Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-sex years
old, and though never, until recently, well
received
by the critics, have
survived the test of NINE editions.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I wrote a novel, I wrote fat volumes of journals; I
took myself very
seriously
in those days.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Ascended from our vision
To
countenances
new!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Les formes s'effacaient et n'etaient plus qu'un reve,
Une ebauche lente a venir
Sur la toile oubliee, et que l'artiste acheve
Seulement
par le souvenir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This air is most
oppressive!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But still as wilder blew the wind
And as the night grew drearer,
Adown the glen rode armed men,
Their
trampling
sounded nearer.
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Golden Treasury |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[104] This is an allusion to some
extortion
of Cleon's.
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Aristophanes |
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And in these problems, shrink, my Memmius, far
From
yielding
faith to that notorious talk:
That all things inward to the centre press;
And thus the nature of the world stands firm
With never blows from outward, nor can be
Nowhere disparted--since all height and depth
Have always inward to the centre pressed
(If thou art ready to believe that aught
Itself can rest upon itself ); or that
The ponderous bodies which be under earth
Do all press upwards and do come to rest
Upon the earth, in some way upside down,
Like to those images of things we see
At present through the waters.
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Lucretius |
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How
beautiful
is all this visible world!
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Byron |
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Upon that generous-rounding side,
With gullies scarified
Where keen Neglect his lash hath plied,
Dwelt one I knew of old, who played at toil,
And gave to
coquette
Cotton soul and soil.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Whoe'er has seen folk blissfuller, whoe'er a
more
propitious
union?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Nunc est mens diducta tua, mea Lesbia, culpa, LXXV
Atque ita se officio perdidit ipsa suo,
Vt iam nec bene velle queat tibi, si optima fias,
Nec
desistere
amare, omnia si facias.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In te misericordia, in te pietate,
in te magnificenza, in te s'aduna
quantunque
in creatura e di bontate.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The cedar feeleth not the rose's head,
Nor he the woman's
presence
at his feet!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then, like many a lazy third son
in the folk tales, a change came, he suddenly showed
wonderful
daring and
was passionate for adventure.
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Beowulf |
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[156] Magistrates who, with the Archons and the Epistatae, shared the
care of holding and directing the
assemblies
of the people; they were
fifty in number.
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Aristophanes |
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>>
CONFESSION
Une fois, une seule, aimable et douce femme,
A mon bras votre bras poli
S'appuya (sur le fond tenebreux de mon ame
Ce
souvenir
n'est point pali).
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He would watch for
hours, hidden in the leaves, to reach his hand out slowly and carefully
at last, and seize and crush some
glittering
halcyon.
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Yeats |
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STRENGTH
Thou,
faltering
and weeping sore for those
Whom Zeus abhors!
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Aeschylus |
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THE COCK-FIGHT
By Ts'ao Chih
Our
wandering
eyes are sated with the dancer's skill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The suitor-train thy earliest care demand,
Of that luxurious race to rid the land;
Three years thy house their lawless rule has seen,
And proud
addresses
to the matchless queen.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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dydste thou kenne the stynge,
The whyche doeth canker ynne mie hartys roome,
Thou
wouldste
see playne thieselfe the gare to bee;
Aryse, uponne thie love, & flie to meeten mee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_'
Instead of singing Verse the Third,
I ceased--abruptly, rather:
But, after such a
splendid
word,
I felt that it would be absurd
To try it any farther.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Here leans the idle shepherd on his crook,
And vacant on the rippling waves doth look,
That peaceful still 'twixt bitterest foemen flow:
For proud each peasant as the noblest duke:
Well doth the Spanish hind the
difference
know
'Twixt him and Lusian slave, the lowest of the low.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Easy
Easy and
beautiful
under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Through this two clear and
murmuring
rivers stray:
Upon their banks a fresher herbage grows;
While the twin streams their passage slowly clear,
Make music with the stones, and please the ear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Bellman, who was almost
morbidly
sensitive about appearances, used to
have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished; and it
more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one
on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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From
contemplation of your visitor your eyes are so strangely wide; and she
so
tenderly
wounded you upon the breast that you have ever kept a
certain readiness to tears.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless
soldiers
made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But the
bonniest
flower on the banks of the Devon
Was once a sweet bud on the braes of the Ayr.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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But hark, a troop of new woe comes this way,
Making the street to ring and the stones wet
With cried despair and
brackish
agony.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Is
football
playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Having thanked his host and all the renowned assembly for the great
kindness he had
experienced
at their hands, "he steps into stirrups and
strides aloft" (ll.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Art thou there
already?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My woes began, that
wretched
day.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And whenever a goblet thereof I drain,
The old rhyme keeps running in my brain;
At Bacharach on the Rhine,
At
Hochheim
on the Main,
And at Wurzburg on the Stein,
Grow the three best kinds of wine!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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voici la nuit de joie aux
profonds
spasmes
Qui descend dans la rue, o buveurs desoles,
Buvez.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To treat me so
scurvily!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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But when he reached the humid sands where surges cream the shore,
Spying soft Atys
lingering
near the marbled pave of sea
He springs: the terror-madded wretch back to the wood doth flee,
Where for the remnant of her days a bondmaid's life led she.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
]
[Illustration:
Enkoopia
Chickabiddia.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Love in Autumn
I sought among the
drifting
leaves,
The golden leaves that once were green,
To see if Love were hiding there
And peeping out between.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Barons of France may not forgetful be
Whence comes the ensign "Monjoie," they cry at need;
Wherefore
no race against them can succeed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And most in autumn is shaken the house of heaven,
The house so studded with the
glittering
stars,
And the whole earth around--most too in spring
When flowery times unfold themselves: for, lo,
In the cold season is there lack of fire,
And winds are scanty in the hot, and clouds
Have not so dense a bulk.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire
I breathe deeply, draw in the air,
That blows here from
Provence!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
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things, Defects may take the form of incomplete, inaccurate or
corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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La foule
Pres de cet homme-la se sentait l'ame soule,
Et, dans la grande cour, dans les appartements,
Ou Paris
haletait
avec des hurlements,
Un frisson secoua l'immense populace.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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You seek my
counsel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Chopin wrote for the pianoforte a
revolutionary
etude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
She ceased, ambrosial slumbers seal his eyes;
Her care dissolves in
visionary
joys
The goddess, pleased, regains her natal skies.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Grant
Chalybon
perish the whole of the race,
Eke who in primal times ore seeking under the surface
Showed th' example, and spalled iron however so hard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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You will
discover
treasures to them, which were buried in
former times, for you know them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Then he grasped his trusty rifle and boldly fought for freedom;
Smote from border unto border the fierce,
invading
band;
And he and his brave boys vowed---so might Heaven help and
speed 'em!
| 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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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' He was
devoted to his mother and sister and to his poetry; and what spare
time was not
occupied
with the latter he seems to have spent largely
with the former.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yo^r
obedient
sonne
JO.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Minerva
springing
full-fledged from
Jupiter's skull to the desk of the poet is a pretty fancy; but Balsac
and Flaubert did not encourage this fancy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such
information
may excite surprise,
But now the truth, 'twere useless to disguise,
Nothing will gain belief, we've no one near
To witness our discourse:--adieu, my dear,
To all your festivals--I'm flesh and blood:--
Gems, dresses, ornaments, do little good;
You know full well, betwixt the head and heel,
Though little's said, yet much we often feel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Wherefore
I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Heap high the logs, and melt the cold,
Good Thaliarch; draw the wine we ask,
That
mellower
vintage, four-year-old,
From out the cellar'd Sabine cask.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yet let her retain me, as she please,
For my
suffering
is not so rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
SOLNESS: You, who can't even go out on the
second-floor
balcony?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The wheels of Phoebus from the zodiac turn'd;
No more the nightly constellations burn'd;
Green earth and undulating ocean roll'd
Away, by some resistless power controll'd;
Immensity
conceived, and brought to birth
A grander firmament, and more luxuriant earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Camoens
beheld this romantic turn, and in a genteel
allegorical
satire foreboded
its consequences.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And call the house-bride, homewards bring
Maid
yearning
for new married fere,
Her mind with fondness manacling,
As the tough ivy here and there
Errant the tree enwinds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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1390
Men shal
reioysen
of a greet empryse
Acheved wel, and stant with-outen doute,
Al han men been the lenger ther-aboute.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"It's
twenty years ago now since we were transferred from the
regiment
here.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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She hath such
tendance
as the dying crave?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What confusion would cover the
innocent
Jesus
To meet so enabled a man!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I
foresee that poverty and obscurity
probably
await me, and I am in some
measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
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Robert Forst |
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"
The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, "But
where is any
mountain?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A little upright, pert, tart, tripping wight,
And still his precious self his dear delight;
Who loves his own smart shadow in the streets,
Better than e'er the fairest she he meets;
Much specious lore, but little understood,
(Veneering oft
outshines
the solid wood),
His solid sense, by inches you must tell,
But mete his cunning by the Scottish ell!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It is myself I mean, in whom I know
All the particulars of vice so grafted
That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth
Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
With my
confineless
harms.
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Shakespeare |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each
corporall
Agent to this terrible Feat.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
"Tell Major Hawks to advance the
Commissary
train.
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Sidney Lanier |
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")
"And folk who sup on things like these--"
He muttered, "eggs and bacon--
Lobster--and duck--and toasted cheese--
If they don't get an awful squeeze,
I'm very much
mistaken!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The controversialists as a rule either rejected or neglected
the dogmas of revealed religion and based their
arguments
upon real or
supposed facts of history, physical nature, and the mental processes and
moral characteristics of man.
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Alexander Pope |
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THE
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST WU
TWO POEMS
By Wei W?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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As on a Alpine watch-tower
From heaven comes down the flame,
Full on the neck of Titus
The blade of Aulus came:
And out the red blood spouted,
In a wide arch and tall,
As spouts a
fountain
in the court
Of some rich Capuan's hall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Chinese
themselves
are apt to forget that T'ang poets seldom obeyed
the laws designed in later school-books as essential to classical
poetry; or, if they notice that a verse by Li Po does not conform, they
stigmatize it as "irregular and not to be imitated.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Take with thy teeth the bridel faste,
To daunte thyn herte; and eek thee caste, 3300
If that thou mayst, to gete defence
For to
redresse
thy first offence.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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