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Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yes, it is in this atmosphere that it would be good to live,--yonder,
where slower hours contain more thoughts, where the clocks strike the
hours of
happiness
with a more profound and significant solemnity.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXXV
And yet again advised the martial maid,
(Counsel she had a
thousand
times bestowed)
Then left, Nor Bradamant through greenwood shade
More than two miles in narrow path had rode,
Before, by two fierce giants overlaid,
She saw a knight, who like Rogero showed,
So closely pressed, and labouring sore for breath,
That he appeared well nigh reduced to death.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Musa gloriam Coronat,
gloriaque
musam.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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9, 77 II 13;
_uttakkalu_
< _uttakkaru_, Ebeling, KTA.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This Troilus sat on his baye stede,
Al armed, save his heed, ful richely, 625
And wounded was his hors, and gan to blede,
On whiche he rood a pas, ful softely;
But swych a
knightly
sighte, trewely,
As was on him, was nought, with-outen faile,
To loke on Mars, that god is of batayle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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blake-poems |
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And she hath watch'd
Many a Nightingale perch giddily
On blosmy twig still
swinging
from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song,
Like tipsy Joy that reels with tossing head.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is unlighted;
everything
is in darkness.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CHORUS
Go to now, trust the dead, a
matricide!
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Aeschylus |
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Dear Nature is the kindest mother still;
Though always changing, in her aspect mild:
From her bare bosom let me take my fill,
Her never-weaned, though not her
favoured
child.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I
bequeath
it to you.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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Other previous contributors are Marguerite Wilkin son, John Hall Wheelock, Louis Ginsberg, Fhoebe Hcffman, John Russell
McCarthy
and Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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REMBRANDT, sad hospital that a murmuring fills,
Where one tall crucifix hangs on the walls,
Where every tear-drowned prayer some woe distils,
And one cold, wintry ray
obliquely
falls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting
despondently
at area gates.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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The door--as if it must, yet
scarcely
dare--
Had opened widely to the night's fresh air.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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Found on the sand there, stretched at rest,
their
lifeless
lord, who had lavished rings
of old upon them.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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Ambrose
observes
in the Passion of St.
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Tacitus |
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He has many friends, lay men and clerical,
Old Foss is the name of his cat;
His body is perfectly spherical,
He weareth a
runcible
hat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sturzen wir uns in das
Rauschen
der Zeit,
Ins Rollen der Begebenheit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When I am come into the battle grand,
And blows lay on, by hundred, by thousand,
Of
Durendal
bloodied you'll see the brand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Foundation
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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He's on the right
foundation!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Amid lush grasses soft and cool
They make their
feasting
ground,
With smilax and with bryony
Their rosy pates are crowned.
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Tennyson |
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at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
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Aeschylus |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Many years after the temple of the Twin Gods had been built in
the Forum, an important addition was made to the
ceremonial
by
which the state annually testified its gratitude for their
protection.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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And with him Franks an hundred
thousand
mourn,
Who for Rollanz have marvellous remorse.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Quando diritto al pie del ponte fue,
levo 'l braccio alto con tutta la testa
per
appressarne
le parole sue,
che fuoro: <
tu che, spirando, vai veggendo i morti:
vedi s'alcuna e grande come questa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Pouvons-nous
etouffer
l'implacable Remords?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sallust's
orations
are read in
the honour of story, yet the most eloquent.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Habitavi cum
habitantibus
Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
I woke and chid my honest fingers, --
The gem was gone;
And now an
amethyst
remembrance
Is all I own.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Can such things be,
And
ouercome
vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our speciall wonder?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I was a boy; boyhood slid gayly by
And the
impatient
years that trod on it
Taught me new lessons in the lore of life.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done--
Immortal
bliss for me too hast thou won.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they
proclaimed
it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the sanctified night.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They were both
denied any
opportunity
of a hearing or defence--and might as well have
been innocent.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Alike in nothing but one lust of gold,
Just half the land would buy, and half be sold:
Their country's wealth our
mightier
misers drain,
Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main;
The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews;
Some keep assemblies, and would keep the stews;
Some with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn;
Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn;
While with the silent growth of ten per cent.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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You on the
Mississippi
and on all the branches and bayous of
the Mississippi!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
| 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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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The
shouting
and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"Love that
discourses
in my thoughts.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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With Juno goes the Hours
And Graces
strewing
flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Peace is patched up; a
stately funeral is held; and the
surviving
visitors become in a way
vassals or liegemen of Finn, going back with him to Frisia.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
It should be added that this
differentiation of the
pronouns
is not found in any printed poem of
Milton's before Paradise Lost, nor is it found in the Cambridge
autograph.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Verginius
(L.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
| 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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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday
excludes
the night,
And it is bells within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
supposed
author of "Lewis Gordon" was a Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Yet think not though subdued--and I may well _350
Say that I am subdued--that the full Hell
Within me would infect the untainted breast
Of sacred nature with its own unrest;
As some perverted beings think to find
In scorn or hate a
medicine
for the mind _355
Which scorn or hate have wounded--O how vain!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
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Li Po |
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A MAN TO A SUNFLOWER
See, I have bent thee by thy saffron hair
--O most strange masker--
Towards my face, thy face so full of eyes
--O almost legendary monster--
Thee of the saffron,
circling
hair I bend,
Bend by my fingers knotted in thy hair
--Hair like broad flames.
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet professed herself not only this to be knowing,
Brixia-town that lies under the Cycnean cliff,
Traversed
by Mella-stream's soft-flowing yellow-hued current,
Brixia, Verona's mother, I love for my home.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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IV
"As when, in Noe's days,
I whelmed the plains with sea,
So at this last, when flesh
And herb but fossils be,
And, all extinct, their piteous dust
Revolves
obliviously,
That I made Earth, and life, and man,
It still repenteth me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Wilde - Poems |
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When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such
discipline
of Sarrazins he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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blake-poems |
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Pennant had a present made him in Skye, of a brass sword and a
denarius
found in that island.
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Tacitus |
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Trees and bushes were all strangers, the hedges and the lanes,
The steeples and the houses and broad
untrodden
plains.
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John Clare |
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