bona te Venus
Iuverit, quoniam palam
Quod cupis capis et bonum 200
Non
abscondis
amorem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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They are here
faithfully
printed from the most authentic
MSS that could be procured; of which a particular description is given
in the _Introductory account of the several pieces contained in this
volume_, subjoined to this Preface.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--
what brings you
bragging
now?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sanche
Her ardour
deceived
her, in spite of me:
I left the fight, Sire, to recount it swiftly.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To give away yourself, keeps
yourself
still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But
generally
at the
beginning of the winter they freeze hard, and soon, though undecayed,
acquire the color of a baked apple.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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of wundor-fatum
(_from
wondrous
vessels_), 1163.
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Beowulf |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Once we marched from the Wild Goose Gate;
Now we are
fighting
in front of the Dragon Pen.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"
Quoth she, and
whistled
thrice.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Happy be Theseus, our
renowned
Duke!
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Shakespeare |
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Many
familiar
verses will hence be met with; many also which should be
familiar:--the Editor will regard as his fittest readers those who love
Poetry so well, that he can offer them nothing not already known and
valued.
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Golden Treasury |
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O cities
memories
of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But the Pasha's attention is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From
tchebouk
{13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash
of the First,
Who holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at
the Worst,
Who feels that delight is a
delicate
growth cramped by crookedness,
custom, and fear,
Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My passions, from that hapless hour,
Usurp'd a tyranny which men
Have deem'd, since I have reach'd to power;
My innate nature--be it so:
But, father, there liv'd one who, then,
Then--in my boyhood--when their fire
Burn'd with a still intenser glow,
(For passion must, with youth, expire)
E'en _then_ who knew this iron heart
In woman's
weakness
had a part.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'62'
Bernard Lintot, the
publisher
of Pope's translation of Homer.
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Alexander Pope |
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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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(draws a cross-handled dagger, and raises it on high)
Behold the cross
wherewith
a vow like mine
Is written in Heaven!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They grip their
withered
edge of stalk
In brief excitement for the wind;
They hold a breathless final talk,
And when their filmy cables part
One almost hears a little cry.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer
guidance
on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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She knew the dread thing coming, but her clear
Cheek never changed: till
suddenly
she fled
Back to her own chamber and bridal bed:
Then came the tears and she spoke all her thought.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The breathing
pestilence
that rose like smoke!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made
anither!
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Robert Burns |
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Had it been
To save some falling city, leaguered in
With foemen; to prop up our castle towers,
And rescue other children that were ours,
Giving one life for many, by God's laws
I had
forgiven
all!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh),
Was a settin' down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one o' the
children
jumped on his knee
And says, "Yan's Jones, which you bought his land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The attempt to vanquish the
innumerable _heads_ of one of those
aforementioned
discourses may supply
us with a plausible interpretation of the second labor of Hercules, and
his successful experiment with fire affords us a useful precedent.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Her soul,
however, is as white as her complexion is black, and she has the air of
being so little
conscious
of her own appearance, that her homeliness may
be said to become her.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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DAMAGE.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And why
Doth he himself allow it, nor spare the same
Even for his
enemies?
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
"What did
Dawlishe
say about Tommy Rot?
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Kipling - Poems |
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1600
His death gives me reason enough for tears,
Without my
searching
into other matters:
It won't restore him to me, in my grief, again:
Perhaps it would only serve to increase my pain.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[35] Probably
phonetic
variant of _edir_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thy
shrinking
slowly hastens the blow!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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quod enim genus figuraest, ego non quod
obierim?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nor do I
Fail to perceive how strange and marvellous
This fact must strike the intellect of man,--
Annihilation
of the sky and earth
That is to be,--and with what toil of words
'Tis mine to prove the same; as happens oft
When once ye offer to man's listening ears
Something before unheard of, but may not
Subject it to the view of eyes for him
Nor put it into hand--the sight and touch,
Whereby the opened highways of belief
Lead most directly into human breast
And regions of intelligence.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The
thrall o' love Septumius his only Acme far would choose, than Tyrian or
Britannian realms: the faithful Acme with Septumius unique doth work her
love
delights
and wantonings.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
Faces
I have seen a face with a
thousand
countenances, and a face that
was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'
Sols sui qui sai lo
sobrafan
que?
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Troubador Verse |
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As a leaf
From autumn branches, or a drop of rain
That hung in frailest splendor from a bough--
Bright,
glistening
in the sunlight of God's day--
So had she clung to virtue once.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Mean while revive;
Abandon fear; to
strength
and counsel joind
Think nothing hard, much less to be despaird.
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Milton |
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quotes, 'He that is fallen
into a depe foggy well and
sticketh
fast in it,' Coverdale, _Bk.
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John Donne |
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My heart replied: It's never enough,
It's never enough to love one's mistress;
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past
delights
dearer and sweeter?
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Did I not fear the
landlord
to affront;
I'd show these worthy guests this minute
What kind of stuff our stock has in it.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Despaire
breedes not (quoth he) where faith is staid.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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To looks
succeeded
blows; hard blows
Battered his ears and poor old nose.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Der Unmensch ohne Zweck und Ruh,
Der wie ein Wassersturz von Fels zu Felsen brauste,
Begierig
wutend nach dem Abgrund zu?
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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ALTMAYER:
Es lebe die
Freiheit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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and pass away unto the homes by Fate decreed,
Lest ill valour meet our vengeance--'twas a
necessary
deed.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The tutelary genius of mankind
Ripens by slow degrees the final State,
That in the soul shall its
foundations
find
And only in victorious love grow great;
Patient the heart must be, humble the mind,
That doth the greater births of time await!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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450
Such was the theme of the
illustrious
bard.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
The only attempt I had ever made at
anything
like a pastoral (if that
may be called an attempt which was the result almost of pure accident)
was in 'The Courtin'.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Lorsque Baudelaire posa en 1862 sa candidature aux fauteuils
academiques laisses vacants par la mort de Scribe et du Pere
Lacordaire, il etait, dans sa pensee, de
protester
ainsi contre la
condamnation des _Fleurs du Mal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He's donned his white hauberk, with broidery,
Has laced his helm,
jewelled
with golden beads,
Girt on Joiuse, there never was its peer,
Whereon each day thirty fresh hues appear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Regret--though nothing dear
That I wot of, was toward in the wide world at his prime,
Or bloomed
elsewhere
than here,
To die with his decease, and leave a memory sweet, sublime,
Or mark him out in Time .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_, 81-4
preserves
a defective text of this
part of the epic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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whose
incorrupted
fame
Casts forth a light like to a virgin flame;
And as it shines it throws a scent about,
As when a rainbow in perfumes goes out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"Tell him it was n't a
practised
writer,
You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'Mid the din
Two pilgrims, faring forward, saw the light
In a strong city, fortified, and moved
Patiently
thither.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--Jemima Warner, a
Pennsylvania
woman, was the
wife of one of Morgan's riflemen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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WOMEN AND WAR
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY: Harvest Moon: 1916
ADA TYRRELL: My Son
KATHARINE TYNAN: To the Others
GRACE FALLOW NORTON: The Journey
MARGARET PETERSON: A Mother's Dedication
EDEN PHILLPOTTS: To a Mother
SARA TEASDALE: Spring In War-Time
OCCASIONAL NOTES
INDEXES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Editor desires to express his cordial appreciation of the assistance
rendered him in his undertaking by the
officials
of the British Museum
(Mr.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Or, capriciously still,
*Like the lone Albatross,
Incumbent
on night
(As she on the air)
To keep watch with delight
On the harmony there?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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We shall reach, however, more immediately a
distinct
conception of what
the true Poetry is, by mere reference to a few of the simple elements
which induce in the Poet himself the poetical effect He recognizes
the ambrosia which nourishes his soul in the bright orbs that shine
in Heaven--in the volutes of the flower--in the clustering of low
shrubberies--in the waving of the grain-fields--in the slanting of tall
eastern trees--in the blue distance of mountains--in the grouping of
clouds--in the twinkling of half-hidden brooks--in the gleaming of
silver rivers--in the repose of sequestered lakes--in the star-mirroring
depths of lonely wells.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I
condemned
him because you were his accuser.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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While Antonius was debating what he ought to do, Arrius
Varus, who was greedy to distinguish himself, galloped out with the
keenest of the troopers and charged the Vitellians, inflicting only
slight loss; for, on the arrival of reinforcements, the tables were
turned and those who had been hottest in pursuit were now
hindmost
in
the rout.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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My
foothold
is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time.
| 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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G----, a
charming
woman,
did me the honour to be prejudiced in my favour; this makes me hope
that I have not outraged her beyond all forgiveness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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So hide in thee, thou
heavenly
dame,
The ill I shun, the good I claim;
I alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Aussi devant ce Louvre une image m'opprime:
Je pense a mon grand cygne, avec ses gestes fous,
Comme les exiles,
ridicule
et sublime,
Et ronge d'un desir sans treve!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Oh, well they know how the
cyclones
blow that they loose
from their cloud of death,
And they know is heard the thunder-word their fierce ten-incher
saith!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Even you are not foolish enough to suppose
that
theatres
and all the live things you can by thereabouts mean Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
420
So grete trees, so huge of strengthe,
Of fourty or fifty fadme lengthe,
Clene
withoute
bough or stikke,
With croppes brode, and eek as thikke--
They were nat an inche a-sonder-- 425
That hit was shadwe over-al under;
And many an hert and many an hinde
Was both before me and bihinde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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if I were you,
And children climbed me, for their sake
Though it be winter I would break
Into spring
blossoms
white and blue!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Alas, did not Antiquity assigne
A night, as well as day, to thee, O
Valentine?
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John Donne |
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To try
theology
I'm almost minded.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot
obliquely
run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Tully was not so eloquent as thou,
Thou
nameless
column with the buried base!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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at my3t;
[B]
Brachetes
bayed ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There came one who
understood
not these things.
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Stephen Crane |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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inges bettere {and} more
plentiuousely
be couth [[pg 25]]
in ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The creatures chuckled on the roofs
And
whistled
in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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By the holy
goddesses!
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Aristophanes |
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It
seasoned
comfort to our hearts' desire,
We felt thy kind protection like a friend
And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,
Enjoying comfort that was never penned.
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John Clare |
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He has not my sense to be giving
attention
to what you will say.
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Yeats |
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Now airy swarms of
fluttering
dreams descend
On souls, like birds on trees, and have no end.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Naroumov invited Herman
to
accompany
him to the club, and the young man accepted the invitation
only too willingly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I know thy soul
Tempered by trust in God against this ruin;
But not in God, but in mortality
Thy soul stands founded; and death even now
Is digging at thy station in the world;
And as a man with ropes and windlasses
Pulls for new building columns of wreckt halls
Down with a
breaking
fall, so death has rigged
His skill about us, so he will break us down,
Ruin our height and courage; and as stone,
Carved with the beautiful pride of kings, hath made,
Hammer'd to rubble and ground for mortar, walls
Of farms and byres, our kill'd and broken natures,
With all their beauty of passion, yea, and delight
In God, death will shape and grind up to new
Housing for souls not royal as we are,
New flesh and mind for mean souls and dull hearts:
For death is only life destroying life
To roof the coming swarms in mortal shelter
Of flesh and mind experienced in joy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then she, whose tears the springing fount supplied;--
And she whose form above the rolling tide
Hangs a
portentous
cliff--the royal fair,
Who wrote the dictates of her last despair
To him whose ships had left the friendly strand.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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