Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great
barefooted
laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I heare a
knocking
at the South entry:
Retyre we to our Chamber:
A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A funeral stone
Or verse I covet none,
But only crave
Of you that I may have
A sacred laurel springing from my grave:
Which being seen,
Blest with
perpetual
green,
May grow to be
Not so much call'd a tree
As the eternal monument of me.
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Robert Herrick |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top 670
Belch'd fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire
Shon with a glossie scurff,
undoubted
sign
That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,
The work of Sulphur.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Alexander
Cunningham and his unhappy loves are
recorded
in that fine song, "Had
I a cave on some wild distant shore.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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At half-past four, experiment
Had
subjugated
test,
And lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who knows but I am
enjoying
this?
| 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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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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the chiefs appear,
And spring to earth; the Greeks dismiss their fear:
With words of
friendship
and extended hands
They greet the kings; and Nestor first demands:
"Say thou, whose praises all our host proclaim,
Thou living glory of the Grecian name!
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Iliad - Pope |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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With thy clear voice
sounding
5
Through the silver twilight,--
What is the lost secret
Of the tacit earth?
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Sappho |
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The
bodiless
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[431] Nay, console yourself; we will not fail to offer up the
third-day
sacrifice
for you, first thing in the morning.
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Aristophanes |
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And for these words, thus woven into song,
It may be that they are a
harmless
wile,--
The colouring of the scenes which fleet along,
Which I would seize, in passing, to beguile
My breast, or that of others, for a while.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At the sight of my
geographical
studies he boxed my ears sharply, sprang
forward to Beaupre's bed, and, awaking him without any consideration, he
began to assail him with reproaches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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let me waite within your covente dore,
Till the sunne sheneth hie above our heade,
And the loude
tempeste
of the aire is oer; 60
Helpless and ould am I alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"How different is the
behaviour
of master T?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
struggle
between the two heroes, where Enkidu strives
to rescue his friend from the fatal charms of Ishara, is probably
depicted on seals also.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Spring will not wait the loiterer's time
Who keeps so long away;
So others wear the broom and climb
The
hedgerows
heaped with may.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Feelest not a kindred pain,
To see such lovely eyes in
swimming
search
After some warm delight, that seems to perch
Dovelike in the dim cell lying beyond
Their upper lids?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ronsard |
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I am obliged for the following excellent
translation
of the old
Chronicle to Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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"'
CONCERNING THE NEARNESS
TOGETHER
OF HEAVEN, EARTH, AND PURGATORY
IN Ireland this world and the world we go to after death are not far
apart.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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--you'd
persuade
me ev'ry thing is right?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Behind her burned
The sky, held by the open kiln of the town
In a great breath of fire, yellow and red,
From out the
festival
streets, and myriad links.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
is is non
oppiniou{n}
but it is ra?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The chase gaed frae the north, man;
I saw myself, they did pursue
The horsemen back to Forth, man;
And at Dumblane, in my ain sight,
They took the brig wi' a' their might,
And straught to
Stirling
winged their flight;
But, cursed lot!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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[They hang their heads]
No hope to have
redress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The divine woman, her body--I see the body--I look on it alone,
That house once full of passion and beauty--all else I notice not;
Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odours morbific
impress me;
But the house alone--that wondrous house--that
delicate
fair house--that
ruin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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How else may man make
straight
his plan
And cleanse his soul from Sin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Yes, I know:
Like swimming against a mighty will, that wears
The cruelty, the race and
scolding
spray
Of monstrous passionate water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Bye foule proceedyngs, murdre, bloude,
Thou wearest nowe a crowne;
And hast
appoynted
mee to dye,
By power nott thyne owne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And O dear what shall I do,
When nobody
whispers
to marry me--
Nobody cometh to woo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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All at once an idea flashed
across me, and what it was the reader will see in the next chapter, as
the old
novelists
used to say.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your
blandishment?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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cwōm faran
flotherge
on Frēsna land,
2916.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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" He rang for the
bald-headed old housekeeper, whom nothing could
astonish
or annoy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I went into the
billiard
room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Welcome this hallowed still
retreat!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sometimes
a-dropping from the sky
I heard the sky-lark sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are,
How they seemed to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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From her
friendship
I'm severed
Yet my faith's so in place,
That I can barely counter
The beauty of her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I will come to meet you as far as ever you please,
Even to the
dangerous
sands of Ch'ang-f?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Naso, to
my astonishment, was
Nicander
in disguise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Long and swiftly he fled, while I
followed
him in the wildest
amazement, resolute not to abandon a scrutiny in which I now felt an
interest all-absorbing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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None's born for such troubles as I be:
If the sun wakens first in the morn
"Lazy hussy" my parents both call me,
And I must abide by their scorn,
For nobody cometh to marry me,
Nobody cometh to woo,
So here in
distress
must I tarry me--
What can a poor maiden do?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Tree of Life stood budding there,
Abundant with its twelvefold fruits;
Eternal sap
sustains
its roots,
Its shadowing branches fill the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_("Il
semblait
grelotter.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Sudden, a fear came o'er his
troubled
soul,
What more was written on the Future's scroll?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'Tis true on Lady Fortune's
gentlest
pad
I amble on; yet, though I know not why,
So sad I am!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"Then
heavenly
beauty could allay
As heavenly beauty stirred the strife:
By them a slave was worshipped more
Than is by us a wife.
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Christina Rossetti |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air or ocean felt the wind;
That never passion
discomposed
the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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A moment their guns have glowed
Sun-smitten: then out of sight
They
suddenly
sink,
Like men who touch a new grave's brink!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
It 's far, far
treasure
to surmise,
And estimate the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
And similarly, if we cannot accept the current estimate of Li Po,
we have at least the
satisfaction
of knowing that some of China's
most celebrated writers are on our side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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A year passed, during which the
scarecrow
turned philosopher.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Have you not heard, that even jetting water
May have such
spouting
force, that it becomes
A rod of glittering white iron, and swords
Will beat rebounding on its speed in vain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth
my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Barons of France, in haste they spur and strain;
There is not one that can his wrath contain
That they are not with Rollant the Captain,
Whereas he fights the
Sarrazins
of Spain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
"They called me the
hyacinth
girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But now that he has gone his way,
I miss the old sweet pain,
And
sometimes
in the night I pray
That he may come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer--to feel his
sympathy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"--
My bridegroom
answered
in his turn,
Myself had almost answered "yea":
When through the flashing nave I heard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Shall he alone, whom
rational
we call,
Be pleased with nothing, if not blessed with all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose,
infusing
a false morning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
This gentleman's mansion-house and
grounds were
formerly
occupied by the Duke of Kent, father to Queen
Victoria.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
the chiming clocks to dinner call;
A hundred
footsteps
scrape the marble hall:
The rich buffet well-coloured serpents grace,
And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
With joy the monarch march'd before,
And found
Menestheus
on the dusty shore,
With whom the firm Athenian phalanx stands;
And next Ulysses, with his subject bands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Ond' io per lo tuo me' penso e discerno
che tu mi segui, e io saro tua guida,
e trarrotti di qui per loco etterno;
ove udirai le
disperate
strida,
vedrai li antichi spiriti dolenti,
ch'a la seconda morte ciascun grida;
e vederai color che son contenti
nel foco, perche speran di venire
quando che sia a le beate genti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Ours to mould our weakling sons
To nobler sentiment and manlier deed:
Now the noble's first-born shuns
The
perilous
chase, nor learns to sit his steed:
Set him to the unlawful dice,
Or Grecian hoop, how skilfully he plays!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
ilk
griselich
fere,
Whan vche seint schal aferde be; oure lord crist to see ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When I am gone--it may be sooner than
Even these years warrant, for there is that stirring
Within--above--around, that in this city
Will make the cemeteries populous
As e'er they were by
pestilence
or war,--
When I _am_ nothing, let that which I _was_
Be still sometimes a name on thy sweet lips, 510
A shadow in thy fancy, of a thing
Which would not have thee mourn it, but remember.
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Byron |
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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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(Bodley 638); _the
fourth
authority
is_ Th.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And afresh to the race, {13c} the fallow roads
by swift steeds
measured!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him,
redeemed
by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Mist and Snow,
And it grew wond'rous cauld:
And Ice mast-high came
floating
by
As green as Emerauld.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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80 (return)
[ This seems to relate to his having been curtailed in his
military
operations by the parsimony of Vespasian, who refused him permission to attack other people than the Silures.
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Tacitus |
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Moder, of whom our mercy gan to springe,
Beth ye my Iuge and eek my soules leche;
For ever in you is pitee
haboundinge
135
To ech that wol of pitee you biseche.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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61
Mourning 63
Daphnis and Chloe 65
Vl^The
Definition
of Love 71
U ♦.
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Marvell - Poems |
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VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence Mitchell
Kennerley
1917
A Few Figs from Thistles Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What holy mystery e'er was noosed in
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There is such a
consociation
of
offices between the prince and whom his favour breeds, that they may help
to sustain his power as he their knowledge.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
Bradamant
asked the kindly shepherd where
That castle stood; and he with signs replied
As well as words, and pointed with his hand
Where, five or six miles wide, the tower did stand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood
glitters
the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And you, my pretty flat-fish, who
declared
just now they
might split you in two?
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Aristophanes |
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Ye good men of the Commons, with loving hearts and true,
Who stand by the bold
Tribunes
that still have stood by you,
Come, make a circle round me, and mark my tale with care,
A tale of what Rome once hath borne, of what Rome yet may bear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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