But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ever I fought in the front of all,
sole to the fore; and so shall I fight
while I bide in life and this blade shall last
that early and late hath loyal proved
since for my doughtiness
Daeghrefn
fell,
slain by my hand, the Hugas' champion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
A Pretty Boy_
DVM dubitat natura marem
faceretne
puellam,
factus es, o pulcher, paene puella, puer.
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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15
Ignosco tibi,
Sapphica
puella
Musa doctior: est enim venuste
Magna Caecilio incohata mater.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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are,
he fond [him] redy
sittinde
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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to have failed
In the respect
accorded
by Mankind
To youth in woman, and old age in man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Those who have never known a lover's sin
Let them not read my ditty, it will be
To their dull ears so
musicless
and thin
That they will have no joy of it, but ye
To whose wan cheeks now creeps the lingering smile,
Ye who have learned who Eros is,--O listen yet awhile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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ilke ordre
p{ro}cedynge
by an vneschewable
byndynge to-gidre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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True, he was over forty when he
produced it, but it is noticeably
different
from the works of his old age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
|
To be so tickled, they would change their state
And
situation
with those dancing chips,
O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,
Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
I was disturbed at this;
I
accosted
the man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
A
whipping
to the Moralists who preach
That misery is a sacred thing: for me,
I know no cheaper engine to degrade a man,
Nor any half so sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
No more, aghast and pale,
From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark
The track of thy
destroying
bark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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A defeat was our
conquest
red!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
ai weren yslawe;
precheden
cristendom;
And many man after hem; good prechour bycom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Prince, where your radiant cities smile,
Grim hills their sombre vigils keep,
Your ancient forests hoard and hold
The legends of their centuried sleep;
Your birds of peace white-pinioned float
O'er ruined fort and storied plain,
Your faithful
stewards
sleepless guard
The harvests of your gold and grain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
_To the halves_ still
survives
among us, though apparently
obsolete in England.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
O cruel hands that hold me
powerless!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
With a view to make the journey pleasanter, he
invited
Guglielmo
di Pastrengo to accompany him, in a letter written in
Latin verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
"Tzar," said he, "you can constrain me to do as you list, but do not
permit a
stranger
to enter my wife's room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Why should we thrust our works, which we have written with imaginative
sincerity and filled with spiritual desire, before those quite
excellent people who think that Rossetti's women are 'guys,' that
Rodin's women are 'ugly,' and that Ibsen is 'immoral,' and who only
want to be left at peace to enjoy the works so many clever men have
made
especially
to suit them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
:_
_omitted_
_B_,
_S96:_ _added among_ Other Meditations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'
Love seide, 'Dismaye thee nought,
Sin thou for sucour hast me sought,
In thank thy servise wol I take, 2115
And high of degree I wol thee make,
If
wikkidnesse
ne hindre thee;
But, as I hope, it shal nought be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
The gold and pearls, the lily and the rose
Which weak and dry in winter wont to be,
Are rank and
poisonous
arrow-shafts to me,
As my sore-stricken bosom aptly shows:
Thus all my days now sadly shortly close,
For seldom with great grief long years agree;
But in that fatal glass most blame I see,
That weary with your oft self-liking grows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
But Enkidu
understood
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
I merely hinted to her: "Now, be
careful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Now Finale to the Shore
Now finale to the shore,
Now land and life finale and farewell,
Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
Cautiously
cruising, studying the charts,
Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish,
Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Far I have wandered throughout the Nine Lands;
Wherever
I went such manners had disappeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As lingeringly through the rooms they passed
I saw that she
followed
alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
thy chariot flew
Before the king: he, cautious, backward drew
His horse compell'd; foreboding in his fears
The rattling ruin of the
clashing
cars,
The floundering coursers rolling on the plain,
And conquest lost through frantic haste to gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
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payments
should be clearly marked as such and
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
)
Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Underneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Seeing a goat the other day
kneeling
in order to graze with less
trouble, it seemed to me a type of the common notion of prayer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Your observaunces in so low manere,
And your
awayting
and your besinesse 250
Upon me, that ye calden your maistresse,
Your sovereyn lady in this worlde here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
This most
beautiful
plant is scarce
in England, though it is found in great abundance upon the mountains
of Scotland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
]
The dear old holy Romish realm,
What holds it still
together?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
--
Condensed
blackness and abysmal storm
Compacted to one sceptre
Arms the Grasp enorm--
The Interceptor--
The Substance that still casts the shadow
Death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
And Betty's
standing
at the door,
And Betty's face with joy o'erflows,
Proud of herself, and proud of him,
She sees him in his travelling trim;
How quietly her Johnny goes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
(100)
Since earth's wide regions, heaven's umneasur'd height,
And hell's abyss, hide nothing from your sight,
(We,
wretched
mortals!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
]
++Allas I wepyng am constreined to bygynne vers of
sorouful
matere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
It happens, too, when some prodigious bulk
Of age-worn soil is rolled from mountain slopes
Into tremendous pools of water dark,
That the reeling land itself is rocked about
By the water's undulations; as a basin
Sometimes
won't come to rest until the fluid
Within it ceases to be rocked about
In random undulations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
THE CRADLE
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the
Florence
road,
Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode;
Small sums were charged; few guests the night would stay;
And these could seldom much afford to pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet
prodigal
inward joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Da rief er seinen Schneider,
Der
Schneider
kam heran:
Da, miss dem Junker Kleider
Und miss ihm Hosen an!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Not like the dew did she return
At the
accustomed
hour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
This
incident
is borrowed from _Bevis of Hampton_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
In enforcing a
truth we need
severity
rather than efflorescence of language.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
1470
From time to time, to soothe her hidden sorrow,
She holds her children, drenched in a tearful flow:
Then suddenly
renouncing
her maternal love,
Pushes them far away from her in disgust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
It shall a long space hold aloof
Its forehead, keeping under heavy weight
The other oppress'd,
indignant
at the load,
And grieving sore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
My heath lay farther off, where lizards lived
In strange
metallic
mail, just spied and gone; 30
Like darted lightnings here and there perceived
But nowhere dwelt upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Email
contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
Foundation's web site and
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page at www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Passions cry round me with the yelling cry
Of dogs chained and starving and
smelling
blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
much livelier than e're while
He seems:
supposing
here to find his Son,
Or of him bringing to us some glad news?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
_ They cannot answer; when the priests speak for them,
'Tis for some small
addition
to the temple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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par
fortuite
folie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The robin is the one
That
speechless
from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
of
Zhuangzi
the useless chu tree is ignored because its timber cannot be used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
But not for me such
happiness
the Gods
Have twined into my thread; no, not for me
Or for my father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Thy life has had
Abundance of the things that make men glad;
A crown that came to thee in youth; a son
To do thee worship and
maintain
thy throne--
Not like a childless king, whose folk and lands
Lie helpless, to be torn by strangers' hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The things of the world
flourish
and decay,
Each at its own hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
_"
[This
national
song was composed in April, 1795.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
UPON A
DELAYING
LADY
Come, come away
Or let me go;
Must I here stay
Because you're slow,
And will continue so;
--Troth, lady, no.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
VIII
Like swelling river waves that strain,
Onward the people crowd
In serried,
billowing
train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Contrition, penitence, remorse,
Came on me, with o'erwhelming force;
A hope, a longing, an endeavor,
By days of penance and nights of prayer,
To frustrate and defeat
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
But for much fuller elucidation both of words
and allusions, and of the persons mentioned, readers are
referred
to Mr
Grosart's volumes, which (like the same scholar's 'Sidney' and 'Donne'),
for the first time give Herrick a place among books not printed only,
but edited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Then was riding and railroading and expressing here and thither;
And the Martinsburg Sharpshooters and the Charlestown
Volunteers,
And the Shepherdstown and Winchester Militia
hastened
whither
Old Brown was said to muster his ten thousand grenadiers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The brazen heaven is not yet
accessible
to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Grounded in magic he knew the future and predicted the
Christian
coming of the Saviour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The
footprints!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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[43] The
necessaries
of life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The monstrous
parricide!
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Wilde - Poems |
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And call the house-bride, homewards bring
Maid yearning for new married fere,
Her mind with
fondness
manacling,
As the tough ivy here and there
Errant the tree enwinds.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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If the third stalk
wants the "top-pickle," that is, the grain at the top of the
stalk, the party in
question
will come to the marriage-bed
anything but a maid.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches
vetements
des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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FRIAR CUTHBERT,
gesticulating
and cracking a postilion's whip.
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Longfellow |
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The whole is spoiled,
insufferable
elf!
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La Fontaine |
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*By winged Fantasy,
My embassy is given,
Till secrecy shall
knowledge
be
In the environs of Heaven.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I will plant you two, and let the fool make a third, where
he shall find the letter; observe his
construction
of it.
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Shakespeare |
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