As to the objections which Hayward and some of his reviewers have
instituted in advance against the possibility of a good and faithful
metrical
translation
of a poem like Faust, they seem to the present
translator full of paradox and sophistry.
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Before you accuse my
judgement
further
Consult your heart: Rodrigue is its master.
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats |
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It is written with a running pen; so long as the verse keeps
going on, Morris seems satisfied, though it is very often going on
about
unimportant
things, and in an uninteresting manner.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The
stillness
round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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1828 þywað =
þȳwað
l.
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Beowulf |
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Why should false
painting
imitate his cheek,
And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Again, since battle so
fiercely
one with other
The four most mighty members the world,
Aroused in an all unholy war,
Seest not that there may be for them an end
Of the long strife?
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Lucretius |
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I should
withdraw
it, but cannot find it in my
heart to do so.
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John Donne |
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His fortune to complete, that day they took
The very
wretches
that he wished to hook.
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La Fontaine |
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West, walking towards the, 217-220;
general
tendency
towards the, 219-224.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Quam quoniam poenam misero
proponis
amori, 15
Numquam iam posthac basia surripiam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Went step by step, to stumble soon began,
So feeble he is, no further fare he can,
For too much blood he's lost, and no
strength
has;
Ere he has crossed an acre of the land,
His heart grows faint, he falls down forwards and
Death comes to him with very cruel pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
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Meredith - Poems |
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Pulp, tear, blast
Beloved soldiers who love rough life and breath
Not less for dying
faithful
to the last.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I'm wife; I've
finished
that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Ton regard, infernal et divin,
Verse confusement le
bienfait
et le crime,
Et l'on peut pour cela te comparer au vin.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In all (who rather than prolong with blame
Their life, would choose to perish in the fray),
The
kindling
visage burns, and heart is woe,
That to assail one man so many go.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Such tortuous
expression
of emotion did not
lead to good poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Through him Jonson
passes censure upon the city gallant, the
attendant
at the theatre, the
victim of the prevalent superstitions, and even the pretended demoniac.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O
Hymenaeus
Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thus am I Dante for a space and am One
Francois
Villon, ballad-lord and thief Or am such holy ones I may not write, Lest blasphemy be writ against my name; This for an instant and the flame is gone.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all listening hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering
adventure
to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Francois and Margot and thee and me:
1 Certain gibbeted corpses used to be coated with tar as a pre-
servative
; thus one scarecrow served as warning for considerable time.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The wind, the tempest roaring high,
The tumult of a tropic sky
Might well be
dangerous
food
For him, a youth to whom was given
So much of earth--so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.
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Golden Treasury |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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And now she's at the doctor's door,
She lifts the knocker, rap, rap, rap,
The doctor at the casement shews,
His
glimmering
eyes that peep and doze;
And one hand rubs his old night-cap.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The four travellers were
therefore
obliged to resolve on pursuing their
wanderings by land: and, very fortunately, there happened to pass by at
that moment an elderly Rhinoceros, on which they seized; and, all four
mounting on his back,--the Quangle-Wangle sitting on his horn, and holding
on by his ears, and the Pussy-Cat swinging at the end of his tail,--they
set off, having only four small beans and three pounds of mashed potatoes
to last through their whole journey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Defunctive
music under sea
Passed seaward with the passing bell
Slowly: the God Hercules
Had left him, that had loved him well.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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For she belike hath drunken deep
Of all the
blessedness
of sleep!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I had
promised
my own prudence to shut close the gates of Eden
between Milton and myself, so that none might say I dared to walk in his
footsteps.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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[_All the_
COUNSELLORS
_seat themselves.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Wherefore, moon,
Since she
presents
bright look and clear-cut form,
May there on high by us on earth be seen
Just as she is with extreme bounds defined,
And just of the size.
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Lucretius |
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Meredith - Poems |
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This tale ay was span-newe to biginne, 1665
Til that the night
departed
hem a-twinne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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131
That between us the common air should bar,
And split the
influence
of every star ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Or on that winter-wild night when, reclined by the chimney-nook quoin,
Slowly a drowse overgat me, the
smallest
and feeblest of folk there,
Weak from my baptism of pain; when at times and anon I awoke there--
Heard of a world wheeling on, with no listing or longing to join.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Each sphere has its angel
or
intelligence
that moves and directs it.
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John Donne |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose
bleating
ceases to repeat,
Whose wandering is done.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For now upon the main themselves they saw
That
boundless
empire, where you give the law ;,
Of wind's and water's rage they feaiful be,
But much more fearful are your flags to see.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Thy sign hath
conquered
me.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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>>
Dit celle dont jadis nous
baisions
les genoux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'Tis in the leaves, a little sun,
No bigger than your ee;
"A tiny sun, and it has got
A perfect glory too;
Ten
thousand
threads and hairs of light,
Make up a glory gay and bright
Round that small orb, so blue.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And if I have not, I shall have cried in vain, and you will
die
laughing
in my face.
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Aristophanes |
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money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Theseus
Your eyes have tamed that
rebellious
heart:
His first sighs resulted from your happy art.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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1616-18 (from the
Edinburgh
MS), in the Appendix, Part V; Mr T.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They 're here, though; not a
creature
failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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His tragedy is
enthusiastically praised by Schlegel for "the celestial purity, the fresh
breath of life and youth, that is
diffused
over so dreadful a subject.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Seaward I go,
'gainst hostile
warriors
hold my watch.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The rocks cut her tender feet,
And the
brambles
tore her fair limbs.
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Stephen Crane |
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nicht ohne
Narrheit
horen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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By the fortunes of Aeneas I swear, by that right hand mighty, whether
tried in friendship or in warlike arms, many and many a people and
nation--scorn us not because we advance with hands proffering chaplets
and words of supplication--hath sought us for itself and desired our
alliance; but yours is the land that heaven's high
ordinance
drove us
forth to find.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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xlv
even without any
acknowledgment
on his own
part, that Swift studied and profited by the prose
of Marvell.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Stephen Crane |
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Macdonald of Glengary to
the wilds of Canada, in search of that
fantastic
thing--Liberty.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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generously
made
available by the Internet Archive)
POEMS
by
RANIER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Jessie Lamont
With an Introduction by H.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In the present
edition, the substance of the Riverside Edition has been preserved,
with hardly an exception,
although
some poems and fragments have been
added.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True
Believer
passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Why
tell of the Lapithae, of Ixion and
Pirithous?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Quand venait, l'oeil brun, folle, en robes d'indiennes,
--Huit ans,--la fille des
ouvriers
d'a cote,
La petite brutale, et qu'elle avait saute,
Dans un coin, sur son dos, en secouant ses tresses,
Et qu'il etait sous elle, il lui mordait les fesses,
Car elle ne portait jamais de pantalons;
--Et, par elle meurtri des poings et des talons
Remportait les saveurs de sa peau dans sa chambre.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[2] Honor the eBook refund and replacement
provisions
of this
"Small Print!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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"
Rudyard Kipling_
MARE LIBERUM
You dare to say with
perjured
lips,
"We fight to make the ocean free"?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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You shall love all that loves me and that I love: clouds, and silence,
and night; the vast green sea; the
unformed
and multitudinous waters;
the place where you are not; the lover you will never know; monstrous
flowers, and perfumes that bring madness; cats that stretch themselves
swooning upon the piano and lament with the sweet, hoarse voices of
women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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audiat Lyde scelus atque notas
uirginum poenas et inane lymphae
dolium fundo
pereuntis
imo
seraque fata,
quae manent culpas etiam sub Orco.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Despite the
punishment
for insolence,
I had at first voted for lenience;
But since he abuses it, go, today,
Whether he resists or not, lock him away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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But
to none of us does the Present
continue
miraculous (even if for a moment
discerned as such).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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At last beside the brook they stood,
With Winthrop and his followers;
The maid in flake-embroidered hood,
The
magistrate
well cloaked in furs,
That, parting, showed a glimpse beneath
Of ample, throat-encircling ruff
As white as some wind-gathered wreath
Of snow quilled into plait and puff.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Faint not nor fail,
Too soon and timidly within thy breast
Shepherding
thoughts
forlorn of this thy toil;
But unto Pallas' city go, and there
Crouch at her shrine, and in thine arms enfold
Her ancient image: there we well shall find
Meet judges for this cause and suasive pleas,
Skilled to contrive for thee deliverance
From all this woe.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Knobs at left upper and left lower corners to
facilitate
the
holding of the tablet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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You were always afraid of a shower,
Just like a flower:
I
remember
you started and ran
When the rain began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You persuaded the
housewife
that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
)
Your tangled wilderness was tracked
With struggle and sorrow and
vengeful
act
'Gainst Puritan, pagan, and priest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He
discovers
she's tame, playful and tender and sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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in this sweet place
Love first beheld my condescending fair
Retard her steps, to smile with
courteous
grace
On me, and smiling glad the ambient air.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What bad poet did your mothers listen to
That you were born so
crooked?
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Yeats |
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We
scarcely
see the laurel-tree,
The crowd about us is all we see,
And there's no room in it for you and me.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SNOW-BUNTINGS
They come fluttering helpless to the ground
Like wreaths of wind-caught snow,
Uttering a plaintive,
chirping
sound,
And rise and fall, and know not where they go.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And the shrill-voiced
changers
of money
Who sat with their clerks at the tables.
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Tennyson |
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In the
presence
of my friends I sobbed and cried.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Oh,
fathomless
as the sky is far,
Hold forever your tremulous star!
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Sara Teasdale |
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for the rest,
By yonder dawn-light will I scan the field
Clear and aright, and surety of my word
Shall keep thee
scatheless
of the coming storm.
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Aeschylus |
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Bjarna
Grimolfsson
invents smoking.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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