"What are you
thinking
of?
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Dedens une pierre de marbre 1440
Ot nature par grant mestrise
Sous le pin la
fontaine
assise:
Si ot dedens la pierre escrites
Ou bort amont letres petites
Qui disoient: 'ici desus
Se mori li biaus Narcisus.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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--Societe, tout est retabli:--les orgies
Pleurent leur ancien rale aux anciens lupanars:
Et les gaz en delire aux murailles rougies
Flambent
sinistrement
vers les azurs blafards!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" he says,
"For winning me from one
Who ever in her living days
Was pure as
cloistered
nun!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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MARTHE:
Ich meine: ob Ihr niemals Lust
bekommen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with pervading
brilliance
and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Note: The third verse suggests a summer sky in northern latitudes, say late July, when
Arcturus
sets in the north-west at dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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Thie gentle wordis doe thie volunde[29] kenne
To bee moe
clergionde
thann ys ynn meyncte of menne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'I could rest if you would not cry;
But there's no
sleeping
while you sit weeping-- 50
Watching, weeping so bitterly.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
approach
of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest metamorphoses in the external aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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>> en
inclinant
la tete;
--Et nous prendons du temps a trouver cette bete!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And here he saw Deiphobus son of Priam, with face cruelly torn, face and
both hands, and ears lopped from his mangled temples, and nostrils
maimed by a
shameful
wound.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"]
[277] {549}
Guesclin
died during the siege of a city; it surrendered,
and the keys were brought and laid upon his bier, so that the place
might appear rendered to his ashes.
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Byron |
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My Thanes and Kinsmen
Henceforth be Earles, the first that euer Scotland
In such an Honor nam'd: What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exil'd Friends abroad,
That fled the Snares of
watchfull
Tyranny,
Producing forth the cruell Ministers
Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene;
Who (as 'tis thought) by selfe and violent hands,
Tooke off her life.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
They threw back their heads to laugh,
With quaint countenances
They
regarded
him.
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Stephen Crane |
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'Yet
meanwhile
thy warm blood shalt pay me vengeance for both,' he
cries; and unsheathing his sword, he made at Euryalus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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for not yet with sacred blood had a victim made
propitiate
the lords of the
heavens.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Tennyson |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ye, who would more of Spain and
Spaniards
know,
Go, read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife:
Whate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe
Can act, is acting there against man's life:
From flashing scimitar to secret knife,
War mouldeth there each weapon to his need--
So may he guard the sister and the wife,
So may he make each curst oppressor bleed,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my
shuttered
glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[31]
Practically
a quotation from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
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Li Po |
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BY THE WEIR
A scent of Esparto grass--and again I recall
That hour we spent by the weir of the paper-mill
Watching together the curving thunderous fall
Of frothing amber, bemused by the roar until
My mind was as blank as the speckless sheets that wound
On the hot steel ironing-rollers perpetually turning
In the humming dark rooms of the mill: all sense and discerning
By the
stunning
and dazzling oblivion of hill-waters drowned.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its
leafless
blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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970
Fame if not double-fac't is double-mouth'd,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds,
On both his wings, one black, th' other white,
Bears
greatest
names in his wild aerie flight.
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Milton |
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With what
enchantment
and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or heedless!
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Sappho |
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" KAU}
They weighd & orderd all & Urizen [in comfort saw] comforted saw {The erased phrase "in comfort saw" is
speculation
on Erdman's part.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But
beauties
other second Element,
Colour, and lustre now, is as neere spent.
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John Donne |
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sernede]]
in one ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Before Carlun now both the two appear:
They have their spurs, are fastened on their feet,
And, light and strong, their
hauberks
brightly gleam;
Upon their heads they've laced their helmets clear,
And girt on swords, with pure gold hilted each;
And from their necks hang down their quartered shields;
In their right hands they grasp their trenchant spears.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Piso's wife Verania and
his brother Scribonianus laid out his body, and this was done for
Vinius by his
daughter
Crispina.
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Tacitus |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O Saul, come in su la propria spada
quivi parevi morto in Gelboe,
che poi non senti pioggia ne
rugiada!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'"Whence come ye,
friends?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The shutters were drawn and the
undertaker
wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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10
Nothing whereat to laugh my spleen espyes
But
bearbaitings
or Law exercise.
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John Donne |
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There is no pause (the knack
Is
perfect)
while his left hand pulls from out a stack
Leather —I think —the track
Curves sharp, and will not let me see
Just what the task .
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hour prophetic--hour
resuming
the past:
Inflating my throat--you, divine Average!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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A careless shepherd once would keep
The flocks by
moonlight
there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Foundation
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501(c)(3)
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Revenue Service.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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>>
De jeuner
sembloit
estre lasse,
S'avoit la color pale et morte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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try our
Executive
Director:
Michael S.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals
dreaming
thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a swooning love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This selection from her poems is
published
to meet the desire of her
personal friends, and especially of her surviving sister.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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blake-poems |
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And
Echo, thou who
reignest
in the inmost recesses of the caves, oh!
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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" he said, "with what you do,
For
business
calls me, I must not delay.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Shelley shrunk instinctively from portraying human
passion, with its mixture of good and evil, of
disappointment
and
disquiet.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Therefore, with wary warning, school my son,
Though he be lessoned by the gods already,
To curb the vaunting that
affronts
high Heaven!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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He was going to marry Miss Castries,
he was--being of age and drawing a good income--and woe betide the house
that would not
afterwards
receive Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The eighth sphere displays
Numberless lights, the which in kind and size
May be remark'd of
different
aspects;
If rare or dense of that were cause alone,
One single virtue then would be in all,
Alike distributed, or more, or less.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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oxen neuere ne shal his
bytyng bysynesse
forleten
hym while he lyue?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[Sidenote A: The knight abides on the bank,]
[Sidenote B: and
observes
the "huge height,"]
[Sidenote C: with its battlements and watch towers.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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1916
The Jig of Forslin The Four Seas Company 1916
Nocturne of Remembered Spring The Four Seas Company 1917
The Charnel Rose The Four Seas Company 1918
The House of Dust The Four Seas Company 1920
Punch: the
Immortal
Liar Alfred A.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Meantime
the Goddess from the bosom wide 530
Of Ocean rising, brought us thence four skins
Of phocae, and all newly stript, a snare
Contriving subtle to deceive her Sire.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The rain fell fast;
the air grew cool; and the people were
retiring
to their homes.
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Poe - 5 |
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But none of them
distinguished
himself more than
Beaupuy, then a General of Brigade.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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It is time to arise,
To race for the
promised
prize;
The sun flies, the wind flies,
We are strong, we are free,
And home lies beyond the stars and the sea.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls,
bloodied
by that ancient instance
Of fraternal strife, a sure foundation.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If I sigh through the window when Jerry
The ploughman goes by, I grow bold;
And if I'm disposed to be merry,
My parents do nothing but scold;
And Jerry the clown, and no other,
Eer cometh to marry or woo;
They think me the moral of mother
And judge me a
terrible
shrew.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Prometheus, forced, they say, to add
To his prime clay some
favourite
part
From every kind, took lion mad,
And lodged its gall in man's poor heart.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--O buffet du vieux temps, tu sais bien des histoires,
Et tu
voudrais
conter tes contes, et tu bruis
Quand s'ouvrent lentement tes grands portes noires.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We sewed up the wound in his temple,
bandaged
his foot, and applied a
square inch of black plaster to the tip of his nose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Only ye would not pass beyond the cape
That has the poplar on it: there ye fixt
Your limit, oft
returning
with the tide.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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But O the ship, the
immortal
ship!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus wings thy
progress
from the realms above?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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accipiat
coniunx felici foedere diuam,
dedatur cupido iam dudum nupta marito.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ni quod inomati Triviae sint forte capilli,
Huic sed sollicit^
distribuantur
acu.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Shake the snow off and with hearty
Hand-shakes drive away the cold;
Else your plate you'll hardly hold
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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At Vaucluse I
conceived the first idea of giving an epitome of the Lives of
Illustrious Men, and there I wrote my
Treatise
on a Solitary Life, as
well as that on religious retirement.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The same threat is
twice made in the _True
Narration_
(pp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tenth, second, or first century before Christ--first, eighth,
fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, or even
eighteenth
century
A.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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No man such rare parts hath that he can swim,
If favour or
occasion
help not him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They weep:--from off their
delicate
stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Before that day, if any Greek invite
His country's troops to base,
inglorious
flight,
Stand forth that Greek!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Do you know why my love is so
sincere?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
even a few are
valuable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet nought from her, for long devoted years,
I reap'd but cold disdain, and
fruitless
tears.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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But why should I be here, O God, I a green seed of unfulfilled
passion, a mad tempest that seeketh neither east nor west, a
bewildered
fragment
from a burnt planet?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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, _lord and friend,
friendly
ruler_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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But always under this largess of
colour lay some tender homily
addressed
to man's fragile hopes.
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Yeats |
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Hast ever heard
That dead men have arisen from their graves
To question tsars,
legitimate
tsars, appointed,
Chosen by the voice of all the people, crowned
By the great Patriarch?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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dydste thou kenne the stynge,
The whyche doeth canker ynne mie hartys roome,
Thou wouldste see playne
thieselfe
the gare to bee;
Aryse, uponne thie love, & flie to meeten mee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some
impassioned
and imperishable dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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To wander o'er leagues of land,
To search over wastes of sea,
Where the Prophets of Lycia stand,
Or where Ammon's
daughters
three
Make runes in the rainless sand,
For magic to make her free--
Ah, vain!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Money, root of ill,
Doubt it not, still grows apace:
Yet the scant heap has
somewhat
lacking still.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
"Will ye go wi' me,
graunie?
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Robert Forst |
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She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen
branches
of the night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia
quality indeed.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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