And I felt the night between us deepen,
Heard the clock that ticked upon the shelf,
The great silence closing in around us,
And his hand that he
withdrew
from mine.
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As lights at
midnight
seen in any port,
Sometimes from the main sea by passing bark,
Save when their ray is lost 'mid storms or rocks;
So I too from above the swollen sail
Saw the sure colours of that other life,
And could not help but sigh to reach my end.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The pasture cows that herded on the moor
Printed their
footsteps
to the very door,
Where little summer flowers with seasons blow
And scarcely gave the eldern leave to grow.
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John Clare |
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For fine repute you are
expected
to become minister, by special grace you were ranked as one of the high lords.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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VIII
Now with what eager interest
She the
delicious
novel reads,
With what avidity and zest
She drinks in those seductive deeds!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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*****
Is rendered back; and since, beyond a doubt,
Earth, the all-mother, is beheld to be
Likewise the common
sepulchre
of things,
Therefore thou seest her minished of her plenty,
And then again augmented with new growth.
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Lucretius |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own district a
notorious
rogue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pennifeather
was, accordingly, arrested upon the spot, and the
crowd, after some further search, proceeded homeward, having him in
custody.
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Poe - 5 |
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Bailly establish the existence of a people who
inhabited
a tract
in Tartary 49 degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either
the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations
derived their sciences and theology.
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Shelley |
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With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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A few days after writing this letter, as the Cardinal of Boulogne had
not kept his word about
returning
to Avignon, and as he heard no news of
him, Petrarch determined to set out for Italy.
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Petrarch |
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Here shall you quaff beneath the shade
Sweet Lesbian draughts that injure none,
Nor fear lest Mars the realm invade
Of Semele's
Thyonian
son,
Lest Cyrus on a foe too weak
Lay the rude hand of wild excess,
His passion on your chaplet wreak,
Or spoil your undeserving dress.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Sara Teasdale |
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CXCIX
Both
messengers
did on their horses mount;
From that city nimbly they issued out.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Madden reads gracons for gracios, and
suggests
Greek as the meaning of it.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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) Didst mark how pale
Our
sovereign
turned, how from his face there poured
A mighty sweat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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There a fald-stool stood in a pine-tree's shade,
Enveloped all in Alexandrin veils;
There was the King that held the whole of Espain,
Twenty thousand of
Sarrazins
his train;
Nor was there one but did his speech contain,
Eager for news, till they might hear the tale.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" and instantly
assaulted
him with stones.
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Tacitus |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But all this
while he forgot not the main chance ; but hearing of a
Tacancy with a nobleman, he clapped in, and easily
*
Rehtanal
Trcmproted, vol.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A scene, where, if a god should cast his sight,
A god might gaze, and wander with
delight!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Blind with thine hair the eyes of day,
Kiss her until she be wearied out,
Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land,
Touching
all with thine opiate wand--
Come, long-sought!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
Happiness
is attainable by all men who think right and mean well.
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Alexander Pope |
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Clootie, cloots, hoofie, hoofs (a
nickname
of the Devil).
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thee the poor hind that tills the soil
Implores; their queen they own in thee,
Who in Bithynian vessel toil
Amid the vex'd
Carpathian
sea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Des curiosites vaguement impudiques
Epouvantent
le reve aux chastes bleuites
Qui sont surpris autour des celestes tuniques
Du linge dont Jesus voile ses nudites.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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II
~The Solitary~
My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
I have less need now than when I was young
To share myself with every comer,
Or shape my
thoughts
into words with my tongue.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_Dodici donne
onestamente
lasse.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Look upward where the poplar trees
Sway and sway in the summer air,
Here in the valley never a breeze
Scatters the thistledown, but there
Great winds blow fair
From the mighty murmuring
mystical
seas,
And the wave-lashed leas.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Death_
Why should man's high
aspiring
mind
Burn in him with so proud a breath,
When all his haughty views can find
In this world yields to death?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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This
dreadful
monster won't escape: believe me.
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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But first, and loudest, to your prince declare
(That lawless tyrant whose commands you bear),
Unmoved as death Achilles shall remain,
Though prostrate Greece shall bleed at every vein:
The raging chief in frantic passion lost,
Blind to himself, and useless to his host,
Unskill'd to judge the future by the past,
In blood and
slaughter
shall repent at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Best guardian of Rome's people, dearest boon
Of a kind Heaven, thou
lingerest
all too long:
Thou bad'st thy senate look to meet thee soon:
Do not thy promise wrong.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim [22]
ha-as-si-nu na-di-i-ma
e-li-su pa-ah- ru
ha-as-si-nu-um-ma sa-ni bu-nu-su
a-mur-su-ma ah-ta-ta a-na-ku
a-ra-am-su-ma ki-ma as-sa-tim
a-ha-ap-pu-up el-su
el-ki-su-ma as-ta-ka-an-su
a-na a-hi-ia
um-mi
iluGilgamish
mu-da-at ka-la-ma
[iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish]
.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But if you had a little real love,
A little strength,
You would leave your
nonchalant
idle lovers
And go walking down the white road
Behind the waggoners.
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Imagists |
|
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Gutenberg
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effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O quid solutis est beatius curis,
Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum
Desideratoque
acquiescimus
lecto.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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[93] A
plaintive
love-song, to which Po Chu-i had himself written words.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the
sweetest
flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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| Question: |
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blake-poems |
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'Gennle Cass, Sir, you needn't be twitchin' your collar,
_Your_ merit's quite clear by the dut on your knees, 50
At the North we don't make no
distinctions
o' color;
You can all take a lick at our shoes wen you please,'
Sez John C.
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| Question: |
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James Russell Lowell |
|
net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliotheque
nationale
de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
So these two fair sisters
Went with innocent will
Up the hill and down again,
And round the homestead hill:
While the fairest sat at home,
Margaret like a queen,
Like a blush-rose, like the moon
In her heavenly sheen,
Fragrant-breathed as milky cow
Or field of blossoming bean,
Graceful
as an ivy bough
Born to cling and lean;
Thus she sat to sing and sew.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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When it was our mood, we took girls with us and gave ourselves
to the moments that passed,
forgetting
that it would soon be over, like
willow-flowers or snow.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If you will look the way the sunlight slants
Making the grass one great green gem of light,
Bright earth, crimson and even
Scarlet, everywhere tracks
The
rambling
underground affairs of moles:
Though 'tis but kestrel-bay
Looking against the sun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Slowly and stately and still, they sail forth into the ocean;
With them sail my thoughts over the
limitless
deep,
Farther and farther away, borne on by unsatisfied longings,
Unto Hesperian isles, unto Ausonian shores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The thirty-twos of Crowley
And Bluchi's twenty-four,
To Spotts's eighteen-pounders
Responded
with their roar,
Sending the grape-shot deadly
That marked its pathway plain,
And paved the road it travell'd
With corpses of the slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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and could you go with me
My helpmate in the woods to be,
Our shed at night to rear;
Or run, my own adopted bride,
A sylvan
huntress
at my side,
And drive the flying deer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For yesterday arrove, newly appointed,
The
Assistant
Chancellor of the Realm,
And was terribly afraid that the wet and mud
Would dirty his horse's hoofs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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e kny3t com hym-self,
kachande
his blonk,
Sy3 hym byde at ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Aux yeux du
souvenir
que le monde est petit!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But it's to Bacchus, the sensuous dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in
sweetest
desire--even in marble they're damp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We Russians, friends from distant parts
Ever receive with kindly hearts
And
exclamations
and good cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Even love that I built my spirit's house for,
Comes like a
brooding
and a baffled guest,
And music and men's praise and even laughter
Are not so good as rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Till Alice got instruction in this school,
She was regarded as a silly fool,
Her
exercise
appeared to spin and sew:--
Not hers indeed, the hands alone would go;
For sense or wit had in it no concern;
Whate'er the foolish girl had got to learn,
No part therein could ever take the mind;
Her doll, for thought, was just as well designed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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" He is
chiefly known for his erotic poetry which attracted the
affectionate regard of the
youthful
Pushkin when a student
at the Lyceum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without
untangling
them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Of such high blood, to suffer such
outrage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Spearing
fish, 121-123.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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William Morris if he had thought of writing a play, and
he
answered
that he had, but would not write one, because actors did
not know how to speak poetry with the half-chant men spoke it with in
old times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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But your wife's too
vertuous!
| 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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But when we've also seen the glass itself,
Forthwith
that image which from us is borne
Reaches the glass, and there thrown back again
Comes back unto our eyes, and driving rolls
Ahead of itself another air, that then
'Tis this we see before itself, and thus
It looks so far removed behind the glass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The poets who appear here have come together by
mutual accord and,
although
they may invite others to join them in
subsequent volumes as circumstance dictates, each one stands (as all
newcomers also must stand) as the exponent of fresh and strikingly
diverse qualities in our native poetry.
| 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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Beheld these things with terror every man,
And many said: "We in the
Judgement
stand;
The end of time is presently at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And the woods stare strange, and the wind is dumb,
-- O Wind, pray talk again --
And the Hand of the Frost spreads stark and numb
As Death's on the
deadened
window-pane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"I have burdened you with orphan children,
With orphan
children
two or three.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The wounded bird, ere yet she
breathed
her last,
With flagging wings alighted on the mast,
A moment hung, and spread her pinions there,
Then sudden dropp'd, and left her life in air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Ask how your brave cicada on the bough
Keeps the long sweet insistence of his cry;
Ask how the Pleiads steer across the night 5
In their serene unswerving mighty course;
Ask how the wood-flowers waken to the sun,
Unsummoned save by some
mysterious
word;
Ask how the wandering swallows find your eaves
Upon the rain-wind with returning spring; 10
Ask who commands the ever-punctual tide
To keep the pendulous rhythm of the sea;
And you shall know what leads the heart of man
To the far haven of his hopes and fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Out of
ten thousand
instances
I shall name one which I think the most
delicate and tender I ever saw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
* * * * *
JOHN FREEMAN
I WILL ASK
I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Their smell and hue,
And the bold, trembling anemone awhile to spare
Her flowers starry fair;
Or the flushed wild apple and yet sweeter thorn
Their
sweetness
to keep
Longer than any fire-bosomed flower born
Between midnight and midnight deep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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[June falls asleep; and is not
awakened
by the voice of July,
who behind the scenes is heard half singing, half calling.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"But I sent on my messenger,
With cunning arrows
poisonous
and keen,
To take forthwith her laughing life from her,
And dull her little een,
"And white her cheek, and still her breath,
Ere her too buoyant Hodge had reached her side;
So, when he came, he clasped her but in death,
And never as his bride.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was as though
garlands
crowned everything
And all things were touched softly by the sun;
And many windows opened one by one
And the light trembled on them glistening.
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Rilke - Poems |
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" Except in popular poetry, puns are rare;
but there are several characters which, owing to the
wideness
of their
import, are used in a way almost equivalent to play on words.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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blake-poems |
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By the eighth
milestone
on the road to nowhere
He drops his sack, and lights once more the pipe
There often lighted.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--Until the mystery
Of all this world is solved, well may we envy
The worm, that,
underneath
a stone whose weight
Would crush the lion's paw with mortal anguish,
Doth lodge, and feed, and coil, and sleep, in safety.
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William Wordsworth |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Rhyme?
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Lewis Carroll |
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(he cried)--a god
appears!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But blood hath
captured
Spirit; Spirit hath given
The strength of its desire of joy to make
What ecstasy it may of woman's beauty,
And of this only, doing no more than train
The joys of blood to be more keen and cunning;
As men have trained and tamed wild lives of the forests,
Breeding them to more excellent shape and size
And tireless speed, and to know the words of men.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Pigmy seraphs gone astray,
Velvet people from Vevay,
Belles from some lost summer day,
Bees'
exclusive
coterie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This
confession
that I so shamefully,
Make to you, do you think it voluntary?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Every bone was aching, and had ached
For
fourteen
days and nights in that wet trench--
Just duller when he slept than when he waked--
Crouching for shelter from the steady drench
Of shell and shrapnel.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin creators that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all
scientific
genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'Tis yours the drooping heart to heal;
Your strength uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired
by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--perchance, even so
To
exercise
their arms and strengthen shoulders?
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Lucretius |
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