); as man he
attains in the gripe of his hand the
strength
of thirty men, 379.
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Beowulf |
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Still from his chair of
porphyry
gaunt Memnon strains his lidless eyes
Across the empty land, and cries each yellow morning unto thee.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For in an evening of young moon, that went
Filling the moist air with a rosy fire,
I and my beloved knew our love;
And knew that thou, O morning, wouldst arise
To give us knowledge of
achieved
desire.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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On them I
recognise
the dress
Of my own country.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my
enraptured
head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yet though the hideous prison-wall
Still hems him round and round,
And a spirit may not walk by night
That is with fetters bound,
And a spirit may but weep that lies
In such unholy ground,
He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by Plutarch and
Basil the Great,
translated
from the Greek, with an
Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon ame sans remord,
Et,
charriant
le vertige,
La roule defaillante aux rives de la mort!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The dead have
phantoms
that they send.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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CEREMONIES
FOR CANDLEMAS EVE
Down with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the misletoe;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box, for show.
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Robert Herrick |
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'And whan the night is comen, anon
A
thousand
angres shal come upon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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EVENING
When little lights in little ports come out,
Quivering down through water with the stars,
And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
Range at their moorings, veer with tide about;
When race of wind is stilled and sails are furled,
And underneath our single riding-light
The curve of black-ribbed deck gleams palely white,
And
slumbrous
waters pool a slumbrous world;
--Then, and then only, have I thought how sweet
Old age might sink upon a windy youth,
Quiet beneath the riding-light of truth,
Weathered through storms, and gracious in retreat.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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the
Redcrosse
knight was slaine with Paynim knife.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Amongst which troop although I am the least,
Yet equall in perfection with the best,
I glory in
subjection
of his hand, 70
Nor ever did decline his least command:
For in whatever forme the message came
My heart did open and receive the same.
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John Donne |
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LORD how many are my foes
How many those
That in arms against me rise
Many are they
That of my life
distrustfully
thus say,
No help for him in God there lies.
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Milton |
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And when he raised it
dripping
once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only disinterestedly to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I never heard a death so out of reach
Of common hearts, a high and comely end:
What need have I, that gave up all for love,
To die like an old king out of a fable,
Fighting and
passionate?
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Yeats |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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`For I shal shape it so, that sikerly
Thou shalt this night som tyme, in som manere,
Com speke with thy lady prevely,
And by hir wordes eek, and by hir chere, 655
Thou shalt ful sone
aperceyve
and wel here
Al hir entente, and in this cas the beste;
And fare now wel, for in this point I reste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now that we twain might meet, women and men
In every land where I have felt for thee
Have taken
desolation
for their home,
Crying against me,--and against thee unknowing.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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POOR Isabella, with her sight on ground,
Confused, till then had
scarcely
looked around,
Now raised her eyes, and luckily perceived
The breeches, which her fears in part relieved,
And that the sisters, by surprise unnerved,
As oft's the case, had never once observed.
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La Fontaine |
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all that I behold
Within my Soul has lost its splendor & a brooding Fear
Shadows me oer & drives me outward to a world of woe
So waild she
trembling
before her own Created Phantasm*
{These 10 lines circled and lightly struck out as a block, restored in Erdman.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thou
troubled
with such whimsy!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Judge left the Court, looking deeply disgusted:
But the Snark, though a little aghast,
As the lawyer to whom the defence was intrusted,
Went
bellowing
on to the last.
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Lewis Carroll |
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_Prouide
mee to eat, three or foure di?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And will she leave the wild hedge rose,
The
redbreast
and the wren,
And will she leave her Sunday beaus
And milk shed in the glen?
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John Clare |
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/ London:/ John
Murray,
Albemarle
Street.
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Byron |
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Three
spotless
virgins to your bed I'll bring,
A sacrifice to you, their God and king.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Meanwhile, her wheeling king
Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty,
spangled
hems,
Leaving a new necessity, --
The want of diadems!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The white aspens how they murmur, murmur;
Pines and
cypresses
flank the broad paths.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sara Teasdale |
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With what stiff step he
travels!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The charms of Empire appeared to stir him: 795
He could not conceal it: Athens
attracts
him:
His ships are already turned that way I find,
Their fluttering sails abandoned to the wind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then
Aegisthus
was in fear
Lest she be wed in some great house, and bear
A son to avenge her father.
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Euripides - Electra |
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A trifle, a thing of mere weight, I have brought you
From the
Assyrian
camp.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of
unlovely
eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[Line 2: Though _1650_: When _Walton_]
[Line 10: of _1650_: from _Walton_]
In the _Life of
Herbert_
Walton refers again to the seals and adds,
'At Mr.
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John Donne |
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The moment was
important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness
of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been
unnoticed
by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was
acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply in some degree
the deficiency.
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William Wordsworth |
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Even the
Colonel of his own regiment
complimented
him upon his coolness, and the
local paper called him a hero.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with
inviolable
voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT SOMEWHILE AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the
goodliest
fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Robert Herrick |
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e
liou{n}s
of 1856
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Beyond the place, where old AEgeus mourns,
An island lies, Phoebus none sweeter burns,
Nor Neptune ever bathed a better shore:
About the midst a beauteous hill, with store
Of shades and pleasing smells, so fresh a spring
As drowns all manly thoughts: this place doth bring
Venus much joy; 't was given her deity,
Ere blind man knew a truer god than she:
Of which original it yet retains
Too much, so little
goodness
there remains,
That it the vicious doth only please,
Is by the virtuous shunn'd as a disease.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Instructed
that true knowledge leads to love,
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'"
Then o'er sea-lashings of
commingling
tunes
The ancient wise bassoons,
Like weird
Gray-beard
Old harpers sitting on the high sea-dunes,
Chanted runes:
"Bright-waved gain, gray-waved loss,
The sea of all doth lash and toss,
One wave forward and one across:
But now 'twas trough, now 'tis crest,
And worst doth foam and flash to best,
And curst to blest.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The master knows that he is
unspeakably
great, and that
all are unspeakably great--that nothing, for instance, is greater than to
conceive children, and bring them up well--that to be is just as great as
to perceive or tell.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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860
Bente were hir browes two,
Hir yen greye, and gladde also,
That
laughede
ay in hir semblaunt,
First or the mouth, by covenaunt.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Tzar," said he, "you can constrain me to do as you list, but do not
permit a
stranger
to enter my wife's room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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337_
Godoy, Manuel de, Duke of Alcudia,
Principe
de la Paz, ii.
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Byron |
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Nor shalt thou death, nor shall thou danger dread:
Safe through the foe by his
protection
led:
Thee Hermes to Pelides shall convey,
Guard of thy life, and partner of thy way.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Wherefore
was that cry?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not
directly
tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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HYMNE
A la tres chere, a la tres belle
Qui remplit mon coeur de clarte,
A l'ange, a l'idole immortelle,
Salut en
immortalite!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
minister
goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the mourners now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the appalling trade,
To take the measure of the house.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Then dove-flights
sanctified
the plain,
And hawk and sparrow shared a nest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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[96]
Affectionate
names of Li Chien and Ts'ui Hsuan-liang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Each failing sense
As with a momentary flash of light
Grew thrillingly
distinct
and keen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Hē þǣm bāt-wearde bunden golde
swurd gesealde, þæt hē
syððan
wæs
on meodu-bence māðme þȳ weorðra,
yrfe-lāfe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Now's the day, and now's the hour--
See the front o' battle lour;
See
approach
proud Edward's power--
Edward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I shall not see thy sad, sad sounding shore,
France, save my duty, I shall all forget;
Amongst the true and tried, I'll tug my oar,
And rest
proscribed
to brand the fawning set.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Daughter
of Homer, fair to see,
Of Virgil's son the mother she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Whenever I have gone there,
there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see
the pictures--which was dreadful, or so many
pictures
that I have not
been able to see the people--which was worse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Noi eravam
lunghesso
mare ancora,
come gente che pensa a suo cammino,
che va col cuore e col corpo dimora.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I shall only add one circumstance: that the
dominion
of the sea is nowhere more extensive; that it carries many currents in this direction and in that; and its ebbings and flowings are not confined to the shore, but it penetrates into the heart of the country, and works its way among hills and mountains, as though it were in its own domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
"--
And the old nurse a brief prayer said
And crossed with
trembling
hand the maid.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But in this view even the "metaphysical verse" of Cowley
is but evidence of the
simplicity
and single-heartedness of the man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil
On stump and stack and stem, --
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where
harvests
were,
Recordless, but for them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Cannot you
understand?
| Guess: |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And thy
dwelling
men shall call
Orestes Town.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Canto XXII
Gia era l'angel dietro a noi rimaso,
l'angel che n'avea volti al sesto giro,
avendomi
dal viso un colpo raso;
e quei c'hanno a giustizia lor disiro
detto n'avea beati, e le sue voci
con 'sitiunt', sanz' altro, cio forniro.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then that artist began in a lark's low
circling
to pass;
And first he sang at the height of the top of the grass
A song of the herds that are born and die in the mass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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We have the account of a certain
Thistlethwaite, one of the 'solid lads' with whom
Chatterton
had made
friends at school, that his friend Thomas in the summer of 1764
told him 'he was in possession of some old MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Les poesies de Baudelaire
disseminees
un peu partout dans les petits
journaux d'avant-garde comme le _Corsaire_ et jusque dans la grave
_Revue des Deux-Mondes,_ n'avaient point encore, en 1857, ete
reunies en volume.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Underneath
this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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CONTEMPORARY
EVENTS
Birth of Edmund Spenser (about) 1552 Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh
1553 Death of Edward VI; Mary crowned.
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The doors and the
shutters
were
closed; all seemed perfectly quiet there.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And all your souls redeem for
Paradise!
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Chanson de Roland |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple
drenched
in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'Tis sweet to have
Life lengthened out
With hopes proved brave
By the very doubt,
Till the spirit enfold
Those
manifest
joys which were foretold.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Death grants ye everything,
But vital sense and
exhalation
hot.
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Lucretius |
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Dalrymple
has been lang our fae,
M'Gill has wrought us meikle wae,
And that curs'd rascal call'd M'Quhae,
And baith the Shaws,
That aft ha'e made us black and blae,
Wi' vengefu' paws.
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Robert Burns |
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Faint light that the waves hold
Is only light remaining; yet still gleam
The sands where those now-sleeping young moon-bathers
Came
dripping
out of the sea and from their arms
Shook flakes of light, dancing on the foamy edge
Of quiet waves.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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