The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Often I thought of this, and pictured me
How many a man who lives with throngs about him,
Yet straining through the twilight for that boat
Shall scarce make out one figure in the stern,
And that so faint its
features
shall perplex him
With doubtful memories--and his heart hang back.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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fugit te, inepte:
quamuis sordida res et
inuenusta
est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ah, Messer Bindo, the calamities,
The fallen fortunes, and the desolation
Of
Florence
are to me a tragedy
Deeper than words, and darker than despair.
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Longfellow |
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But, perhaps, the true reason is to be sought in the spirit
of the age, which
proceeds
by the rule of contraries altogether, and
is now usually admitted as the solution of every thing in the way of
paradox and impossibility.
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Poe - 5 |
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A
reckless
traitor,
Planned this outrage to his father's honour?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" with that his eyes did roll,
His body fell, out fled his
frighted
soul.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Jove rules in heaven, his thunder shows;
Henceforth
Augustus earth shall own
Her present god, now Briton foes
And Persians bow before his throne.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Why, if thou cause thy folk to crop some villein's ears,
So, evil falls, and a fool
foretells
the truth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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could my sighs in accents flow
So
musically
lorn,
That thou might'st catch my am'rous woe,
And cease, proud Maid!
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Better by far their heads be shorn away,
Than that
ourselves
lose this clear land of Spain,
Than that ourselves do suffer grief and pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and discovering that not only the
instrument
was playing.
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| Question: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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do you think our
statutes
are but paper?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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_To
beg a person_: to petition the Court of Wards (established by Henry
VIII and suppressed under Charles II) for the custody of a minor, an
heiress, or an idiot, as feudal
superior
or as having interest in the
matter: hence also fig.
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John Donne |
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He brings that much
indulged
bit of the
country with him, from some town's end or other, and introduces it to
Concord groves, as if he had promised it so much sometime.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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We might safely
accept the sustained
judgment
of a thousand years of Greece.
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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460
Then come thou man of earth, and see the way,
That never yet was seene of Faeries sonne,
That never leads the traveiler astray,
But after labors long, and sad delay,
Brings them to joyous rest and
endlesse
blis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Flee to
infernal
night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The outer walls were almost all decayed,
The door, for ancient Marquises once made--
Raised many steps above the
courtyard
near--
Commanded view of the horizon clear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The flower of thy might
lasts now a while: but erelong it shall be
that sickness or sword thy
strength
shall minish,
or fang of fire, or flooding billow,
or bite of blade, or brandished spear,
or odious age; or the eyes' clear beam
wax dull and darken: Death even thee
in haste shall o'erwhelm, thou hero of war!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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VI
"Deal, then, her groping skill no scorn, no note of malediction;
Not long on thee will press the hand that hurts the lives it loves;
And while she dares dead-reckoning on, in darkness of affliction,
Assist her where thy
creaturely
dependence can or may,
For thou art of her clay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"Felon be I," said Guenes, "aught to
conceal!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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An potius, longe sic prona
cacumina
nutant,
Parnassus capiant esse, Maria, tuus !
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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"Hey, but here's a toy shop, here's a drum for me,
Penny
whistles
too to play the tune!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But fortune's gifts if each alike possessed,
And each were equal, must not all
contest?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Vachel Lindsay's "I
Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry" is a revised version of the poem
of that name which was printed in _The
Enchanted
Years_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
you know what anxiety of mind wily Amathusia gave me, and in what manner
she
overthrew
me, when I was burning like the Trinacrian rocks, or the
Malian fount in Oetaean Thermopylae; nor did my piteous eyes cease to
dissolve with continual weeping, nor my cheeks with sad showers to be
bedewed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The passionate
tenacity
of hunters,
woodmen, early risers, cultivators of gardens and orchards and fields, the
love of healthy women for the manly form, seafaring persons, drivers of
horses, the passion for light and the open air, all is an old varied sign
of the unfailing perception of beauty, and of a residence of the poetic, in
outdoor people.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Such, father, is not (now) my theme--
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly
pride hath revell'd in--
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope--that fire of fire!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
How shall we fill a library with wit,
When Merlin's cave is half
unfurnished
yet?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the rhythmic beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt
southwest
And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
A noble
picture!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
But mark--the
prophetess
was right!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
' 4060
With that the cherl his clubbe gan shake,
Frouning
his eyen gan to make,
And hidous chere; as man in rage,
For ire he brente in his visage.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Old
Scottish
songs
CLXXXVI.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Hear ye not
Yon
muttering
in the skies above the spot?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
_, 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 |
|
Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Even in
whispers
men each other told
The details of the pact which they had signed
With that dark power, the foe of human kind;
In whispers, for the crowd had mortal dread
Of them so high, and woes that they had spread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
_336 hurl Harvard manuscript,
editions
1839; haul edition 1824.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
William Dean Howells and the _North American Review_:--"The
Passengers of a
Retarded
Submersible.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"And dost thou suffer, my
brother?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Scipio to Ennius_
ENNI poeta, salue, qui mortalibus
uersus
propinas
flammeos medullitus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
EASTWARD
IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her feathering paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sunshine in his heart transferred
Lighted each
transparent
word,
And well could honoring Persia learn
What Saadi wished to say;
For Saadi's nightly stars did burn
Brighter than Jami's day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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poor fools, the
anointed
eye may trace
A dead soul's epitaph in every face!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Look how the clear fresh south from heaven removes
The tempest, nor with rain
perpetual
teems!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
XXIV
But when she saw her prayers nought prevaile,
She backe returned with some labour lost;
And in the way as shee did weepe and waile, 210
A knight her met in mighty armes embost,
Yet knight was not for all his bragging bost,
But subtill Archimag, that Una sought
By traynes into new
troubles
to have tost:
Of that old woman tidings he besought, 215
If that of such a Ladie she could tellen ought.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--Also, _late,
belonging
to former
time_: gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
How can an infant die
When
butterflies
are on the wing,
Green grass, and such a sky?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
In _The Well at the World's End_ green trees and enchanted waters are
shown to us, as they were
understood
by old writers, who thought that
the generation of all things was through water; for when the water that
gives a long and fortunate life and that can be found by none but such
a one as all women love is found at last, the Dry Tree, the image of
the ruined land, becomes green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Madden reads slaked horlote3, instead of slaked hor lote3,
which,
according
to his glossary, signifies drunken vagabonds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
But should I back return, no tempting press 1023
Shall drag my Journal from the desk's recess; 1024
Let coxcombs,
printing
as they come from far, 1025
Snatch his own wreath of Ridicule from Carr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For in his brain, as in a burning-glass
Wide glow of sun drawn to a pin of fire,
Are
gathered
into incredible fierceness all
The rays of the dark heat of heathen strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Thereat Pyrrhus: "Thou then shalt tell this,
and go with the message to my sire the son of Peleus:
remember
to tell
him of my baleful deeds, and the degeneracy of Neoptolemus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an
ecstasy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Strange the story: he said it all, --
the Waelsing's wanderings wide, his struggles,
which never were told to tribes of men,
the feuds and the frauds, save to Fitela only,
when of these doings he deigned to speak,
uncle to nephew; as ever the twain
stood side by side in stress of war,
and
multitude
of the monster kind
they had felled with their swords.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
625
An ydole of fals portraiture
Is she, for she wil sone wryen;
She is the monstres heed y-wryen,
As filth over y-strawed with floures;
Hir moste worship and hir [flour is] 630
To lyen, for that is hir nature;
Withoute
feyth, lawe, or mesure
She is fals; and ever laughinge
With oon eye, and that other wepinge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
This, cumbered in the earthen kind of man,
Which
ceaseless
waters would be wearing down,
Alone giveth him stubborn substance, holds him
Upright and hard against impious fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
ensuring the transport of tax
revenues
to the throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
No infidel
children
to impale on spears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian
courtesan
and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Exulting
mid the winter of the skies, 325
Shy as the jealous chamois, Freedom flies,
And often grasps her sword, and often eyes,
Her crest a bough of Winter's bleakest pine,
Strange "weeds" and alpine plants her helm entwine,
And wildly-pausing oft she hangs aghast, 330
While thrills the "Spartan fife" between the blast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Donations by check or money order may be sent to:
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Mopso Nysa datur: quid non
speremus
amantes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
" It is to this fair friend that he is supposed to
have addressed his
nineteenth
sonnet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion
with a stirring child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
iam uero uariae nocturno tempore uisae
terribilis formae bellum motusque monebant,
multaque per terras uates oracla furenti
pectore fundebant tristis minitantia casus:
quidue ea quae lapsu ceciderunt aera
uetusto?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Let us suppose that
some
dramatist
had made even him the centre of a play in which the
moderation of common life was carefully preserved, how very little he
could give us of that headlong intrepid man, as we know him, whether
through long personal knowledge or through his many books.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said
farewell
to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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And when this shape
Hath dropped upon the lands and burst apart,
It belches forth immeasurable might
Of
whirlwind
and of blast.
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It is
difficult
to conceive of a language in which rhyme, stress-accent,
and tone-accent would not to some extent occur.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus sung they, in the English boat,
A holy and a
cheerful
note.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The titles
contemplated
were Limbes, or Lesbiennes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry treasure in my mouth,
As an
elephant
his ivory.
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TITYRUS
Sooner shall light stags, therefore, feed in air,
The seas their fish leave naked on the strand,
Germans and
Parthians
shift their natural bounds,
And these the Arar, those the Tigris drink,
Than from my heart his face and memory fade.
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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.
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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It
pervades
all.
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(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
Libertad, from the conqueress' field return'd,
I mark the new aureola around your head,
No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
And your port immovable where you stand,
With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly
crush'd beneath you,
The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his
senseless
scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much,
To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Nationality is excellent in its
place; and the
instinct
of self-love is the root of a man, which will
develop into sacrificial virtues.
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--She ceased, and weeping turned away,
As if because her tale was at an end
She wept;--because she had no more to say
Of that
perpetual
weight which on her spirit lay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I left him only two hours since
Homeward
returning
down the river,
As strong and well as if God, the Giver,
Had given him back his youth again.
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Now on yon ranks impel your foaming steeds;
And, sure of glory, dare
immortal
deeds.
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Iliad - Pope |
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