To achieve a swift
departure
was his only aim!
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es
impudicus
et uorax et aleo.
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Latin - Catullus |
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With
comrades
eleven the lord of Geats
swollen in rage went seeking the dragon.
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and
refreshment
take
Such as thou may'st; God[64] gives, and God denies
At his own will, for He is Lord of all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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She saw them star by star
Multiplying
from afar;
Till, mapped beneath her, she could trace
Each street, and the wide square market-place
Sunk deeper and deeper as she went
Higher up the steep ascent.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whether he had been fortified from above, on his devout
supplication, as is
customary
with people when they suspect the
immediate presence of Satan; or whether, according to another custom,
he had got courageously drunk at the smithy, I will not pretend to
determine; but so it was that he ventured to go up to, nay, into, the
very kirk.
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Robert Forst |
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The
Nightingale
that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I love the fair face of the maid in her youth;
Her
caresses
shall lull me, her music shall soothe:
Let her bring from her chamber the many-toned lyre,
And sing us a song on the fall of her sire.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting
pictures
of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Mon coeur, que tout irrite,
Excepte la candeur de l'antique animal,
Ne veut pas te montrer son secret infernal,
Berceuse dont la main aux longs
sommeils
m'invite,
Ni sa noire legende avec la flamme ecrite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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can
exploits
and toils of war
Still please thee?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For when the soul and frame
together
are sunk
In slumber, no one then demands his self
Or being.
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Lucretius |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Perhaps I cannot more suitably conclude this sketch than by
quoting from his _Ode to the Sea_ the poet's tribute of admiration
to the genius of Napoleon and Byron, who of all
contemporaries
seem
the most to have swayed his imagination.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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is
wretched
made,
And every day we two will pray
For him that's gone and far away.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
The stranger
vanished
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
TO LIFE
O LIFE with the sad seared face,
I weary of seeing thee,
And thy
draggled
cloak, and thy hobbling pace,
And thy too-forced pleasantry!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sent he to
Macduffe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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]
51 (return)
[ The
children
were born and nursed in this ferocity.
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Tacitus |
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līce gelenge (_an heir
belonging
to one's body_), 2733.
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Beowulf |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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"
XLII
But nothing changed in them is seen,
All in the good old style appears,
Our dear old aunt, Princess Helene,
Her cap of tulle still ever wears:
Luceria Lvovna paint applies,
Amy Petrovna utters lies,
Ivan Petrovitch still a gaby,
Simeon Petrovitch just as shabby;
Pelagie Nikolavna has
Her friend
Monsieur
Finemouche the same,
Her wolf-dog and her husband tame;
Still of his club he member was--
As deaf and silly doth remain,
Still eats and drinks enough for twain.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A blast of Gabriel's horn has torn away
The last haze from our eyes, and we can see
Past the three hundred skies and gaze upon
The Ineffable Name
engraved
deep in the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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E comincio questa santa orazione:
Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Lad They Ca'Jumpin John
Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad
Forbidden
she wadna be:
She wadna trow't the browst she brew'd,
Wad taste sae bitterlie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_136_
O
PRECIOUS
Crock, whose summers date,
Like mine, from Manlius' consulate,
I wot not whether in your breast
Lie maudlin wit or merry jest,
Or sudden choler, or the fire
Of tipsy Love's insane desire,
Or fumes of soft caressing sleep,
Or what more potent charms you keep;
But this I know, your ripened power
Befits some choicely festive hour!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
--"Many mourn; many think
It is not
unattractive
to prink
Them in sables for heroes.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Yeats |
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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
snatched
his stick, and so
Plunged down the gladdened ether.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Like the fierce
northern
hurricane
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumph yet to gain,
Came down the serried foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Pomiers i ot, bien m'en sovient,
Qui chargoient pomes grenades,
C'est uns fruis moult bons a malades; 1340
De noiers i ot grant foison,
Qui chargoient en la saison
Itel fruit cum sunt nois mugades,
Qui ne sunt ameres, ne fades;
Alemandiers
y ot plante,
Et si ot ou vergier plante
Maint figuier, et maint biau datier;
Si trovast qu'en eust mestier,
Ou vergier mainte bone espice,
Cloz de girofle et requelice, 1350
Graine de paradis novele,
Citoal, anis, et canele,
Et mainte espice delitable,
Que bon mengier fait apres table.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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God
bringeth
Justice in his own slow tide.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"]
IV
When youth's
rebellious
hour drew near
And my Eugene the path must trace--
The path of hope and tender fear--
Monsieur clean out of doors they chase.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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This first phase in Rilke's work may be
defined as the phase of
reposeful
nature.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In an age when almost without exception his fellow-writers
stooped to accept a great man's
patronage
or sold their talents into the
slavery of politics, Pope stood aloof from patron and from party.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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12, ap: _atque istinc teque_ Heinsius:
_itaque_
(Scal.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the four-poster bed Johnny
Appleseed
built,
Autumn rains were the curtains, autumn leaves were the quilt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Therein I treasure the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate
memories
blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This ring he willed should ever more remain
The
heirloom
of his house; and to the son
He loved the best bequeathed it, binding him
To leave it also to his best beloved,
And forward so.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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`Was ther non other broche yow liste lete
To feffe with your newe love,' quod he,
`But thilke broche that I, with teres wete, 1690
Yow yaf, as for a
remembraunce
of me?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Make all our Trumpets speak, giue the[m] all breath
Those
clamorous
Harbingers of Blood, & Death.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And
meanwhile
this death-odor--this corpse-scent
Which makes the priestly incense redolent
Of rotting men, and the Te Deums stink--
Reeks through the forests--past the river's brink,
O'er wood and plain and mountain, till it fouls
Fair Paris in her pleasures; then it prowls,
A deadly stench, to Crete, to Mexico,
To Poland--wheresoe'er kings' armies go:
And Earth one Upas-tree of bitter sadness,
Opening vast blossoms of a bloody madness.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Death, Fear,
Love, Beauty, are mixed in the atmosphere,
Which
trembles
and burns with the fervour of dread
Around her wild eyes, her bright hand, and her head,
Like a meteor of light o'er the waters!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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But ah, what error spreads its
dreadful
night,
What phantoms hover o'er the lover's sight!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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[29] The first extant edition dates from 1620, and has
been
reprinted
by W.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The orphans of the heart must turn to thee,
Lone mother of dead
empires!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Magnificent
The morning rose, in
memorable
pomp,
Glorious as e'er I had beheld--in front, 325
The sea lay laughing at a distance; near,
The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds,
Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light;
And in the meadows and the lower grounds
Was all the sweetness of a common dawn--330
Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, [S]
And labourers going forth to till the fields.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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As Love will carve dear names upon a tree,
Symbol of gravure on his heart to be,
So thought I thine with loving text to set
In the growth and
substance
of my canzonet;
But, writing it, my tears begin to fall --
This wild-rose stem for thy large name's too small!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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[Sidenote A: It was she who caused me to test the renown of the Round
Table,]
[Sidenote B: hoping to grieve
Guenever
and cause her death through fear.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Twas my heart then must dance
To dwell in my delight;
No need to sing when all in song my sight
Moved over hills so
musically
made
And with such colour played.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I think he has
writ at full length ten
thousand
or more, nor are they set down, as of
custom, on palimpsest: regal paper, new boards, unused bosses, red ribands,
lead-ruled parchment, and all most evenly pumiced.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide,
Thou must have
uncommended
died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And down this terrible aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden monsters, crocodiles with wings
And
perfumed
flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THAT WAS MY COUNTER-BLADE UNDER
LEONARDO
TERRONE, MASTER OF FENCE
i~* ONE while your tastes were keen to you, \J Gone where the grey winds call to you,
By that high fencer, even Death,
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth;
Such is your fence, one saith, One that hath known you.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[1] This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found in it
a refuge from the Baker's
constant
complaints about the insufficient
blacking of his three pair of boots.
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Lewis Carroll |
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His known patrons include
Geoffrey
II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, on whose death he wrote this planh.
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Troubador Verse |
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He had half buried the polo-ball in dust, and stuck six
shrivelled old
marigold
flowers in a circle round it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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money paid for a work or a
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of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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'We are Seven' was placed by Wordsworth among his
"Poems
referring
to the Period of Childhood.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ma poi che 'l
gratular
si fu assolto,
tacito coram me ciascun s'affisse,
ignito si che vincea 'l mio volto.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But how many hearts must tingle
Now with mournful
memories!
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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]
[Footnote 2: A dun-coloured little bird with a cheerful note,
sounding
like
the word Phoebe.
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Whitman |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It is not good art
to write badly about aeroplanes and automobiles; nor is it
necessarily
bad
art to write well about the past.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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From
trellised
balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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And the
Thracians
too may warn us; truth and falsehood, good and
ill,
How they mix them, when the wine-god's hand is heavy on them laid!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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" These
verses first appeared in the Edinburgh edition; and they might have
been spared; for in the hands of a poet ignorant of the original
language of the Psalmist, how could they be so correct in sense and
expression as in a sacred strain is not only desirable but
necessary?
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Robert Burns |
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" His name is mentioned as one of six poor pupils of the Merchant
Taylors' School, who received
assistance
from a generous country squire.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Yet then did
_Dennis_
rave in furious fret;
I never answer'd,--I was not in debt.
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Alexander Pope |
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Proudly he looks towards the Sarrazins,
And to the Franks sweetly, himself humbling;
And courteously has said to them this thing:
"My lords barons, go now your pace
holding!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Say the Saints--His
Pleasures
please us
Before God and the Lamb.
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Christina Rossetti |
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]
[It is
supposed
that "Highland Mary," who lived sometime on
Cassillis's banks, is the heroine of these verses.
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Robert Burns |
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Many
translations
exist, the best
being those of Legge in English and of Couvreur in French.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And rivers and springs would summon them of old
To slake the thirst, as now from the great hills
The water's down-rush calls aloud and far
The thirsty
generations
of the wild.
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Lucretius |
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Ille Stat
indomitus
turritis undique saxis ;
Huic laetum cingit fraxinus alta caput
Illi petra minax rigidis cervicibus horret ;
Huic quatiunt virides lenia coUa jubas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Yet always
tempered
with an air so mild.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Rot quick to the green blade of
Freedom!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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This great work, in fact, is to be
regarded
as poetical,
only when, losing sight of that vital requisite in all works of Art,
Unity, we view it merely as a series of minor poems.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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NOT quite so fast,
rejoined
our smart gallant,
First know the plan, before consent you grant;
There is an ill attends the whole affair;
But what below, alas!
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La Fontaine |
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The
diapason
closing full in Man.
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Golden Treasury |
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