"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
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572
The
Assyrian
came down like the wolf on the fold (_Hebrew Melodies_),
iii.
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Byron |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Tis possible, besides,
That a big bulk of piled sand may bar
His mouths against his onward waves, when sea,
Wild in the winds, tumbles the sand to inland;
Whereby the river's outlet were less free,
Likewise less headlong his
descending
floods.
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Lucretius |
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each his center basement finds; suspended there they stand
{According
to Erdman, the word "center" was originally deleted by Blake with a strong ink stroke and therefore not easily erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"_
[A long and wearisome ditty, called "The Highland Lad and Lowland
Lassie," which Burns
compressed
into these stanzas, for Johnson's
Museum.
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Robert Burns |
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Before that dire
disgrace
shall blast my fame,
O'erwhelm me, earth; and hide a warrior's shame!
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Iliad - Pope |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Errors, dreams, paleness waiteth on his chair,
False fancies o'er the door, and on the stair
Are slippery hopes,
unprofitable
gain,
And gainful loss; such steps it doth contain,
As who descend, may boast their fortune best;
Who most ascend, most fall: a wearied rest,
And resting trouble, glorious disgrace;
A duskish and obscure illustriousness;
Unfaithful loyalty, and cozening faith,
That nimble fury, lazy reason hath:
A prison, whose wide ways do all receive,
Whose narrow paths a hard retiring leave:
A steep descent, by which we slide with ease,
But find no hold our crawling steps to raise:
Within confusion, turbulence, annoy
Are mix'd; undoubted woe, and doubtful joy:
Vulcano, where the sooty Cyclops dwell;
Liparis, Stromboli, nor Mongibel,
Nor Ischia, have more horrid noise and smoke:
He hates himself that stoops to such a yoke.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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Stephen Crane |
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At eve the babes with angels converse hold,
While we to our strange pleasures wend our way,
Each with its little face
upraised
to heaven,
With folded hands, barefoot kneels down to pray,
At selfsame hour with selfsame words they call
On God, the common Father of them all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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' 205
At which the god of love gan loken rowe
Right for despyt, and shoop for to ben wroken;
He kidde anoon his bowe nas not broken;
For
sodeynly
he hit him at the fulle;
And yet as proud a pekok can he pulle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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then to thy dear Son,
True God and Very Man,
That my last sigh in peace may, in his arms, be
breathed!
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Petrarch |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at
blushing
shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown 110
Had not a friend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Marvellous
things
Had vanity (quick Spirit that appears
Almost as deeply seated and as strong
In a Child's heart as fear itself) conceived 105
For my enjoyment.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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But the sum was honestly earned by hard and
wearisome
work.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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1
Qingzhou
and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Purgatorio
?
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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-
Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'17'
The word "wit" has a number of different meanings in this poem, and the
student should be careful to
discriminate
between them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Your leafy throne, with lily-work possess,
And be both
princess
here and poetess.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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After the
funeral feast he retires to the sea-shore, where, falling asleep, the
ghost of his friend appears to him, and demands the rites of burial; the
next morning the
soldiers
are sent with mules and waggons to fetch wood
for the pyre.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Mightier
than Egypt's tombs,
Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,
We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
A keep for life for practical invention.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
MENALCAS
"As
moisture
to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the yeanling kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I
arrived here, at my brother's, only yesterday, after
fighting
my way
through Paisley and Kilmarnock, against those old powerful foes of
mine, the devil, the world, and the flesh--so terrible in the fields
of dissipation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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ON THE
EXTINCTION
OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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All they wrought,
Unreasoning
they wrought, till I made clear
The laws of rising stars, and inference dim,
More hard to learn, of what their setting showed.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Why no,
certainly
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
"I don't see anything very striking in the fact that a woman of eighty
refuses to gamble,"
objected
Naroumov.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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II
O pale
Ophelia!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
He
selected
his card--an ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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My blindness, my deafness to others shows
That only her I see, and hear, and bless,
And I offer her no false flatteries so,
For the heart more than the mouth gives word;
That in field, plain, hill, vale, though I go everywhere
I'd not discern all
qualities
in one sole body,
Only hers, where God sets them all today.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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My other friends and you much worse deserved:
The spouse, for taking me when quite unnerved,
And they, for giving
preference
base to gold,
To those pure joys--far better thought than told.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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{a}t
gou{er}neth
erthe {and} see / {and}
hath also {com}mau{n}dement?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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Iliad - Pope |
|
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I visit these, to whose
indulgent
cares
I owe the nursing of my tender years:
For strife, I hear, has made that union cease
Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of
twilight
formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation
information
page at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I had bid you rob her treasury, and yet
I found you sitting drowsed and motionless,
Your chin bowed to your knees, while on all sides,
Bat-like from bough and roof and window-ledge,
Clung evil souls of men, and in the woods,
Like
streaming
flames, floated upon the winds
The elemental creatures.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Till to his flock the early
shepherd
goes,
Here shall much-needed sleep his frame embrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
I kissed the little
leafless
stem,
But oh, my poor heart knew
The words the flower had said to me,
They were not true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Sylvan, we've come as your
disciples
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
To know of these who would not pay
attention?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Cuopron d'i manti loro i palafreni,
si che due bestie van sott' una pelle:
oh
pazienza
che tanto sostieni!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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LXXXIX
The holy man next made the damsel see,
That save in God there was no true content,
And proved all other hope was transitory,
Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;
And urged withal so earnestly his plea,
He changed her ill and
obstinate
intent;
And made her, for the rest of life, desire
To live devoted to her heavenly sire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Then,
hurrying
to the voice of
the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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is tyme
twelmonyth
take at ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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For, after all the murders of your eye, 145
When, after millions slain, yourself shall die:
When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust,
This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And 'midst the stars
inscribe
Belinda's name.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tous trois firent leur devoir en faveur de mes efforts pour Rimbaud,
Baju avec le tort, peut-etre inconscient, de publier, a l'appui de la
bonne these, des gloses farceuses de gens de talent et surtout d'esprit
qui
auraient
mieux fait certainement de travailler pour leur compte, qui
en valait, je le leur dis en toute sincerite,
La peine assurement!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
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Li Po |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been
absorbed
into the prevailing consciousness of his people.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With beams
December
planets dart
His cold eye truth and conduct scanned,
July was in his sunny heart,
October in his liberal hand.
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Emerson - Poems |
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