I
arrived here, at my brother's, only yesterday, after
fighting
my way
through Paisley and Kilmarnock, against those old powerful foes of
mine, the devil, the world, and the flesh--so terrible in the fields
of dissipation.
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Robert Burns |
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ON THE
EXTINCTION
OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC.
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Golden Treasury |
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All they wrought,
Unreasoning
they wrought, till I made clear
The laws of rising stars, and inference dim,
More hard to learn, of what their setting showed.
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Aeschylus |
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Why no,
certainly
not.
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Aristophanes |
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"
"I don't see anything very striking in the fact that a woman of eighty
refuses to gamble,"
objected
Naroumov.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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II
O pale
Ophelia!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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My blindness, my deafness to others shows
That only her I see, and hear, and bless,
And I offer her no false flatteries so,
For the heart more than the mouth gives word;
That in field, plain, hill, vale, though I go everywhere
I'd not discern all
qualities
in one sole body,
Only hers, where God sets them all today.
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Troubador Verse |
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My other friends and you much worse deserved:
The spouse, for taking me when quite unnerved,
And they, for giving
preference
base to gold,
To those pure joys--far better thought than told.
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La Fontaine |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
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Shakespeare |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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{a}t
gou{er}neth
erthe {and} see / {and}
hath also {com}mau{n}dement?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I visit these, to whose
indulgent
cares
I owe the nursing of my tender years:
For strife, I hear, has made that union cease
Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Beowulf |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of
twilight
formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I had bid you rob her treasury, and yet
I found you sitting drowsed and motionless,
Your chin bowed to your knees, while on all sides,
Bat-like from bough and roof and window-ledge,
Clung evil souls of men, and in the woods,
Like
streaming
flames, floated upon the winds
The elemental creatures.
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Yeats |
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I shall wear the bottoms of my
trousers
rolled.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Till to his flock the early
shepherd
goes,
Here shall much-needed sleep his frame embrace.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I kissed the little
leafless
stem,
But oh, my poor heart knew
The words the flower had said to me,
They were not true.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Sylvan, we've come as your
disciples
here.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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To know of these who would not pay
attention?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Cuopron d'i manti loro i palafreni,
si che due bestie van sott' una pelle:
oh
pazienza
che tanto sostieni!
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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LXXXIX
The holy man next made the damsel see,
That save in God there was no true content,
And proved all other hope was transitory,
Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;
And urged withal so earnestly his plea,
He changed her ill and
obstinate
intent;
And made her, for the rest of life, desire
To live devoted to her heavenly sire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Then,
hurrying
to the voice of
the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
is tyme
twelmonyth
take at ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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I know the grass
Must grow somewhere along this
Thracian
coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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For, after all the murders of your eye, 145
When, after millions slain, yourself shall die:
When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,
And all those tresses shall be laid in dust,
This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame,
And 'midst the stars
inscribe
Belinda's name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Tous trois firent leur devoir en faveur de mes efforts pour Rimbaud,
Baju avec le tort, peut-etre inconscient, de publier, a l'appui de la
bonne these, des gloses farceuses de gens de talent et surtout d'esprit
qui
auraient
mieux fait certainement de travailler pour leur compte, qui
en valait, je le leur dis en toute sincerite,
La peine assurement!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At the
beginning
of the period Sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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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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But see, a
handmaid
cometh, and the tear
Wet on her cheek!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been
absorbed
into the prevailing consciousness of his people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With beams
December
planets dart
His cold eye truth and conduct scanned,
July was in his sunny heart,
October in his liberal hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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By
standing
just aside,
By seeing you go on,
Day after day,
In ways I may not tread; By watching your dear feet Stumble in paths
My word could save you from, Yet never speaking it;
By knowing past all doubting That the day will come, When, all else gone,
Alone,
Deserted,
You will turn your face To meet my waiting eyes, And there
Behold your own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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If
consequence
do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
What
historical
Authority has Mons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Odherr Partes bie
_Knyghtes
Mynstrelles_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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SED NON SATIATA
Bizarre deite, brune comme les nuits,
Au parfum melange de musc et de havane,
OEuvre de quelque obi, le Faust de la savane,
Sorciere
au flanc d'ebene, enfant des noirs minuits,
Je prefere au constance, a l'opium, au nuits,
L'elixir de ta bouche ou l'amour se pavane;
Quand vers toi mes desirs partent en caravane,
Tes yeux sont la citerne ou boivent mes ennuis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tout cela ne vaut pas le terrible prodige
De ta salive qui mord,
Qui plonge dans l'oubli mon ame sans remord,
Et,
charriant
le vertige,
La roule defaillante aux rives de la mort!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
| 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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
But he seems to have
avoided a complete statement of his ideas to Pope, possibly for fear of
shocking or frightening the sensitive little poet who still
remained
a
professed Catholic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
e snawe
snitered
ful snart, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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ei ne
forleten
nat oonly to ben my?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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Copyright laws in most countries are
in a
constant
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Wilde - Poems |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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previous
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That Donne must have written 'sere-barke' or 'seare-barke' is
clear, both from the evidence of the
editions
and MSS.
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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and all processions moving along the
streets!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ilk
griselich
fere,
Whan vche seint schal aferde be; oure lord crist to see ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And if more were needed to
disprove
Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It was pale indeed, but as
expressionless and
commonplace
as ever.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Quoth that
lovesome
(one)--
"Though I had nought of yours,
Yet should ye have of mine.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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493_;
_Palamon
and Arcite_, _iv.
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Byron |
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The disdain and
calmness
of martyrs,
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her
children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Seven queens shone round her ivory bed,
Like seven soft gems on a silken thread,
Like seven fair lamps in a royal tower,
Like seven bright petals of Beauty's flower
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose
"Where is my rival, O King Feroz?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'I will make no delay indeed,' he said, 'there is a full moon, and
if I get as far as
Kilchriest
to-night, I will reach to her before the
setting of the sun to-morrow.
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Yeats |
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