these flames nought can subdue--
The
Aqueduct
of Sylla gleams, a bridge o'er hellish brew.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This
pageant was, during several centuries, considered as one of the
most
splendid
sights of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient 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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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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Robert Herrick |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient 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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Robert Forst |
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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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blake-poems |
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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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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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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Comes him a Southwind from the scented vine,
It breathes of Beatrice through all his blades,
North, East or West, Guelph-wind or Ghibelline,
'Tis shredded into music down the shades;
All sea-breaths, land-breaths, systol, diastol,
Sway,
minstrels
of that grief-melodious Soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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it bursts, it
thunders
on our heads!
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Iliad - Pope |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Now, gentles, what shall I
produce?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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345
Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe,
And low, where dawning day doth never peepe,
His
dwelling
is; there Tethys?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thus was I
manacled
for life; while she,
Proud of my bonds, enjoy'd her liberty.
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Petrarch |
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Ward eines Menschen Geist, in seinem hohen Streben,
Von
deinesgleichen
je gefasst?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But followes it that I
Must serve her onely, when I may have choice
Of other beauties, and in change
rejoice?
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John Donne |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In our Country-
dialect
Earthenware
is called 'Clome'; so the Boys of the Village used
to shout out after him--'Go back to the Potter, Old Clomeface, and get
baked over again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Earth of the
slumbering
and liquid trees!
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet hear one word, and lodge it in thy heart:
No more molest me on Atrides' part:
Is it for him these tears are taught to flow,
For him these
sorrows?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Stephen Crane |
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With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his
seraphic
self!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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Tacitus |
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discuss the
question
coolly; poets must not revile each other
like market wenches.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Imagists |
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So long as I
Stand by the
youthful
tsar, so long he will not
Forsake the throne.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For a smirk of the face, or a favor,
Still
shelters
the cheat where he crawls;
And the truth we began with needs braver
Upholders, and loftier walls.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The surly night-wind rustles through the wood, and warns us to retrace
our steps, while the sun goes down behind the
thickening
storm, and
birds seek their roosts, and cattle their stalls.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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International
donations
are accepted, but we don't know ANYTHING about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
honorable
orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing the syllables "sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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LE JEU
Dans des fauteuils fanes des courtisanes vieilles,
Pales, le sourcil peint, l'oeil calin et fatal,
Minaudant, et faisant de leurs maigres oreilles
Tomber un cliquetis de pierre et de metal;
Autour des verts tapis des visages sans levre,
Des levres sans couleur, des machoires sans dent,
Et des doigts convulses d'une infernale fievre,
Fouillant la poche vide ou le sein palpitant;
Sous de sales plafonds un rang de pales lustres
Et d'enormes quinquets
projetant
leurs lueurs
Sur des fronts tenebreux de poetes illustres
Qui viennent gaspiller leurs sanglantes sueurs:
--Voila le noir tableau qu'en un reve nocturne
Je vis se derouler sous mon oeil clairvoyant,
Moi-meme, dans un coin de l'antre taciturne,
Je me vis accoude, froid, muet, enviant,
Enviant de ces gens la passion tenace,
De ces vieilles putains la funebre gaite,
Et tous gaillardement trafiquant a ma face,
L'un de son vieil honneur, l'autre de sa beaute!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Down rushed the night: east, west, together roar;
And south and north roll
mountains
to the shore.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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R: _lube_ O:
_libeat_
R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He was a
contemporary
of Sappho, and conceived
a passion for her, which she only rewarded with disdain.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The warld's wrack we share o't,
The warstle and the care o't;
Wi' her I'll
blythely
bear it,
And think my lot divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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its substratums and
objects?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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205
Or who shall not great Nightes
children
scorne,
When two of three her Nephews are so fowle forlorne?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Not the mounds of wheat
That load Sardinian threshing floors;
Not Indian gold or ivory--no,
Nor flocks that o'er
Calabria
stray,
Nor fields that Liris, still and slow,
Is eating, unperceived, away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Always
thinking
of my own country,
My heart sad within.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No
brimming
tankards flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then Devens looked and saw the light:
He got him forth into the night,
And watched alone on the river-shore,
And marked the British
ferrying
o'er.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The old ambitions flare and burn; The old
irresolutions
die;
And planetary lustres gleam
Out of an unforgotten sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Thy voice is like a fountain
Leaping up in sunshine bright,
And I never weary counting
Its clear droppings, lone and single, 30
Or when in one full gush they mingle,
Shooting
in melodious light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride
ourselves
on love's merit,
Excuse is shameful to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Then,
starting
to the task, Ulysses caught,
And his illustrious son, the weapons thence, 40
Helmet, and bossy shield, and pointed spear,
While Pallas from a golden lamp illumed
The dusky way before them.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Yon wild mossy
mountains
sae lofty and wide,
That nurse in their bosom the youth o' the Clyde,
Where the grouse lead their coveys thro' the heather to feed,
And the shepherd tents his flock as he pipes on his reed.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Eftsoones
the Gard, which on his state did wait, 310
Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait:
Who seeming sorely chauffed at his band,
As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait,?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Something
more of this will be found
in Corbet's "Farewell to the Fairies!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After this we have no trace
whatever
of Mar-
vell for some years ; and his biographers have,
as usual, endeavoured to supply the deficiency
by conjecture — some of them so idly, that they
have made him secretary to an embassy which
had then no existence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of
mudcracked
houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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denoting
contrariety: hence 1) _but_ (like N.
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Beowulf |
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Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Hence this good cavalier earns fame and praise,
While others
scornful
hoots and laughter raise.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lucretius |
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The final
draught!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant
muttering
low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Ic wæs ende-sǣta, ǣg-wearde hēold,
"þæt on land Dena lāðra nǣnig
"mid scip-herge
sceððan
ne meahte.
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Beowulf |
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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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'But chief, ambiguous Man, he that can know
More misery, and dream more joy than all; _135
Whose keen sensations thrill within his breast
To mingle with a loftier instinct there,
Lending their power to pleasure and to pain,
Yet raising, sharpening, and refining each;
Who stands amid the ever-varying world, _140
The burthen or the glory of the earth;
He chief
perceives
the change, his being notes
The gradual renovation, and defines
Each movement of its progress on his mind.
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Shelley |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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(_To know
Also, I've sold myself,--is that so
pleasant_?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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