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Li Bai - Chinese |
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15
What trifles wasted he, small
heirlooms
spent?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As
children
bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their nightgowns on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Elle ravale ainsi l'ecume de sa haine,
Et, ne comprenant pas les desseins eternels,
Elle-meme prepare au fond de la Gehenne
Les buchers
consacres
aux crimes maternels.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For although I have seen all the
beauties
of the day
never have I come upon anything so wonderfully lovely as she.
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Tennyson |
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Her pure nails on high
dedicating
their onyx,
Anguish, at midnight, supports, a lamp-holder,
Many a twilight dream burnt by the Phoenix
That won't be gathered in some ashes' amphora
On a table, in the empty room: here is no ptyx,
Abolished bauble of sonorous uselessness,
(Since the Master's gone to draw tears from the Styx
With that sole object, vanity of Nothingness).
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I went to thank her,
But she slept;
Her bed a
funnelled
stone,
With nosegays at the head and foot,
That travellers had thrown,
Who went to thank her;
But she slept.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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She's
promised
to me,
Fortuitously!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Where the fungus broad and red
Lifts its head,
Like
poisoned
loaf of elfin bread,
Where the aster grew
With the social goldenrod,
In a chapel, which the dew
Made beautiful for God:--
O what would Nature say?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Him þā Scyld gewāt tō gescæp-hwīle
fela-hrōr fēran on frēan wǣre;
hī hyne þā
ætbǣron
tō brimes faroðe.
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Beowulf |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Charles, whom such matchless
cavaliers
surround.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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At tu, Catulle,
destinatus
obdura.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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His
magnanimity, self-control, and good temper, re-
strained him from avenging any insult offered to
himself; — his chivalrous love of justice
instantly
roused all the lion within him on behalf of the
injured and oppressed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Go,
wondrous
creature!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[665] _From hence the pilgrim brings the
wondrous
tale.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And I too have
something
to tell him.
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Aristophanes |
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Snakes on the ground were
writhing
about.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The day came slow, till five o'clock,
Then sprang before the hills
Like
hindered
rubies, or the light
A sudden musket spills.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Gunga Dass
deposited
a handful of
trifles he had picked out of the burrow at my feet, and, covering the
face of the body with my handkerchief, I turned to examine these.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their food
consists
chiefly of flags and fresh-water
mussels, the shells of the latter being left in large quantities
around their lodges in the spring.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And I give you
everything
that you want me to.
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Imagists |
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The reflection of this mode of
life may be noted in the first canto of _Eugene
Oneguine_
and the
early dissipations of the "Philosopher just turned eighteen,"--
the exact age of Pushkin when he commenced his career in the
Russian capital.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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First, mighty Saladin, his country's boast,
The scourge and terror of the
baptized
host.
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Petrarch |
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Florus remarks on the
infamous
assassination of
Viriatus, that the Roman senate did him great honour; _ut videretur
aliter vinci non potuisse_; it was a confession that they could not
otherwise conquer him,--Vid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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it is a goodly sight to see
What Heaven hath done for this
delicious
land!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Patriarchal
Government,
v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Holy oak_, the oak under which the minister read the Gospel in the
procession
round the parish bounds in Rogation week.
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Robert Herrick |
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As old Toledos past their days of war
Are kept
mnemonic
of the strokes they bore,
So art thou with us, being good to keep
In our heart's sword-rack, though thy sword-arm
sleep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I was scarcely tied
To Aegeus' son, by those laws that make a bride, 270
My false peace and
happiness
secured to me,
When Athens showed me my glorious enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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LVIII
When I came last to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale,
Two friends kept step beside me,
Two honest lads and hale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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 - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She urged "No cheese is made of chalk":
And ceaseless flowed her dreary talk,
Tuned to the
footfall
of a walk.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It
would seem that the first
travellers
were more impressed with the
novel and striking distribution of colors on the surface than with
the astonishing variety of form into which the cliffs themselves
have been worn.
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Longfellow |
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fǣttum fāhne,
_shining
with
gold plates_ (the walls and the inner part of the roof were partly covered
with gold), 717; sceal se hearda helm hyrsted golde fǣtum befeallen (sc.
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Beowulf |
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" Soon as the wind
Sway'd them toward us, I thus fram'd my speech:
"O wearied
spirits!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We are tempted to think of
Homer as the most
fortunate
of poets.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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183
He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Miss Leland
seemed suddenly
impressed
with the seriousness of life.
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Yeats |
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Desolate winds that cry over the wandering sea;
Desolate winds that hover in the flaming West;
Desolate winds that beat the doors of Heaven, and beat
The doors of Hell and blow there many a whimpering ghost;
O heart the winds have shaken; the
unappeasable
host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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Yeats |
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Why is he
melancholy?
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Shakespeare |
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"
But a sixth replied, "Whatever we are, that we shall
continue
to
be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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]
Differences between the
editions
of 1891 & 1916 (printings of 1898 & 1918).
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Sidney Lanier |
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He ended his life as a monk in the abbey of Dalon, where his
presence
is recorded from 1197 to 1202.
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Troubador Verse |
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E pria che 'n tutte le sue parti immense
fosse
orizzonte
fatto d'uno aspetto,
e notte avesse tutte sue dispense,
ciascun di noi d'un grado fece letto;
che la natura del monte ci affranse
la possa del salir piu e 'l diletto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And should my future lot be cast
With much
resemblance
of the past
Thy worn-out heart will break at last--
My Mary!
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Golden Treasury |
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LXXVIII
Of the edict she remembered her, and knew
Her peril, save the foe was quickly sped:
For if she took not in one day nor slew
Her claimant, she was taken; and his head
Phoebus was now about to hide from view,
Nigh Hercules' pillars, in his watery bed,
When first she 'gan
misdoubt
her power to cope
With the strong foe, and to abandon hope.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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150
Forgive me, Gyrthe, the brave Kynge Harolde cryd;
Who can I trust, if
brothers
are not true?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rude spirits of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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Lewis Carroll |
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el freke,
& al stouned at his steuen, &
stonstil
seten,
[E] In a swoghe sylence ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
stubbornness
to him who is not wise,
Itself alone, is less than nothing strong.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(The shrug is pure
Hebraic)
.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Happiness and hope shall sun you:
All the wiles that half
betrayed
us
Vanish from us like spent showers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate
tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of
the field, are withered: because joy is
withered
away from the sons of
men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets,
probably
III or IV.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Your
lordship
ever binds him.
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Shakespeare |
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It has been the fashion of late days to deny Moore Imagination, while
granting him Fancy--a
distinction
originating with Coleridge--than whom
no man more fully comprehended the great powers of Moore.
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Poe - 5 |
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næs þā
long tō þon, þæt þā
āglǣcean
hȳ eft gemētton (_it was not long after that
the warriors again met each other_), 2593.
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Beowulf |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The exact date of Tacitus's death is not known, but in his "Annals" he seems to hint at the successful
extension
of the Emperor Trajan's eastern campaigns during the years 115 to 117, so that it is probable that he lived until the year 117.
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Tacitus |
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We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs
Have bred forth, not pale
solitary
doves,
But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower
Above us in their beauty, and must reign
In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law
That first in beauty should be first in might:
Yea, by that law, another race may drive 230
Our conquerors to mourn as we do now.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Lamia, regal drest,
Silently
paced about, and as she went,
In pale contented sort of discontent,
Mission'd her viewless servants to enrich
The fretted splendour of each nook and niche.
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Keats - Lamia |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Time doth
transfix
the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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From the dry fields thick clouds of dust arise,
Shade the black host, and
intercept
the skies.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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"
Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past
That shrunk thy streams; return,
Sicilian
Muse,
And call the vales, and bid them hither cast
Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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) aught ruth, or if you for any
Bring at the moment of death latest
assistance
to man,
Look upon me (poor me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Honteuses d'exister, ombres ratatinees,
Peureuses, le dos bas, vous cotoyer les murs,
Et nul ne vous salue,
etranges
destinees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'T is whiter than an Indian pipe,
'T is dimmer than a lace;
No stature has it, like a fog,
When you
approach
the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Half a foot long, as reward, your glorious rod (dear poet)
Proudly shall strut from your loins, when but your dearest commands,
Nor shall your member grow weary until you've enjoyed the full dozen
Artful
positions
the great poet Philainis describes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Others aspire to truth so much as they are rather
lovers of
likeness
than beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But
remember
that no poem of mine will ever be popular, and I am
afraid that the sale of 'Peter' would not carry the expense of
engraving .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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we have turned against the mightiest of our young men
And in that denial we have taken on the Christ,
And the two thieves beside the Christ,
And the Magdalen at the feet of the Christ,
And the Judas with thirty silver pieces selling the Christ,--
And our twenty centuries in Europe have the shape of a Cross
On which we have hung in
disaster
and glory.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, 170
O Hymen Hymenaeus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Our interview was transient,--
Of me, himself was shy;
And God forbid I look behind
Since that
appalling
day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Sanche
You know how justice moves, with what slowness,
How often the crime fails to meet redress;
That slow and doubtful course
provokes
more tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
passionate
teeming plays this curtain hid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Now needful does for
ammunition
calL
He finds, where'er he succour might expect.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cucumber vines grow entwining about this
primeval
lingam,
Cracking it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
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occupation
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one tortured by frost and ice,
Whom the cold
torments
and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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And after a
thousand
years I climbed the holy mountain and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'Not at all too hot,' was his reply; and he confided to me that this was
one of his
favourite
places and attitudes for composing 'poems.
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Not all thy
flushing
suns are set, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ELECTRA
Alas, the inborn curse that haunts our home,
Of Ate's bloodstained scourge the
tuneless
sound!
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