There was a bridge, and we
resolved
to
cross it.
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Poe - 5 |
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7
(Nor for you, for one alone,
Blossoms
and branches green to coffins all I bring,
For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane
and sacred death.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_] is all
glitter and point like a piece of
Derbyshire
spar, and the other is dark
and massy like a block of marble.
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Byron |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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[Sidenote A: He was found
faultless
in his five wits.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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URIEL
It fell in the ancient periods
Which the brooding soul surveys,
Or ever the wild Time coined itself
Into
calendar
months and days.
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Emerson - Poems |
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How great my
pleasure
too,
When I can see her face;
I cease to know the place,
Her love-filled eyes in view;
I'm tangled then, and won,
Conquered and so undone,
Can't turn my eyes away,
Nor ever from her stray,
And when I can see her
All is joy for me there.
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Troubador Verse |
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XIV
As we pass the summer stream without danger
That floods in winter, king of all the plain,
Rendering farmers' hopes and shepherds' vain,
In his proud flight, sinking fields in water:
As we see coward creatures at the slaughter
Outrage the dead lion after his brave reign,
Staining their jaws,
revealing
their disdain,
Daring their enemy bereft of power:
And as the least valiant Greeks at Troy
With brave Hector's corpse were wont to toy,
So those whose heads once used to bow,
When to Roman triumph they were drawn,
On dusty tombs exact their vengeance now,
The conquered daring the conqueror's scorn.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may
vouchsafe
to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, 5
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
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Alexander Pope |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her rippling curls,
My heart
delights
itself, contentedly.
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Ronsard |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Stephen Crane |
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And Santa Croce wants their mighty dust;
Yet for this want more noted, as of yore
The Caesar's pageant, shorn of Brutus' bust,
Did but of Rome's best son remind her more:
Happier
Ravenna!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This translation or rather
adaptation
contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Even
Darjiling
is
a little out-of-the-way hole.
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Kipling - Poems |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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1085
And Peter turns his steps aside
Into a shade of darksome trees,
Where he sits down, he knows not how,
With his hands pressed against his brow,
His elbows on [116] his
tremulous
knees.
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William Wordsworth |
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you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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211
Ye neighbVing elms, which your green leaves
did slied,
And fawns which from the womb
abortive
fled.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all
sympathies
in one!
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Shelley |
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John Masefield is the author of "The Widow in the the Bye Street," "Good Friday," "The
Everlasting
Mercy," "Saltwater Ballads," "The Tragedy of Nan," and other volumes.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And this reviving Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
But it was
impossible
to quiet Saveliitch when once he had begun to
sermonize.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Quindi fu' io; ma li
profondi
fori
ond' usci 'l sangue in sul quale io sedea,
fatti mi fuoro in grembo a li Antenori,
la dov' io piu sicuro esser credea:
quel da Esti il fe far, che m'avea in ira
assai piu la che dritto non volea.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A
complete
list of Masefield's works sent on request.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_
mavolunt:
_malunt_
(_mage-uolunt_).
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Will ye
Be stubborn without reason, and in pride
Flee from his
kindness?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Seventh Self: How strange that you all would rebel against this
man, because each and every one of you has a
preordained
fate to
fulfill.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XLVI
Bring, in this timeless grave to throw,
No cypress, sombre on the snow;
Snap not from the bitter yew
His leaves that live December through;
Break no rosemary, bright with rime
And
sparkling
to the cruel clime;
Nor plod the winter land to look
For willows in the icy brook
To cast them leafless round him: bring
No spray that ever buds in spring.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It was
peaceful
like the faces of animals, or like
mountain pools at evening, so peaceful that it was a little sad.
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Yeats |
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The infant
listened
to the strain,
Now here, now there, its thoughts were driven--
But the Fay and the Peri waited in vain,
The soul soared above such a sensual gain--
The child rose to Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It ceas'd: yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the
sleeping
woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If Thou be'st taken, God forbid
I fly from Thee, as others did:
But if Thou wilt so honour me
As to accept my company,
I'll follow Thee, hap hap what shall,
Both to the judge and
judgment
hall:
And, if I see Thee posted there,
To be all-flayed with whipping-cheer,
I'll take my share; or else, my God,
Thy stripes I'll kiss, or burn the rod.
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Robert Herrick |
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Leveson Gower_
Cromwell and the Crown--_Leitch Ritchie_
Milton's Appeal to Cromwell
First Love--_Fanny Kemble-Butler_
The First Black Flag--_Democratic Review_
The Son in Old Age--_Foreign
Quarterly
Review_
The Emperor's Return--_Athenaum_
Victor in Poesy, Victor in Romance,
Cloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears,
French of the French, and Lord of human tears;
Child-lover; Bard whose fame-lit laurels glance
Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance,
Beyond our strait, their claim to be thy peers;
Weird Titan by thy winter weight of years
As yet unbroken, Stormy voice of France!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Mercy's lost, and gone from sight
And now I can
retrieve
it not.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well
That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring;
Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string;
Hence with denial vain and coy excuse:
So may some gentle Muse
With lucky words favour my
destined
urn:
And as he passes, turn
And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Do you mean the heads upon the
Scottish
Gate?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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5, 1805', was published in
pamphlet
form (8vo, 1805), by
Hamilton and Bird, 21 High Street, Islington.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Weep, weep, my eyes,
dissolve
in water!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Whatever
it may be, wherever he is, whate'er may happen, he
grins.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[Burns was fond of
expressive
words: "Gloaming, the twilight," says
Currie, "is a beautiful poetic word, which ought to be adopted in
England.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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O fearful
meditation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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candet ebur soliis,
collucent
pocula mensae, 45
tota domus gaudet regali splendida gaza.
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Latin - Catullus |
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370
To whom
Alcinous
answer thus return'd.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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As each
majestic
form emerged to light,
Thither, intent, I turn'd my sharpen'd sight;
And soon a noble pair my notice drew,
That, hand in hand approaching, met my view.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_Birdie-cocks_, young cocks, still
belonging
to the brood.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There the
inhabitants
divine rejoice
For ever, (and her admonition giv'n)
Caerulean-eyed Minerva thither flew.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
This was not language befitting the man who had
preached
of the sanctity
of work.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigur'd so together,
More
witnesseth
than fancy's images,
And grows to something of great constancy,
But howsoever strange and admirable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Her will is the doom of the children,
and Discord is kindled amain,
And strange is the Lord of Division,
who cleaveth the
birthright
in twain,--
The edged thing, born of the north,
the steel that is ruthless and keen,
Dividing in bitter division
the lot of the children of teen!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this
eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Email
contact links and up to date contact
information
can be found at the
Foundation's web site and official page at www.
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Aeschylus |
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DAVIES
The Captive Lion (from 'The Song of Life')
A Bird's Anger " " "
The Villain " " "
Love's Caution " " "
Wasted Hours (from 'The Hour of Magic')
The Truth (from 'The Song of Life')
WALTER DE LA MARE
The Moth (from 'The Veil')
'Sotto Voce' " "
Sephina (from 'Flora ')
Titmouse
(from 'The Veil')
Suppose (from 'Flora')
The Corner Stone (from 'The Veil')
JOHN DRINKWATER
Persuasion (from 'Seeds of Time')
JOHN FREEMAN
I Will Ask (from 'Poems New and Old')
The Evening Sky " " "
The Caves " " "
Moon-Bathers (from 'Music')
In Those Old Days (from 'Poems New and Old')
Caterpillars (from 'Music')
Change " "
WILFRID GIBSON
Fire (from 'Neighbours')
Barbara Fell " "
Philip and Phoebe Ware " "
By the Weir " "
Worlds " "
ROBERT GRAVES
Lost Love (from 'The Pier-Glass')
Morning Phoenix " "
A Lover Since Childhood
Sullen Moods
The Pier-Glass (from 'The Pier-Glass')
The Troll's Nosegay " "
Fox's Dingle " "
The General Elliott (from 'On English Poetry')
The Patchwork Bonnet (from 'The Pier-Glass')
RICHARD HUGHES
The Singing Furies (from 'Gipsy-Night')
Moonstruck " "
Vagrancy " "
Poets, Painters, Puddings "
WILLIAM KERR
In Memoriam D.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Let whoso hath been With
worthier
works concerned, display his wares !
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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`And for-thy slee with reson al this hete;
Men seyn, "The
suffraunt
overcometh," pardee;
Eek "Who-so wol han leef, he lief mot lete;" 1585
Thus maketh vertue of necessitee
By pacience, and thenk that lord is he
Of fortune ay, that nought wol of hir recche;
And she ne daunteth no wight but a wrecche.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And it is this that so often redeems
Roman
literature
from itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Gold of the reddening sunset,
backward
thrown,
Gone, gone from us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
It is but seven months since Nero's
death, and already Icelus alone has embezzled more than all the
depredations of Polyclitus and
Vatinius
and Aegialus[63] put together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"May the grace,
That giveth me the captain of the church
For confessor," said I, "vouchsafe to me
Apt utterance for my
thoughts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
He
questioned
softly why I failed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
He stood like a shadow
transfixed
by a stream,
And I couldn't forget him for hours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I cried, "Come back, little
thoughts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I
wondered
at you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Meantime
the radiant sun to mortal sight
Descending swift, roll'd down the rapid light:
Then to their starry domes the gods depart,
The shining monuments of Vulcan's art:
Jove on his couch reclined his awful head,
And Juno slumber'd on the golden bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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At last to be
identified!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
His
indifference
to literature
was notorious.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
This cultivated the latent seeds of
poetry; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this
hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look out in
suspicions places; and though nobody can be more
sceptical
than I am
in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake
off these idle terrors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
oh, gaze not so--
'Twas with such looks that Clytemnestra sought
An
entrance
to her son Orestes' heart,
And yet his uprais'd arm her bosom pierced.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
Up-on my sorwes syke
Have mercy, swete herte myn,
Cryseyde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This selection from her poems is published to meet the desire of her
personal friends, and
especially
of her surviving sister.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Is your sole virtue committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A cold leaden awe
These secrets struck into him; and unless
Dian had chaced away that heaviness, 140
He might have died: but now, with cheered feel,
He onward kept; wooing these thoughts to steal
About the
labyrinth
in his soul of love.
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Keats |
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" the prince replies,
"No more my sire will glad these longing eyes;
The queen's fond hope
inventive
rumour cheers,
Or vain diviners' dreams divert her fears.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held
territory
to Qiyang, near which was Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'Come learn with me the fatal song
Which knits the world in music strong,
Come lift thine eyes to lofty rhymes,
Of things with things, of times with times,
Primal chimes of sun and shade,
Of sound and echo, man and maid,
The land
reflected
in the flood,
Body with shadow still pursued.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That
impudence
of mine, so daring,
As thou wast home from church repairing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Alban entitle his work _Novum
Organum_; which, though by the most of superficial men, who cannot get
beyond the title of nominals, it is not penetrated nor understood, it
really openeth all defects of learning whatsoever, and is a book
"Qui longum note
scriptori
proroget aevum.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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the
mightiest
of our young men was born under a star in the
midwinter.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sir Job sailed forth, the evening bright and still,
"No place on earth," he cried, "like
Greenwich
Hill!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twas once & _only_ once & the wild hour
From my
rememberance
shall not pass--some power
Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night & left behind
Its image on my spirit, or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was
That dream was as that night wind--let it pass.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then the thaws swell the streams,
And swollen rivers swell the sea:--
If the winter ever ends
How
pleasant
it will be.
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Christina Rossetti |
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One thing be clearly understood,--
Unless I clasp the sweet, young blood
This night in my arms--then, well and good:
When
midnight
strikes, our bond is broken.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"This was a most melancholy affair," says the poet in
his letter to Moore, "which I cannot yet bear to reflect on, and had
very nearly given me one or two of the
principal
qualifications for a
place among those who have lost the chart and mistaken the reckoning
of rationality.
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Robert Forst |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Tennyson |
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Her pride appeared in clothes as well as air,
And on her sparkled gold and jewels rare;
In all the elegance of dress arrayed,
Embroidery
and lace, her taste displayed.
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La Fontaine |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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The poet
wrote the Chevalier's Lament to please the jacobitical taste of his
friend; and the
musician
gave him advice in farming which he neglected
to follow:--"Farmer Attention," says Cleghorn, "is a good farmer
everywhere.
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Robert Forst |
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Not long afterwards his grandmother,
Nokomis, incited him to kill the great Pearl-Feather, Megissogwon,
the
magician
who had slain her father.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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