Ages will come and go,
Darkness
will blot the lights
And the tower will be laid on the earth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And all night long the
captains
of the fleet
Kept their crews moving up and down the strait.
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Aeschylus |
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On over the plains,
on northward, mile after mile, the wild
gigantic
horse leaping cliff
and chasm in his terrible race; on until the mountains of what is now
Donegal rose before them--over these among the clouds, driving rain
blowing in their faces from the sea, Dhoya knowing not whither he went,
or why he rode.
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Yeats |
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Are he and his blue-robed companions, and their like, 'the Eternal
realities' of which we are the reflection 'in the
vegetable
glass of
nature,' or a momentary dream?
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Yeats |
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But as the
eighteenth
century grew slowly to its work, signs of
a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted men's
attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,
I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,
I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne,
Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,
I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or
northward
in Christiania or
Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I will not mention how many of my salutary advices you have
despised: I have given you line upon line and precept upon precept;
and while I was chalking out to you the straight way to wealth and
character, with audacious effrontery you have zigzagged across the
path,
contemning
me to my face: you know the consequences.
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Robert Forst |
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One dedicates in high heroic prose,
And
ridicules
beyond a hundred foes:
One from all Grubstreet will my fame defend,
And more abusive, calls himself my friend.
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Alexander Pope |
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81
What
shepherd
could for love pretend.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Fair
fortunes
to the mountaineer!
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
idem
Agamemnonias
dices cum uideris arces:
'heu uictrix uicta uastior urbe iacet!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XXXII
Habit
alleviates
the grief
Inseparable from our lot;
This great discovery relief
And consolation soon begot.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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All Voices
Lord of the Universe, Lord of our being,
Father eternal,
ineffable
Om!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Human bodies are words, myriads of words;
In the best poems
reappears
the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped,
natural, gay;
Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.
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Whitman |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Keats - Lamia |
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They will return to the moving pillar of smoke,
The whitest toothed, the
merriest
laughers known,
The blackest haired of all the tribes of men.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"O brave knight," said the page,
"Or ere we hither came,
We talked in tent, we talked in field,
Of the bloody battle-game;
But here, below this
greenwood
bough,
I cannot speak the same.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod
oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[270] On
the right flank marched the First legion, two
auxiliary
cohorts of
foot, and five hundred cavalry.
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Tacitus |
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'
What sholde I make of this a long
sermoun?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Not only is the nunnery
Crowded; the
precincts
too are crammed with people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Oftentimes
at least
Me hath such strong enhancement overcome,
When I have held a volume in my hand,
Poor earthly casket of immortal verse,
Shakespeare, or Milton, labourers divine!
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William Wordsworth |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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1090
And without wishing you to
increase
your pain
Reflect on my life, and think who I am, again.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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20, well observes that this comparison
may also be
sarcastically
applied to the _frigid_ style of oratory.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[HORACE _lets his ear be touched,
according
to legal form.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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walze die teuflischen Augen
ingrimmend
im Kopf herum!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For me
nevermore
the bliss,
The thrill of a woman's kiss.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Therewithal Dido wore the night in
changing
talk, alas!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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To do this, he takes some great story
which has been absorbed into the prevailing
consciousness
of his people.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at noon--from the bath--
As I came--it was noon, my lords--
And your sister had then, as she
constantly
hath,
Drawn her veil close around her, aware that the path
Is beset by these foreign hordes.
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Hugo - Poems |
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),
referring
to sword-sports.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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received
this etext on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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V
Yet can I not
perswade
me thou art dead
Or that thy coarse corrupts in earths dark wombe, 30
Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed,
Hid from the world in a low delved tombe;
Could Heav'n for pittie thee so strictly doom?
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Milton |
|
) 15
All pitiful knaves and by-street wenchers fare,
And thou, (than any worse), with hanging hair,
In coney-breeding
Celtiberia
bred,
Egnatius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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Imagists |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Why ask for
constancy
when change is the life and law of love?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Among recent
contributors
to CONTEMPORARY have been :
Max Eastman
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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No, I don't like at all this new-made
burgomaster!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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ed, Gwenore bisyde
[C] &
Agrauayn
a la dure mayn on ?
| Guess: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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say what flame more gladsome in Heavens be
shining?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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II
His crimson form, with clang and chime,
Flashed on each murk and murderous meeting-time,
And kings invoked, for rape and raid,
His
fearsome
aid in rune and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Let no forgetting sully that dim grace;
Our heart's
infirmity
is too easily won
To set a new love in the old love's place
And seek fresh vanity under the sun.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It spouts
like yellow wheat from the gargoyles, coils round the head of Saint John,
and
aureoles
him in light.
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Imagists |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Forth sprang Gawain, and loosed him from his bonds,
And flung them o'er the walls; and afterward,
Shaking his hands, as from a lazar's rag,
'Faith of my body,' he said, 'and art thou not--
Yea thou art he, whom late our Arthur made
Knight of his table; yea and he that won
The
circlet?
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Tennyson |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Donna Maria had formerly endeavoured to
dissuade her sister from the
adulterous
marriage with the king.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In the second, it (1) rises, (2)
sinks, (3) is
abruptly
arrested.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Something
o' that, I said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What has dull'd the fire
Of the
Berecyntian
fife?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our
beginnings
never know our ends!
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Out of my dark hours wisdom dawns apace,
Infinite
Life unrolls its boundless space .
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Now if ye're ane o' warl's folk,
Wha rate the wearer by the cloak,
An' sklent on poverty their joke,
Wi' bitter sneer,
Wi' you nae
friendship
I will troke,
Nor cheap nor dear.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
XI
Hamburg
The day that I come home,
What will you find to say,--
Words as light as foam
With
laughter
light as spray?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And as he com
ayeinward
prively, 750
His nece awook, and asked, `Who goth there?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Exult, ye proud
Patricians!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The next day a poor
fisherman
found him among the reeds upon the lake
shore, lying upon the white lake sand with his arms flung out as
though he lay upon a rood, and carried him to his own house.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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,
_hostile
roof, hiding-place of a cunning foe_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Therewith a second Tiphys shall there be,
Her hero-freight a second Argo bear;
New wars too shall arise, and once again
Some great
Achilles
to some Troy be sent.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And, as we talked, I
questioned
him, 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Quum vitiorum tempestas
Turbabat
omnes semitas,
Apparuisti, Deitas,
Velut stella salutaris
In naufragiis amaris.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Let us fare on, dead friend, O
deathless
friend,
Where under his old hat as green as moss
The hedger chops and finds new gaps to mend,
And on his bonfires burns the thorns and dross,
And hums a hymn, the best, thinks he, that ever was.
| Guess: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
|
1912
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The Macmillan Company 1914
Men, Women and Ghosts The Macmillan Company 1916
Can Grande's Castle The Macmillan Company 1918
Pictures of the Floating World The Macmillan Company 1919
Legends
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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I'll freely say, howe'er, that I regard,
My
services
enough to claim reward.
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La Fontaine |
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ALBA
INNOMINATA
From the Provencal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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See, my
cantabile!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
We encourage the use of public domain
materials
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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For this fierce Holofernes and his power,
This torture poured on the city, is no more
Than a wild gust of wicked heat
breathed
out
Against our God-wrought souls by the world's furnace.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What guilty spirit, in what
shrubbery
dim,
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
You would have snared me,
and scattered the strands of my nest;
but the very fact that you saw,
sheltered
me, claimed me,
set me apart from the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Quand viendra le matin livide,
Tu
trouveras
ma place vide,
Ou jusqu'au soir il fera froid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Morning has not
occurred!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Let the
Capitolian
fane,
The favour'd goal of yon vociferous crowd,
Aye, or let the nearest main
Receive our gold, our jewels rich and proud:
Slay we thus the cause of crime,
If yet we would repent and choose the good:
Ours the task to take in time
This baleful lust, and crush it in the bud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Eliot
To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915
Certain of these poems
appeared
first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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--Nos
marteaux
en main; passons au crible
Tout ce que nous savons: puis, Freres, en avant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--Courons vers l'horizon, il est tard, courons vite,
Pour
attraper
au moins un oblique rayon!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That Rome and France may on their ruin rise,
Old Bonner single
heretics
did burn.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Old parents of a
restless
race,
You miss full many a bonny face
That would have smiled a filial grace
Around your Golden Wedding wine.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
{6d}
Personification
of Battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Have ye seen the butterfly
In braw
claithing
drest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing
on a harp of gold.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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he'll not
countenance
him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Amelioration is one of the earth's words;
The earth neither lags nor hastens;
It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump;
It is not half beautiful only--defects and excrescences show just as much
as
perfections
show.
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Whitman |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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