Since then by destiny
I am compell'd to sing the strong desire,
Which here condemns me ceaselessly to sigh,
May Love, whose quenchless fire
Excites me, be my guide and point the way,
And in the sweet task
modulate
my lay:
But gently be it, lest th' o'erpowering theme
Inflame and sting me, lest my fond heart may
Dissolve in too much softness, which I deem,
From its sad state, may be:
For in me--hence my terror and distress!
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740 Nē þæt se āglǣca yldan þōhte,
ac hē gefēng hraðe forman siðe
slǣpendne
rinc, slāt unwearnum,
bāt bān-locan, blōd ēdrum dranc,
syn-snǣdum swealh: sōna hæfde
745 unlyfigendes eal gefeormod
fēt and folma.
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Beowulf |
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But the world's better off, I'm
convinced
of it now,
Than if heroes, like buns, could be bought for a penny
To regard all mankind as their haltered milch-cow,
And just care for themselves.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And there was great
rejoicing
in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But whilst the thing we long for
Is lacking, that seems good above all else;
Thereafter, when we've touched it,
something
else
We long for; ever one equal thirst of life
Grips us agape.
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Lucretius |
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--My dear Babe,
Who, capable of no
articulate
sound,
Mars all things with his imitative lisp,
How he would place his hand beside his ear,
His little hand, the small forefinger up,
And bid us listen!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O
glucklich
der, den Ihr belehrt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Teeming earth will surely store
All the
gladness
that you pour.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by
succession
thine!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now fair befall thee, good
Petruchio!
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Shakespeare |
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1137-1152)
Born
apparently
in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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If to review his country be his fate,
Be it through toils and
sufferings
long and late;
His lost companions let him first deplore;
Some vessel, not his own, transport him o'er;
And when at home from foreign sufferings freed,
More near and deep, domestic woes succeed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward
in thy shadow.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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L'ephemere ebloui vole vers toi, chandelle,
Crepite, flambe et dit: Benissons ce
flambeau!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Night coming on, Adam and Eve
discourse
of going to thir rest: thir
Bower describ'd; thir Evening worship.
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Milton |
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"Well knows he how, in history's every page,
The laurell'd chief, the monarch on his throne,
The poet and the sage,
Favourites of fortune, or for virtue known,
Were cursed by evil stars, in loves debased,
Soulless
and vile, their hearts, their fame, to waste:
While I, for him alone,
From all the lovely ladies of the earth,
Chose one, so graced with beauty and with worth,
The eternal sun her equal ne'er beheld.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Hee dy'de,
As one that had beene studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
As 'twere a
carelesse
Trifle
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Wherefore
did you so?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Is there no way
left, then, I thought, of being natural, of being _naif_, which means
nothing more than native, of
belonging
to the age and country in which
you are born?
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James Russell Lowell |
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, _wolf-slope, wolf's retreat, slope
whereunder
wolves
house_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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If you
discover
a Defect in this etext within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an explanatory note within that
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What is the
difference
between the two _wells_ in xliii?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Or hope to rouse some Coptic dullard, hid
Ages ago, wrapt stiffly, fold on fold,
With
cerements
close, to wither in the cold,
Forever hushed, and sunless pyramid!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And ye who dwell within the inner chamber
Where shines the stored joy of gold--
Gods of one heart, O hear ye, and remember;
Up and avenge the blood shed forth of old,
With sudden
rightful
blow;
Then let the old curse die, nor be renewed
With progeny of blood,--
Once more, and not again, be latter guilt laid low!
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Aeschylus |
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How many a
doubtful
day shall sink in night,
Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil,
And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears; }
And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars; }
And broken beaks of ships, the
trophies
of their wars.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But strong, Jean,
wondrously
strong!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And nature forced the men,
Before the woman kind, to work the wool:
For all the male kind far excels in skill,
And
cleverer
is by much--until at last
The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,
And so were eager soon to give them o'er
To women's hands, and in more hardy toil
To harden arms and hands.
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Lucretius |
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Faith Sir, we were
carowsing
till the second Cock:
And Drinke, Sir, is a great prouoker of three things
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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597
ffor to
worschipe
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Music once more and
forever!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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Or, again,
O what could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest
Of Lerna, fenced with vipers
venomous?
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Lucretius |
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Me
thinketh
thus, that nouther ye nor I
Oughte half this wo to make skilfully.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO
OTHER
WARRANTIES
OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
"If you will please me," Robert said,
"You must
contrive
to change your bed,
"And have it placed--well, let me see--
"Moved to the outer gallery,
"Where you will be alone and free.
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La Fontaine |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful
Athenian
courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Thy fair finger showed me the place where they trod,
In thy childhood where
flourished
the city of God.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[ORESTES
_departs
to the right_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To one of the members has been
delegated
the merely
mechanical labors of assembling, proof-reading, and seeing the volume
through the press.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His quaint
opinions
to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What interested scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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_
When once my will was captive by my fate,
And I had lost the liberty, which late
Made my life happy; I, who used before
To flee from Love (as fearful deer abhor
The following huntsman), suddenly became
(Like all my fellow-servants) calm and tame;
And view'd the travails, wrestlings, and the smart,
The crooked by-paths, and the
cozening
art
That guides the amorous flock: then whilst mine eye
I cast in every corner, to espy
Some ancient or modern who had proved
Famous, I saw him, who had only loved
Eurydice, and found out hell, to call
Her dear ghost back; he named her in his fall
For whom he died.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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not without divine
influence
does this come to pass: nor may
it be, nor does the high lord of Olympus allow, that thou shouldest
carry Creusa hence in thy company.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Most
beautiful
among the sons of men!
| Guess: |
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Longfellow |
|
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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With what
description
can I serve you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood,
She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together,
Confident I in her watching and ward through the
blackening
heather,
Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ses yeux polis sont faits de
mineraux
charmants,
Et dans cette nature etrange et symbolique
Ou l'ange inviole se mele au sphinx antique,
Ou tout n'est qu'or, acier, lumiere et diamants,
Resplendit a jamais, comme un astre inutile,
La froide majeste de la femme sterile.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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{and} ben
inp{re}ntid
in to soules.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Quivering
grass
Daintily poised
For her foot's tripping.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Oh, workmen, seen by me sublime,
When from the tyrant wrenched ye peace,
Can you be dazed by
tinselled
crime,
And spy no wolf beneath the fleece?
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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nor does it cross thy
mind whose are these fields about thy
dwelling?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice
indicating
that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without
impediment
it flew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The foll'wing days our
youthful
am'rous pair
Found opportunities for pleasing fare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Then he runs to his horse, the bridle
he catches, steps into his
stirrups
and strides aloft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions detached from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our
infinite
solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honor--Well,
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so
precious
as the stuff they sell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Look to the Rose that blows about us--"Lo,
Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:
At once the silken Tassel of my Purse
Tear, and its
Treasure
on the Garden throw.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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LXIX
Like a tall forest were their spears,
Their banners like a silken sea,
When the great host in
splendour
passed
Across the crimson sinking sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
She
touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is
never by any chance
frivolous
or trivial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
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Coleridge - Poems |
|
--Infame a qui je suis lie
Comme le forcat a la chaine,
Comme au jeu le joueur tetu,
Comme a la
bouteille
l'ivrogne,
Comme aux vermines la charogne,
--Maudite, maudite sois-tu!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Hail to the mighty
projects
of the time!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
It is probable that the word God was
originally only an expression
denoting
the unknown cause of the known
events which men perceived in the universe.
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be
reckoned
sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death prevails not yet.
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Pardon, yee Graiebarbes[46], gyff I saie, onwise 25
Yee are, to stycke so close & bysmarelie[47]
To hystorie; you doe ytte tooe moche pryze,
Whyche amenused[48] thoughtes of poesie;
Somme drybblette[49] share you shoulde to yatte[50] alyse[51],
Nott makynge everyche thynge bee hystorie; 30
Instedde of
mountynge
onn a wynged horse,
You onn a rouncy[52] dryve yn dolefull course.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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] beatum _1635_]
[23
olfecisse]
olfecisse _1635_]
[25 prius aggredior, _1635-69_: prius, aggredior, _1719_
arcessere _Ed_: accessere _1635-69_]
[26-7 mihi dum .
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Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and
friendless
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one
brimming
cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and sacrificial Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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thou hast been unhappy at the change 520
Wrought
suddenly
in me.
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Keats |
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The softly stealing echo comes again
From crowds of men whom, wearily, he shuns;
And many see you there--so his thought runs--
And tenderest
memories
are pierced with pain.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Thus, Venice, if no
stronger
claim were thine,
Were all thy proud historic deeds forgot,
Thy choral memory of the bard divine,
Thy love of Tasso, should have cut the knot
Which ties thee to thy tyrants; and thy lot
Is shameful to the nations,--most of all,
Albion!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Besides, one only man could scarce subdue
An
overmastered
multitude to choose
To get by heart his names of things.
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Lucretius |
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Nor humble her ways,
nor grudged she gifts to the Geatish men,
of
precious
treasure.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Taking
advantage
of their
scare, I put spurs to my horse, and dashed off at full gallop.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You are a
Gentleman
of a good pre?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Quel che piu basso tra costor s'atterra,
guardando in suso, e
Guiglielmo
marchese,
per cui e Alessandria e la sua guerra
fa pianger Monferrato e Canavese>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Though white as Mount Soracte,
When winter nights are long,
His beard flowed down o'er mail and belt,
His heart and hand were strong:
Under his hoary eyebrows
Still flashed forth
quenchless
rage:
And, if the lance shook in his gripe,
'Twas more with hate than age.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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' 80
The youth was drifting in a slim canoe
Most like a huge white water-lily's petal,
But neither of our theologians knew
Whereof 'twas made; whether of
heavenly
metal
Seldseen, or of a vast pearl split in two
And hollowed, was a point they could not settle;
'Twas good debate-seed, though, and bore large fruit
In after years of many a tart dispute.
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James Russell Lowell |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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