"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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nowe I praie forbere,
Ynne quiet lett mee die;
Praie Godde, thatt ev'ry
Christian
soule
Maye looke onne dethe as I.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They look upon his eyes,
Filled with deep surprise;
And
wondering
behold
A spirit armed in gold.
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blake-poems |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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Appoloinaire |
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As thus my vision paints her charms so rare,
That none to such
perfection
may conform,
I cry, "'Tis she!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A
travelling
clark?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I watch you in your crystal sphere,
And wonder if you see and hear
Those shapes and sounds that stir the wide
Conjecture of the world outside; 200
In your pent lives, as we in ours,
Have you surmises dim of powers,
Of
presences
obscurely shown,
Of lives a riddle to your own,
Just on the senses' outer verge,
Where sense-nerves into soul-nerves merge,
Where we conspire our own deceit
Confederate in deft Fancy's feat,
And the fooled brain befools the eyes
With pageants woven of its own lies?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Who would show such courage or
temerity?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They say that 'time assuages,' --
Time never did assuage;
An actual
suffering
strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thus God might easily, without descent
To a gross
falsehood
in his proper person,
Have moved the affections by this mediation
To the just point.
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Shelley |
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I haue no words,
My voice is in my Sword, thou
bloodier
Villaine
Then tearmes can giue thee out.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Come, get the
_Diuell_
out of your head, my _Lord_,
(I'll call you ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
So they ate and drank, talked and laughed about Mark with his long
crane-like legs, and Sir
Tristram
took a harp and sang a song.
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Tennyson |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Too close a secret
overwhelms
me.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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ai
graunted
hym his wille,
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin caresses
stroking
her.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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_ A telling
expression
for the dread of loss
which haunts so many wealthy people.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Now you hear the glory of the king of kings,
That he knows Vashti, that he lives
In this
pleasure
always.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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:
_Pallada_
Da
307 _his al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And Pelleas
overthrew
them, one to three;
And they rose up, and bound, and brought him in.
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Tennyson |
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INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
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blake-poems |
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{a}t thow art so
desirous
to
herkne hem // wit[h] how gret brennynge woldesthow 1724
glowen / yif thow wystest whyder .
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Frogs and fat toads were there to hop or plod
And
propagate
in peace, an uncouth crew,
Where velvet-headed rushes rustling nod
And spill the morning dew.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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O let me then by some sweet
dreaming
flee
To her entrancements: hither sleep awhile!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And again I see them flying,
Swarms of
swallows
silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes brisk and bright.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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These unrevised poems are not necessarily
exponents
of Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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XXVI
The wind sat in the poop; Rinaldo good
Embarked and bade farewell to all; the sheet
Still
loosening
to the breeze, the skipper stood,
Till where Thames' waters, waxing bitter, meet
Salt ocean: wafted thence by tide of flood,
Through a sure channel to fair London's seat,
Safely the mariners their course explore,
Making their way, with aid of sail and oar.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
celestial
love, that spume
All envying in its bounty, in itself
With such effulgence blazeth, as sends forth
All beauteous things eternal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The fervid poet would recite,
Carried away by ecstasy,
Fragments of northern poetry,
Whilst Eugene
condescending
quite,
Though scarcely following what was said,
Attentive listened to the lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As when the calves within some village rear'd
Behold, at eve, the herd
returning
home
From fruitful meads where they have grazed their fill,
No longer in the stalls contain'd, they rush
With many a frisk abroad, and, blaring oft,
With one consent, all dance their dams around, 500
So they, at sight of me, dissolved in tears
Of rapt'rous joy, and each his spirit felt
With like affections warm'd as he had reach'd
Just then his country, and his city seen,
Fair Ithaca, where he was born and rear'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Du hast mir nicht umsonst
Dein
Angesicht
im Feuer zugewendet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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org),
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copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
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a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--135
A humbler destiny have we retraced,
And told of lapse and hesitating choice,
And backward wanderings along thorny ways:
Yet--compassed round by mountain solitudes,
Within whose solemn temple I received 140
My earliest visitations, careless then
Of what was given me; and which now I range,
A meditative, oft a
suffering
man--
Do I declare--in accents which, from truth
Deriving cheerful confidence, shall blend 145
Their modulation with these vocal streams--
That, whatsoever falls my better mind,
Revolving with the accidents of life,
May have sustained, that, howsoe'er misled,
Never did I, in quest of right and wrong, 150
Tamper with conscience from a private aim;
Nor was in any public hope the dupe
Of selfish passions; nor did ever yield
Wilfully to mean cares or low pursuits,
But shrunk with apprehensive jealousy 155
From every combination which might aid
The tendency, too potent in itself,
Of use and custom to bow down the soul
Under a growing weight of vulgar sense,
And substitute a universe of death 160
For that which moves with light and life informed,
Actual, divine, and true.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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is still the cause
unfound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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NA AUDIART
"QUE BE-M VOLS MAL"
Any one who has read
anything
of the troubadours knows well the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Mon- taignac, and knows also the song he made when she would none
her love-lit glance, of Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomp- tess of Chales her throat and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's ; and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart, " although she would that ill come unto him" he sought
and praised the lineaments of the torse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[Adah] is
momentarily in danger of
perishing
before the eyes of the Arkites.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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LIFE
Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or
carnival
of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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DUSK IN JUNE
EVENING, and all the birds
In a chorus of
shimmering
sound
Are easing their hearts of joy
For miles around.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Solemn Dances
THERE laughs in the
heightening
year, Sweet,
The scent from the garden benign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How many bullets
bearest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The ground parched and cracked is like
overbaked
bread,
The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I had tried to make it
more
beautiful
than the speaking by priests at High Mass, the singing
of recitative in opera and the speaking through music of actors in
melodrama.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
Pioneers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Their first post forced, the paynims understand
No
laughing
matter is the lord's emprize;
For.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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and in that thou, a god,
Didst brave the wrath of gods and give away
Undue respect to mortals, for that crime
Thou art adjudged to guard this joyless rock,
Erect, unslumbering, bending not the knee,
And many a cry and
unavailing
moan
To utter on the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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THE STAND
And such a force the fair example had,
As they that saw
The good, and durst not
practise
it, were glad
That such a law
Was left yet to mankind;
Where they might read and find
Friendship, indeed, was written not in words;
And with the heart, not pen,
Of two so early men,
Whose lines her rolls were, and records;
Who, ere the first down bloomed upon the chin,
Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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[Motto to "The Tear,"
_Poetical
Works_, 1898, i.
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
)
During the four succeeding years he made
numerous
excursions amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--the voice, if I mistake not greatly,
Proceeds
from yonder lattice--which you may see
Very plainly through the window--it belongs,
Does it not?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Gebt Ihr ein Stuck, so gebt es gleich in
Stucken!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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: |
Keats - Lamia |
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--lest her sweet soul, amid its
hallowed
mirth,
"Should catch the note, as it doth float--up from the damned Earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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It was easy for Nietzsche to praise Wagner in Germany in 1876,
but
dangerous
at Paris in 1861 to declare war on Wagner's adverse
critics.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth,
All matter quick, and
bursting
into birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Then he was faithful too, as well as amorous;
So that no sort of female could complain,
Although
they're now and then a little clamorous,
He never put the pretty souls in pain;
His heart was one of those which most enamour us,
Wax to receive, and marble to retain:
He was a lover of the good old school,
Who still become more constant as they cool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
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Will you rot your own fruit in
yourself
there?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And which of us now would not feel wisely grateful,
If his rhymes sold as fast as the Emblems of
Quarles?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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OF GRACE
CANZON: THE VISION
TO OUR LADY OF
VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT EPILOGUE
NOTES
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Rapture proclaim to the grove, to the echoing cliffs
perorate
it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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OCEANUS
Thy word is said to me in act to go:
For lo, my
hippogriff
with waving wings
Fans the smooth course of air, and fain is he
To rest his limbs within his ocean stall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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O Sicilian shores of a marshy calm
My vanity
plunders
vying with the sun,
Silent beneath scintillating flowers, RELATE
'That I was cutting hollow reeds here tamed
By talent: when, on the green gold of distant
Verdure offering its vine to the fountains,
An animal whiteness undulates to rest:
And as a slow prelude in which the pipes exist
This flight of swans, no, of Naiads cower
Or plunge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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audiat Lyde scelus atque notas
uirginum
poenas et inane lymphae
dolium fundo pereuntis imo
seraque fata,
quae manent culpas etiam sub Orco.
| 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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The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with
fragrance
and with joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
In his
adversity
I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for
greatness he could not want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Again a riddle which the
published
letters hardly solve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Not Phoebus doth the rude
Parnassian
crag
So ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
Of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven
Of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,
How all that is from these beginnings grew,
And the young world itself took solid shape,
Then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep
Shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things
Little by little; and how the earth amazed
Beheld the new sun shining, and the showers
Fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods
'Gan first to rise, and living things to roam
Scattered among the hills that knew them not.
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To render the matter even surer
yet, however, this bullet was discovered to have a flaw or seam at right
angles to the usual suture, and upon examination, this seam corresponded
precisely with an
accidental
ridge or elevation in a pair of moulds
acknowledged by the accused himself to be his own property.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wringing
her hands in womans pitteous wise,
Tho can she weepe,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She then went out to see a neighbour, and I
sauntered
towards the back
parlour.
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[_As the
bitterness
of her tone increases, the_ PEASANT _comes forward.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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There Polenta's eagle broods,
And in his broad
circumference
of plume
O'ershadows Cervia.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When evening rose, and
darkness
cover'd o'er
The face of things, we slept along the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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On her return from the drive, she hastened to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of
excitement
mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The grave
receives
us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Der Unmensch ohne Zweck und Ruh,
Der wie ein
Wassersturz
von Fels zu Felsen brauste,
Begierig wutend nach dem Abgrund zu?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ye who of him may further seek to know,
Shall find some tidings in a future page,
If he that rhymeth now may
scribble
moe.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Many vulgar people
expressed
surprise, but Wang replied: 'The
reason why vulgar people find Li Po's poetry congenial is that it is
easy to enjoy.
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Li Po |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often
breaking
up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often searching out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our promises and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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