Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered
far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The orator who, in the following generation, pronounced the
funeral panegyric over the remains of Lucius Posthumius Megellus,
thrice Consul, would borrow largely from the lay; and thus some
passages, much disfigured, would
probably
find their way into the
chronicles which were afterwards in the hands of Dionysius and
Livy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Astyr
follows, excellent in beauty, Astyr,
confident
in his horse and glancing
arms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain;
Or kindled fire, and round the fire and in
Set
cauldrons
foaming; and a festal din
Filled all the place.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He attended Pembroke College,
and was second
wrangler
in 1790.
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William Wordsworth |
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Astyr
follows, excellent in beauty, Astyr,
confident
in his horse and glancing
arms.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And if ye such a truaunt finde, 6645
Chastise
him wel, if ye be kinde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Under the brow
Of some steep mossy hill, where ivy dun
Would hide us up,
although
spring leaves were none;
And where dark yew trees, as we rustle through,
Will drop their scarlet berry cups of dew?
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Keats |
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Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Voie lactee {1}
Les sept epees
Voie lactee {2}
Les colchiques
Palais
Chantre
Crepuscule
Annie
La maison des morts
Clotilde
Cortege
Marizibill
Le voyageur
Marie
La blanche neige
Poeme lu au mariage d'Andre Salmon
L'Adieu
Salome
La porte
Merlin et la vieille femme
Saltimbanques
Le larron
Le vent nocturne
Lul de Faltenin
La tzigane
L'ermite
Automne
L'Emigrant de Landor Road
Rosemonde
Le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier
Descendant des hauteurs
Rhenanes
Nuit rhenane
Mai
La synagogue
Les cloches
La Loreley
Schinderhannes
Rhenane d'automne
Les sapins
Les femmes
Signe
Un soir
La dame
Les fiancailles
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
J'observe le repos du dimanche
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Clair de lune
1909
A la Sante
Automne malade
Hotels
Cors de chasse
Vendemiaire
ZONE
A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien
Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin
Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine
Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre anciennes
La religion seule est restee toute neuve la religion
Est restee simple comme les hangars de Port-Aviation
Seul en Europe tu n'es pas antique o Christianisme
L'Europeen le plus moderne c'est vous Pape Pie X
Et toi que les fenetres observent la honte te retient
D'entrer dans une eglise et de t'y confesser ce matin
Tu lis les prospectus les catalogues les affiches qui chantent
tout haut
Voila la poesie ce matin et pour la prose il y a les journaux
Il y a les livraisons a 25 centimes pleines d'aventures policieres
Portraits des grands hommes et mille titres divers
J'ai vu ce matin une jolie rue dont j'ai oublie le nom
Neuve et propre du soleil elle etait le clairon
Les directeurs les ouvriers et les belles steno-dactylographes
Du lundi matin au samedi soir quatre fois par jour y passent
Le matin par trois fois la sirene y gemit
Une cloche rageuse y aboie vers midi
Les inscriptions des enseignes et des murailles
Les plaques les avis a la facon des perroquets criaillent
J'aime la grace de cette rue industrielle
Situee a Paris entre la rue Aumont-Thieville et l'avenue des
Ternes
Voila la jeune rue et tu n'es encore qu'un petit enfant
Ta mere ne t'habille que de bleu et de blanc
Tu es tres pieux et avec le plus ancien de tes camarades Rene
Dalize
Vous n'aimez rien tant que les pompes de l'Eglise
Il est neuf heures le gaz est baisse tout bleu vous sortez du
dortoir en cachette
Vous priez toute la nuit dans la chapelle du college
Tandis qu'eternelle et adorable profondeur amethyste
Tourne a jamais la flamboyante gloire du Christ
C'est le beau lys que tous nous cultivons
C'est la torche aux cheveux roux que n'eteint pas le vent
C'est le fils pale et vermeil de la douloureuse mere
C'est l'arbre toujours touffu de toutes les prieres
C'est la double potence de l'honneur et de l'eternite
C'est l'etoile a six branches
C'est Dieu qui meurt le vendredi et ressuscite le dimanche
C'est le Christ qui monte au ciel mieux que les aviateurs
Il detient le record du monde pour la hauteur
Pupille Christ de l'oeil
Vingtieme pupille des siecles il sait y faire
Et change en oiseau ce siecle comme Jesus monte dans l'air
Les diables dans les abimes levent la tete pour le regarder
Ils disent qu'il imite Simon Mage en Judee
Ils crient s'il sait voler qu'on l'appelle voleur
Les anges voltigent autour du joli voltigeur
Icare Enoch Elie Apollonius de Thyane
Flottent autour du premier aeroplane
Ils s'ecartent parfois pour laisser passer ceux que transporte la
Sainte-Eucharistie
Ces pretres qui montent eternellement elevant l'hostie
L'avion se pose enfin sans refermer les ailes
Le ciel s'emplit alors de millions d'hirondelles
A tire-d'aile viennent les corbeaux les faucons les hiboux
D'Afrique arrivent les ibis les flamants les marabouts
L'oiseau Roc celebre par les conteurs et les poetes
Plane tenant dans les serres le crane d'Adam la premiere tete
L'aigle fond de l'horizon en poussant un grand cri
Et d'Amerique vient le petit colibri
De Chine sont venus les pihis longs et souples
Qui n'ont qu'une seule aile et qui volent par couples
Puis voici la colombe esprit immacule
Qu'escortent l'oiseau-lyre et le paon ocelle
Le phenix ce bucher qui soi-meme s'engendre
Un instant voile tout de son ardente cendre
Les sirenes laissant les perilleux detroits
Arrivent en chantant bellement toutes trois
Et tous aigle phenix et pihis de la Chine
Fraternisent avec la volante machine
Maintenant tu marches dans Paris tout seul parmi la foule
Des troupeaux d'autobus mugissants pres de toi roulent
L'angoisse de l'amour te serre le gosier
Comme si tu ne devais jamais plus etre aime
Si tu vivais dans l'ancien temps tu entrerais dans un monastere
Vous avez honte quand vous vous surprenez a dire une priere
Tu te moques de toi et comme le feu de l'Enfer ton rire petille
Les etincelles de ton rire dorent le fond de ta vie
C'est un tableau pendu dans un sombre musee
Et quelquefois tu vas le regarder de pres
Aujourd'hui tu marches dans Paris les femmes sont ensanglantees
C'etait et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'etait au declin de
la beaute
Entouree de flammes ferventes Notre-Dame m'a regarde a Chartres
Le sang de votre Sacre-Coeur m'a inonde a Montmartre
Je suis malade d'ouir les paroles bienheureuses
L'amour dont je souffre est une maladie honteuse
Et l'image qui te possede te fait survivre dans l'insomnie et dans
l'angoisse
C'est toujours pres de toi cette image qui passe
Maintenant tu es au bord de la Mediterranee
Sous les citronniers qui sont en fleur toute l'annee
Avec tes amis tu te promenes en barque
L'un est Nissard il y a un
Mentonasque
et deux Turbiasques
Nous regardons avec effroi les poulpes des profondeurs
Et parmi les algues nagent les poissons images du Sauveur
Tu es dans le jardin d'une auberge aux environs de Prague
Tu te sens tout heureux une rose est sur la table
Et tu observes au lieu d'ecrire ton conte en prose
La cetoine qui dort dans le coeur de la rose
Epouvante tu te vois dessine dans les agates de Saint-Vit
Tu etais triste a mourir le jour ou tu t'y vis
Tu ressembles au Lazare affole par le jour
Les aiguilles de l'horloge du quartier juif vont a rebours
Et tu recules aussi dans ta vie lentement
En montant au Hradchin et le soir en ecoutant
Dans les tavernes chanter des chansons tcheques
Te voici a Marseille au milieu des pasteques
Te voici a Coblence a l'hotel du Geant
Te voici a Rome assis sous un neflier du Japon
Te voici a Amsterdam avec une jeune fille que tu trouves belle et
qui est laide
Elle doit se marier avec un etudiant de Leyde
On y loue des chambres en latin Cubicula locanda
Je m'en souviens j'y ai passe trois jours et autant a Gouda
Tu es a Paris chez le juge d'instruction
Comme un criminel on te met en etat d'arrestation
Tu as fait de douloureux et de joyeux voyages
Avant de t'apercevoir du mensonge et de l'age
Tu as souffert de l'amour a vingt et a trente ans
J'ai vecu comme un fou et j'ai perdu mon temps
Tu n'oses plus regarder tes mains et a tous moments je voudrais
sangloter
Sur toi sur celle que j'aime sur tout ce qui t'a epouvante
Tu regardes les yeux pleins de larmes ces pauvres emigrants
Ils croient en Dieu ils prient les femmes allaitent des enfants
Ils emplissent de leur odeur le hall de la gare Saint-Lazare
Ils ont foi dans leur etoile comme les rois-mages
Ils esperent gagner de l'argent dans l'Argentine
Et revenir dans leur pays apres avoir fait fortune
Une famille transporte un edredon rouge comme vous transportez
votre coeur
Cet edredon et nos reves sont aussi irreels
Quelques-uns de ces emigrants restent ici et se logent
Rue des Rosiers ou rue des Ecouffes dans des bouges
Je les ai vus souvent le soir ils prennent l'air dans la rue
Et se deplacent rarement comme les pieces aux echecs
Il y a surtout des Juifs leurs femmes portent perruque
Elles restent assises exsangues au fond des boutiques
Tu es debout devant le zinc d'un bar crapuleux
Tu prends un cafe a deux sous parmi les malheureux
Tu es la nuit dans un grand restaurant
Ces femmes ne sont pas mechantes elles ont des soucis cependant
Toutes meme la plus laide a fait souffrir son amant
Elle est la fille d'un sergent de ville de Jersey
Ses mains que je n'avais pas vues sont dures et gercees
J'ai une pitie immense pour les coutures de son ventre
J'humilie maintenant a une pauvre fille au rire horrible ma bouche
Tu es seul le matin va venir
Les laitiers font tinter leurs bidons dans les rues
La nuit s'eloigne ainsi qu'une belle Metive
C'est Ferdine la fausse ou Lea l'attentive
Et tu bois cet alcool brulant comme ta vie
Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau-de-vie
Tu marches vers Auteuil tu veux aller chez toi a pied
Dormir parmi tes fetiches d'Oceanie et de Guinee
Ils sont des Christ d'une autre forme et d'une autre croyance
Ce sont les Christ inferieurs des obscures esperances
Adieu Adieu
Soleil cou coupe
LE PONT MIRABEAU
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours apres la peine.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Vers la chandelle, aux trous du toit, coulait l'air blanc
Et quelque vigne folle aux
noirceurs
purpurines
En deca d'une cour voisine s'ecroulant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Think of those ages of gold when Jupiter
followed
his urges,
Chose Callisto one day, turned to Semel the next.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I will not yeeld
To kisse the ground before young
Malcolmes
feet,
And to be baited with the Rabbles curse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection
will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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C'est l'heure ou les
douleurs
des malades s'aigrissent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Sweet'ner of life and solder of
society!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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When the Muses nine
With the Virtues meet,
Find to their design
An Atlantic seat,
By green orchard boughs
Fended from the heat,
here the statesman ploughs
Furrow for the wheat,--
When the Church is social worth,
When the state-house is the hearth,
Then the perfect State is come,
The
republican
at home.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Your beauty is your life and my content,
And I will liken you to an apple-tree,
Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,
And
everywhere
soft shadows like your eyes,
And scattered blossom like your little smiles.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They were
subsequently
printed in 'The Prose Works of
Wordsworth', edited by Dr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"The
blackening
wave is edged with white;
To inch and rock the sea-mews fly;
The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite,
Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the
Daughter
of the Vine to Spouse.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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See Tierri here, who hath his
judgment
dealt;
I cry him false, and will the cause contest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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This is the time of his dream, as sacred as the days
of early spring before wind and rain and light have touched the fruits
of the fields, when there is a tense bleak silence over the whole of
nature, in which is wrapped the
strength
of storms and the glow of the
summer's sun.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I only
remembered
confusedly
the occurrences of the past evening.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Major
Vansuythen
would never know
anything.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sweetest
of sweets to me that pastime seems,
When the mind drops her burden: when--the pain
Of travel past--our own cot we regain,
And nestle on the pillow of our dreams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Transfer
omine cum bono
limen aureolos pedes,
rasilemque subi forem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In my dream, I thought I held your hand
And asked you to tell me what your
thoughts
were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"His
subjects
were always original, but his
poems are seldom worth quoting," is a Chinese opinion of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The King hath happily receiu'd, Macbeth,
The newes of thy successe: and when he reades
Thy
personall
Venture in the Rebels sight,
His Wonders and his Prayses doe contend,
Which should be thine, or his: silenc'd with that,
In viewing o're the rest o'th' selfe-same day,
He findes thee in the stout Norweyan Rankes,
Nothing afeard of what thy selfe didst make
Strange Images of death, as thick as Tale
Can post with post, and euery one did beare
Thy prayses in his Kingdomes great defence,
And powr'd them downe before him
Ang.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Ou l'Homme, dont jamais l'esperance n'est lasse,
Pour trouver le repos court
toujours
comme un fou!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
His answer to the offensive
production
flows with anger, and is harsh
even to abusiveness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
_"
[The air of this song is from the Highlands: the verses were written
in
compliment
to the feelings of Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Let it all be but a dream
Of the things of
monstrous
birth,
Of the things that only seem!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Let Paphos lift the mirror;
let her look
into the
polished
center of the disk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Here the
truceless
armies yet
Trample, rolled in blood and sweat;
They kill and kill and never die;
And I think that each is I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
Then they
recounted
tales,--
"There were stern stands
"And bitter runs for glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He, to avenge his father's blood outpoured,
Shall smite and slay with
matricidal
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
This he has
executed
in the manner, which seemed to him best
suited to such a publication; and here he means that his task should
end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen,
Contending with the grass,
Near kinsman to herself,
For privilege of sod and sun,
Sweet
litigants
for life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"
XXXVI
The host
reproved
himself, while so he said,
And pieced his tale, as having left untold
Things first in order; next to them displayed
A royal castle by its warder sold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They fought,
Wrangled
over the world,
A morsel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
is;
his
martirdom
was strong I-wys,
Of sorou?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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For lo, this land had pity on our plight,
And unto us were
merciful
and leal,
To us, the piteous flock, who at Zeus' altar kneel!
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Aeschylus |
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--Published 1851
On Nature's
invitation
do I come,
By Reason sanctioned.
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William Wordsworth |
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And plunged his
helpless
prey into the deep.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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On recollection of the wretched state
In which our traveller had moved of late,
Some favour was bestowed:--there, cried the dame,
Is
something
to repay the road you came;
This for the cold; that fear; there thieves disgraced;
So, one by one, the whole was soon effaced.
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La Fontaine |
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On recollection of the wretched state
In which our traveller had moved of late,
Some favour was bestowed:--there, cried the dame,
Is
something
to repay the road you came;
This for the cold; that fear; there thieves disgraced;
So, one by one, the whole was soon effaced.
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La Fontaine |
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were
Paradise
enow!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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MYRRHA, _an Ionian female Slave, and the
Favourite
Mistress
of_ SARDANAPALUS.
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Byron |
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George
Saintsbury
thus sums up the differences between Poe and
Baudelaire: "Both authors--Poe and De Quincey--fell short of Baudelaire
himself as regards depth and fulness of passion, but both have a
superficial likeness to him in eccentricity of temperameut and affection
for a certain peculiar mixture of grotesque and horror.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths outmeasurd by
proportions
of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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Blake - Zoas |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths outmeasurd by
proportions
of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Tu eri allor si del tutto impedito
sovra colui che gia tenne Altaforte,
che non
guardasti
in la, si fu partito>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"Te Lucis Ante," so devoutly then
Came from its lip, and in so soft a strain,
That all my sense in
ravishment
was lost.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A
forgotten
sky of bashful blue.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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to the Pleasure Outside, you pause awhile, perplext,
of the Town, Your
bearings
lost.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Such animation often do I find,
Power in my breast, wings growing in my mind,
Then, when some rock or hill is overpast, 15
Perchance
without one look behind me cast,
Some barrier with which Nature, from the birth
Of things, has fenced this fairest spot on earth.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Ivi parea che ella e io ardesse;
e si lo 'ncendio imaginato cosse,
che
convenne
che 'l sonno si rompesse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Warriors
slept
whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, --
all save one.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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^ And I parting should appear
Like the
gourmand
Hebrew dead
While, with quails and manna fed^
He does through the desert err,
XXI.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[_During the last few lines_
HERACLES
_has entered, unperceived by
the_ SERVANT.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
"But," cried romantic I, "is there no sphere
Where virtue is
rewarded
when we die?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lycidas, come tell me why
Thy whilom merry oat
By thee doth so
neglected
lie,
And never purls a note?
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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[Note 41:
Hippolyte
Bogdanovitch--b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"Can we be of any service to you, O crusty
Crabbies?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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How different ritual for this after-worship,
What
countenance
to promote this second love!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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How different ritual for this after-worship,
What
countenance
to promote this second love!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Unnumber'd
treasures
ope at once, and here
The various off'rings of the world appear; 130
From each she nicely culls with curious toil,
And decks the Goddess with the glitt'ring spoil.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My days more swiftly than the forest hind
Have fled like shadows, and no
pleasure
seen
Save for a moment, and few hours serene,
Whose bitter-sweet I treasure in true mind.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If she be shy, her sister try,
Ye'll maybe fancy Jenny;
If ye'll
dispense
wi' want o' sense--
She kens hersel she's bonie.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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SAS}
First he beheld the body of Man pale, cold, the horrors of death
Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain
And all its golden porches grew pale with his sickening light
No more
Exulting
for he saw Eternal Death beneath
Pale he beheld futurity; pale he beheld the Abyss
Where Enion blind & age bent wept in direful hunger craving
All rav'ning like the hungry worm, & like the silent grave
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Mighty was the draught of Voidness to draw Existence in
Terrific Urizen strode above, in fear & pale dismay
He saw the indefinite space beneath & his soul shrunk with horror
His feet upon the verge of Non Existence; his voice went forth {According to Erdman, this line was at one time followed by a line that has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In the vast cavern the Cyclopes were forging iron,
Brontes and
Steropes
and Pyracmon with bared limbs.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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My spirit like my flesh
Sprang from a
thousand
sources,
From cave-man, hunter and shepherd,
From Karnak, Cyprus, Rome;
The living thoughts in me
Spring from dead men and women,
Forgotten time out of mind
And many as bubbles of foam.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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610
Yee menne, gyf ye are menne, displaie yor name,
Ybrende yer tropes, alyche the
roarynge
tempest flame.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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shrink you not from crime whose punishment
Falls on your
innocent
children?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CAMILLUS
stretched his legs, and on her breast
Familiarly allowed his feet to rest;
A cushion made of what so fair appeared,
That envy might from ivory be feared;
Then seemed as if to Morpheus he inclined,
And on the pillow sullenly resigned.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a marriage bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the
troubled
dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Les reins portent deux mots graves: _Clara Venus_
--Et tout ce corps remue et tend sa large croupe
Belle
hideusement
d'un ulcere a l'anus.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts
so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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" she
shrieked
in dragon-wrath.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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