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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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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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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190
From chaos and parental darkness came
Light, the first fruits of that
intestine
broil,
That sullen ferment, which for wondrous ends
Was ripening in itself.
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Keats |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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'I ask no bauble miniature,
Nor
ringlets
dead
Shorn from her comely head,
Now that morning not disdains
Mountains and the misty plains
Her colossal portraiture;
They her heralds be,
Steeped in her quality,
And singers of her fame
Who is their Muse and dame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The truth is, I am heartily
sick of this life and of the
nineteenth
century in general.
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Poe - 5 |
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Shook his gray locks, and his own bays did tear
At this
intrusion
; then, with laurel wand,
The awful sign of his supreme command.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"[160]
The first book I met with in my early years, which I perused with
pleasure, was, "The Life Of Hannibal;" the next was, "The History of
Sir William Wallace:" for several of my earlier years I had few other
authors; and many a solitary hour have I stole out, after the
laborious
vocations
of the day, to shed a tear over their glorious,
but unfortunate stories.
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Robert Burns |
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Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran,
Her mouth foam'd, and the grass, therewith besprent,
Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent;
Her eyes in torture fix'd, and anguish drear, 150
Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear,
Flash'd
phosphor
and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear.
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Keats |
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Did nations combat to make ONE submit;
Or league to teach all kings true
sovereignty?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Leisurely elephants wind through the winding lanes,
Swinging
their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that
steadily
press through woolly fabric.
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Imagists |
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XXIX
Agramant
recognized this truth; but thought
That ill his royal word could be repealed;
Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought
That they the right, conferred by him, would yield:
More; that the question was a thing of nought,
Nor worthy to be tried in martial field;
And prayed them -- would they not obey his hest
At least somewhile, to let their quarrel rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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See at the mirror in the High Hall
Aged men
bewailing
white locks--
In the morning, threads of silk;
In the evening flakes of snow!
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Li Po |
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--Sweet rill,
farewel!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A Villon- These that we loved shall God love less
fadoftfie Gibbet
^nc* sm*te alwav at their
feebleness?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Gama addresses his prayer to
God; and Venus, with her nymphs so
captivates
the storm-gods that a calm
ensues.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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III
The famous lineage, for so many years
Of
courtesy
the great and lasting light,
Which ever, brightening as it burns, appears
To shine and flame more clearly to the sight,
Well proves the sire of Este's noble peers
Must, amid mortals, have shone forth as bright
In all fair gifts which raise men to the sky,
As the glad sun mid glittering orbs on high.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A
thousand
fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron;
I, ecstatic, O
partners!
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Whitman |
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Pierced through the breast the rude Ctesippus bled,
And thus
Philaetius
gloried o'er the dead:
"There end thy pompous vaunts and high disdain;
O sharp in scandal, voluble and vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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So
convinced
was George Colman that the public
would endure nothing but sentiment, that he could hardly be induced to
accept the play, and was extremely nervous about its success, almost
until the fall of the curtain on the first night.
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So let us be merry this night together,
Feasting
and playing while the good time lasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The beasts in cages much more loyal are,
Restlessly
pacing, pacing to and fro,
Dreaming of countries beckoning from afar,
Lands where they roamed in days of long ago.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hope, hallie suster,
sweepeynge
thro' the skie,
In crowne of goulde, and robe of lillie whyte, 390
Whyche farre abrode ynne gentle ayre doe flie,
Meetynge from dystaunce the enjoyous fyghte,
Albeytte efte thou takest thie hie flyghte
Hecket[65] ynne a myste, and wyth thyne eyne yblente,
Nowe commest thou to mee wythe starrie lyghte; 395
Ontoe thie veste the rodde sonne ys adente[66];
The Sommer tyde, the month of Maie appere,
Depycte wythe skylledd honde upponn thie wyde aumere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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81
Fragments of School
Exercises
p.
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Byron |
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"I do
remember
watching
Beside this river-bed
When on my childish knee was leaned
My dying father's head;
I turned mine own to keep the tears
From falling on his face:
What doth it prove when Death and Love
Choose out the self-same place?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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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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The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad
wavering
hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the listless air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Our last quotation from this inimitable recital shall be from the
description of their adventure on a great plain where they espied an object
which "on a nearer
approach
and on an accurately cutaneous inspection,
seemed to be somebody in a large white wig sitting on an arm-chair made of
sponge-cake and oyster-shells.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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On bravely through the
sunshine
and the showers!
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Emerson - Poems |
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'Twas partly love, and partly fear,
And partly 'twas a bashful art,
That I might rather feel, than see,
The
swelling
of her heart.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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XXIII
And plainly and more plainly
Now might the
burghers
know,
By port and vest, by horse and crest,
Each warlike Lucumo.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I tremble lest words that speak their truth 865
Some day
reproach
them for a mother's guilt.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Eyes blind enow but not too blind to see
The lovely things behind the dross and darkness,
And lovelier things to be;
And friends whose loyalty time nor death shall weaken
And quenchless hope and laughter's golden store--
All that a man might ask thou hast given me, England,
Yet grant thou one thing more:
That now when envious foes would spoil thy splendour,
Unversed
in arms, a dreamer such, as I,
May in thy ranks be deemed not all unworthy,
England, for thee to die.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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now my soul is sure
That thine is better comforted of scorn,
And looks down earthward in
completer
cure
Than when, in Santa Croce church forlorn
Of any corpse, the architect and hewer
Did pile the empty marbles as thy tomb.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Say, is she living still
Or dead, your
mistress?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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This brooding warmth across my breast,
This depth of
tranquil
bliss--ah, me!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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His long
experience
secured for him the
confidence of his companions, and his hospitality and genial humor
conciliated society.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the
scattered
off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Scaliger
189 _Ad_ (_At_ D)
_maritum
tamen iuuenem_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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It is full of simple, daily emotion, transported, by an awful power of
sight, to which the limits of reality are no barrier, into an unknown sea
and air; it is realized
throughout
the whole of its ghastly and marvellous
happenings; and there is in the narrative an ease, a buoyancy almost, which
I can only compare with the music of Mozart, extracting its sweetness from
the stuff of tragedy; it presents to us the utmost physical and spiritual
horror, not only without disgust, but with an alluring beauty.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the encircling cloud
suddenly
parts and melts
into clear air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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Ich halt es wenigstens fur
reichlichen
Gewinn,
Dass ich nicht Kaiser oder Kanzler bin.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
resounds
aloud;
So Maggie runs, the witches follow,
Wi' mony an eldritch skreich and hollow.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For the first part of heat and last of cold
Is the time of spring; wherefore must things unlike
Do battle one with other, and, when mixed,
Tumultuously
rage.
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Lucretius |
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" "He in black--
Yon silent scribe who trims their
eloquence!
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Hugo - Poems |
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He tells
us in 'The Daisy' how when at Como "the rich Virgilian rustic measure of
'Lari Maxume'" haunted him all day, and in a later
fragment
how, as he
rowed from Desenzano to Sirmio, Catullus was with him.
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Tennyson |
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Closer yet I
approach
you,
What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you--I laid in my
stores in advance,
I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have cadences of sorrow,
The
laughter
of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Faces so pale, with
wondrous
eyes, very dear, gather closer yet;
Draw close, but speak not.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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He
certainly
managed to compass the hardest thing that a man who
has drank heavily can do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The trying on the utmost,
The morning it is new,
Is
terribler
than wearing it
A whole existence through.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Every subject was proper ground for
legitimate
study, even the
sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Are you back
already?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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AUNE: Consul, the _Palm Tree_ can go to sea in two
days, but the _Indian Girl_ is as rotten as
matchwood
in
the bottom planking.
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Yes, and thou soon shalt have the pleasure
Of lifting out the
precious
treasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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How the legend originated cannot now be ascertained; but we may
easily imagine several ways in which it might have originated;
nor is it at all
necessary
to suppose, with Julius Frontinus,
that two young men were dressed up by the Dictator to personate
the sons of Leda.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But
reckoning
Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Beaupre,
Seigniory
of the Cote de, 41.
| Guess: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And don't you see that changeableness,
Is to lose time's joy in heart's
yearning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Surely the ripe fruits tremble on their bough,
They cling and linger
trembling
till they drop:
I, trembling, cling to dying life; for how
Face the perpetual Now?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"We'll do without it;
I now
remember
all about it;
I wrote the thing myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Petrarch received an additional
commission
from the Cardinal Colonna.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I too carol the sun, ushered, or at noon, or, as now, setting,
I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth, and of all the growths of
the earth,
I too have felt the
resistless
call of myself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
| Guess: |
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Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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I say it; the White Czar,
Batyushka!
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Longfellow |
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(Thou
bardache
Romulus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Below the ice, the unheard stream's
Clear heart
thrilled
on in ecstasy;
And lo, a visionary blush
Stole warmly o'er the voiceless wild;
And in her rapt and wintry hush
The lonely face of Nature smiled.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
stubborn
arms (by Jove's command disposed)
Conform'd spontaneous, and around him closed:
Fill'd with the god, enlarged his members grew,
Through all his veins a sudden vigour flew,
The blood in brisker tides began to roll,
And Mars himself came rushing on his soul.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the prosecution of this
scheme, he appears to have almost entirely
depended
upon the patronage
of a set of gentlemen, whom an eminent author long ago pointed out, as
_not the very worst judges or rewarders of merit_, the booksellers of
this great city.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Second Edition
Revised and
Augmented
by the
Same Author.
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Milton |
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muirland Jock, when the Lord makes a rock,
To crush common-sense for her sins;
If ill-manners were wit, there's no mortal so fit
To confound the poor Doctor at ance,
Muirland
Jock!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
Reader will perhaps have a general notion of it, if he has ever known
a man, a Captain of a small trading vessel for example, who being past
the middle age of life, had retired upon an annuity or small
independent income to some village or country town of which he was not
a native, or in which he had not been
accustomed
to live.
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William Wordsworth |
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Wie lange hab ich nicht am Wahn hinausgekehrt,
Und nie wird's rein; das ist doch
unerhort!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The day is
breaking!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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"
Such
dolorous
strain they gurgle in their throats.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In every such case the reader should see at a glance what was
the reading of the first edition, and on what
authority
it has been
altered.
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John Donne |
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Aricia holds my wishes slaves to her law: your
Son has indeed been
conquered
by Pallas' daughter.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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At _any_
season, such remains may be
discovered
by looking down into the
transparent lake, and at such distances as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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