O, shun the sea, where shine
The thick-sown
Cyclades!
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Between these two
different
opinions, a true poet
may be allowed to decide.
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--
SAPPHIC FRAGMENT 473
CATULLUS: XXXI 474
AFTER SCHILLER 476
SONG: FROM HEINE 477
FROM VICTOR HUGO 479
CARDINAL
BEMBO'S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL 480
RETROSPECT--
"I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES" 483
MEMORY AND I 486
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And, man of the many white croziers, a century there I forgot;
How the
fetlocks
drip blood in the battle, when the fallen on fallen lie
rolled;
How the falconer follows the falcon in the weeds of the heron's plot,
And the names of the demons whose hammers made armour for Midhir of old.
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Yeats |
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this flesh how it
crumbles
to dust and is blown!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) and poop, and side,
As soon as all their sable crews are out,
Are changed anew to leaves; which far and wide,
Raised by a sudden breeze, are blown about;
And
scattered
in mid-air, like such light gear,
Go eddying with the wind, and disappear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In his own howels
sheathed
the conquering
health.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It is a strange life,
patterned
in fire and letters
on the prison pavement.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How sholde a plaunte or lyves creature
Live, with-oute his kinde
noriture?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Before
quitting
the first "Nonsense-Book," we would point out that it
contains one or two forms that are interesting; for instance, "scroobious,"
which we take to be a Portmanteau word, and "spickle-speckled," a favorite
form of reduplication with Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
quotations from Harsnet in the following pages are
accordingly
taken
from the excerpts in the _Detection_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We fight for it as for
a
principle
of liberty.
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Imagists |
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Brave Luther answered YES; that thunder's swell
Rocked Europe, and
discharmed
the triple crown.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'Twas in no scorn, no
bitterness
to thee,
I hid my wife's death and my misery.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So seem'd it, but to them alone
The wisdom of the gods is known;
Lest freedom's price decline, from far
Zeus hurl'd the
thunderbolt
of war.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For what are called
criminals nowadays are not
criminals
at all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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TO INDIA
O young through all thy
immemorial
years!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United
States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Wilde - Poems |
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My dearest Nancy, O
fareweel!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Myself was sent to Uglich, there to probe
This matter on the spot; fresh traces there
I found; the whole town bore witness to the crime;
With one accord the
burghers
all affirmed it;
And with a single word, when I returned,
I could have proved the secret villain's guilt.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A
Sorceress
there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--Ha, the radiant lid
Of Dawn's eye
lifteth!
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Euripides - Electra |
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' Thus
Apollo began, and yet speaking
retreated
from mortal view, vanishing
into thin air away out of their eyes.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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WHILE moving round his post, he saw at night
Shine, cross the tomb, a strange, unusual light,
Which thither drew him, curious to unfold
What, through the chinks, his
eyesight
could behold.
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La Fontaine |
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I
unclothe
and clear
My wishes' cloudy character.
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Golden Treasury |
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Greater or less
solidity
depends on the resilience of atoms.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Alexander Pope |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Pallas and I, since Priam's sire
Denied the gods his pledged reward,
Had doom'd them all to sword and fire,
The people and their
perjured
lord.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Those men also that do not now know the
punishments which are
reserved
for them, shall afterwards repent and
lament in vain: but those who believe in me I will for ever save.
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Tacitus |
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already do I see
Heavily in my hand the tired pen move
From its long dear
discourse
with her I love;
Not so my thoughts from communing with me.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And you were heard to utter cries of joy,
When Drama gripped Paris in its teeth,
When spring chased ancient winter away,
When the
wondrous
star of new ideals,
Suddenly glittered in the burning sky,
And the Hippogriff stole Pegasus' place.
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
Discobbolos answered,
"At first it gave me pain,
And I felt my ears turn
perfectly
pink
When your exclamation made me think
We might never get down again!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'
Intent, I searched the region round,
And in low hut the dweller found:
Woe is me for my hope's
downfall!
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Emerson - Poems |
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He knew that
Hop-Frog was not fond of wine, for it excited the poor cripple almost to
madness; and madness is no
comfortable
feeling.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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This scrap of land he from the heath
Enclosed
when he was stronger;
But what avails the land to them,
Which they can till no longer?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_Nature's Hymn to the Deity_
All nature owns with one accord
The great and universal Lord:
The sun proclaims him through the day,
The moon when daylight drops away,
The very
darkness
smiles to wear
The stars that show us God is there,
On moonlight seas soft gleams the sky
And "God is with us" waves reply.
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John Clare |
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CHORUS: Best keep
together
here, lest, running thither,
We unawares run into danger's mouth.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Vigorously
he cantered onward thence.
| Guess: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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how
beautiful
it is, and how glad I am
that I am alive to-day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
XV
Once
engrossing
Bridge of Lodi,
Is thy claim to glory gone?
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Unlucky he whoe'er his lord
offends!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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My constitution seems to be
entirely
worn out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling,
So that it wean me from the weary dream
Of selfish grief or gladness--so it fling
Forgetfulness
around me--it shall seem
To me, though to none else, a not ungrateful theme.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But as
Ivan Kouzmitch was one of the most upright and sincere of men he could
not think of any other way than that which he had already
employed
on a
previous occasion.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And in the ages after monsters died,
Perforce
there perished many a stock, unable
By propagation to forge a progeny.
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Lucretius |
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Hovering
o'er rugged wastes too bleak to rear
That common growth of earth, the foodful ear; 1820.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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GOLDEN BELLS
When I was almost forty
I had a
daughter
whose name was Golden Bells.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I could not have
completed my third snore when there came a furious ringing at the
street-door bell, and then an
impatient
thumping at the knocker, which
awakened me at once.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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And sees the darkness coming as a cloud--
***Is not its form--its voice--most
palpable
and loud?
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand
expectant
in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he received you as the eternal One.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And did with store of every thing abound,
That
greatest
Princes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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' If this
beautiful sentiment came from a people whom Plato reproaches with their
avidity for
conquest
and dominion, what still softer reply ought we not
to expect from the most modest of nations!
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Petrarch |
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"
Marya saw a lady seated on a little rustic bench
opposite
the monument,
and she went and seated herself at the other end of the bench.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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No way could he take
to avenge on the slayer slaughter so foul;
nor e'en could he harass that hero at all
with
loathing
deed, though he loved him not.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Herman
trembled
like a leaf as the appointed hour drew near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XCVII
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the
pleasure
of the fleeting year!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_Io mi rivolgo
indietro
a ciascun passo.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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LV
Westward
on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the changeless blood of man.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Meissner
was also here; he caught me unawares,
Scribbling to my old mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Are not these green nooks
Empty of all
misfortune?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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It is that which
contains
itself--which never invites, and never refuses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Don Arias, a Castilian gentleman
Don Alonso, a Castilian gentleman
Chimene,
daughter
of Don Gomes
Leonor, governess to the Infanta
Elvire, governess to Chimene
A Page, to the Infanta
Act I Scene I (Chimene, Elvire)
Chimene
Is the report you bring me now sincere?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For none upon earth can achieve his scheme,
The best as the worst are futile here:
We awake at the selfsame point cf the dream--
All is here begun, and
finished
elsewhere.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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CLXI
Pagans are fled,
enangered
and enraged,
Home into Spain with speed they make their way;
The count Rollanz, he has not given chase,
For Veillantif, his charger, they have slain;
Will he or nill, on foot he must remain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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'
It was a pleasure-place within my soul;
An earthly paradise
supremely
fair
That lured me from the goal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Fairer than Enna's field when Ceres sows
The stars of
hyacinth
and puts off grief,
Fairer than petals on May morning blown Through apple-orchards where the sun hath shed
His brighter petals down to make them fair; Fairer than these the Poppy-crowned One flees, And Joy goes weeping in her scarlet train.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
It is this edition which has been chiefly used by
European
readers and
to which references are made in the present paper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Then, as though with a swift
impatient
gesture,
Flashing from distant stars on sweeping wing,
You come, and over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the rain falls in the spring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie,
And okes with okes entremed
disponed
lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_The Poet's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
[Illustration]
There was a young person in pink,
Who called out for
something
to drink;
But they said, "O my daughter, there's nothing but water!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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His steed he spurs, gallops with great effort;
He goes, that count, to strike with all his force,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk's seam unsews,
Slices the heart, and
shatters
up the bones,
All of the spine he severs with that blow,
And with his spear the soul from body throws
So well he's pinned, he shakes in the air that corse,
On his spear's hilt he's flung it from the horse:
So in two halves Aeroth's neck he broke,
Nor left him yet, they say, but rather spoke:
"Avaunt, culvert!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Watts-Dunton in his remarkable essay on poetry is so
convincing
and
illuminating that it seems to demand quotation here: "Never before these
songs were sung, and never since did the human soul, in the grip of a fiery
passion, utter a cry like hers; and, from the executive point of view, in
directness, in lucidity, in that high, imperious verbal economy which only
nature can teach the artist, she has no equal, and none worthy to take the
place of second.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
suggests
heafu, = _seas_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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All his words were kind and good--
_He
esteemed
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
'"
"All your fault,"
retorted
Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
[Footnote 1: These expressions cannot be
understood
in a literal
sense, for Whitman was born, not in the South, but in the State
of New York.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
News of mutiny in Upper Germany, now
governed
by Hordeonius
Flaccus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Your apparition cannot satisfy me:
Since I myself
entombed
you in porphyry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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| Page 14: tassle amended to tassel |
| Page 15: scavanger's amended to scavenger's |
| Page 16: chickory amended to chicory |
| Page 26: fragant amended to
fragrant
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| Page 30: lower case amended to title case ("they say there |
| is no hope" amended to "They say there is no hope").
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet;
forgoing
simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His bloude went downe the swerde unto his arme,
In
springing
rivulet, alive and warme.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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For ever left alone am I,
Then
wherefore
should I fear to die?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes sparkled and a
constant
smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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