Hereafter let him fall, as Fates design,
That spun so short his life's illustrious line:(262)
But lest some adverse god now cross his way,
Give him to know what powers assist this day:
For how shall mortal stand the dire alarms,
When heaven's
refulgent
host appear in arms?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Or if he have of craft cunning, 6735
And
strengthe
also, and desiring
To wirken, as he hadde what,
But he finde neither this ne that,
Than may he begge, til that he
Have geten his necessitee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Consider
thou,
If to excel be worthy man's endeavour,
When such life may attend the first.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Et ces
Messieurs
riront, les reins sur notre tete!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XLV cum XLIV
continuant
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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To give immortal pity to her woe
They taught the riv'let through her bowers to flow,
And still, through violet-beds, the
fountain
pours
Its plaintive wailing, and is named Amours.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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King
Agramant
arrives that very day,
And tents him on the contrary part.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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If e'er he bore the sword to
strengthen
ill,
Or, having power to wrong, betray'd the will,
On me, on me your kindled wrath assuage,
And bid the voice of lawless riot rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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With joy the sailors view their friends return'd,
And hail us living whom as dead they mourn'd
Big tears of
transport
stand in every eye:
I check their fondness, and command to fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Charles
complained
in amity and truth:
"Rollant, my friend, God lay thee mid the blooms
Of Paradise, among the glorious!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Across two
counties
he can hear,
And catch your words before you speak.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That controversy for several ages
engrossed
the conversation of the
East.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_unquam_
h2: _unquam_ ?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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When these have, haply, chanced to collect
And to derange the atmosphere of earth,
The air
becometh
baneful.
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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Amasse les
strideurs
au coeur du clairon lourd.
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For common
instinct
of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.
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Lucretius |
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And now the sonne with the blacke cloudes did stryve,
And
shettynge
on the grounde his glairie raie,
The Abbatte spurrde his steede, and eftsoones roadde awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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180
XXI
Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,
Adornd with gold and jewels shining cleare,
She greatly grew amazed at the sight,
And th' unacquainted light began to feare:
For never did such
brightnesse
there appeare, 185
And would have backe retyred to her cave,
Until the witches speech she gan to heare,
Saying, Yet, O thou dreaded Dame, I crave
Abide, till I have told the message which I have.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Yet many scholars
remembered
his presence and teaching with pleasure and
gratitude, not only in Boston, but in Chelmsford and Roxbury, for while
his younger brothers were in college it was necessary that he should
help.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In what celestial sphere--what realm of thought,
Dwelt the bright model from which Nature drew
That fair and beauteous face, in which we view
Her utmost power, on earth,
divinely
wrought?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"Do you know
I have some very
beautiful
poems floating in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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As if a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port,
His
guardian
sea-god to commemorate,
Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort
And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot
conceal!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In both those ballads the English,
commanded
by the
Percy, fight with the Scots, commanded by the Douglas.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And art Thou come for saving, baby-browed
And
speechless
Being--art Thou come for saving?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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" Gawayne
replies that he cannot
undertake
the task of expounding true-love and
tales of arms to one who has far more wisdom than he possesses.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Why should the interest in them, I see,
Cause you
unhappiness
if they are happy?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'"
Then, yielding to the
forceful
arguments,
Of silence as more perilous I deem'd,
And answer'd: "Father!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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It was only after much trouble that we succeeded in laying bare some
portions of the temporal muscle which
appeared
of less stony rigidity
than other parts of the frame, but which, as we had anticipated, of
course, gave no indication of galvanic susceptibility when brought in
contact with the wire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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He
expressed
a desire to be buried there, but when he
died they buried him at Tung-lin.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Well do they do their jobs those
journeymen
divine,
Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides,
And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and
resume the way;
Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Rob Roy had never
lingered
here,
To these few meagre Vales confined;
But thought how wide the world, the times 75
How fairly to his mind!
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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LFS}
Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
Like Sons & DaughtersFairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen, Daughter of Beulah Sing
His fall into Division & his Resurrection to Unity
His fall into the
Generation
of Decay & Death & his Regeneration by the Resurrection from the dead*
Begin with Tharmas Parent power.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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quamlibet
immenso diues uigil incubet auro,
aestuat augendae dira cupido rei.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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My worth should help me and my nobility,
My beauty, and more my own heart's loyalty;
That's why I send now,
wherever
you may be,
This song to act as a messenger from me;
I wish to know, my sweet and gentle friend,
Why to me so harsh and full of cruelty;
I'd know if it's pride, or ill-will in the end.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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tum Thetidis Peleus
incensus
fertur amore,
tum Thetis humanos non despexit hymenaeos, 20
tum Thetidi pater ipse iugandum Pelea sensit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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745
And how his blushes
increased
my sense of shame!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Most
Catholic
countries accepted the
Gregorian calendar (after Pope Gregory XIII) from some time
after 1582 (the Catholic countries of France, Spain, Portugal,
and Italy in 1582, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland
within a year or two, Hungary in 1587, and Scotland in 1600),
and celebrated New Year's Day on January 1st.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And with a double weight of sour allay'd:
I also know their customs, sighs, and songs;
Their sudden muteness, and their
stammering
tongues:
How short their joy, how long their pain doth last,
How wormwood spoileth all their honey's taste.
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Petrarch |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE
OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Gallus is
charming
as man; for sweet loves ever conjoins he,
So that the charming lad sleep wi' the charmer his lass.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Why, how
intolerable
an ass is he
Whom Silliness' sweetheart drives so, by the ear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Poscia mi disse: <
tua cognazione e che cent' anni e piue
girato ha 'l monte in la prima cornice,
mio figlio fu e tuo bisavol fue:
ben si convien che la lunga fatica
tu li
raccorci
con l'opere tue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Now shall I lay my head
In peace upon my watery pillow: now
Sleep will come
smoothly
to my weary brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I drinke to th'
generall
ioy o'th' whole Table,
And to our deere Friend Banquo, whom we misse:
Would he were heere: to all, and him we thirst,
And all to all
Lords.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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' By his brother's
infernal
streams, by the banks of the pitchy
black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his
nod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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[141] Ormuz, or Hormuz, an island at the
entrance
of the Persian Gulf,
once a great commercial depot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thrice struck Pelides with
indignant
heart,
Thrice in impassive air he plunged the dart;
The spear a fourth time buried in the cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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God's grace
deserves
here to be daily fed
That, thus increased, it might be perfected.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet
carillon
of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no companions else
Than ghostly kilometer posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
4988
[Sidenote: Temporal
existence
proceeds from the past to the
present, and thence to the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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]
[Footnote 3:
curiously
devised.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A modest lot, a fame petite,
A brief
campaign
of sting and sweet
Is plenty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Tacitus, as usual, gives a practical rather
than a
strategic
motive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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First twas a hum, but now it loudly squalls;
And then the pattering rain begins to fall,
And it is hushed--the fern leaves scarcely shake,
The
tottergrass
it scarcely stirs at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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copyright law in
creating
the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours--as in the All-One's thought lay she--
Till
ripening
years have run.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties,
including
placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
From all thou begg'st, a bold
audacious
slave;
Nor all can give so much as thou canst crave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
There's not a hill in all the view,
Save that a forked cloud or two
Upon the verge of distance lies
And into
mountains
cheats the eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
e
p{ro}prete
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"
Then he takes off the girdle and throws it to the knight in green,
cursing his
cowardice
and covetousness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at wat3
Gryngolet
grayth, & gurde with a sadel,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
at nis nat
p{er}fit
men may seen apertly ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by
frightful
wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with interruption short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose
imperial
feet
Have shattered armies and stamped empires dead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Naroumov invited Herman
to
accompany
him to the club, and the young man accepted the invitation
only too willingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ho for the women, their beauty and my
pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
n gave a feast in the Palace of P'ing-lo
With twenty
thousand
gallons of wine he loosed mirth and play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The city of Melinda was situated in a fertile plain,
surrounded
with
gardens and groves of orange-trees, whose flowers diffused a most
grateful odour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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She did not
come, but
although
the water began to rise, he trusted so firmly in her
word, that he clung to the pillars of the bridge and waited till he was
drowned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for
crossing
the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
" But labour 'tis of
Hercules
thee now to find.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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It is
pleasant
and dreamy, no doubt, to float
With 'thoughts as boundless, and souls as free':
But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat,
How do you like the Sea?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The only house
Beyond where they were was a
shattered
seedpod.
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Aye, once a
stranger
blest the earth
Who never caused a heart to mourn,
Whose very voice gave sorrow mirth--
And how did earth his worth return?
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It should have the dignity of a
ceremony as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere
character of a
romantic
play with the wit and beauty that make such
plays delightful to us.
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In vain the laughing girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some treacherous black ravine,
Clutching
his flag, the dead boy lies.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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The sun above the mountain's head,
A
freshening
lustre mellow,
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
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I have, on every hand, been
entertained
politely.
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qui si nuota altrimenti che nel
Serchio!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And
bristled
thick with sharpen'd stakes below.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple
drenched
in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Russian
peasants
are childishly fond of whirligigs, which
are also much in vogue during the Carnival.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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