How their mouths water while they are looking
At miles of
slaughter
and sniffing the cooking!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Emerson's precedent of giving his brother
Edward's "Last Farewell" a place beside the poem in his memory, two
pleasing poems by Ellen Tucker, his first wife, which he
published
in
the _Dial_, have been placed with his own poems relating to her.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
Sleeping
Lyca lay
While the beasts of prey,
Come from caverns deep,
Viewed the maid asleep.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Love and Solitude_
I hate the very noise of
troublous
man
Who did and does me all the harm he can.
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John Clare |
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THE SONG OF THE AIRMAN By Phoebe Hoffman
In the moonless night when the
searchlight
goes sneaking over the sky, I rise with a whirr of engines from the foam-tracked gloom of the sea, And shoot alone through the midnight where each star seems an Argos eye, To fence with Death in the darkness where the swift Valkyrie fly.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The nightingales, the
nightingales!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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XLI
In my own shire, if I was sad
Homely comforters I had:
The earth, because my heart was sore,
Sorrowed
for the son she bore;
And standing hills, long to remain,
Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Why in that
rawnesse
left you Wife, and Childe?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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DRINKING
TOGETHER
IN THE MOUNTAINS[51]
[51] _Cf.
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Li Po |
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Nicholson nunc lego quod in G et O
scriptum
est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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]
[Sidenote M: Her body was short and thick;]
[Sidenote N: her
buttocks
broad and round.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'Twas there within the chimney-seat
He watched me to the clock's slow beat--
Loved me, and learnt to call me sweet,
And
whispered
words to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Almost a
powdered
footman
Might dare to touch it now!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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sic cecidisse iuuat: uixi sine uulnere famae,
ulta uirum positis
moenibus
oppetii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,
I found a friend; and sure as death I swore
I would not part a
bachelor
from the priest.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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That a king should
endeavour
to make a war
cease.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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'Twill turn out
dangerous
maybe, but still,--a game.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What
thoughts
at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
The second Satan had neither the air at once tragical and smiling, the
lovely
insinuating
ways, nor the delicate and scented beauty of the
first.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In this (if I may be
pardoned
for so bold a truth) Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Summer Images
Now swarthy summer, by rude health embrowned,
Precedence takes of rosy fingered spring;
And
laughing
joy, with wild flowers pranked and crowned,
A wild and giddy thing,
And health robust, from every care unbound,
Come on the zephyr's wing,
And cheer the toiling clown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Per vedere ogne ben dentro vi gode
l'anima santa che 'l mondo fallace
fa
manifesto
a chi di lei ben ode.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Now, Love, at length behold a
youthful
fair,
Who spurns thy rule, and, mocking all my care,
'Mid two such foes, is safe and fancy free.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The mingled fate my love should give
In these mute emblems shone,
That more
intensely
burn and live--
While I am turned to stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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exutusue
puer pinnis labentibus?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Behold, we are life's pitiful least,
And we perish at the first smell
Of death, whither heaves earth
To spurn us
cringing
into hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be
resurrected
only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The present edition is not a
reproduction
of those eleven volumes of
1882-9.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hence from my
shuddering
sight to never more return that show of
blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I was born beneath
A northern sky, but yet the Latin muse
To me is a familiar voice; I love
The blossoms of Parnassus, I believe
The
prophecies
of singers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Is it not
strange?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with
permission
of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Be-south, to the
southward
of.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And if piety be wanting in the priests, equity in the judges, or the
magistrates be found rated at a price, what justice or
religion
is to be
expected?
| 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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This
Highland
Queen, music and poetry, was composed by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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II
A thing all consequence here takes the lead,
Reigning knight-errant oer this dirty breed--
A bailiff he, and who so great to brag
Of law and all its terrors as Bumtagg;
Fawning a puppy at his master's side
And
frowning
like a wolf on all beside;
Who fattens best where sorrow worst appears
And feeds on sad misfortune's bitterest tears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'
Therwith
she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And
flickered
his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"Ere we Gomera cleared, a coward cried,
`Turn, turn: here be three
caravels
ahead,
From Portugal, to take us: we are dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in
bereaved
acknowledgment
Of their unthinking drums.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Many dates and facts are conjecture, and so the order of the poets is at times
somewhat
arbitrary where dates of birth and death are uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Haste to cure the old despair,--
Reason in Nature's lotus drenched,
The memory of ages quenched;
Give them again to shine;
Let wine repair what this undid;
And where the infection slid,
A
dazzling
memory revive;
Refresh the faded tints,
Recut the aged prints,
And write my old adventures with the pen
Which on the first day drew,
Upon the tablets blue,
The dancing Pleiads and eternal men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were withering and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I
journeyed
down here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ariel to Miranda:--Take
This slave of music, for the sake
Of him who is the slave of thee;
And teach it all the harmony
In which thou canst, and only thou,
Make the delighted spirit glow,
Till joy denies itself again
And, too intense, is turn'd to pain;
For by permission and command
Of thine own Prince Ferdinand,
Poor Ariel sends this silent token
Of more than ever can be spoken;
Your guardian spirit, Ariel, who
From life to life, must still pursue
Your happiness, for thus alone
Can Ariel ever find his own;
From Prospero's enchanted cell,
As the mighty verses tell,
To the throne of Naples he
Lit you o'er the
trackless
sea,
Flitting on, your prow before,
Like a living meteor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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'My eye, piercing the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In
brightness
and shuddering, O jewels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"
And
excitedly
tingled his bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of
threescore
years was blighted in a day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Let us break off; say they, by strength of hand
Their bonds, and cast from us, no more to wear,
Their twisted cords: he who in Heaven doth dwell
Shall laugh, the Lord shall scoff them, then severe
Speak to them in his wrath, and in his fell 10
And fierce ire trouble them; but I saith hee
Anointed
have my King (though ye rebell)
On Sion my holi' hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Knappin-hammers, hammers for
breaking
stones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Yes, Sylvan; you must think
The
cloister
were a thing more comfortable
With your Katrina in it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
_
TO THE SUN, WHOSE SETTING HID LAURA'S
DWELLING
FROM HIS VIEW.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Some demon, anxious for the Trojan doom,
Urged you with great
Deiphobus
to come,
To explore the fraud; with guile opposed to guile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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_
Aux
branches
claires des tilleurs
Meurt un maladif hallali.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_a lighter
penalty_]
_atonement_), 157; pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Not Phoebus doth the rude
Parnassian
crag
So ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
Of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven
Of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,
How all that is from these beginnings grew,
And the young world itself took solid shape,
Then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep
Shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things
Little by little; and how the earth amazed
Beheld the new sun shining, and the showers
Fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods
'Gan first to rise, and living things to roam
Scattered among the hills that knew them not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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oh dyre
dishonoure
to the lande!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
A treach'rous hand, a
cleaving
blow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet, are we not for one brief day,
While the sun sleeps on the mountain, 10
Wild-hearted lover and loved one,
Safe in Pan's
keeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Hence Offa was praised
for his
fighting
and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks,
Collinga
knew her fame,
From Tarnau in Galicia
To Juan Bazaar she came,
To eat the bread of infamy
And take the wage of shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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For the gathered tears that tarry
Through the day and the dark till now,
Now in the dawn are free,
Father, and flow beneath
The floor of the world, to be
As a song in she house of Death:
From the rising up of the day
They guide my heart alway,
The silent tears unshed,
And my body mourns for the dead;
My cheeks bleed silently,
And these bruised temples keep
Their pain,
remembering
thee
And thy bloody sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
What wild heart-histories seemed to he enwritten
Upon those crystalline,
celestial
spheres!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES
ALBEIT nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous
demagogues
betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And you must be like waters underneath me,
Full of my burning; there's no more for me
Now, but to dwell alone in my still soul's
Hoarding of ecstasies, a great place of lusts
Achieved and shining fixt; for every man
Is mine, and every soil is mine, from here
Round to the
furthest
cliffs that steadfast are
To keep the hoofs of the sea from murdering
The tilled leagues of the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Et mon coeur s'effraya d'envier maint pauvre homme
Courant avec ferveur a l'abime beant,
Et qui, soul de son sang,
prefererait
en somme
La douleur a la mort et l'enfer au neant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
While here I sit, sad and
solitary
by the side of a fire in a little
country inn, and drying my wet clothes, in pops a poor fellow of
sodger, and tells me he is going to Ayr.
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This irony of Mephistopheles, who carries on so
audacious
a
game with the weakness and the desires of man, is it not the mocking,
scornful side of the poet's spirit, a leaning to sullenness, which can be
traced even into the earliest years of his life, a bitter leaven thrown
into a strong soul forever by early satiety?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Cursed ambition,
detestable
obsession
Whose tyranny sways the noblest of men!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE
CAMPAIGN
AGAINST WU
TWO POEMS
By Wei W?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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que j'en ai suivi, de ces petites
vieilles!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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About the same time, Claudia, daughter to Marcus Silanus, was given in
marriage to Caligula, who had accompanied his
grandfather
to Capreae,
having always hid under a subdolous guise of modesty, his savage and
inhuman spirit: even upon the condemnation of his mother, even for the
exile of his brothers, not a word escaped him, not a sigh, nor groan.
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Tacitus |
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Cio che da lei sanza mezzo distilla
non ha poi fine, perche non si move
la sua
imprenta
quand' ella sigilla.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Has not Sir Mammon
gloriously
lighted
His palace for this festive night?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Ah, my poor
husband!
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Hugo - Poems |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que
toujours
les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois voudraient bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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While Caesar rules, no civil strife
Shall break our rest, nor
violence
rude,
Nor rage, that whets the slaughtering knife
And plunges wretched towns in feud.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Now even I come before thee
With oil and honey and wheat-bread,
Praying for
strength
and fulfilment
Of human longing, with purpose 10
Ever to keep thy great worship
Pure and undarkened.
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Sappho |
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A Minuet of Mozart's
Across the dimly lighted room
The violin drew wefts of sound,
Airily they wove and wound
And
glimmered
gold against the gloom.
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Sara Teasdale |
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