LEAVES
ONE by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and
delicate
red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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After, the King and all his army mount,
And Bramimunde a
prisoner
is bound,
No harm to her, but only good he's vowed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And many
struggled
in the ink.
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Stephen Crane |
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XCVII
And as he
fastened
his on her fair eyes,
His Bradamant he called to mind again.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I like not to be dreaded otherwise
Than with the fear to which I'm used; know me,
For it is
Eviradnus
that you see!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Well maiest thou be astound, but view it well;
Go not from hence before thou see thy fill,
And learn the Builder's vertues and his name;
Of this tall spyre in every countye telle, 20
And with thy tale the lazing rych men shame;
Showe howe the glorious Canynge did excelle;
How hee good man a friend for kynges became,
And
gloryous
paved at once the way to heaven and fame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Et son bras et sa jambe, et sa cuisse et ses reins,
Polis comme de l'huile,
onduleux
comme un cygne,
Passaient devant mes yeux clairvoyants et sereins;
Et son ventre et ses seins, ces grappes de ma vigne
S'avancaient plus calins que les anges du mal,
Pour troubler le repos ou mon ame etait mise,
Et pour la deranger du rocher de cristal,
Ou calme et solitaire elle s'etait assise.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Already
He is
completely
tangled in her toils.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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With so much
quarrelling
and so few kisses
How long do you think our love can last?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce
profaned
- by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Ladies, who deign not on our paths to set their tender feet,
Who from their cars look down with scorn upon the wondering
street,
Who in
Corinthian
mirrors their own proud smiles behold,
And breathe the Capuan odors, and shine with Spanish gold?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The poet moulds that which appears
evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into
everlasting
values.
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Rilke - Poems |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
The young
gamesters
were all attention.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A lone peak, its rock bears the post route, a
mettlesome
horse, gold wound around its bridle.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius
germanum
amittere crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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new collection verse
WHITE FOUNTAINS
A BOOK OF VERSE
Published on February 2 1 st by Small,
MaynarrJ
& Company, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This would make her an exact or close
contemporary
of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Imperfectly
baked, so as to
remain doughy.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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More I know not: my roots lie hidden deep
My
branches
only are swayed by the wind.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Behold Rome, once the empress of the world, now
pale, with scattered locks and torn garments, at your feet, imploring
your
presence
and support!
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Petrarch |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And ladies fair from silken tent
Peep forth, and every eye is bent
On the
cavalcade
that comes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Unceasing
thunder and eternal foam?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I'm none of your magnates, I grant thee;
Yet if thou art willing, my friend,
Through life to jog on beside me,
Thy
pleasure
in all things shall guide me,
To thee will I bind me,
A friend thou shalt find me,
And, e'en to the grave,
Shalt make me thy servant, make me thy slave!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Dost thou desire my
slumbers
should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"That grave ye've heard of, where the four roads meet,
Where walks the spirit in a winding-sheet,
Oft seen at night, by
strangers
passing late,
And tarrying neighbours that at market wait,
Stalking along as white as driven snow,
And long as one's shadow when the sun is low;
The girl that's buried there I knew her well,
And her whole history, if ye'll hark, can tell.
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John Clare |
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I don't
understand
you.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A demon wishing to interrupt her prayers extinguished the light she carried, but divine power
rekindled
it.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
_Wilfrid Wilson Gibson_
A CROSS IN FLANDERS
In the face of death, they say, he joked--he had no fear;
His comrades, when they laid him in a Flanders grave,
Wrote on a rough-hewn cross--a Calvary stood near--
"Without a fear he gave
"His life,
cheering
his men, with laughter on his lips.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_Mynstrelles
Songe, bie a Manne and Womanne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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Imagists |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Memory faileth, as the lotus-loved chimes
Sink into
fluttering
of wind, But we grow never weary For we are old.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In an old accompt of the
Procurators
of St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But here, where murder
breathed
her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Keats - Lamia |
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In _Ignatius his
Conclave_
he writes, 'and two Poysons mingled might
do no harme.
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John Donne |
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The city was held by the
Archduke
Leopold for the
Emperor.
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John Donne |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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26, where waste is
cancelled
for wild'
(Locock).
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Shelley |
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I composed the verses on the amiable and
excellent
family
of Whitefoords leaving Ballochmyle, when Sir John's misfortunes had
obliged him to sell the estate.
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Robert Burns |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And now doth shine within its humble home
A star, that doth each other so outvie,
That
grateful
nature hails its lovely birth.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Your feet cut steel on the paths,
I
followed
for the strength
of life and grasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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and Latona and the tones of the Asiatic lyre, which wed so
well with the dances of the
Phrygian
Graces.
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Aristophanes |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her
imperial
round,
Show them this meek apparelled thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be crowned!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Odo, Ambaldo,
Satallon
ensue,
And Walter next; of Paris are the four --
With others, that by me unmentioned fall,
Who cannot tell the name and land of all.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Spread a large canvas, Painter, to contain
The great assembly, and the numerous train ;
Where all about him shall in triumph sit,
Abhorring wisdom, and despising wit ;
Hating all justice, and
resolved
to fight,
To rob their native country of their right.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Were my mind
not planted, fixed and immoveable, to ally myself to none in wedlock
since my love of old was false to me in the
treachery
of death; were I
not sick to the heart of bridal torch and chamber, to this temptation
alone I might haply yield.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Klingt dort umher, wo weiche
Menschen
sind.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We prayed
For our departure; wished and wished--nor knew, 285
'Mid that long
sickness
and those hopes delayed, [31]
That happier days we never more must view.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in
doubtful
time of troublous need:
Their wrath how deadly!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Imagists |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| 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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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Daunceth
he mury that is mirtheles?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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fruitful
in caresses and treacheries.
| 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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Wild and fleeting as the notes
Blown upon a
woodland
pipe, 30
They must haunt the earth with gladness
And a tinge of old regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
XX
Here as my story stood not on good ground,
Frederick Fulgoso doubtful does appear;
Who, searching Barbary's every shore and sound
Erewhile on board a squadron, landed here;
And the isle so rugged and so rocky found,
In all its parts so
mountainous
and drear,
There is not (through the land) a level space
(He says) whereon a single boot to place.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And sow my
blossoms
o'er!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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NOTE BY
FLORENCE
FARR.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I see approach,
Borne in curved cars, by speeding horses drawn,
A speared and
shielded
band.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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took
Athens, a proposal to demolish it was rejected through the effect
produced on the
commanders
by hearing part of a chorus from the Electra
of Euripides sung at a feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Before I knew, the Dawn was on the road,
Far from my side, so silently he went,
Catching his golden helmet as he ran,
And hast'ning on along the dun straight way,
Where old men's sabots now began to clack
And withered women, knitting, led their cows,
On, on to call the men of Kitchener
Down to their coasts,--I
shouting
after him:
"O Dawn, would you had let the world sleep on
Till all its armament were turned to rust,
Nor waked it to this day of hideous hate,
Of man's red murder and of woman's woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Her hair was tawny with gold, her eyes with purple were dark,
Her cheeks' pale opal burnt with a red and
restless
spark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Followers of Piso, empty band
With your light budgets packt to hand,
Veranius
best!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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God and Nature could not thus consent,
And my dark fears are
groundless
and undue.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[135]
Imitated
from Virg.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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he quits, for ever quits
A scene of peace, though
soothing
to his soul:
Again he rouses from his moping fits,
But seeks not now the harlot and the bowl.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When the dynasty was falling, tumult and
disorder
arose,
Thieves and robbers roamed like wild beasts.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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