A stream flows into it, and forth again;
But first, the passing waters, as they stray,
An island form, and so secure the main
And better part,
dividing
on their way.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Poetic Art
For Charles Morice
Music above everything,
The
Imbalanced
preferred
Vaguer more soluble in air
Nothing weighty, fixed therein.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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How is it then that some spiteful god in his wrath has
Raised from the poisonous slime
offspring
so monstrous again?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his
judgment
in political matters.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my
torments
between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
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We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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315
I'm
greaterr
nowe thanne thee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with
ceaseless
smoke.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What
references
to the Bible do you find?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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]
SECOND MESSENGER:
Nauplia, Tripolizza, Mothon, Athens,
Navarin, Artas, Monembasia,
Corinth, and Thebes are carried by assault,
And every Islamite who made his dogs
Fat with the flesh of Galilean slaves _550
Passed at the edge of the sword: the lust of blood,
Which made our warriors drunk, is quenched in death;
But like a fiery plague breaks out anew
In deeds which make the
Christian
cause look pale
In its own light.
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Shelley |
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"
CCXL
Clear is the day, and the sun radiant;
The hosts are fair, the
companies
are grand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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She
accomplisshed
al my wil,
That now me greveth wondir il.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It is to be assumed, however, that it was
retained in all
intermediate
editions till the next change of text is
stated.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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This refers to Consort Zheng;
imperial
son-in-laws were commonly compared to Xiaoshi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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These silly knaves had
banished
all their cares;
And when at ease they thought to skip and prance,
Were seized and quickly taught another dance.
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La Fontaine |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and
scrubbed
the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And clattered with the pails.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The fire of Love burns in my thoughts so
That desire, always sweet and deep,
And its pains a certain savour bring,
And gentler its flame the more the passion:
For Love
requires
his friends to belong
To truth, frankness, faith, mercy and more,
For, at his court, pride fails while flattery's harmless.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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TO
MISTRESS
DOROTHY PARSONS.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Your sister's hand in marriage have I ta'en;
And I've a son, there is no
prettier
swain:
Baldwin, men say he shews the knightly strain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Tenants of the house,
Thoughts
of a dry brain in a dry season.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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75
Oft maie the moone, yn sylverr sheenynge lyghte,
Inne varied chaunges varyed
blessynges
shedde,
Besprengeynge far abrode mischaunces nyghte;
And thou, fayre Birtha!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Than young Hope in his
sunniest
hour hath known.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
THE DONG WITH A
LUMINOUS
NOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Or when the person fetcheth his translations
from a wrong place as if a privy councillor should at the table take his
metaphor from a dicing-house, or ordinary, or a vintner's vault; or a
justice of peace draw his similitudes from the mathematics, or a divine
from a bawdy house, or taverns; or a
gentleman
of Northamptonshire,
Warwickshire, or the Midland, should fetch all the illustrations to his
country neighbours from shipping, and tell them of the main-sheet and the
bowline.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Two things do make society to stand:
The first
commerce
is, and the next command.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Was ever
idleness
like this?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
How, Oliver, brother, can we
achieve?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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{149b}
Horace, his judgment of Choerillus
defended
against Joseph Scaliger.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Lo corpo mio gelato in su la foce
trovo l'Archian rubesto; e quel sospinse
ne l'Arno, e sciolse al mio petto la croce
ch'i' fe' di me quando 'l dolor mi vinse;
voltommi
per le ripe e per lo fondo,
poi di sua preda mi coperse e cinse>>.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A swan with silver wing,
The wave that murmurs to the branch's swing,
Or the deep garden
flowering
below?
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For a brief account of Roe's life will explain some features of his
poetry,
especially
the vivid picture of life in London in the Satire,
'Sleep next Society,' which is strikingly different in tone, and in
the aspects of that life which are presented, from anything in Donne's
_Satyres_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Yet she wrote verses in great
abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all
conventional rules, had yet a rigorous
literary
standard of her own,
and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own
tenacious fastidiousness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"It is not true, before God it is not true,"
exclaimed
Marya.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in
themselves
their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Hast thou not seen, sweeping so far and high,
The meteors,
midnight
flambeaus of the sky,
How after them they draw long trails of flame
Wherever Nature gives a thoroughfare?
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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And should I then
presume?
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Flame passes under us
and sparks that unknot the flesh,
sorrow, splitting bone from bone,
splendour
athwart our eyes
and rifts in the splendour,
sparks and scattered light.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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org/dirs/2/0/0/2002
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions will
be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I scorn base man, and have sent
thousands
to the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[Illustration: "THE BEAVER BROUGHT PAPER, PORTFOLIO, PENS"]
"In one moment I've seen what has
hitherto
been
Enveloped in absolute mystery,
And without extra charge I will give you at large
A Lesson in Natural History.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
So pagans fled, and chased them well the Franks
Through the Valley of Shadows, close in hand;
Towards Sarraguce by force they chased them back,
And as they went with killing blows attacked:
Barred their
highways
and every path they had.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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SOLITUDES OF VAUCLUSE (where
Petrarch
wrote most of
his Sonnets) 105
13.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Doff these links:
By this
compliance
thou wilt win the lords
To favour, and perhaps to set thee free.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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not overfond of the stench
choking native respiration,
poked down off the shelf
with the aid of some
mere blades of grass;
and deliberately
climbing
up,
brazenly usurping one end
of the new America,
now waves his spears aloft
and shouts down valleys,
across plains,
over mountains,
into heights:
Come, what man of you
dares climb the other?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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ei ben
referred
to ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The fountain rears up in long
broken spears of disheveled water and
flattens
into the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid
darkness
still to live and run--
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
| 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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I flee, I confess, from young Aricia, 50
Last of a deadly race that
conspires
against me.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--since even the speechless herds, aye, since
The very
generations
of wild beasts
Are wont dissimilar and divers sounds
To rouse from in them, when there's fear or pain,
And when they burst with joys.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The air is bright with hues of light
And rich with
laughter
and with singing:
Young hearts beat high in ecstasy,
And banners wave, and bells are ringing:
But silence falls with fading day,
And there's an end to mirth and play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Land of the
pastoral
plains, the grass-fields of the world!
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Whitman |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The illustrious marquis and his sister are
Boniface
1 Marquis of Montferrat and his sister Azalais who married Manfred II, Marquis of Saluces in 1182.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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[19] I use the
Japanese
form as being more familiar.
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Li Po |
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Stopford Brooke, "at the foot of the Galtees, and bordered
to the north by the wild country, the scenery of which is frequently
painted in the _Faerie Queene_ and in whose woods and savage places such
adventures constantly took place in the service of
Elizabeth
as are
recorded in the _Faerie Queene_, the first three books of that great poem
were finished.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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275
Into the hart, and
searcheth
every vaine;
That ere one be aware, by secret stealth
His powre is reft, and weaknesse doth remaine.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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May my sweet consort not the work disdain,
And for the
imperfect
deed accept the will!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ah, such a life
prefigures
its own moral:
That first "Last Leaf" is now a leaf of laurel,
Which--smiling not, but trembling at the touch--
Youth gives back to the hand that gave so much.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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,
mentioned
as early as the 15th century.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Johns, who known to reader* Contemporary Verse as the
author "The Dance," "The Mad woman" and "The Interpreter", a poet who sees life clearly and
whose lyric gift has grown
stronger
from year to year, with his philos ophy life.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In all
external
grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Seventh Self: How strange that you all would rebel against this
man, because each and every one of you has a
preordained
fate to
fulfill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
[The excise and farming alternately occupied the poet's thoughts in
Edinburgh: he studied books of
husbandry
and took lessons in gauging,
and in the latter he became expert.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
O not as I
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Com' io tenea levate in lor le ciglia,
e un
serpente
con sei pie si lancia
dinanzi a l'uno, e tutto a lui s'appiglia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the
meanings
are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
If there were then extant songs which gave a
vivid and touching
description
of an event, the saddest and the
most glorious in the long history of the Fabian house, nothing
could be more natural than that the panegyrist should borrow from
such songs their finest touches, in order to adorn his speech.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Alde
answered
him: "That word to me is strange.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thou movest--but increasing with th' advance,
Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise,
Deceived by its gigantic elegance;
Vastness
which grows--but grows to harmonise--
All musical in its immensities;
Rich marbles--richer painting--shrines where flame
The lamps of gold--and haughty dome which vies
In air with Earth's chief structures, though their frame
Sits on the firm-set ground--and this the clouds must claim.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I have brought you
everything
needful
and much more into the bargain.
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Aristophanes |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I, in the
Catalogue
ye goe for men,
As Hounds, and Greyhounds, Mungrels, Spaniels, Curres,
Showghes, Water-Rugs, and Demy-Wolues are clipt
All by the Name of Dogges: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The House-keeper, the Hunter, euery one
According to the gift, which bounteous Nature
Hath in him clos'd: whereby he does receiue
Particular addition, from the Bill,
That writes them all alike: and so of men.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is
scarcely
two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but radiantly glad?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Scenes that I love to me always remain
Beautiful, whether under summer sun
Beheld, or, storm-dark,
stricken
across with rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Amonge al this I fond a tale 60
That me
thoughte
a wonder thing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You have a mouth for loving--listen then:
Keep tryst with Love before Death comes to tryst;
For I, who die, could wish that I had lived
A little closer to the world of men,
Not watching always thro' the
blazoned
panes
That show the world in chilly greens and blues
And grudge the sunshine that would enter in.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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CHORUS
But hast thou proof, to make
assurance
sure?
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Aeschylus |
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As when o'er
Erymanth
Diana roves,
Or wide Tuygetus' resounding groves;
A sylvan train the huntress queen surrounds,
Her rattling quiver from her shoulders sounds:
Fierce in the sport, along the mountain's brow
They bay the boar, or chase the bounding roe;
High o'er the lawn, with more majestic pace,
Above the nymphs she treads with stately grace;
Distinguish'd excellence the goddess proves;
Exults Latona as the virgin moves.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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The only words that Avarice could utter,
Her
constant
doom, in a low, frightened mutter,
"There's not enough, enough, yet in my store!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XIII
And there he sets him to fulfil
His frustrate first intent:
And lay upon her bed, at last,
The
offering
earlier meant:
When, on his stooping figure, ghast
And haggard eyes are bent.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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