On his head a bonnet blue,
Bonnie laddie,
Highland
laddie;
His royal heart was firm and true,
Bonnie Highland laddie.
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Robert Forst |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this
terrible
happiness of mine!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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spirits, sylphs, there be,
And fays the wind blows often here;
The gnomes that squat the ceiling near,
In corners made by old books dim;
The long-backed dwarfs, those goblins grim
That seem at home 'mong vases rare,
And chat to them with friendly air--
Oh, how the joyous demon throng
Must all have laughed with laughter long
To see you on my rough drafts fall,
My bald hexameters, and all
The mournful, miserable band,
And drag them with relentless hand
From out their box, with true delight
To set them each and all a-light,
And then with clapping hands to lean
Above the stove and watch the scene,
How to the mass
deformed
there came
A soul that showed itself in flame!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And
suddenly
the sultan kneels!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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More leaden than the actual self of lead
Outer and inner
darkness
weighed on me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Bridges, like most of us to-day, has a lyrical and
meditative
mind, and
delights to speak with his own voice and to see Nature in the mirror of
his mind.
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Yeats |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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I guess, 'twas frightful there to see
A lady so richly clad as she--
Beautiful
exceedingly!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who knows but I am
enjoying
this?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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blake-poems |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The task is obviously not one of translation or of paraphrasing,
but of
imaginative
and, at the same time, interpretive construction.
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Sappho |
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Pizarro,
however, in the barbarity of his character, far
exceeded
him.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With you I'll breathe the air which ye respire,
And, smiling, hide my
melancholy
lyre
When it is wet with tears.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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The host took from one of the shelves
of the press a jug and a glass,
approached
him, and, having looked him
well in the face--
"Well, well," said he, "so here you are again in our part of the world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But, herte myn, with-oute more speche, 1510
Beth to me trewe, or elles were it routhe;
For I am thyn, by god and by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The
mischief
is that 'twill not last.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
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John Clare |
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Then inland just where the small meadow begins,
Well bulwarked with
boulders
that jut in the tide,
Lies safe beyond storm-beat the harbour in sun.
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Sappho |
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O hadst thou died beneath the
righteous
sword
Of that brave man whom once I call'd my lord!
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Iliad - Pope |
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So that not fainting, but refresht and astonisht
And strangely spirited and
divinely
angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
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to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Tacitus |
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'Oh better then be slave or wife
Than fritter now blank life away: 70
Then night had
holiness
of night,
And day was sacred day.
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Christina Rossetti |
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4 Among cypress and pine I gaze on the empty halls, in dust and sand I stand on the
darkened
road.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have these several months been
hammering
at an elegy on the amiable
and accomplished Miss Burnet.
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Robert Forst |
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V
Yet faithful still 'mid woe and doubt
One woman's loyal heart--whose pain
Filled it with pure celestial light--
Shone starry-constant like the North,
Or that still
radiance
beaming forth
From sacred lights in some lone fane.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Wherever
now
My heedless course I may pursue
One object on thy desert brow
I everlastingly shall view--
A rock, the sepulchre of Fame!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"There is a spirit in the post;
It, too, was once a
murmuring
tree;
Its withered, sad, imprisoned ghost
Echoes my melody.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_All_ sey (say), _after which
ryght is
needlessly
inserted; I omit it_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright
splendid
shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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Life is a scavenger's pit--I escape--
I only,
rejecting
it,
lying here on this couch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But
wherefore
this?
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Keats |
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_The Mother_
Folks think a witch who has
familiar
spirits
She _could_ call up to pass a winter evening,
But _won't_, should be burned at the stake or something.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
conquerors
had a good right to exult in their success; for
their glory was all their own.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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]
Enter Lear, with
Cordelia
[dead] in his arms, [Edgar, Captain,
and others following].
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Shakespeare |
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The epic poet
collaborates
with the spirit
of his time in the composition of his work.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So he, whose
mischievous
advice prevailed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with
melancholy
eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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After Vintage
COMB in the death-foreboded park, to view
How yonder smiling bank in
radiance
shimmers,
The virgin cloudlets' unexpected blue
Upon the tarn and tinted pathway glimmers.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_'
Is the
appropriate
answer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Wright
1918
TO THE MEMORY OF
AUGUSTE RODIN
THROUGH WHOM I CAME TO KNOW
RAINER MARIA RILKE
POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry--A
magazine
of Verse, and Poet Lore, the
translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this
book--also to the compilers of the following anthologies--Amphora II
edited by Thomas Bird Mosher--The Catholic Anthology of World Poetry
selected by Carl van Doren.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Thou, thou,
illustrious
GAMA, thou shalt bring
The olive bough of peace, deputed king!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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After passing through many wild ways, our knight
recovers
from the
wound in his neck, and at last comes safe and sound to the court of
King Arthur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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what herb Medea brewed
Will bring the
unexultant
peace of essence not subdued?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
quarrels
of Ireland shall end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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If I have found
Another, true to save me at the bound
Of life and death, that other's child am I,
That other's
fostering
friend, until I die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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SIEBEL:
Zur Tur hinaus, er sich
entzweit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When I am gone, dreame me some happinesse,
Nor let thy lookes our long hid love confesse,
Nor praise, nor dispraise me, nor blesse nor curse
Openly loves force, nor in bed fright thy Nurse 50
With
midnights
startings, crying out, oh, oh
Nurse, o my love is slaine, I saw him goe
O'r the white Alpes alone; I saw him I,
Assail'd, fight, taken, stabb'd, bleed, fall, and die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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org
Title: The
Hesperides
& Noble Numbers: Vol.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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'
XCI
"I fifteen days or twenty ask, that I
Yet once again may to our army speed;
So that, by me from
leaguering
enemy
The African cantonments may be freed:
I will some fit and just occasion spy,
Meanwhile, to justify my change of creed,
I for my honour make this sole request;
Then wholly yours for life, in all things, rest.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was
blighted
in a day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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On each side every hamlet
Pours forth its joyous crowd,
Shouting
lads and baying dogs,
And children laughing loud,
And old men weeping fondly
As Rhea's boys go by,
And maids who shriek to see the heads,
Yet, shrieking, press more nigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several
worthies
make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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A Transcript of the
Registers
of the
Company of Stationers of London; 1554-1640.
| Guess: |
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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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Mallarme
left a series of fragments for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Later
editions often
contaminate
this with another version of the poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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'You do not do any of these things at all well,'
he went on, with an
insolence
peculiar to him when excited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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It contains
also a masterly compliment to the expedition of GAMA, which is all along
represented as the harbinger and diffuser of the
blessings
of
civilization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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you will ask; because, when I impart
Such
wondrous
circumstances, ev'ry belle,
Without reserve, will con them over well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The hills untied their bonnets,
The
bobolinks
begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Er denkt's den
Menschen
nachzuahmen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in
separate
drawers,
Until their time befalls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
Scarcely thus: when Juturna's eyes
overbrimmed
with tears, and thrice
and again she smote her hand on her gracious breast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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What a
perfect
maturity
it arrives at!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
" Is it not more likely an ancient Superstition; a
Libation
to
propitiate Earth, or make her an Accomplice in the illicit Revel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Why mockest thou thy son so often in feigned
likeness?
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I had rather be encoffin'd in this chest
Amongst these bookes and papers I protest,
Then free-booting abroad purchase offence,
And
scandale
my calme thoughts with discontents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Nor in my madness was I silent: and, should any chance
offer, did I ever return a
conqueror
to my native Argos, I vowed myself
his avenger, and with my words I stirred his bitter hatred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In his own hills each labours down the day,
Teaching the vine to clasp the widow'd tree:
Then to his cups again, where,
feasting
gay,
He hails his god in thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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At five in the morning
breakfast
was served
to the weary players.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
,
_Renaissance
in Italy_, _ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Of glory as thou wilt, said he, so deem, 150
Worth or not worth the seeking, let it pass:
But to a Kingdom thou art born, ordain'd
To sit upon thy Father David's Throne;
By Mother's side thy Father, though thy right
Be now in powerful hands, that will not part
Easily from possession won with arms;
Judaea now and all the promis'd land
Reduc't a
Province
under Roman yoke,
Obeys Tiberius; nor is always rul'd
With temperate sway; oft have they violated 160
The Temple, oft the Law with foul affronts,
Abominations rather, as did once
Antiochus: and think'st thou to regain
Thy right by sitting still or thus retiring?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
You
Spaniard
of Spain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
in soft
Delight they die & they revive in spring with music & songs
Enion said
Farewell
I die I hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
It was important to him to find thresholds of temples so sacred
Pure when, enamoured, he sought
powerful
entry to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
_ But, as Plato says that even in the least things
the Divine assistance ought to be implored, what ought we do, to
render us worthy of so
important
a discovery as the true source
and seat of the sovereign good?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Heracles arrives at the castle just at the moment when
Alcestis is lying dead in her room; Admetus
conceals
the death from him
and insists on his coming in and enjoying himself.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ballads of six
thousand
years
Thrive, thrive;
Songs awaken with the spheres
Alive.
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John Clare |
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And when the rose-petals are scattered 5
At dead of still noon on the grass-plot,
What means this passionate grief,--
This
infinite
ache of regret?
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Sappho |
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To
Nannette
Falk-Auerbach.
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Sidney Lanier |
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N, THE HERMIT
At Ch'ang-an--a full foot of snow;
A levee at dawn--to bestow
congratulations
on the Emperor.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We were stopped by a curious chance just off the Irish coast,
Where the mightiest wreck ever was lay crowded with a host
Of the dead that went down with her; and some prayed us to bring them
here
That they might be at home with their
brothers
and sisters dear.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And there was
mounting
in hot haste: the steed,
The mustering squadron, and the clattering car,
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;
And the deep thunder peal on peal afar;
And near, the beat of the alarming drum
Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;
While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,
Or whispering, with white lips--'The foe!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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Say, do you know the
reprobate?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Porci et Socration, duae sinistrae
Pisonis, scabies
famesque
mundi
Vos Veraniolo meo et Fabullo
Verpus praeposuit Priapus ille?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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