You must never think
I'm like the
heartless
men you wait on here,
Whose love is all a hunger that cares naught
How hatefully endured its feasting must be
By her who fills it, so it be well glutted!
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* * * * *
[When Li Po came to the capital and showed this poem to Ho Chih-ch'ang,
Chih-ch'ang raised his
eyebrows
and said: "Sir, you are not a man of
this world.
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Li Po |
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And now he, fast ensnared by empty hope, perchance
offers vows and heaps gifts on his altars; we, a
mourning
train, go in
hollow honour by his corpse, who now owes no more to aught in heaven.
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It is my selfe I meane: in whom I know
All the particulars of Vice so grafted,
That when they shall be open'd, blacke Macbeth
Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State
Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd
With my
confinelesse
harmes
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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IN the
greenest
of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace--
Radiant palace--reared its head.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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MY DEAR SIR,
I write on my tour through a country where savage streams tumble over
savage mountains, thinly
overspread
with savage flocks, which
sparingly support as savage inhabitants.
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Robert Forst |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Hence probably the text of no English Poet
after 1660
contains
so many errors.
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Golden Treasury |
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Existence
for such natures is a sort of muffled delirium.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and
standing
hill,
By chiming tower and whispering tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves the travail of a
worthier
pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At least, it solaces to know
That there exists a gold,
Although I prove it just in time
Its
distance
to behold!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sweet lays of
sportive
vein,
Which help'd me to sustain
Love's first assault, the only arms I bore;
This flinty breast say who
Shall once again subdue,
That I with song may soothe me as before?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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As from the mist a noble pine we tell
Grown old upon the heights of Appenzel,
When morning
freshness
breathes round all the wood,
So Eviradnus now before them stood,
Opening his visor, which at once revealed
The snowy beard it had so well concealed.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest
A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;
The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash
Strikes, and
prepares
it for another Guest.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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the example set in Reed's American
edition of the Poems), "I have greatly
extended
the class entitled
'Poems of the Imagination,' thinking as you must have done that, if
Imagination were predominant in the class, it was not indispensable
that it should pervade every poem which it contained.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large tolerant wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty
summers?
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Sappho |
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Yet since this
bittersweet
ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault, rejecting the allure,
It will bring peace to your troubled mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
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Sappho |
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The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the
perfumed
tincture of the roses.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenure of thy
jealousy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Full well I know the hour when hope
Sinks dead, and 'round us everywhere
Hangs
stifling
darkness, and we grope
With hands uplifted in despair.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of
passionate
surmise
When beauty throbbed like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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e, 3if yow lyke3,
3if any were so
vilanous
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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blake-poems |
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Faccian li Ghibellin, faccian lor arte
sott' altro segno, che mal segue quello
sempre chi la
giustizia
e lui diparte;
e non l'abbatta esto Carlo novello
coi Guelfi suoi, ma tema de li artigli
ch'a piu alto leon trasser lo vello.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
But when the south wind stirs the pools
And struggles in the lanes,
Her heart misgives her for her vow,
And she pours soft refrains
Into the lap of adamant,
And spices, and the dew,
That
stiffens
quietly to quartz,
Upon her amber shoe.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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III
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely
Northern
breast and brain
Grow up a Southern tree.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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]
INTRODUCTION
The 'Plutus' differs widely from all other works of its Author, and, it
must be confessed, is the least
interesting
and diverting of them all.
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Aristophanes |
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Can such things be,
And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our
speciall
wonder?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Till thirty were not left alive
They dwindled, dwindled, one by one,
And I may say that many a time
I wished they all were gone:
They
dwindled
one by one away;
For me it was a woeful day.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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that from him the grave did hide
The empty loom, cold hearth, and silent wheel,
And tears that flowed for ills which
patience
could not heal.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[671]
"And still, O blest, thy
peerless
honours grow,
New op'ning views the smiling fates bestow.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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When Teucer fled before his father's frown
From Salamis, they say his temples deep
He dipp'd in wine, then wreath'd with poplar crown,
And bade his
comrades
lay their grief to sleep:
"Where Fortune bears us, than my sire more kind,
There let us go, my own, my gallant crew.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I sought it not:
Wouldst thou admit for his
contempt
of thee
That proud excuse?
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Milton |
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From all thou begg'st, a bold
audacious
slave;
Nor all can give so much as thou canst crave.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And then the
festival
begins!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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id mea me multis docuit regina querellis
inuisente
nouo proelia torua uiro.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The problem then is, why do not
the public become more
civilised?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" KAU}
And she drave all the Females from him away
{Alternate
reading of "drove" for "drave.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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Racine - Phaedra |
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I see Orsino has talked with you, and
That you
conjecture
things too horrible
To speak, yet far less than the truth.
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Shelley |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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`Ye seen that every day eek, more and more, 1345
Men trete of pees; and it
supposed
is,
That men the quene Eleyne shal restore,
And Grekes us restore that is mis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Of fish, a whale's the one for me,
_It is so full of
blubber_!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
LII
Thrice looked he at the city;
Thrice looked he at the dead;
And thrice came on in fury,
And thrice turned back in dread:
And, white with fear and hatred,
Scowled at the narrow way
Where,
wallowing
in a pool of blood,
The bravest Tuscans lay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For nature then
(The coarser
pleasures
of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by,)
To me was all in all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yet
bridegroom
(So may Godhead deign
Help me!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Cotton Mather,
summoned
as witness.
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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'102 loads of lead':
curl papers used to be
fastened
with strips of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"And there's the humour, as I said;
Thy dreary dawn he saw as
gleaming
gold,
And in thy glistening green and radiant red
Funereal gloom and cold.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The selfsame day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy
footstool
Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Of which gods are you
speaking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Eros,
Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see
Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down
His corrigible neck, his face subdu'd
To
penetrative
shame, whilst the wheel'd seat
Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded
His baseness that ensued?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Hearest thou the
festival
din
Of Death, and Destruction, and Sin,
And Wealth crying "Havoc!
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Shelley |
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Wherefore
was that cry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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e
Emperors
bour,
a maiden god with gret honour,
to wedden wi?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But
stronger
again
Than brass
Sovereign lines remain.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I was scarcely tied
To Aegeus' son, by those laws that make a bride, 270
My false peace and happiness secured to me,
When Athens showed me my
glorious
enemy.
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In
this desire to approach the Nameless One, the young Brother in _The Book
of a Monk's Life_ builds up about God parables, images and legends
reminiscent of those of the 17th century Angelus Silesius, but sustained
by a more pregnant
language
because exalted by a more ardent visionary
force.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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By the rough
seas I swear, fear for myself never wrung me so sore as for thy ship,
lest, the rudder lost and the pilot struck away, those
gathering
waves
might master it.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But had you seen the philibegs,
And skyrin tartan trews, man;
When in the teeth they dar'd our Whigs
And
covenant
true blues, man;
In lines extended lang and large,
When bayonets opposed the targe,
And thousands hasten'd to the charge,
Wi' Highland wrath they frae the sheath,
Drew blades o' death, 'till, out o' breath,
They fled like frighted doos, man.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE
I
"O LORD, why
grievest
Thou?
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Fierier and
stormier
from restraining, break
Into some madness even before the Queen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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) Who's
destroying
my son's character?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I thinke withall,
There would be hands vplifted in my right:
And heere from
gracious
England haue I offer
Of goodly thousands.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Da werden
Winternachte
hold und schon
Ein selig Leben warmet alle Glieder,
Und ach!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Keats - Lamia |
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A
mournful
glance Sir Fopling upwards cast,
"Those eyes are made so killing"--was his last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Friend,
wherefore
art thou come?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Morn dawns; and with it stern Albania's hills,
Dark Suli's rocks, and Pindus' inland peak,
Robed half in mist, bedewed with snowy rills,
Arrayed in many a dun and purple streak,
Arise; and, as the clouds along them break,
Disclose the
dwelling
of the mountaineer;
Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak,
Birds, beasts of prey, and wilder men appear,
And gathering storms around convulse the closing year.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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qu'ont donc crie ces entrecotes
Ces grands pates ces os a moelle et mirotons
Langues de feu ou sont-elles mes pentecotes
Pour mes pensees de tous pays de tous les temps
CHANTRE
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
CREPUSCULE
A Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin
Frolee par les ombres des morts
Sur l'herbe ou le jour s'extenue
L'arlequine s'est mise nue
Et dans l'etang mire son corps
Un charlatan crepusculaire
Vante les tours que l'on va faire
Le ciel sans teinte est constelle
D'astres pales comme du lait
Sur les treteaux l'arlequin bleme
Salue d'abord les spectateurs
Des sorciers venus de Boheme
Quelques fees et les enchanteurs
Ayant decroche une etoile
Il la manie a bras tendu
Tandis que des pieds un pendu
Sonne en mesure les cymbales
L'aveugle berce un bel enfant
La biche passe avec ses faons
Le nain regarde d'un air triste
Grandir l'arlequin trismegiste
ANNIE
Sur la cote du Texas
Entre Mobile et Galveston il y a
Un grand jardin tout plein de roses
Il contient aussi une villa
Qui est une grande rose
Une femme se promene souvent
Dans le jardin toute seule
Et quand je passe sur la route bordee de tilleuls
Nous nous regardons
Comme cette femme est mennonite
Ses rosiers et ses vetements n'ont pas de boutons
Il en manque deux a mon veston
La dame et moi suivons presque le meme rite
LA MAISON DES MORTS
A Maurice Raynal
S'etendant sur les cotes du cimetiere
La maison des morts l'encadrait comme un cloitre
A l'interieur de ses vitrines
Pareilles a celles des boutiques de modes
Au lieu de sourire debout
Les mannequins grimacaient pour l'eternite
Arrive a Munich depuis quinze ou vingt jours
J'etais entre pour la premiere fois et par hasard
Dans ce cimetiere presque desert
Et je claquais des dents
Devant toute cette bourgeoisie
Exposee et vetue le mieux possible
En attendant la sepulture
Soudain
Rapide comme ma memoire
Les yeux ses rallumerent
De cellule vitree en cellule vitree
Le ciel se peupla d'une apocalypse
Vivace
Et la terra plate a l'infini
Comme avant Galilee
Se couvrit de mille mythologies immobiles
Un ange en diamant brisa toutes les vitrines
Et les morts m'accosterent
Avec des mines de l'autre monde
Mais leur visage et leurs attitudes
Devinrent bientot moins funebres
Le ciel et la terre perdirent
Leur aspect fantasmagorique
Les morts se rejouissaient
De voir leurs corps trepasses entre eux et la lumiere
Ils riaient de voir leur ombre et l'observaient
Comme si veritablement
C'eut ete leur vie passee
Alors je les denombrai
Ils etaient quarante-neuf hommes
Femmes et enfants
Qui embellissaient a vue d'oeil
Et me regardaient maintenant
Avec tant de cordialite
Tant de tendresse meme
Que les prenant en amitie
Tout a coup
Je les invitai a une promenade Loin des arcades de leur maison
Et tous bras dessus bras dessous
Fredonnant des airs militaires
Oui tous vos peches sont absous
Nous quittames le cimetiere
Nous
traversames
la ville
Et rencontrions souvent
Des parents des amis qui se joignaient
A la petite troupe des morts recents
Tous etaient si gais
Si charmants si bien portants
Que bien malin qui aurait pu
Distinguer les morts des vivants
Puis dans la campagne
On s'eparpilla
Deux chevau-legers nous joignirent
On leur fit fete
Ils couperent du bois de viorne
Et de sureau
Dont ils firent des sifflets
Qu'ils distribuerent aux enfants
Plus tard dans un bal champetre
Les couples mains sur les epaules
Danserent au son aigre des cithares
Ils n'avaient pas oublie la danse
Ces morts et ces mortes
On buvait aussi
Et de temps a autre une cloche
Annoncait qu'un autre tonneau
Allait etre mis en perce
Une morte assise sur un banc
Pres d'un buisson d'epine-vinette
Laissait un etudiant
Agenouille a ses pieds
Lui parler de fiancailles
Je vous attendrai
Dix ans vingt ans s'il le faut
Votre volonte sera la mienne
Je vous attendrai
Toute votre vie
Repondait la morte
Des enfants
De ce monde ou bien de l'autre
Chantaient de ces rondes
Aux paroles absurdes et lyriques
Qui sans doute sont les restes
Des plus anciens monuments poetiques
De l'humanite
L'etudiant passa une bague
A l'annulaire de la jeune morte
Voici le gage de mon amour
De nos fiancailles
Ni le temps ni l'absence
Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses
Et un jour nous auront une belle noce
Des touffes de myrte
A nos vetements et dans vos cheveux
Un beau sermon a l'eglise
De longs discours apres le banquet
Et de la musique
De la musique
Nos enfants
Dit la fiancee
Seront plus beaux plus beaux encore
Helas!
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In graduated blocks of six feet square
From golden base to top, from earth to air
Their ever
heightening
monstrous steps they bore.
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Where the
cowslips
do unfold, shaking tassels all of gold,
Which make the milk so sweet, bonny Mary O!
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Hang out our Banners on the outward walls,
The Cry is still, they come: our Castles strength
Will laugh a Siedge to scorne: Heere let them lye,
Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp:
Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours,
We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
And beate them
backward
home.
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THE trial o'er, a gallows treble-faced,
Was, for their swinging, in the market placed,
ONE of the three harangued the mob around,
(His speech was for the others also found)
Then, 'bout their necks the halters being tied,
Repentant and confessed the
culprits
died.
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Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Avoit non, revi devers destre,
Qui estoit auques d'autel estre
Cum ces deus et d'autel feture;
Bien
sembloit
male creature, 160
Et despiteuse et orguilleuse,
Et mesdisant et ramponeuse.
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I had a brother once: the
youthful
peer
Set out from Holland's isle, our natal ground,
To serve Heraclius, 'mid his knights arrayed,
Who then the Grecian empire's sceptre swayed.
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And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it
to his lord
chamberlain
to drink.
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Yet even when there enmeshed with tangled feet,
Still canst thou scape the danger-lest indeed
Thou
standest
in the way of thine own good,
And overlookest first all blemishes
Of mind and body of thy much preferred,
Desirable dame.
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It is good to wipe out all the wretch's
traces, and the
priestess
orders thus.
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0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
comparison
is to Suzong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Eclympasteyre
(_as in text_); Tn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Fone says, those mighty
whiskers
he does wear
Are twigs of birch, and willow, growing there:
If so, we'll think too, when he does condemn
Boys to the lash, that he does whip with them.
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His
childhood
had prepared him for this
love.
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Unheard
Midnight
counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is illuminated by the dying embers.
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Highbury
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I have given the first lines of the poems, the incipits, as Occitan
headings
(one only is in Latin), so that a quick search on the Web for the line, remembering to enclose it in double quotes, will usually turn up the original text for those who need to see it.
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