When to thy
greatest
bliss thou saidst farewell,
Thou didst depart alone: it stay'd with her,
Nor cares from those bright eyes, its home, to stir.
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The sun turns north, the days grow long,
Later the evening star grows bright--
How can the
daylight
linger on
For men to fight,
Still fight?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nor old Vesuvius, nor Sicilia's hill,
Nor Troy-town, ever, with a blaze so bright,
Flamed, as with all his heart, the damsel learned,
For love of her young
Ariodantes
burned.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"]
To the horror of all who were present that day,
He uprose in full evening dress,
And with senseless grimaces
endeavoured
to say
What his tongue could no longer express.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1550
And the plain echoed to our
sorrowful
cries.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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APRIL SONG
WILLOW in your April gown
Delicate
and gleaming,
Do you mind in years gone by
All my dreaming?
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Sara Teasdale |
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LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair
assistance
in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
They
stretched
their limbs and argued it out where they sat.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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whae'er wad hae expeckit
Your duty ye wad sae negleckit,
Ye wha were ne'er by lairds respeckit
To wear the plaid;
But by the brutes
themselves
eleckit,
To be their guide.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"I am quite sure you will win it, Dammit," said he, with the
frankest
of
all smiles, "but we are obliged to have a trial, you know, for the sake
of mere form.
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Poe - 5 |
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'152 vulgar bounds:'
the
limitations
imposed upon ordinary writers.
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Keats - Lamia |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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From the dirty bog we come,
Whence we've just arisen:
Soon in the dance here, quite at home,
As gay young
_sparks_
we'll glisten.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And since I must repeat the whole story,
Here now is what he hastened to tell me:
'She's dutiful, and both deserve her hand,
Both are of noble blood, loyal, valiant,
Young, yet it's clear to see in their eyes
The shining virtue of their ancient ties:
Don
Rodrigue
above all: in his visage,
Every trait reveals the heroic image,
His house so rich in soldiers of renown,
They seem born to wear the laurel crown.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
Apollo heard; and, suppliant as he stood,
His heavenly hand restrain'd the flux of blood;
He drew the dolours from the wounded part,
And
breathed
a spirit in his rising heart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Imagists |
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Startled
sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows bewilder the Tartar sky.
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Li Po |
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{6e} The
Germanic
Vulcan.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los *
I have refusd to look upon the
Universal
Vision
And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee *
If thou drivst all the Males Females away from Vala Luvah I will drive all
The Males away from thee
Once born for the sport & amusement of Man now born to drink up all his Powers
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I heard the sounding sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And when I at last must throw off this frail covering
Which I've worn for three-score years and ten,
On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering,
Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again:
But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey,
And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow;
As this old worn-out stuff, which is
threadbare
to-day
May become everlasting to-morrow.
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Golden Treasury |
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We in the field have won so many fights,
Combating
through so many regions wide
That Charles holds, whose beard is hoary white!
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Chanson de Roland |
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DAME BERARDE (_laughing_): You wish
To chase this
handsome
man away?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
Then God leaned over me, and in my ears
whispered
words of sweetness,
and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to
her, he enfolded me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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How does this
correspond
to Jonson's life?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am
sometime
absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus soul entire must be of smallmost seeds,
Twined through the veins, the vitals, and the thews,
Seeing that, when 'tis from whole body gone,
The outward figuration of the limbs
Is
unimpaired
and weight fails not a whit.
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Lucretius |
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And when wind and winter harden
All the
loveless
land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Si com' io tacqui, un
dolcissimo
canto
risono per lo cielo, e la mia donna
dicea con li altri: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I ask ye none),
And bow before the
murderer
of my son.
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Iliad - Pope |
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--You know what you would feel,
to see the much-loved wife of your bosom, and your helpless, prattling
little ones, turned adrift into the world, degraded and
disgraced
from
a situation in which they had been respectable and respected, and left
almost without the necessary support of a miserable existence.
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Robert Burns |
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The lustres of the
chandelier
are bright, and clusters of rubies leap in
the bohemian glasses on the _étagère_.
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Imagists |
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Steadily sure his
division
advances,
Gay as the light on its weapons that dances.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
What bearing may we assume the
foregoing
couplet to have
upon Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_The author's name first
appeared
on the title-page of the Seventh
Edition_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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is child to cherche com,
To
vnderfonge
cristendom,
As ri?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and
sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and
sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and
necessary
as they.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--"O faultless is her dainty form,
And
luminous
her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Mon frere, comme je suis
heureuse!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She can both false and
friendly
be,
Beware!
| Guess: |
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Longfellow |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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What mournful rhymes I wrote and 'rased again,
Spending the
precious
hours of youth in vain!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Gentle and rather foolish,
she was devoted to her two
children
Mary and, his sister's junior by
two years, Thomas the Poet.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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So lost ye both, being in
falseness
one,
What fortune else had granted; she thy curse,
Who marred thee as she loved thee, and thou hers.
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Euripides - Electra |
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No, the people sought no wings
From Perseus in the Loggia, nor implored
An inspiration in the place beside
From that dim bust of Brutus, jagged and grand,
Where Buonarroti passionately tried
From out the close-clenched marble to demand
The head of Rome's sublimest homicide,
Then dropt the
quivering
mallet from his hand,
Despairing he could find no model-stuff
Of Brutus in all Florence where he found
The gods and gladiators thick enough.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_grammatice_
and
rhetoric) ab aetate prima et cupide et laboriosissime exercuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And for they looked but with
divining
eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing:
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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Eleven of the "fitts," or cantos, begin
with the monosyllable þā, four with the verb gewītan, nine with the formula
Hrōðgār (Bēowulf, Unferð) maðelode, twenty-four with
monosyllables
in
general (him, swā, sē, hwæt, þā, heht, wæs, mæg, cwōm, strǣt).
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Beowulf |
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Semblance, with straw and pauniered ass, they made
Of potters wandering on from door to door:
But life of happier sort to me pourtrayed,
And other joys my fancy to allure;
The bag-pipe dinning on the
midnight
moor
In barn uplighted, and companions boon
Well met from far with revelry secure,
In depth of forest glade, when jocund June
Rolled fast along the sky his warm and genial moon.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Light was my sleep; my days in transport roll'd:
With
thoughtless
joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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le larron de gauche dans la bourrasque
Rira de toi comme
hennissent
les chevaux
FEMME
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"O thou who show'st so beastly sign of hate
'Gainst him thou prey'st on, let me hear," said I
"The cause, on such condition, that if right
Warrant thy grievance, knowing who ye are,
And what the colour of his sinning was,
I may repay thee in the world above,
If that,
wherewith
I speak be moist so long.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Achilles meets a
shameful
fate,
Oh how unworthy of the brave and great!
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next,
climbing
again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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at_--than
_derwor?
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And still within a summer's night
A something so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too inspecting face,
Lest such a subtle,
shimmering
grace
Flutter too far for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The hope that
whispers
in my trembling breast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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115
But for what cause should I, from early subject digressing,
Tell of the daughter who the face of her sire unseeing,
Eke her sister's embrace nor less her mother's endearments,
Who in despair bewept her hapless child that so gladly
Chose before every and each the lively wooing of
Theseus?
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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For gem-stoned rings, on hand,
They've
Egyptian
scarabs,
In well-cut buttonholes,
Dandelions from the wasteland.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I never thought that Jason sought
For any golden fleece;
But then I am a rural man,
With
thoughts
that make for peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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[Composed in the neighbourhood of Bisham Wood, near Great Marlow,
Bucks, 1817 (April-September 23); printed, with title (dated 1818),
"Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of
the
Nineteenth
Century", October, November, 1817, but suppressed,
pending revision, by the publishers, C & J.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Y'ave heard them sweetly sing,
And seen them in a round:
Each virgin like a spring,
With
honeysuckles
crown'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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'Twill make a man forget his woe;
'Twill
heighten
all his joy;
'Twill make the widow's heart to sing,
Tho' the tear were in her eye.
| Guess: |
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'And here I find a marvellous great company, newly flocked in, mothers
and men, a people gathered for exile, [799-804]a
pitiable
crowd.
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often
breaking
up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often searching out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our promises and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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In
drinking
I have lost one of the poets, while the frontier has gotten a jewel of the realm.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And you were heard to utter cries of joy,
When Drama gripped Paris in its teeth,
When spring chased ancient winter away,
When the wondrous star of new ideals,
Suddenly glittered in the burning sky,
And the
Hippogriff
stole Pegasus' place.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The references for these
footnotes
are the line numbers.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_Poor_ for _lean_, _thirds_ for _dower_,
and _dry_ for
_thirsty_
I find in Middleton's plays.
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James Russell Lowell |
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So
suddenly
I flung the door wide on him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
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Li Po |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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SNOW: Oxford in War-Time
TERTIUS VAN DYKE: Oxford
Revisited
in War-Time
XIII.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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at ich take god to
witnesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--In great affairs it is a work of
difficulty
to please all.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Now be the welkin stirred amain
With thunder-peal and hurricane,
And let the wild winds now displace
From its firm poise and rooted base
The
stubborn
earthly frame!
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Aeschylus |
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805
Pandare, which that sent from Troilus
Was to Criseyde, as ye han herd devyse,
That for the beste it was
accorded
thus,
And he ful glad to doon him that servyse,
Un-to Criseyde, in a ful secree wyse, 810
Ther-as she lay in torment and in rage,
Com hir to telle al hoolly his message,
And fond that she hir-selven gan to trete
Ful pitously; for with hir salte teres
Hir brest, hir face, y-bathed was ful wete; 815
The mighty tresses of hir sonnish heres,
Unbroyden, hangen al aboute hir eres;
Which yaf him verray signal of martyre
Of deeth, which that hir herte gan desyre.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O
daughter
of Icarius!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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