully
singing.
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If it could be so I'd make no fuss,
All fate's
suffering
would seem sweet today,
Not even if I'd to be a vulture's prey,
Nor he who must roll the boulder, Sisyphus.
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Ronsard |
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He was clothed
entirely
in green, and rode upon a green foal (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fasse mich nicht so
gewaltsam
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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and yet the busy people
Go up and down the streets on their affairs
Of business or of pleasure, as if nothing
Had happened to disturb them or their
thoughts!
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Longfellow |
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, _word-hoard,
treasury
of speech, mouth_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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John Donne |
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) Ha, there's
drinking
going on
here; we shall get something here.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be
satisfactorily
rendered into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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["Charles the First" was
designed
in 1818, begun towards the close of
1819 [Medwin, "Life", 2 page 62], resumed in January, and finally laid
aside by June, 1822.
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Shelley |
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From noble arms on the church wall
Grew forth a cluster of leaves, and the preacher's pulpit of oak-wood
Budded once more anew, as
aforetime
the rod before Aaron.
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Longfellow |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Stephen Crane |
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God, who gave to him the lyre,
Of all mortals the desire,
For all breathing men's behoof,
Straitly charged him, 'Sit aloof;'
Annexed a warning, poets say,
To the bright premium,--
Ever, when twain
together
play,
Shall the harp be dumb.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Some clamour was excited on the
occasion: but it
speedily
subsided; for the Star Chamber kept a
watchful eye on the first symptoms of discontent at these pernicious
indulgences.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Lewis Carroll |
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optuli opem cunctis poscentibus artis inemptae
officiumque
meum cum pietate fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He sought in pray'r the
daughter
dread of Jove,
And, brandishing it, hurl'd his lance; it struck 610
Eupithes, pierced his helmet brazen-cheek'd
That stay'd it not, but forth it sprang beyond,
And with loud clangor of his arms he fell.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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