She
stretched
her hand to my cheek,
And there brake from her lips a moan;
'Mercy, my child, my own!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The father & the mother with
The Maidens father & her mother fainting over the body
And the Young Man the Murderer fleeing over the mountains
Reuben slept on Penmaenmawr & Levi slept on Snowdon
Their eyes their ears nostrils & tongues roll outward they behold
What is within now seen without they are raw to the hungry wind
They become Nations far remote in a little & dark Land
The Daughters of Albion girded around their garments of
Needlework
Stripping Jerusalems curtains from mild demons of the hills
Across Europe & Asia to China & Japan like lightenings
They go forth & return to Albion on his rocky couch
Gwendolen Ragan Sabrina Gonorill Mehetabel Cordella
Boadicea Conwenna Estrild Gwinefrid Ignoge Cambel
Binding Jerusalems Children in the dungeons of Babylon
They play before the Armies before the hounds of Nimrod
While The Prince of Light on Salisbury plain among the druid stone {Erdman's edition splices these stanzas back into the main body of the text at this point, though he notes that Blake does not have a good marker to this effect.
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Blake - Zoas |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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within our annals past, those hours
That burned as wounds, now fade in silent breath,
For all the things we ever
christened
flowers
Regather round the well of Death.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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At last to be
identified!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
Uncover the head and kneel--kneel down,
A monarch passes, without a crown,
Let the proud tears fall but the heart beat high:
The
Greatest
of All is passing by,
On its endless march in the endless Plan:
"_Qui vive?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet thus tlie laden house does sweat,
And scarce endures the master great :
But, where he comes, the swelling hall
Stirs, and the square grows spherical ;
More by his magnitude distressed,
Than he is by its
straitness
pressed :
And too officiously it slights.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Some few the foe in
servitude
detain;
Death ill exchanged for bondage and for pain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Not with such majesty, such bold relief,
The forms august, of king, or
conquering
chief,
E'er swelled on marble; as in verse have shined
(In polished verse) the manners and the mind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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When the Muses nine
With the Virtues meet,
Find to their design
An Atlantic seat,
By green orchard boughs
Fended from the heat,
here the
statesman
ploughs
Furrow for the wheat,--
When the Church is social worth,
When the state-house is the hearth,
Then the perfect State is come,
The republican at home.
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Emerson - Poems |
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True
eloquence
springs from the vices of men, and never was known to exist under a calm and settled government.
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Tacitus |
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Being's tide
Swells hitherward, and myriads of forms
Live, robed with beauty, painted by the sun;
Their dust, pervaded by the nerves of God,
Throbs with an
overmastering
energy
Knowing and doing.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Oh, never the mast-high run of the seas
Of traffic shall hide thee,
Never the hell-colored smoke of the factories
Hide thee,
Never the reek of the time's fen-politics
Hide thee,
And ever my heart through the night shall with
knowledge
abide thee,
And ever by day shall my spirit, as one that hath tried thee,
Labor, at leisure, in art, -- till yonder beside thee
My soul shall float, friend Sun,
The day being done.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Again, why see we
lavished
o'er the lands
At spring the rose, at summer heat the corn,
The vines that mellow when the autumn lures,
If not because the fixed seeds of things
At their own season must together stream,
And new creations only be revealed
When the due times arrive and pregnant earth
Safely may give unto the shores of light
Her tender progenies?
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Lucretius |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"My
stockings
there I often knit,
"My 'kerchief there I hem;
"And there upon the ground I sit--
"I sit and sing to them.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And if I think, my
thoughts
come fast,
I mix the present with the past,
And each seems uglier than the last.
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Shelley |
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BELLEW
EDITOR OF
"TALES FROM LONGFELLOW"
"DICKENS'
CHRISTMAS
STORIES FOR CHILDREN"
ETC.
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Tennyson |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great
misunderstanding
of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The man's rank, the
magnitude
of the offence,
Demand your concession and submission,
Beyond the customary reparation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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(how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle
pressing!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Queen Gulnaar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes
bordered
with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
CORYDON
"The junipers and prickly
chestnuts
stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'75'
With this line Arbuthnot is
supposed
to take up the conversation.
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Alexander Pope |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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SISTER JANE
WHEN Sister Jane, who had
produced
a child,
In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled
Her sister-nuns around the lattice pressed;
On which the abbess thus her flock addressed:
Live like our sister Jane, and bid adieu
To worldly cares:--have better things in view.
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La Fontaine |
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"
And instantly the seven young Guinea Pigs rushed with such extreme force
against the lettuce-plant, and hit their heads so vividly against its
stalk, that the concussion brought on directly an
incipient
transitional
inflammation of their noses, which grew worse and worse and worse and
worse, till it incidentally killed them all seven.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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you whose
laughters
strawberry-crammed
Are mingling with a flock of docile lambs
Everywhere grazing vows bleating joy the while,
Name me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then Summer
lingered
long; and honey flowed
Out of the rocks, the wild bees' safe abode.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I have been
grateful
for my store:
Let me say grace when there's no more.
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Robert Herrick |
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Phyllis to Demophoon_
HOSPITA, Demophoon, tua te Rhodopeia Phyllis
ultra
promissum
tempus abesse queror.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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ere was establissed or cried greuous
{and} inplitable
coempciou{n}
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Long was he spurned,
and worthless by Geatish
warriors
held;
him at mead the master-of-clans
failed full oft to favor at all.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Ah gallant injur'd chief,
Not thy own sorrows give the
sharpest
grief.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To this sphere of relaxation and restfulness in which the objects are
static and are changed only as the surrounding atmosphere affects them,
the second phase in the poet's development adds another element, which
later was to grow into dimensions so powerful, so
violently
breaking
beyond the limitations of simple expression in words that it could only
find its satisfaction in a dithyrambic hymn to the work of the great
plastic artist of our time, to the creations of Auguste Rodin.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Green, slender, leaf-clad holly-boughs
Were twisted, gracefu', round her brows;
I took her for some Scottish Muse,
By that same token;
And come to stop those
reckless
vows,
Would soon been broken.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Having thus
completed
the circuit of this fortress, both within and
without, I went no farther by the wall for fear that I should become
wall-eyed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And I know a grove
Of large extent, hard by a castle huge
Which the great lord
inhabits
not: and so
This grove is wild with tangling underwood,
And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,
Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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XI
Hamburg
The day that I come home,
What will you find to say,--
Words as light as foam
With
laughter
light as spray?
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Sara Teasdale |
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On this the
hobthrush
put his head
out of the splash-churn, which was amongst the household stuff, and
said, 'Ay, we're flitting'.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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A vestal turf,
enshrined
in earthen ware.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Some, as thou seest, are number'd with the dead,
And some the bitter drops of sorrow shed
Through
lingering
life, by viewless tangles bound,
That link the soul, and chain it to the ground.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For certes, though he raged and wept,
His majesty, like all, close shelter kept,
Solicitous to live, holding his breath
Specially
precious
to the realm.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
Depth of basalt and lavas
By even the enslaved echoes
Of a trumpet without power
What sepulchral shipwreck (you
Know it, slobbering there, foam)
Among hulks the supreme one
Flattened the naked mast too
Or that which, furious mistake
Of some noble ill-fate
All the vain abyss spread wide
In the so-white hair's trailing
Would have drowned miser-like
The
childish
flank of some Siren.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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* Fairfax I know, and long ere this
* Have mark'd the youth, and what he is ;
* But can he such a rival seem,
* For whom you heaven should
disesteem
?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Fierce on his rattling chariot Hector came:
His eyes like Gorgon shot a
sanguine
flame
That wither'd all their host: like Mars he stood:
Dire as the monster, dreadful as the god!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
He had seven coats on when he came,
With three pair of boots--but the worst of it was
He had wholly
forgotten
his name.
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Lewis Carroll |
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{and}
fulfildest
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The assembly felt the shock, the
immortal
sound,
His Attic rival's fainter accents drown'd.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My
residence
within
A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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When thou art mother,
Ne'er let thy
children
out of sight to play!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Auguration
Silvery
swallows
I saw flying,
Swallows snow and silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes hot and light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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No law less than
ourselves
owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The circles of the stormy moon
Slide
westward
toward the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The mood of _Das
Stunden-Buch_ is this mood of being face to face with God; it elevates
these poems to prayer, profound prayer of doubt and despair, exalted
prayer of
reconciliation
and triumph.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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such the period of many worlds
Others
triangular
their right angled course maintain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Myro's Heifer_
BVCVLA sum caelo
genitoris
facta Myronis
aerea: nec factam me puto sed genitam.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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An
attractive
feature in his character was his unalterable
attachment to his aged nurse, a sentiment which we find reflected
in the pages of _Eugene Oneguine_ and elsewhere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Let little
children
come to Me,
And do not thou forbid them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The French, to their credit be it said, to a certain extent
respected the Indians as a separate and independent people, and spoke
of them and
contrasted
themselves with them as the English have never
done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And
Pandarus
gan him the lettre take,
And seyde, `Pardee, god hath holpen us;
Have here a light, and loke on al this blake.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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at hy3e tyde,
&
enbelyse
his bur3 with his bele chere.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Our hearths are gone out and our hearts are broken,
And but the ghosts of homes to us remain,
And ghastly eyes and hollow sighs give token
From friend to friend of an
unspoken
pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"Her eyes are closed as now my fist I make;
She is in mystic and
unearthly
sleep;
The potion still its power o'er her must keep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Hers are the 'forms
more real than living man,' and hers the great archetypes, of which
things that have existence are but
unfinished
copies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There is a charm,
A certain
something
in the atmosphere,
That all men feel, and no man can describe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The happiness devised with so much labour
I have, perchance,
destroyed
for ever.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And on
Antiphates first, for first he came, the bastard son of mighty Sarpedon
by a Theban mother, he hurls his javelin and strikes him down; the
Italian cornel flies through the yielding air, and,
piercing
the gullet,
runs deep into his breast; a frothing tide pours from the dark yawning
wound, and the steel grows warm where it pierces the lung.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child saddened by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two fortunate tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue
unskilled
in pleasure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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CHORUS
Ruthless thy craving is--
Craving for kindred and forbidden blood
To be outpoured--a sacrifice imbrued
With sin, a bitter fruit of
murderous
enmities!
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Aeschylus |
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Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-
Owl-downy
nonsense
that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it.
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Poe - 5 |
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Though our love pleads now in your favour,
My soul must equal yours in honour:
Though
offending
me, you prove worthy too;
I must, by your death, prove worthy yet of you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In all this poverty what
fulness!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For
Hrothgar
that was the heaviest sorrow
of all that had laden the lord of his folk.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Si come neve tra le vive travi
per lo dosso d'Italia si congela,
soffiata e stretta da li venti schiavi,
poi, liquefatta, in se stessa trapela,
pur che la terra che perde ombra spiri,
si che par foco fonder la candela;
cosi fui sanza lagrime e sospiri
anzi 'l cantar di quei che notan sempre
dietro a le note de li etterni giri;
ma poi che 'ntesi ne le dolci tempre
lor compatire a me, par che se detto
avesser: 'Donna, perche si lo
stempre?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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a south-south-wester, which seemed light,
In the beginning, while the sun was high,
And afterwards increased in force t'wards night,
Raised up the sea against them
mountains
high;
With such dread flashes, and loud peals of thunder,
As Heaven, to swallow all in fire, would sunder.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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O could a girl not nestle snug and happy
Against a neck, with such hair
covering
her!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch:
How should I use it for your closer
contact?
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T.S. Eliot |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Endless ages shall cherish your fame,
Embalmed
in their echoing songs!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that
consoles
me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'T was universe that did applaud
While, chiefest of the crowd,
Enabled by his royal dress,
Myself
distinguished
God.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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