"Because a Company
commander
has to know these things--because, if he
does not know, he may have crime--ay, murder--brewing under his very
nose and yet not see that it's there.
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But soon to gall my seeming transport turn'd,
And my illustrious partner's fate I mourn'd;
And often seem'd, with
sympathising
woe,
To melt in solvent tears like vernal snow.
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Petrarch |
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Thou shalt not die: no asps of Egypt creep
Close at thy heels to taint the
delicate
air;
No sullen-blooming poppies stain thy hair,
Those scarlet heralds of eternal sleep.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Who dares forgive what none can
overlook?
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sad and pale the Autumn moonlight
Through the sighing foliage streams;
And each morning,
midnight
shadow,
Shadow of my sorrow seems;
Strive, 0 heart, forget thine idol!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Housman's poems, is
the
encounter
his spirit constantly endures with life.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The morning sun,
that had long been paling the lamps, struck the red beard and blind
sunken eyes; struck, too, a heavy circlet of gold studded with raw
turquoises, that
Carnehan
placed tenderly on the battered temples.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their
atrophied
senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What
heavenly
face
Doth, in this magic glass, enchant me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Is this how the presumptuous subject
Shows his consideration, and
respect?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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VI
Now for the first time I my Muse
Lead into good society,
Her steppe-like
beauties
I peruse
With jealous fear, anxiety.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He
impolitely
spoke of Ary Scheffer and
the "apes of sentiment"; while his discussions of Hogarth, Cruikshank,
Pinelli and Breughel proclaims his versatility of vision.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Their present order was
adjusted
in the edition of
1836.
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William Wordsworth |
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She's sitting at the
fireside
now, talking to mother.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The ancient belief
that certain years in life complete natural periods and are hence
peculiarly exposed to death, is
introduced
in stanza 26 by the word
_climacteric_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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as thou liv'st in all this sky and sea
That likewise
lovingly
do live in thee,
So melt my soul in thee, and thine in me,
Divine Tranquillity!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Oh, these
immortal
men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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_
THE KING: Oh, it is
miserable
to be a king
That lives but does not govern.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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With the other masquerades
That time resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand
furnished
rooms.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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{33a} Digito
compesce
labellum.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You ponder on
imperial
schemes,
And o'er the city's danger brood:
Bactrian and Serian haunt your dreams,
And Tanais, toss'd by inward feud.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_The Plot_: (a
continuation
of Canto IV).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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You think I can't guess what your
business
is?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Hung on the wire, between trenches, burning and freezing,
Groaning for water with armies of men so near;
The fall over cliff, the clutch at the rootless grass,
The beach rushing up, the whirling, the turning headfirst;
Stiff
writhings
of strychnine, taken in error or haste,
Angina pectoris, shudders of the heart;
Failure and crushing by flying weight to the ground,
Claws and jaws, the stink of a lion's breath;
Swimming, a white belly, a crescent of teeth,
Agony, and a spirting shredded limb,
And crimson blood staining the green water;
And, horror of horrors, the slow grind on the rack,
The breaking bones, the stretching and bursting skin,
Perpetual fainting and waking to see above
The down-thrust mocking faces of cruel men,
With the power of mercy, who gloat upon shrieks for mercy.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Written for the "Martha
Washington
Court Journal".
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Then I left him, not knowing whether he had
complimented
or belittled
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And when the sun begins to fling
His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring
To arched walks of
twilight
groves,
And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves,
Of pine, or monumental oak,
Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke,
Was never heard the nymphs to daunt
Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
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Golden Treasury |
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Meanwhile,
convened
at Priam's palace-gate,
The Trojan peers in nightly council sate;
A senate void of order, as of choice:
Their hearts were fearful, and confused their voice.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But it is exactly the existing
conditions
that one objects
to; and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and
foolish.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
original
serpent did not creep on the ground, but was a handsome
creature.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
She kissed the pillow as she knelt, and wet
With
flooding
tears was that fair coverlet.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But the King,
troubled
by the omen,
visits the oracle of his father Faunus the soothsayer, and the groves
deep under Albunea, where, queen of the woods, she echoes from her holy
well, and breathes forth a dim and deadly vapour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely
motionless
nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A
troubadour
upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms
Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees,
With some uncertain notice, as might seem,
Of vagrant dwellers in the
houseless
woods,
Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire
The hermit sits alone.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen [kai eskanosen en -[h]amen]
[ [What] are the Natures of those Living Creatures the Heavenly Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity] *{These lines, included in Erdman's transcription are
unmistakably
erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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NONSENSE
SONGS.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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then mounte, brave
gallants
all,
And don your helmes amaine:
Deathe's couriers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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Petrarch |
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Or will the truth be this:
Because in one least moment that we mark--
That is, the uttering of a single sound--
There lurk yet many moments, which the reason
Discovers
to exist, therefore it comes
That, in a moment how so brief ye will,
The divers idols are hard by, and ready
Each in its place diverse?
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Lucretius |
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I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although
thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If we
insist on asking whether Euripides himself, in real life or in a play of
his own free invention, would have considered Admetus's conduct to
Heracles
entirely
praiseworthy, the answer will certainly be No, but it
will have little bearing on the play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"O pardon me,
stranger
knight," said he very politely.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Of al my lyf, sin that day I was born,
So gentil plee in love or other thing 485
Ne herde never no man me beforn,
Who-[so] that hadde leyser and cunning
For to reherse hir chere and hir speking;
And from the morwe gan this speche laste
Til
dounward
drow the sonne wonder faste.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
When fame shall in our island sound her trump,
And all the Greekish girls shall
tripping
sing
'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win;
But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.
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Shakespeare |
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A horse and wagon A
valuable
horse
ran against.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of
stagnant
waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The divine woman, her body--I see the body--I look on it alone,
That house once full of passion and beauty--all else I notice not;
Nor
stillness
so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odours morbific
impress me;
But the house alone--that wondrous house--that delicate fair house--that
ruin!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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In 1339, he
composed
among other sonnets, those three, the lxii.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Peut-on dechirer des tenebres
Plus denses que la poix, sans matin et sans soir,
Sans astres, sans eclairs
funebres?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Though bitter sneers and stinging scorns
Did throng the muse's
dangerous
way,
Thy powers were past such little thorns,
They gave thee no dismay;
The scoffer's insult passed thee by,
Thou smild'st and mad'st him no reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[37] The text cannot be correct since it has no
intelligible
sign.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He spent many nights with me at Rome,
discussing
philosophy; and at
last I won his confidence so perfectly that he showed me this, his
greatest treasure; and, finding how much I valued it, and feeling that
he himself was growing old and beyond the help of its teaching, he sold
it to me for no great sum, considering its great preciousness.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I regret that I am unable to
remember
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Se disiassimo esser piu superne,
foran
discordi
li nostri disiri
dal voler di colui che qui ne cerne;
che vedrai non capere in questi giri,
s'essere in carita e qui necesse,
e se la sua natura ben rimiri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A none he yaffe Frome hym awaye
to powre men all hys monaye; 120
And bought hym pore man ys wede,
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That none of theyme
shoullde
thak hede,
And axed his met eorly and late,
With poremen att the mynster yate.
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The passengers shrink together,
I enter
indelicately
into all their souls.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Be so very good, as, by return of
post, to enclose me
_another_
note.
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{and} oonyng
diuided {and}
vnfolden
by tymes.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Com' a lui piacque, il collo li avvinghiai;
ed el prese di tempo e loco poste,
e quando l'ali fuoro aperte assai,
appiglio
se a le vellute coste;
di vello in vello giu discese poscia
tra 'l folto pelo e le gelate croste.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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XCIX
Communing with herself,
Marphisa
said,
"That he moved not before was well for me!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Wenn du als
Jungling
deinen Vater ehrst,
So wirst du gern von ihm empfangen;
Wenn du als Mann die Wissenschaft vermehrst,
So kann dein Sohn zu hohrem Ziel gelangen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_Kings must be dauntless;
subjects
will contemn
Those who want hearts and wear a diadem.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I heard alone, _290
What made its music more
melodious
be,
The pity and the love of every tone;
But to the Snake those accents sweet were known
His native tongue and hers; nor did he beat
The hoar spray idly then, but winding on _295
Through the green shadows of the waves that meet
Near to the shore, did pause beside her snowy feet.
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Shelley |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
pleasures
of Lucretilis
Tempt Faunus from his Grecian seat;
He keeps my little goats in bliss
Apart from wind, and rain, and heat.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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* * * * *
HAROLD MONRO
THISTLEDOWN
This might have been a place for sleep,
But, as from that small hollow there
Hosts of bright thistledown begin
Their
dazzling
journey through the air,
An idle man can only stare.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break
enchanted
ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,--
When shall that sun arise?
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Emerson - Poems |
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_The Art of Poetry_
UNITY AND
SIMPLICITY
ARE REQUISITE
Suppose a painter to a human head
Should join a horse's neck, and wildly spread
The various plumage of the feather'd kind
O'er limbs of different beasts, absurdly joined.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Who ought to make me (what he can, or none),
That man divine whom wisdom calls her own;
Great without title, without fortune blessed;
Rich even when plundered,
honoured
while oppressed;
Loved without youth, and followed without power;
At home, though exiled; free, though in the Tower;
In short, that reasoning, high, immortal thing,
Just less than Jove, and much above a king,
Nay, half in heaven--except (what's mighty odd)
A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Lucretius |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Dean
Who dined on one pea, and one bean;
For he said, "More than that, would make me too fat,"
That
cautious
old person of Dean.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And Keats the real
Adonis with the hymeneal
Fresh vernal buds half sunk between
His youthful curls, kissed
straight
and sheen
In his Rome-grave, by Venus queen.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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There is the frequent addition of
rather perplexing foot-notes,
affording
large choice of words and
phrases.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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