Methinks
he cometh late and tarries long.
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Black
Infantry
at that!
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Kipling - Poems |
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and who will fix the site of the pool in Rydal
Upper Park,
immortalised
in the poem 'To M.
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_The Age of Bronze_ was
reviewed
in the _Scots Magazine_, April, 1823,
N.
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Byron |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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At last it enjoys a mood of happy
Contemplation
of
the past with bright prospects for the future.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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IONE:
Dear sister, close thy plumes over thine eyes
Lest thou behold and die: they come: they come _440
Blackening the birth of day with
countless
wings,
And hollow underneath, like death.
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Shelley |
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Livia
and Sejanus are said by Tacitus, to have
restrained
the worst passions
of the Emperor.
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Tacitus |
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the steamboat whistles,
the proclamations of the
honorable
orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XII
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence {12a}
suffer that slaughterous
stranger
to live,
useless deeming his days and years
to men on earth.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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FAUST (laut):
Gretchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_ Thou
speakest
in the shadow of thy change.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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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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For the
egotist is he who makes claims upon others, and the
Individualist
will
not desire to do that.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres
paladins
du diable,
Les squelettes de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This was the work of a French abbe, de Montfaucon Villars (1635-1673),
who was well known in his day both as a
preacher
and a man of letters.
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Alexander Pope |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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)
Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning along on
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
unsuspecting
trees
Brought out their burrs and mosses
His fantasy to please.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There was silence
supreme!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Propitious heavens I had not you them crossed,
Excise had got the day, and all been lost :
For t'other side all in close quarters lay
Without intelligence, command or pay ;
A
scattered
body, which the foe ne'er tried,
But often did among themselves divide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Voici le troupeau roux des
tordeuses
de hanches,
Soyez fous, vous serez droles, etant hagards!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'
[Argument of the 12 Books of Statius' "Thebais"]
Associat profugum Tideo primus Polimitem;
Tidea legatum docet insidiasque secundus;
Tercius Hemoniden canit et vates latitantes;
Quartus habet reges ineuntes prelia septem;
Mox furie Lenne quinto
narratur
et anguis;
Archimori bustum sexto ludique leguntur;
Dat Graios Thebes et vatem septimus vmbria;
Octauo cecidit Tideus, spes, vita Pelasgia;
Ypomedon nono moritur cum Parthonopeo;
Fulmine percussus, decimo Capaneus superatur;
Vndecimo sese perimunt per vulnera fratres;
Argiuam flentem narrat duodenus et igneum.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Don't give
yourself
credit,
though, that the strength of your logic scares me: the truth is, I
never mean to meet you on that ground at all.
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Robert Forst |
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Let everything that hath or hath not breath,
Let days and endless days, let life and death,
Praise God, praise God, praise God, His
creature
saith.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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THE HAPPY LIFE
The things that make a life of ease,
Dear Martial, are such things as these:
Wealth furnished not by work but birth,
A
grateful
farm, a blazing hearth,
No lawsuit, seldom formal dress;
But leisure, stalwart healthiness,
A tactful candour, equal friends,
Glad guests at board which naught pretends,
No drunken nights, but sorrow free,
A bed of joy yet chastity;
Sleep that makes darkness fly apace,
So well content with destined place,
Unenvious so as not to fear
Your final day, nor wish it near.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Of set purpose and willing mind do we draw
nigh this thy city,
outcasts
from a realm once the greatest that the sun
looked on as he came from Olympus' utmost border.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But Nith maun be my Muse's well,
My Muse maun be thy bonie sel',
On
Corsincon
I'll glowr and spell,
And write how dear I love thee.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Fired with indignation, the Twenty-first rallied and
charged the front of the enemy, killing the commanding officer,
Orfidius Benignus, and
capturing
many of their colours.
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Tacitus |
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]
[Footnote 8: The edition of 1633 contained one Latin, and
seven English, letters to Sir Henry Goodyere, with one letter
to the
Countess
of Bedford, a copy of which had been sent
to Goodyere.
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John Donne |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Meredith - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Kamschatka,
Who possessed a
remarkably
fat Cur;
His gait and his waddle were held as a model
To all the fat dogs in Kamschatka.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It may be expected perhaps, that the Editor should give an opinion
upon this important question; but he rather chooses, for many reasons,
to leave it to the determination of the
unprejudiced
and intelligent
Reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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Robert Herrick |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As bodies change, and as I do not weare 45
Those Spirits, humors, blood I did last yeare,
And, as if on a streame I fixe mine eye,
That drop, which I looked on, is presently
Pusht with more waters from my sight, and gone,
So in this sea of vertues, can no one 50
Bee'insisted on; vertues, as rivers, passe,
Yet still remaines that
vertuous
man there was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And now the victims dress'd
They draw, divide, and
celebrate
the feast.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And this is so with Virgil more,
perhaps, than with any other poet; for more, perhaps, than any other
poet Virgil depends on his
poetical
quality from first to last.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at beholding me,
Thinking
me dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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[73] Letters to John Kempe, 1331, Rymer's _Foedera_; Hulme, _Law
Quarterly
Rev.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What clamor now is born, what
crashings
rise!
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United
States without permission and without paying copyright
royalties.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How glad I am to be
suffered
to stay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
"
On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
Could I
describe
her shape and mein;
Our lasses a' she far excels,
An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And sow my
blossoms
o'er!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Besides, this labour--whether due to the industry of admiring friends,
or to the ambition of the literary resurrectionist--is futile; because
the verdict of Time is sure, and
posterity
is certain to consign the
recovered trivialities to kindly oblivion.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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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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Meantime Achilles' slaves prepared a bed,
With fleeces, carpets, and soft linen spread:
There, till the sacred morn
restored
the day,
In slumber sweet the reverend Phoenix lay.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I saw it now
as men must see it forever afterwards;
no poet could write again,
"the red-lily,
a girl's laugh caught in a kiss;"
it was his to pour in the vat
from which all poets dip and quaff,
for poets are
brothers
in this.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Do but ask of Nature why all living
creatures are less delighted with meat and drink that
sustains
them than
with venery that wastes them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The solemn contract of a life
Was
ratified
this way.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
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approach us with offers to donate.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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5560
'And thus in poverte is in dede
Trouthe
declared
fro falsehede;
For feynte frendis it wol declare,
And trewe also, what wey they fare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
Nor do those know me best who admire me, and vauntingly praise me,
Nor will the
candidates
for my love (unless at most a very few) prove
victorious,
Nor will my poems do good only--they will do just as much evil, perhaps
more;
For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not
hit--that which I hinted at;
Therefore release me, and depart on your way.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
_"
[This verse, written early, and
probably
intended for the starting
verse of a song, was found among the papers of the poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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these flames nought can subdue--
The
Aqueduct
of Sylla gleams, a bridge o'er hellish brew.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of
luminous
stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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This
pageant was, during several centuries, considered as one of the
most
splendid
sights of Rome.
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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To satin races he is nought;
But
children
on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.
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Something, however, must be allowed for his evident habit of
versifying any phrase or epigram which impressed him, and not all his
poems need be
regarded
as expressions of his personal opinions.
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
strength.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Is not the "Task"
a
glorious
poem?
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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in that avenging clime
Where Spain was once
synonymous
with crime,
Where Cortes' and Pizarro's banner flew,
The infant world redeems her name of "_New_.
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Byron |
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Aricia
Is
unfeeling
Hippolytus known to you though?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'Tis this that grieves us most of all, to see
men who have never served or held either lance or oar in defence of their
country,
enriching
themselves at our expense without ever raising a
blister on their hands.
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Aristophanes |
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General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project
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electronic
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Singing lowly, meekly, slowly,
"Give us, give us back the holy
Sepulchre of the
Redeemer!
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Longfellow |
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7 Shoulder to shoulder, I scurry at the appointed time,8 48 in my
thinning
hair I lodge hatpins and ribbons.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Oh, Master--I, like thee, have wandered oft
Where mighty trees made arches high aloft,
But ever with a consciousness of strife,
A surging
struggle
of the inner life.
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Hugo - Poems |
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