Let bear or
elephant
be e'er so white,
The people, sure, the people are the sight!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for
striving
fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If I did weave some clout
Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now
He wore in
childhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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His
spelling
Professor Skeat characterizes as
'that debased kind which prevails in Chevy Chase and the Battle of
Otterbourn in Percy's _Reliques_, only a little more disguised.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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che tanto 270
Passer mai solitario in alcun tetto 201
Perche al viso d' Amor portava insegna 57
Perche la vita e breve 68
Perche quel che mi trasse ad amar prima 60
Perch' io t' abbia guardato di menzogna 49
Per far una leggiadra sua vendetta 2
Per mezzo i boschi inospiti e selvaggi 163
Per mirar Policleto a prova fiso 80
Perseguendomi Amor al luogo usato 103
Piangete, donne, e con voi pianga Amore 90
Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza 107
Pien d' un vago pensier, che me desvia 159
Piovonmi amare lagrime dal viso 14
Piu di me lieta non si vede a terra 25
Piu volte Amor m' avea gia detto: scrivi 91
Piu volte gia dal bel sembiante umano 160
Po, ben puo' tu portartene la scorza 166
Poco era ad appressarsi agli occhi miei 53
Poiche la vista angelica serena 242
Poi che 'l cammin m' e chiuso di mercede 129
Poi che mia speme e lunga a venir troppo 87
Poiche per mio destino 76
Poi che voi ed io piu volte abbiam provato 94
Pommi ove 'l sol occide i fiori e l' erba 142
Qual donna attende a gloriosa fama 225
Qual mio destin, qual forza o qual inganno 198
Qual paura ho, quando mi torna a mente 217
Qual piu diversa e nova 133
Qual ventura mi fu, quando dall' uno 205
Quand' io mi volgo indietro a mirar gli anni 258
Quand' io movo i sospiri a chiamar voi 5
Quand' io son tutto volto in quella parte 15
Quand' io veggio dal ciel scender l' Aurora 252
Quand' io v' odo parlar si dolcemente 141
Quando Amor i begli occhi a terra inchina 158
Quando dal proprio sito si rimove 44
Quando fra l' altre donne ad ora ad ora 11
Quando giugne per gli occhi al cor profondo 92
Quando giunse a Simon l' alto concetto 81
Quando il soave mio fido conforto 305
Quando 'l pianeta che distingue l' ore 8
Quando 'l sol bagna in mar l' aurato carro 199
Quando 'l voler, che con duo sproni ardenti 144
Quando mi vene innanzi il tempo e 'l loco 163
Quanta invidia ti porto, avara terra 259
Quante fiate al mio dolce ricetto 245
Quanto piu disiose l' ali spando 138
Quanto piu m' avvicino al giorno estremo 35
Quel, che d' odore e di color vincea 295
Quel ch' infinita providenza ed arte 4
Quel che 'n Tessaglia ebbe le man si pronte 46
Quel foco, ch' io pensai che fosse spento 57
Quella fenestra, ove l' un sol si vede 95
Quell' antiquo mio dolce empio signore 307
Quella per cui con Sorga ho cangiat' Arno 265
Quelle pietose rime, in ch' io m' accorsi 111
Quel rosignuol che si soave piagne 268
Quel sempre acerbo ed onorato giorno 151
Quel sol che mi mostrava il cammin destro 264
Quel vago, dolce, caro, onesto sguardo 286
Quel vago impallidir che 'l dolce riso 113
Questa Fenice dell' aurata piuma 169
Quest' anima gentil che si diparte 35
Questa umil fera, un cor di tigre o d' orsa 148
Questro nostro caduco e fragil bene 293
Qui dove mezzo son, Sennuccio mio 105
Rapido fiume che d' alpestra vena 189
Real natura, angelico intelletto 211
Rimansi addietro il sestodecim' anno 108
Ripensando a quel ch' oggi il ciel onora 298
Rotta e l' alta Colonna e 'l verde Lauro 235
S' Amore o Morte non da qualche stroppio 44
S' Amor non e, che dunque e quel ch' i' sento 130
S' Amor novo consiglio non n' apporta 242
Se al
principio
risponde il fine e 'l mezzo 81
Se bianche non son prima ambe le tempie 85
Se col cieco desir che 'l cor distrugge 57
Se lamentar angelli, o verdi fronde 243
Se la mia vita dall' aspro tormento 10
Se 'l dolce sguardo di costei m' ancide 168
Se 'l onorata fronde, che prescrive 24
Se 'l pensier che mi strugge 114
Se 'l sasso ond' e piu chiusa questa valle 107
Se mai foco per foco non si spense 49
Sennuccio, i' vo' che sappi in qual maniera 104
Sennuccio mio, benche doglioso e solo 249
Sento l' aura mia antica, e i dolci colli 274
Se quell' aura soave de' sospiri 249
Se Virgilio ed Omero avessin visto 170
Se voi poteste per turbati segni 63
Si breve e 'l tempo e 'l pensier si veloce 247
Siccome eterna vita e veder Dio 173
Si e debile il filo a cui s' attene 40
Signor mio caro, ogni pensier mi tira 231
S' il dissi mai, ch' i' venga in odio a quella 183
S' io avessi pensato che si care 254
S' io credessi per morte essere scarce 39
S' io fossi stato fermo alia spelunca 157
Si tosto come avvien che l' arco scocchi 87
Si traviato e 'l folle mio desio 5
Solea dalla fontana di mia vita 287
Solea lontana in sonno consolarme 218
Soleano i miei pensier soavemente 250
Soleasi nel mio cor star bella e viva 255
Solo e pensoso i piu deserti campi 38
Son animali al mondo di si altera 16
S' onesto amor puo meritar mercede 291
Spinse amor e dolor ore ir non debbe 300
Spirto felice, che si dolcemente 316
Spirto gentil che quelle membra reggi 54
Standomi un giorno solo alia finestra 277
Stiamo, Amor, a veder la gloria nostra 174
S' una fede amorosa, un cor non finto 200
Tacer non posso, e temo non adopre 280
Tempo era omai da trovar pace o tregua 272
Tennemi Amor anni ventuno ardendo 314
Tornami a mente, anzi v' e dentro quella 293
Tranquillo porto avea mostrato Amore 273
Tra quantunque leggiadre donne e belle 196
Tutta la mia fiorita e verde etade 271
Tutto 'l di piango; e poi la notte, quando 195
Una candida cerva sopra l' erba 172
Una donna piu bella assai che 'l sole 108
Vago augelletto che cantando vai 317
Valle che de' lamenti miei se' piena 260
Verdi panni, sanguigni, oscuri o persi 32
Vergine bella che di sol vestita 318
Vergognando talor ch' ancor si taccia 16
Vidi fra mille donne una gia tale 292
Vincitore Alessandro l' ira vinse 205
Vinse Annibal, e non seppe usar poi 98
Vive faville uscian de' duo bei lumi 223
Voglia mi sprona; Amor mi guida e scorge 191
Voi, ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono 1
Volgendo gli occhi al mio novo colore 63
Volo con l' ali de' pensieri al cielo 313
Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena 266
TRIUMPHS.
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Petrarch |
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Less can I be, since not to me alone,
But Bradamant, is done this injury;
Even if I could consent myself to spare,
It fits me not
unvenged
to leave that fair.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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43
This
throbbing
shows what we abandoned 44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Whether this is sufficient to justify the
adoption
of such a style, in any
metrical composition not professedly ludicrous, the Author is himself in
some doubt.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Am I always to see you
renouncing
life entire,
Making funereal preparations for your death?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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]
5 (return)
[ The Carpathian
mountains
in Upper Hungary.
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Tacitus |
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And Apollo, the Song-changer,
Was a
herdsman
in thy fee;
Yea, a-piping he was found,
Where the upward valleys wound,
To the kine from out the manger
And the sheep from off the lea,
And love was upon Othrys at the sound.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
With that he struck the board a blow
That
shivered
half the glasses.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Counting the hours, lest I myself mislead
By blind desire
wherewith
my heart is torn,
E'en while I speak away the moments speed,
To me and pity which alike were sworn.
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Petrarch |
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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the
darkness
to betray
The black embarasst flood sheared by the stems?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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His army stands in battle-line arrayed:
His
couriers
fly: all's done: now God decide!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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"
THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise on a summer morn,
When birds are singing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
Oh what sweet
company!
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blake-poems |
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Cosi ricominciommi il terzo sermo;
e poi, continuando, disse: <
al servigio di Dio mi fe' si fermo,
che pur con cibi di liquor d'ulivi
lievemente
passava caldi e geli,
contento ne' pensier contemplativi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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At dingy desks they toil by day; at night
To gloomy chambers go uncheered by light,
Where pillars rudely grayed by rusty nail
Of heavy hours reveal the weary tale;
Where
spiteful
ushers grin, all pleased to make
Long scribbled lines the price of each mistake.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Although there is nowhere a date,
the
handwriting
makes it possible to arrange the poems with general
chronologic accuracy.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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So it is I,
hands accursed -
who
bequeathed
you!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Beneath the armour of the Knight
Behind the chain's black links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will the sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the
scabbard
spring
And cut the network of the cloak
Enmeshing me ring on ring--
When will the foe's delivering stroke
Set me free
To dance
And sing?
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Rilke - Poems |
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And it is the thought and consideration that affects us more than
the
weariness
itself.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Phantom assigned to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed
uselessly
by his cold dream of defiance.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Stephen Crane |
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)
Good day to you,
gentlemen!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'
demonstrating
by his hiccoughs
that he had done so himself.
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Tacitus |
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There was a use in Hesperian Latium, which the Alban towns kept in holy
observance, now Rome keeps, the mistress of the world, when they stir
the War-God to enter battle; whether their hands prepare to carry war
and weeping among Getae or Hyrcanians or Arabs, or to reach to India and
pursue the Dawn, and reclaim their
standards
from the Parthian.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen
Were imaged by the water's love
Of that fair forest green:
And all was interfused beneath
With an Elysian glow,
An
atmosphere
without a breath,
A softer day below.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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After the war she served as a
training
ship.
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| Answer: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Would you not laugh to meet a great
councillor of State in a flat cap, with his trunk hose, and a hobbyhorse
cloak, his gloves under his girdle, and yond
haberdasher
in a velvet
gown, furred with sables?
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Where, for example, he wishes to convey an impression
of horror he is apt to exhaust himself in the first quatrain, and the
rest of the poem is a network of
straggling
repetitions.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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High in the air the tree its boughs display'd,
And o'er the dungeon cast a
dreadful
shade;
All unsustain'd between the wave and sky,
Beneath my feet the whirling billows fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Their sleeping-places over
The torn and trampled clover to braver beauty blows;
Of all their grim
campaigning
no sight or sound remaining,
The memory of them mutely to greater glory grows.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In
gracious
splendour!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Leisurely flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in
orchards
roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Occhi, piangete;
accompagnate
il core.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Infants, the
children
of the Spring!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Is it not he who taught the
warlike virtues, the art of fighting and of
carrying
arms?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen
Were imaged by the water's love
Of that fair forest green:
And all was
interfused
beneath
With an Elysian glow,
An atmosphere without a breath,
A softer day below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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That mingled wrack
No
livening
sun shall visit till the crust
Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet
Reel on its axis; till the moon-chained tides,
Unloosed, deliver up that white Atlantis
Whose naked peaks shall bleach above the slaked
Thirst of Sahara, fringed by weedy tangles
Of Atlas's drown'd cedars, frowning eastward
To where the sands of India lie cold,
And heap'd Himalaya's a rib of coral
Slowly uplifted, grain on grain.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The seventh stanza has several minute faults; but I
remember I composed it in a wild
enthusiasm
of passion, and to this
hour I never recollect it but my heart melts, my blood sallies, at the
remembrance.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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For thou art not a God that takes
In
wickedness
delight 10
Evil with thee no biding makes
Fools or mad men stand not within thy sight.
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Milton |
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No more of
wailing!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Maintenant, les petits
sommeillent
tristement:
Vous diriez, a les voir, qu'ils pleurent en dormant,
Tant leurs yeux sont gonfles et leur souffle penible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A tongue that can cheat widows, cancel scores,
Make Scots speak treason, cozen
subtlest
w***es,
With royal favourites in flattery vie,
And Oldmixon and Burnet both outlie.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A Paduan with these
Florentines
am I.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To the wild woods and the plains,
And the pools where winter rains
Image all their roof of leaves,
Where the pine its garland weaves
Of sapless green, and ivy dun,
Round stems that never kiss the sun,
Where the lawns and pastures be
And the
sandhills
of the sea,
Where the melting hoar-frost wets
The daisy-star that never sets,
And wind-flowers and violets
Which yet join not scent to hue
Crown the pale year weak and new;
When the night is left behind
In the deep east, dim and blind,
And the blue noon is over us,
And the multitudinous
Billows murmur at our feet,
Where the earth and ocean meet,
And all things seem only one
In the universal Sun.
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Golden Treasury |
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the
mountain
heights.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The country house
received
him ev'ry night;
At home he never dreamed but all was right.
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La Fontaine |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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OSWALD I
interrupt
you?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Not Cybele, nor he that haunts
Rich Pytho, worse the brain confounds,
Not Bacchus, nor the Corybants
Clash their loud gongs with fiercer sounds
Than savage wrath; nor sword nor spear
Appals it, no, nor ocean's frown,
Nor
ravening
fire, nor Jupiter
In hideous ruin crashing down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And with so gret
devocion
7385
They maden her confession,
That they had ofte, for the nones,
Two hedes in one hood at ones.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"I see a horse and woman on it now,"
Said Gasclin, "and
companions
also show.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Overhead
the Fagoo
eagles.
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Kipling - Poems |
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neptimine_ (et hoc quidem
recentius)
R: _Nereine_
Haupt: _Nerinarum_ Sam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I too,
following
many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I
descend into the arena,
(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the
winner's pealing shouts,
Who knows?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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queintise
in book ywrite; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Examples of such a poem were
familiar
enough to Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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He said it and quit and faded away,
A
gunnysack
shirt on his bones.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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at
cortaysly
hade hym kydde, & his cry herkened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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C'est la fee
africaine
qui fournit
La mure, et les resilles dans les coins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sing, hey my braw John
Highlandman!
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Robert Forst |
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Yet none shrink
Who come to gaze here now; albeit 't was planned
Sublimely in the thought's simplicity:
The Lady, throned in empyreal state,
Minds only the young Babe upon her knee,
While sidelong angels bear the royal weight,
Prostrated
meekly, smiling tenderly
Oblivion of their wings; the Child thereat
Stretching its hand like God.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her
flickering
tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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An
enviable
life for the tsar's people!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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IV
Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CHORUS
How left thee then Apollo's wrath
unscathed?
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Aeschylus |
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We stood,
In happy trance-like solitude,
Hearkening a lullay grieved and sweet--
As when on isle uncharted beat
'Gainst coral at the palm-tree's root,
With brine-clear, snow-white foam afloat,
The wailing, not of water or wind--
A husht, far, wild, divine lament,
When
Prospero
his wizardry bent
Winged Ariel to bind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The annual
occasion
once past, she withdrew again into her seclusion,
and except for a very few friends was as invisible to the world as if
she had dwelt in a nunnery.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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You who
consoled
me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Safe in his excavated gallery
The
burrowing
mole groped on from year to year;
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me
His prickly back for fear.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_--This important place
was made an archbishopric, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the
east, and the seat of their viceroys; for which purposes it is
advantageously
situated
on the coast of Dekhan.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Forever they shall meet in this rude shock:
These from the tomb with
clenched
grasp shall rise,
Those with close-shaven locks.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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