THE girl with
blushing
cheeks before them kneel'd,
And the mysterious tale at once reveal'd.
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'Twas about nine, I think, when I left them,
and riding home, I composed the
following
ballad, of which you will
probably think you have a dear bargain, as it will cost you another
groat of postage.
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She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh,
housewife
in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Look on me--
Me who have touched and tasted, yet both live
And life more perfect have
attained
than Fate
Meant me, by venturing higher than my lot.
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Cross from shore to shore,
countless
crowds of passengers!
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
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if you had bid
Eternal
farewell
to unmingled joy
And the light dancing of the thoughtless heart;
It is the toy of fools, and little fit
For such a world as this.
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Sea Garden
Houghton
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind,
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss
E'en at the
whelming
ruin!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Whether he had been fortified from above, on his devout
supplication, as is
customary
with people when they suspect the
immediate presence of Satan; or whether, according to another custom,
he had got courageously drunk at the smithy, I will not pretend to
determine; but so it was that he ventured to go up to, nay, into, the
very kirk.
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Robert Burns |
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"
As he drew it,
something
the count descried.
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Chanson de Roland |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet well it were for you
(If, ere with aid I come, I tarry long),
Not by one step this
sanctuary
to leave.
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Aeschylus |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I have just now, my ever
honoured
friend, enjoyed a very high luxury,
in reading a paper of the Lounger.
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Robert Burns |
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Every time seems short to be
That's
measured
by felicity;
But one half-hour that's made up here
With grief, seems longer than a year.
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Robert Herrick |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--Hebetes comme des yeux de vache,
Nos yeux ne
pleuraient
plus; nous allions, nous allions
Et quand nous avions mis le pays en sillons,
Quand nous avions laissee dans cette terre noire
Un peu de notre chair.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made,
strongly
into deliberate death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Twined about his tunic of purple stuff, in the manner of a cincture, was
an
iridescent
Serpent with lifted head and eyes like embers turned
sleepily towards him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And there beside him one as large as he,
Following his hooked mate, careless who shall see
Or what befall him, close and closer yet--
The
startled
boy might take him in his net
That folds the other.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
captives
of Pylos.
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Aristophanes |
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Yet dreams of
conquering
greater prize for her
Roused his wild spirit with a glittering spur.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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[Sidenote F: It
clattered
like the grinding of a scythe on a grindstone.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But Messapus flies up with
wrathful
spear, and strikes
him, as he pleads sore, a deep downward [295-330]blow from horseback
with his beam-like spear, saying thus: _That for him: the high gods take
this better victim.
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One that hath been a courtier,
And says, if ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the
remainder
biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.
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Shakespeare |
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La sombre Nuit les prend a la gorge; ils finissent
Leur
destinee
et vont vers le gouffre commun;
L'hopital se remplit de leurs soupirs.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Mine eye
Has scared the gull that sailed
To blacker depths with
shrillest
scream,
Still fainter, till like voices in a dream.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_It was
included
in the Collected Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A mouth, now bottomless pit
Glacially screeching laughter,
Now a
transcendental
opening,
Vain smile of La Gioconda.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Here at home,
Just as in Lithuania, we're beset
By
treacherous
slaves--and tongues are ever ready
For base betrayal, thieves bribed by the State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep,
Like a youthful hermitess,
Beauteous
in a wilderness,
Who, praying always, prays in sleep.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Then farther, fainter, till she is lost, Forging to
westward
through the night;
Westward her deep-voiced tones are tossed,
And the ghostly glare of her great searchlight.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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iam
cautibus
inuidet ipsis
felicisque uocat teneant quae membra catenas.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with
pleasure
thine annoy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful
Athenian
courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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The
thirtieth
day still continues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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and may Aeneas
traverse
perils secure in insecurity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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At fifteen I stopped
wrinkling
my brow
And desired my ashes to be mingled with your dust.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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exagitet nostros manis, sectetur et umbras,
insultetque
rogis, calcet et ossa mea!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He imagined
himself to believe in Christianity, but his belief never
realized
itself in
effective action, either in the mind or in conduct, while it frequently
clogged his energies by weak scruples and restrictions which were but so
many internal irritations.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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God grant you may dwell there
Ever as
faithful
subjects, a happy and peaceable people!
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Stephen Crane |
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To what further
rigorous
pruning her verses would have been
subjected had she published them herself, we cannot know.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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GOING DOWN CHUNG-NAN
MOUNTAIN
AND SPENDING THE NIGHT DRINKING
WITH THE HERMIT TOU-SS?
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Li Po |
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Oftener, heavily,
When love-lorn hours had left me less a child,
I sat
contemplating
the figures wild
Of o'er-head clouds melting the mirror through.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Ye
mountains
that see us descend to the shore,
Shall view us as victors, or view us no more!
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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that came, amid a night of mirth,
A red
Daedalion
on the timid Earth.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge
tenderly
of me!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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(2)
We are almost come to Hsun-yang: how my
thoughts
are stirred
As we pass to the south of Yu Liang's[74] tower and the east of
P'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There
Has it been ever
sounding
for those ears
Whose tips are glowing hot.
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Keats |
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To fancy with a motive, to
contemplate
with consideration, to be
happy sweetly, to suffer nobly--and then to empty the cup so that
tomorrow may fill it again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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POEMS,
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT BRISTOL, BY THOMAS ROWLEY,
AND OTHERS, IN THE
FIFTEENTH
CENTURY.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Murmuring out of its myriad leaves,
Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
Out of its
stalwart
trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,
That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but
the future.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where
oleanders
scatter their ambrosial fire?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Relinquishing this lofty eminence
For ground, though humbler, not the less a tract 535
Of the same isthmus, which our spirits cross
In progress from their native continent
To earth and human life, the Song might dwell
On that delightful time of growing youth,
When craving for the marvellous gives way 540
To
strengthening
love for things that we have seen;
When sober truth and steady sympathies,
Offered to notice by less daring pens,
Take firmer hold of us, and words themselves
Move us with conscious pleasure.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The kettle sings, the
firelight
dances.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
--
Awaking with a start,
The waters heave around me; and on high
The winds lift up their voices: I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by,
When Albion's
lessening
shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then, his phantasy driving him, he went down into the
cemetery, where the grass was so tall and inviting; so
brilliant
in the
sunshine.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thee with my Lesbia durst it make
compare?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Nor less his menial train, in wonder lost,
Repeat the gallant deeds that please them most,
Each to his mate; while, fix'd in fond amaze,
The Lusian features every eye surveys;
While, present to the view, by fancy brought,
Arise the wonders by the Lusians wrought,
And each bold feature to their wond'ring sight
Displays
the raptur'd ardour of the fight.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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This
translation
or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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await the Gods;
The nectar crowns the lips of Patience;
Haste
scatters
on unthankful sods
The immortal gift in vain libations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Certain
characters
of the heroic saga are, so to speak, at home with
Satyrs and others are not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Present Feares
Are lesse then
horrible
Imaginings:
My Thought, whose Murther yet is but fantasticall,
Shakes so my single state of Man,
That Function is smother'd in surmise,
And nothing is, but what is not
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In this poem he regrets that he is
obliged to go on an
official
journey, leaving his mistress behind in the
capital.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--
_I watch thee as thou art,
I will accept thy
fainting
heart, be strong.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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More bleak to view the hills at length recede,
And, less luxuriant,
smoother
vales extend:
Immense horizon-bounded plains succeed!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Th' other part,
The matter and the
substance
of the vow,
May well be such, to that without offence
It may for other substance be exchang'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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BRANDER:
Marktschreier
sind's gewiss, ich wette!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Aeschylus |
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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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Oh, but what ails you, my sailor cousin Phil,
That you shake and turn white like a
cockcrow
ghost?
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Christina Rossetti |
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If, with raised head and step alert,
She sees the rich man stalking by,
She touches his
embroidered
skirt,
And gently shows them where they lie.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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TRANSLATIONS OF
COLLECTIONS
OF DRAMAS.
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Byron |
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slow footing her before,
That on her
shoulders
sad a pot of water bore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XV
"From sunrise unto sunset
All earth shall hear thy fame:
A glorious city thou shalt build,
And name it by thy name:
And there,
unquenched
through ages,
Like Vesta's sacred fire,
Shall live the spirit of thy nurse,
The spirit of thy sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Pope
might in the heat of argument convince himself that he was humble and
slow to wrath, but he has never succeeded in
convincing
his readers.
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Alexander Pope |
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But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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byholdynge
any necessite to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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