_I Dreamt of Robin_
I opened the
casement
this morn at starlight,
And, the moment I got out of bed,
The daisies were quaking about in their white
And the cowslip was nodding its head.
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Feeling and
character
grow out of habit;
A people's customs cannot be changed.
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Li Po |
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Thus issuing radiant with
majestic
pace,
Forth from the dome the imperial goddess moves,
And calls the mother of the smiles and loves.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Then the
crowding
madness,
Wild and keen and tender,
Trembles with the burden
Of great joy.
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Sappho |
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Crouching behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and phoenixes and
friendly
gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Or had your soul since dim creation burned,
A star in some still region of the sky,
That leaping earthward, left its place on high
And to your little new-born body
yearned?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Look how thy
servants
do attend on thee,
Each in his office ready at thy beck.
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Shakespeare |
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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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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The sweet dame beckon'd me to follow them:
And, by that
influence
only, so prevail'd
Over my nature, that no natural motion,
Ascending or descending here below,
Had, as I mounted, with my pennon vied.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Most Englishmen, if we were to replace
verst-posts with
milestones
and substitute a graveyard for
a palisade, would instantly recognize its Yankee extraction.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:
But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore
Of books and arts and trained experiment,
Or count the Sioux a match for
Agassiz?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how
charming
its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
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T.S. Eliot |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Appears
Suddenly
in their midst, wild, pale with rage,
Judas Bityagovsky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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{4b} Beowulf's helmet has several boar-images on it; he is the "man
of war"; and the boar-helmet guards him as typical representative of
the
marching
party as a whole.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And the Governor of Han-tung, because his long sleeves would not keep
still when the flutes called to him, rose and
drunkenly
danced.
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Li Po |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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" The Scotch themselves are never tired of asserting,
and of celebrating, their "independence"; Scotland imposed a limit to
the victories of the Roman People,
Scaliger
says in his compliments to
Buchanan:
_Imperii fuerat Romani Scotia lines.
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Tacitus |
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Only one
sovereign
salve I know,
And that is death, the end of woe.
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Robert Herrick |
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'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
XII
"But thou--what dost thou here
In the old man's
peaceful
hall?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words,
And in this change is my
invention
spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
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Shakespeare |
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Welcome now, and come
To
repossess
once more your long'd-for home.
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Robert Herrick |
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This was that, when his appointed
time for death came, he might escape if he could find some
volunteer
to
die for him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Keats - Lamia |
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[3] Ward says
substantially
the
same thing.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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La Fontaine |
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All your
luminous
delight
Shines before me in the night
When I grope for sleep and find
Only shadows in my mind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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ALTMAYER:
Es lebe die
Freiheit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Two other
small
fragments
of Poetry are printed in p.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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) I have
attained
the highest power.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
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Euripides - Electra |
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is
tokenyng
bifalle, so doo?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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GOETZ: No
further!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou movest--but
increasing
with th' advance,
Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise,
Deceived by its gigantic elegance;
Vastness which grows--but grows to harmonise--
All musical in its immensities;
Rich marbles--richer painting--shrines where flame
The lamps of gold--and haughty dome which vies
In air with Earth's chief structures, though their frame
Sits on the firm-set ground--and this the clouds must claim.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White
feathers
in the snow, the Gulf claims,
And an old man driven by the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The page image should be consulted LFS}
PAGE 7 Examining the sins of Tharmas I have soon found my own
O slay me not thou art his Wrath embodied in Deceit
I thought Tharmas a Sinner & I murderd his
Emanations
*
His secret loves & Graces Ah me wretched What have I done *
For now I find that all those Emanations were my Childrens Souls *
And I have murderd them with Cruelty above atonement *
Those that remain have fled from my cruelty into the desarts
Singing with both to ownAnd thou the delusive tempter to these deeds sittest before me *
(illegible)But where is (illegible) Tharmas all thy soft delusive beauty cannot
Tempt me to murder honest lovemy own soul & wipe my tears & smile
In this thy world for ah!
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Blake - Zoas |
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After
receiving
Zourine's affectionate farewell I got into my
"_telega_,"[70] two hussars, with drawn swords, seated themselves, one
on each side of me, and we took the road to Khasan.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Glory to God in the
Highest!
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Tennyson |
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Paul
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(1844-1896)
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The piano kissed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I gained it so,
By climbing slow,
By
catching
at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Theseus' widow dares to love
Hippolytus!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The New England youth, on the other hand,
were never _coureurs de bois_ nor _voyageurs_, but
backwoodsmen
and
sailors rather.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And therefore these things are no more written to
a dull disposition, than rules of
husbandry
to a soil.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Moonshine
and Lion are left to bury the dead.
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Shakespeare |
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A
desperate
form appears, that spurs his steed,
Along the midway cliffs with violent speed; 1793.
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William Wordsworth |
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How does he conquer every
element?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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XIII
Nor feels Bireno mere satiety;
He loathes her so, he ill endures her sight;
And, if his hope he long deferred, will die:
For other such his fickle
appetite!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Some of the halls have long been locked and barred,
And some have secret doors and hard to find
Till
suddenly
you touch them unawares,
And down a sable way runs silver light.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature does precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the
unaccomplished
fate.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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My sonsie
smirking
dear-bought Bess,
She stares the daddy in her face,
Enough of ought ye like but grace;
But her, my bonnie sweet wee lady,
I've paid enough for her already,
An' gin ye tax her or her mither,
B' the L--d!
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Robert Burns |
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You may be
sure that
Antonius
and Fuscus and that typical representative of the
party, Mucianus, will have no choice but to kill you.
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Tacitus |
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* This work the Saints best
represents
* That serves for altar's ornaments.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Fountain
All through the deep blue night
The
fountain
sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
Of the satyr carved in stone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But never
To worker summoned when his day was done
Did
mounting
tide bring in such freight of friends
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle
That night while they that watched you thought you slept.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And now, I go from hence,
And will
endeavour
if a power of mine
Can break thy fetters through.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I ran to the place, drained of
strength
and colour,
And found him lifeless.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE GRINDSTONE
Having a wheel and four legs of its own
Has never availed the
cumbersome
grindstone
To get it anywhere that I can see.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Throstle and
blackbird
stiff with cold
Hop on the frozen grass;
Among the aged, upright oaks
The dun deer slowly pass.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cruel one, when has my faith ever
betrayed
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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There Heav'n's stern justice lays chastising hand
On Attila, who was the scourge of earth,
On Sextus, and on Pyrrhus, and extracts
Tears ever by the
seething
flood unlock'd
From the Rinieri, of Corneto this,
Pazzo the other nam'd, who fill'd the ways
With violence and war.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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]
[Footnote 4: The
Rashness
of the Words, according to D'Herbelot, consisted in
being so opposed to those in the Koran: "No Man knows where he shall
die.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
"She who with
melancholy
face
And silent as the maid Svetlana(30)
Hard by the window took her place.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And with him Franks an hundred
thousand
mourn,
Who for Rollanz have marvellous remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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So
thoroughly
and long
Have you now known me,
So real in faith and strong
Have I now shown me,
That nothing needs disguise
Further in any wise,
Or asks or justifies
A guarded tongue.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I am indebted for such
information as I have brought
together
to Rabbi Gaster.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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To do so has wonderfully enlarged his
technical
opportunities;
for apprehension is quicker and finer through the eye than through the
ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Shall
malignity
make us cease to admire him,
because we see him, hear him, esteem and love him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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These are the patient laureates
Whose voices, trained below,
Ascend in
ceaseless
carol,
Inaudible, indeed,
To us, the duller scholars
Of the mysterious bard!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It belongs to the period between the 'Calis-journey' and the
'Island-voyage', when first Donne is likely to have
appeared
at court
in the train of Essex.
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John Donne |
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It was the first,
The
earliest
of those tales .
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William Wordsworth |
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It is
defined as a natural idea
expressed
in fit words.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The
Sarrazins
cannot such loss withstand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And
wherefore
say not I that I am old?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As she was a Mennonite
Her rose-trees and her clothes lacked buttons
Two were missing from my coat-front
Both of us
followed
almost the same rite.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And who, though gazing lower, ever thought,
In the young moments ere the heart is taught
Time's lesson, of Man's
baseness
or his own?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"'High o'er the main two rocks exalt their brow,'
The boiling billows thundering roll below;
Through the vast waves the
dreadful
wonders move,
Hence named Erratic by the gods above.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Les Amours de Marie: VI
I'm sending you some flowers, that my hand
Picked just now from all this blossoming,
That, if they'd not been gathered this evening,
Tomorrow would be
scattered
on the ground.
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui tremblait dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les dernieres venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux centurions emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns
pourrissent
dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la tristesse disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O ever
exorcised
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Transference
of the adjective from person to
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No--could our swiftness o'er the winds prevail,
Or beat the pinions of the western gale,
All were in vain--the Fates thy death demand,
Due to a mortal and
immortal
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Iliad - Pope |
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What a world of solemn thought their monody
compels!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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erfore leye a
rekenyng
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The one was that I should be
successful
with my
quest and the other was that I should wed with my first love.
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[Greek: alla s' es Elysion pedion kai peirata gaiaes athanatoi
pempsousin, hothi xanthos Rhadamanthus tae per
rhaeistae
biotae pelei
anthr_opoisin, ou niphetos, out' ar cheim_on polus, oute pot' ombros
all' aiei Zephuroio ligu pneiontas aaetas _okeanos aniaesin
anapsuchein anthr_opous.
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