She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet harmonious voice
Like a
murmuring
stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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No want of
conscience
hold it that I call
Her 'love,' for whose dear love I rise and fall.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They, seeing and
recalling
soon to mind
Ulysses, in the middle mansion stood
Wond'ring, when thus Ulysses with a voice 460
Of some reproof, but gentle, them bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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A small room of about fifteen feet square, with a single window looking out
on the barren
solitudes
of the island; a small cot; a wash-stand with a
little looking-glass hung over it from a tack in the wall; a pine table
with pen, ink, and paper on it; an old line-engraving representing Bacchus,
hung on the wall, and opposite a similar one of Silenus: these constituted
the visible environments of Walt Whitman.
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Whitman |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They praised his earlship, his acts of prowess
worthily witnessed: and well it is
that men their master-friend
mightily
laud,
heartily love, when hence he goes
from life in the body forlorn away.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This way and that he turns and winds and cuffs the pigeon:
So urged
Achilles
Hector's flight.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
IV
The gaud with his image once had been
A gift from him:
And so it was that its carving keen
Refurbished
memories wearing dim,
Which set in her soul a throe of teen,
And a tear on her lashes' brim.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering
my friend for my sake to approve her.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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CCXLII
And
Guineman
tilts with the king Leutice;
Has broken all the flowers on his shield,
Next of his sark he has undone the seam,
All his ensign thrust through the carcass clean,
So flings him dead, let any laugh or weep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He
gratulates
them and their fortune.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I will endeavour you shall be his guardians
In his distraction: and for your land, Master Wellborn,
Be it good or ill in law, I'll be an umpire
Between you and this the
undoubted
heir
Of Sir Giles Overreach; for me, here's the anchor
That I must fix on.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_Nobody Cometh to Woo_
On
Martinmas
eve the dogs did bark,
And I opened the window to see,
When every maiden went by with her spark
But neer a one came to me.
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John Clare |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"La figure, c'est
l'homme"; there, at any rate, is the
intention
of epic symbolism.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yet without sin he
suffered
more
Than ever sinners did before.
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John Clare |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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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--Lo, here I am,
With gifts from all my store; this
suckling
lamb
Fresh from the ewe, green crowns for joyfulness,
And creamy things new-curdled from the press.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a precipice that seems to sink
Into
everlasting
gulfs below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's landscape in
Italy is
expressed
with an obscurity not unfrequent with its author.
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| Question: |
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Golden Treasury |
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our
courtesy
these merit well:
And were 't not for the nature of the place,
Whence glide the fiery darts, I should have said,
That haste had better suited thee than them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One stands by me and blows a blast apace
On his great flashing trumpet and the sound
Shrieks through the vast black
solitude
around
Through which, as through a wild mad dream we race.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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"
That
Emperour
t'wards God his arms he raised
Lowered his head, began to meditate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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He
honoureth
not the hand that gave the bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Look on the
brightest
eye,
Nor teach it to be proud;
View but the clearest sky,
And thou shalt find a cloud;
Nor call each face ye meet
An angel's, cause it's fair,
But look beneath your feet,
And think of what they are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"
They threw back their heads to laugh,
With quaint countenances
They
regarded
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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With
doubling
Voices & loud Horns wound round wounding
Cavernous dwellers fill'd the enormous Revelry, Responsing!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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What gives him such
audacity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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e sonne
arysynge
{and} ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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When the
Gravesend
tender left the P.
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Kipling - Poems |
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' 105
This Diomede, as he that coude his good,
Whan this was doon, gan fallen forth in speche
Of this and that, and asked why she stood
In swich disese, and gan hir eek biseche,
That if that he encrese mighte or eche 110
With any thing hir ese, that she sholde
Comaunde
it him, and seyde he doon it wolde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Whose is the heart that claims my
prayers?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ye Powers
And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss,
Chaos and Ancient Night, I come no Spie, 970
With purpose to explore or to disturb
The secrets of your Realm, but by constraint
Wandring
this darksome desart, as my way
Lies through your spacious Empire up to light,
Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
What readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds
Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place
From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King
Possesses lately, thither to arrive
I travel this profound, direct my course; 980
Directed, no mean recompence it brings
To your behoof, if I that Region lost,
All usurpation thence expell'd, reduce
To her original darkness and your sway
(Which is my present journey) and once more
Erect the Standerd there of Ancient Night;
Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
_ Fancies
confused
as woven threads.
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Keats |
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for what deed of wrong
Am I
enthralled
by thee in penance long?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But while our author has borrowed many of the details of his story from the
"Roman de Perceval" by Chrestien de Troyes, he has made the narrative more
attractive by the introduction of several
original
and highly interesting
passages which throw light on the manners and amusements of our ancestors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Hark how the Mower Damon sung,
With love of Juliana stung,
While every thing did seem to paint
The scene more fit for his
complaint
!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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is the Tree of the
Knowledge
of Good and
of Evil .
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The fire within the heart so burns us up
That we would wander Hell and Heaven through,
Deep in the Unknown seeking
something
_new_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Straightway to a brant they changed him,
With two huge and dusky pinions,
With a bosom smooth and rounded,
With a bill like two great paddles,
Made him larger than the others,
Ten times larger than the largest,
Just as,
shouting
from the forest,
On the shore stood Hiawatha.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Up came the reserves to the mellay infernal,
Asking where to go in,--through the
clearing
or pine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man
abolished
yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you, memories of horizons?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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A
charitable
wish and full of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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(Vulcan had not been one thousandth so vexed to discover his playmate
Under his meshes ensnared, caught with his own lusty friend,
Lying just as the wiles of the net at the most crucial moment
Deftly
embraced
their embrace, trapping their instant of joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Farewell, ye woodlands I from the tall peak
Of yon aerial rock will
headlong
plunge
Into the billows: this my latest gift,
From dying lips bequeathed thee, see thou keep.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Kline (C)
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Leisurely
elephants wind through the winding lanes,
Swinging their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back
followed
by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
]
If you
continue
thus so wan and white;
If I, one day, behold
You pass from out our dull air to the light,
You, infant--I, so old:
If I the thread of our two lives must see
Thus blent to human view,
I who would fain know death was near to me,
And far away for you;
If your small hands remain such fragile things;
If, in your cradle stirred,
You have the mien of waiting there for wings,
Like to some new-fledged bird;
Not rooted to our earth you seem to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
glorious
Maid, whose soul to heaven is gone
And left the rest cold earth, she who was grown
A pillar of true valour, and had gain'd
Much honour by her victory, and chain'd
That god which doth the world with terror bind,
Using no armour but her own chaste mind;
A fair aspect, coy thoughts, and words well weigh'd,
Sweet modesty to these gave friendly aid.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Beaupre,
Seigniory
of the Cote de, 41.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Then Geraint, selecting the best lance, the
brightest
and strongest
among their spears to replace the one he had broken on the giant, he
plucked off the gaudy armor from each brigand's body, laid it on the
backs of the three horses, tied the bridle reins together and handed
them to Enid with the words, "Drive them on before you.
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Tennyson |
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ELECTRA
_The scene represents a hut on a
desolate
mountain side; the river Inachus
is visible in the distance.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The city about me
Resolves
itself into sound of many voices,
Rustling and fluttering,
Leaves shaken by the breeze.
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Imagists |
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The
melancholy fate draws near which a fortune-telling Sabellian crone once
prophesied in my boyhood: "This lad neither dread poison nor hostile
sword shall take off, nor pleurisy, nor cough, nor
crippling
gout.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Lords and ladies take their seats at the table--Queen
Guenever, the grey-eyed, gaily dressed, sits at the dais, the high
table, or table of state, where too sat Gawayne and Ywain together with
other
worthies
of the Round Table (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Now, hearing from this woman's mouth of mine,
The tale and eke its warning, pray with me,
_Luck sway the scale, with no
uncertain
poise.
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Aeschylus |
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the crucifix is all that's left
To her, of freedom and her sons bereft;
And on her royal robe foul marks are seen
Where Russian hectors'
scornful
feet have been.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A year passed, during which the
scarecrow
turned philosopher.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now indeed
His senses had swoon'd off: he did not heed
The sudden silence, or the whispers low,
Or the old eyes dissolving at his woe, 400
Or anxious calls, or close of
trembling
palms,
Or maiden's sigh, that grief itself embalms:
But in the self-same fixed trance he kept,
Like one who on the earth had never slept.
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Keats |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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ECLOGUE X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me,
Arethusa!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What god shall echo's voice repeat
In mocking game
To Helicon's sequester'd shade,
Or Pindus, or on Haemus chill,
Where once the
hurrying
woods obey'd
The minstrel's will,
Who, by his mother's gift of song,
Held the fleet stream, the rapid breeze,
And led with blandishment along
The listening trees?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Merits all praise, and to depart from it
Would be
departing
from the truth.
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Longfellow |
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Yet pause: being here, our will would do thee service;
Bethink thee, is there then no other gift
Which we can make not
worthless
in thine eyes?
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Byron |
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Dear friend, whoever you are, here, take this kiss,
I give it especially to you--Do not forget me,
I feel like one who has done his work--I
progress
on,--(long enough have I
dallied with Life,)
The unknown sphere, more real than I dreamed, more direct, awakening rays
about me--_So long_!
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Whitman |
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þæt hē
syððan
wæs .
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Beowulf |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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The play is
somewhat
Satyric in character.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Beyond the lines of the dead, a broad blood-stained Arab spear cast
aside in the retreat lay across a stump of scrub, and beyond this again
the
illimitable
dark levels of the desert.
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Kipling - Poems |
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At least I count it a great gain that He
Kaiser nor
chancellor
has made of me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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At last his Sail-broad Vannes
He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoak
Uplifted
spurns the ground, thence many a League
As in a cloudy Chair ascending rides 930
Audacious, but that seat soon failing, meets
A vast vacuitie: all unawares
Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops
Ten thousand fadom deep, and to this hour
Down had been falling, had not by ill chance
The strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud
Instinct with Fire and Nitre hurried him
As many miles aloft: that furie stay'd,
Quencht in a Boggie Syrtis, neither Sea,
Nor good dry Land: nigh founderd on he fares, 940
Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,
Half flying; behoves him now both Oare and Saile.
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Milton |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--Vite soufflons la lampe, afin
De nous cacher dans les
tenebres!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To my
mistress
may he sing and whistle,
Clear, so her heart feels the sharp bristle,
Who can sing nobly, with joy and grace,
For it suits no singer vile and base.
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Troubador Verse |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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EASTWARD
IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her feathering paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If not,
We give
ourselves
away from God to death.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But the credit for the
beauty of these often erroneous
renderings
must go to Mademoiselle
Gautier herself.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So do thou, fair ship, that ow'st
Virgil, thy
precious
freight, to Attic coast,
Safe restore thy loan and whole,
And save from death the partner of my soul!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hear ye in whose abode
My son
resides?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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UNDER THE ALLEGORY OF A LAUREL HE AGAIN
DEPLORES
HER DEATH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Oh, the blessed woods of Sussex, I can hear them still around me,
With their leafy tide of
greenery
still rippling up the wind!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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With so black spirit, of so dure a mould,
E'en voice of suppliant must thou disregard
In latest
circumstance
ah, heart o'er hard?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Indi venimmo al fine ove si parte
lo secondo giron dal terzo, e dove
si vede di
giustizia
orribil arte.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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