Aricia's finally
mistress
of her fate,
And you'll soon see all Greece is at your feet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Much less themselves to perfect them begin ;
No other care they bear of things above,
But with astrologers, divine of Jove,
To know how long their planet yet reprieves
From the
deserved
fate their guilty lives.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Illustration]
The
Dolomphious
Duck,
who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner
with a Runcible Spoon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet
renounce
thee to thy face.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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That thou mayst know by what devices this
Is brought about, in chief thou must recall
What we have said before, that seeds are kept
Commixed
in things in divers modes.
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Lucretius |
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Nor did they not
perceave
the evil plight
In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;
Yet to their Generals Voyce they soon obeyd
Innumerable.
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Milton |
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He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure,
And sent forth great
Largesse
to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts
serenely
sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
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Byron |
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IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And their glance is brighter far
Than the star
Brightest
in heaven's bluest deep.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_thus_ I _spit_ at thee and thy
Counsel!
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Byron |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Sappho |
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Mussulmans
and Giaours
Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A Cooking Egg
En l'an
trentiesme
de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Did swear by his Maker,
If e'er I see England again,
I '11 have a
religion
all of my own,
Whether Popish or Protestant shall not be
known ;
And if it prove troublesome, I will have none.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXXIX
'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
The golden broom should blow;
The hawthorn
sprinkled
up and down
Should charge the land with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The laws of God, as well as of the land,
Abhor, a
perpetuity
should stand:
Estates have wings and hang in fortune's power
Loose on the point of every wavering hour,
Ready, by force, or of your own accord,
By sale, at least by death, to change their lord.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ellis appears at the top of the
manuscript
page: "(a separate sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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All
which restraints he observed, not, in truth, in the ways of complaisance
and popularity; but always stern, and for the most part terrible; yet
still he retained them, till by the death of Drusus they were abandoned:
for, while he lived they continued; because Sejanus, while he was but
laying the
foundations
of his power, studied to recommend himself
by good counsels.
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Tacitus |
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Therefore
draw for the supportance of his vow; he protests he
will not hurt you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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He
says — " The bonds of civility betwixt Colonel
Gilby and myself being
unliappily
snapped in
pieces, and in such a manner that I cannot see
how it is possible ever to knit them again : the
only trouble that I have is, lest by our mis-intel-
ligence your business should receive any disad-
vantage Truly, I believe, that as
to your public trust and the discharge thereof,.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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The fear of me is the
conscience
of the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but
it is no more
unhandsome
than to see the lord the prologue.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Knopf 1917
The
Solitary
B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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e ben of
semblable
bur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then since he has no further heights to climb,
And naught to witness he has come this endless way,
On the wind-bitten ice cap he will wait for the last of time,
And watch the crimson sunrays fading of the world's latest day:
And blazing stars will burst upon him there,
Dumb in the
midnight
of his hope and pain,
Speeding no answer back to his last prayer,
And, if akin to him, akin in vain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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death doth to life
transform!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Is it only over you that love has
triumphed?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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1225
Pryam ful ofte, and eek his moder dere,
His
bretheren
and his sustren gonne him freyne
Why he so sorwful was in al his chere,
And what thing was the cause of al his peyne?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Came forth, and finding
Kirkrapine
there slaine,
For anguish great they gan to rend their heare,
And beat their brests, and naked flesh to teare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"His Takhallus or poetical name (Khayyam) signifies a Tent-maker, and
he is said to have at one time exercised that trade, perhaps before
Nizam-ul-Mulk's
generosity
raised him to independence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
[Greek text inserted here]
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to
maculate
giraffe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un fouillis de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels
plaintifs
et les pales Boucher,
Seuls, respirent l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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1261, 1498; (Grendel's mother, as a wild, demonic
creature, is conceived now as man, now as woman: woman, as having borne a
son; man, as the
incarnation
of savage cunning and power); se for sēo,
2422; dat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sweeney shifts from ham to ham
Stirring
the water in his bath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
' The Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was
really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted
him a yearly pension of 1200 mithkals of gold from the
treasury
of
Naishapur.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening,
grandmother
appeared at Versailles at the Queen's
gaming-table.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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ere,
And
despised
hym fast.
| Guess: |
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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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That, however, the Ends of
Providence
and general Good
are answered in our Passions and Imperfections, v.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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How now you secret, black, &
midnight
Hags?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
This is
probably
the true reading.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Against the lattice, dull and wild
Drive the heavy droning drops,
Drop by drop, the sound being one;
As momently time's segments fall
On the ear of God, who hears through all
Eternity's
unbroken
monotone:
And more and more smiled Isobel
To see the baby sleep so well--
She knew not that she smiled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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She spoke--with
searching
eye surveyed
Their ranks--then, pale, aghast,
Sunk in the crowd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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yet
unspoiled
by wealth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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De ses yeux amortis les
paresseuses
larmes,
L'air brise, la stupeur, la morne volupte,
Ses bras vaincus, jetes comme de vaines armes,
Tout servait, tout parait sa fragile beaute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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She trapped him with one mesh of silken hair,
She
vanquished
him by wisdom of her wit,
And built her people's house that it should stand:--
If I might take my life so in my hand,
And for my love to Love put up my prayer,
And for love's sake by Love be granted it!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Therefore
I'll
none of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I reached him, called:
stretching
out his hand to me
He opened his dying eyes: and closed them suddenly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Two butterflies went out at noon
And waltzed above a stream,
Then stepped straight through the firmament
And rested on a beam;
And then together bore away
Upon a shining sea, --
Though never yet, in any port,
Their coming
mentioned
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Long, long the road to Lan-t'ien;
You said
yourself
you would not be able to write.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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My
cue is
villainous
melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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With
darkling
hook the Farmer of the Skies
Goes reaping stars: they flicker, one by one,
Nodding a little; tumble,--and are gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Our auld guidman
delights
to view
His sheep an' kye thrive bonnie, O;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his pleugh,
An' has nae care but Nannie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most
distinguished
poems published in the United States in 1916.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In a few instances modern type has
been
substituted
for archaic characters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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]
[Footnote C: Collins's 'Ode on the Death of Thomson', the last written,
I believe, of the poems which were
published
during his life-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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All the modern editors have printed 'Calais',
and Grosart considers the
allusion
to be to the Armada, Norton to the
'old wars with France'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Fluch jener
hochsten
Liebeshuld!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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So, lifted with prophetic pride,
Raised conquering hands to heaven and cried:
"All hail the Stars and
Stripes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
"
The above catalogue by its heterogeneous composition gives a fair
idea of the
intellectual
movement in Russia from the Empress
Catherine the Second downwards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever
building
mansions new,
Nor thinking of the mansion of the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Or walks in mask
almighty
Jove,
And drops from Power's redundant horn
All seeds of beauty to be born?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Arrived, between two neighbour shrubs he crept,
Both olives, this the fruitful, that the wild;
A covert, which nor rough winds blowing moist
Could penetrate, nor could the noon-day sun
Smite through it, or unceasing show'rs pervade,
So thick a roof the ample branches form'd 580
Close interwoven; under these the Chief
Retiring, with industrious hands a bed
Collected
broad of leaves, which there he found
Abundant strew'd, such store as had sufficed
Two travellers or three for cov'ring warm,
Though winter's roughest blasts had rag'd the while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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All were winnowed through and through,
Five lines lasted sound and true;
Five were smelted in a pot
Than the South more fierce and hot;
These the siroc could not melt,
Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
And the meaning was more white
Than July's
meridian
light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
She sat in our midst, and judged us, and few knew what was
passing behind that face "like an
awakening
soul," to use one of
her own epithets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
90
The goddes, who kenned the actyons of the wyghte,
To leggen[49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,
Houton[50] dyd make the
mountaine
bie theire mighte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Maintenant il dit: Je sais les choses,
Et va, les yeux fermes et les
oreilles
closes;
--Et pourtant, plus de dieux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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VITA
CUIUSDAM
SANCTI VIRI NOMINE ALEX.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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LIFE
Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of
careless
joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur
etranger
malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And what was wont to be begot of old
Shall be begotten under
selfsame
terms
And grow and thrive in power, so far as given
To each by Nature's changeless, old decrees.
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Lucretius |
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If, as has been
said with a degree of verity, Nietzsche was primarily a musician whose
philosophy had for its basis and took its ultimate aspects from the
musical quality of his artistic endowment, it may be maintained with an
equal amount of truth that Rilke is primarily a painter and sculptor
whose poetry rests upon the
fundaments
of the pictorial and plastic
arts.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Must we not go and seek a
physician?
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Aristophanes |
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Latona's
glorious
Son began:--'I pray
Tell, ancient hedger of Onchestus green,
Whether a drove of kine has passed this way,
All heifers with crooked horns?
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Shelley |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the "Annals"
there are several gaps, but what survives
describes
a large part of the
reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.
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Tacitus |
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while along the stream of time thy name
Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,
Say, shall my little bark
attendant
sail,
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To an Aeolian Harp
The winds have grown articulate in thee,
And voiced again the wail of ancient woe
That smote upon the winds of long ago:
The cries of Trojan women as they flee,
The
quivering
moan of pale Andromache,
Now lifted loud with pain and now brought low.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Euripides, here as often, represents
intellectually
the thought of
Aeschylus carried a step further.
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Euripides - Electra |
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