Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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The city won for Allah from the Giaour,
The Giaour from Othman's race again may wrest;
And the Serai's
impenetrable
tower
Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest;
Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest
The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil,
May wind their path of blood along the West;
But ne'er will Freedom seek this fated soil,
But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
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The winds grow wearied, warring with the tower,
The noisy North is out of breath, nor power
Has any blast old Corbus to defeat,
It still has
strength
their onslaughts worst to meet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A furious stream of lightning seems to flow
Like a long snake
uncoiling
its fell ring.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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,
_knightly
dress, armor_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What do you think
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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no: this my Hand will rather
The
multitudinous
Seas incarnardine,
Making the Greene one, Red.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Who,
straight
propitious, in prophetic strain
Will teach you to repass the unmeasured main.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She had gone out into the wet and I could hardly
coax her back to me--even with
biscuits
with sugar on top.
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Kipling - Poems |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Zwar bin ich sehr gewohnt,
inkognito
zu gehn,
Doch lasst am Galatag man seinen Orden sehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The question therefore concerning the
authenticity
of these Poems must
now be decided by an examination of the fragments upon vellum, which
Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The sounds re-echoed from the roof and walls
As if dead priests were
laughing
in their stalls.
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Longfellow |
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[12]
And
climbing
[13] up the hill--(it was at least
Four [14] roods of sheer ascent) Sir Walter found 50
Three several hoof-marks which the hunted Beast [15]
Had left imprinted on the grassy [16] ground.
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William Wordsworth |
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MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An interloper own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former
husbandmen!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Seest thou that cloud that rides in state,
Part ruby-like, part
candidate?
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Robert Herrick |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats - Lamia |
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--
The spirit of man may dwell in God: the world,
From the soft
delicate
floor of grass to those
Rafters of light and hanging cloths of stars,
Is but the honour in God's mind for man,
Wrought into glorious imagination.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Upon the rack,
Bassanio?
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Shakespeare |
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There's
something
wrong with your head.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Our city, torn by faction's throes,
Dacian and Ethiop well-nigh razed,
These with their
dreadful
navy, those
For archer-prowess rather praised.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its culmination on what
might be termed its
monumental
side.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But nature herself,
Mother of things, was the first seed-sower
And primal grafter; since the berries and acorns,
Dropping
from off the trees, would there beneath
Put forth in season swarms of little shoots;
Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting slips
Upon the boughs and setting out in holes
The young shrubs o'er the fields.
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Lucretius |
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REMARKS OF
INCREASE
D.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or
all forehead or
something
horrid.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Is your cause against us
legitimate?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Those who
prepared
them must
have known what they were about.
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John Donne |
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1375) de
amatoriis
poetis loquens
sui temporis Catulli et Properti eos uolumina euoluere autumat (Schwabe,
_Testimon.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Poor poet thou, and
grateful
senate they.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie
And see the
coloured
counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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CLV
Letting the flyers fly, of those who stand
Firm in their place, Rinaldo breaks the array;
Ariodantes
kills on every hand;
Who ranks well nigh Rinaldo on that day.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ay, no doubt
My spirit answered thee so
fiercely
then
Because it felt thee reading me aright,
How a mere bragging was my purity.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At length slow evening came:
They went with
pitchers
to the reedy brook;
Lizzie most placid in her look,
Laura most like a leaping flame.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"That comes
afterward, but for the Lord's sake don't
distrack
me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O sight
Of terrour, foul and ugly to behold,
Horrid to think, how
horrible
to feel!
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Milton |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one
tortured
by frost and ice,
Whom the cold torments and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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You will do better to be
searching
out
All sharpen'd steel that may take weapon-use.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_--The island of Bahrein is
situated
in the
Persian Gulf.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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pondera silice_ Bergk
7
_maculas_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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No
question
but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, 407.
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Robert Herrick |
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--
Did it in years long
vanished
sweep along,
Full of events, and troubled like the deep?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add
something
more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The knights are commissioned to champion the
cause of persons in
distress
and redress their wrongs.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1334
EXPLICIT
THE BOKE OF THE DUCHESSE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SATIRES
THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND,
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of
land,
As but the oflf-scouring of the British sand,
And so much earth as was contributed'
By English pilots when they heaved the lead,
Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell
Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell, —
This
indigested
vomit of the sea
Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.
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Marvell - Poems |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
]
[Sub-Footnote vii:
"So break those
glittering
shadows, human joys"
(YOUNG).
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Indeed,
Professor
J.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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the shadows of the trees
Now circle wider 'bout their stem,
Like
sentries
that by slow degrees
Perform their rounds, gently protecting them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And in regard to Pope's trick of
taunting
his enemies with
poverty, it must frankly be confessed that he seized upon this charge as
a ready and telling weapon.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain--
Unmelting,
uneffaced
the stain.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The TWO
MERCHANTS
enter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
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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The day is broad awake--the first long beam
Of level sun finds Sister Marta's face,
And
trembling
there it lights a timid smile
Upon the lips that say so many prayers,
And have no words for hate and none for love.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"
THREE RECEIPTS FOR
DOMESTIC
COOKERY.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Qui des Dieux osera, Lesbos, etre ton juge,
Et condamner ton front pali dans les travaux,
Si ses
balances
d'or n'ont pese le deluge
De larmes qu'a la mer ont verse tes ruisseaux?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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amisso trepidus polo
Titan
excutiet
diem.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He who regards it
directly
and intensely sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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In our
approach
through the mystic we touch reality most deeply.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Infanta
No, I merely wish, plagued by suffering,
To
retrieve
my calm, in meditating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And as the
lengthening
days of summer throve,
She sighed, then withered by the waving rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Nepaul,
From his horse had a
terrible
fall;
But, though split quite in two, with some very strong glue
They mended that man of Nepaul.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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with pride so did she swell;
And
thundring
Jove, that high in heaven doth dwell, 95
And wield the world, she claymed for her syre,
Or if that any else did Jove excell:
For to the highest she did still aspyre,
Or if ought higher were then that, did it desyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
No, those are not the words, the
substantial
words are in the ground
and sea,
They are in the air, they are in you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
(surely the Tyrian purple must have
faded by this time), or from
comparatively
trivial articles of
commerce,--chocolate, lemon, coffee, cinnamon, claret?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The _Faerie Queene_ might almost
be called the epic of the English
conquest
of Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Safe in their ancient crannies, dark and deep,
Let kings and conquerors, saints and soldiers sleep--
Late in the world,--too late perchance for fame,
Just late enough to reap
abundant
blame,--
I choose a novel theme, a bold abuse
Of critic charters, an unlaurelled Muse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Without them Eugene is complete;
And thou, from whom
Tattiana
sweet;
Was drawn, ideal of my lay--
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
In cultural matters he often followed antiquity,10 half of his court were old
Confucian
scholars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious
footstep
here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Act II Scene V (The Infanta, Leonor)
Infanta
In my mind, alas, there's such
inquietude!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Ere the steamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry
An
attractive
girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my little Carrie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Why is the most generous wish to make others blest,
impotent
and
ineffectual--as the idle breeze that crosses the pathless desert!
| Guess: |
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"The ultimate end of criticism," said Coleridge, "is much more to establish
the principles of writing than to furnish rules how to pass
judgment
on
what has been written by others.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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In
pilerynage
now wil I go,
And half ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months
and years,
The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with
the well known neighbors and faces,
They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,
The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage
home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the
Hungarian
his way, and the Pole his way,
The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Par ces deux grands yeux noirs,
soupiraux
de ton ame,
O demon sans pitie, verse-moi moins de flamme;
Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois,
Helas!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What Greeks new
wandering
in the Stygian gloom,
Wish your Ulysses shared an equal doom!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Voie lactee {1}
Les sept epees
Voie lactee {2}
Les colchiques
Palais
Chantre
Crepuscule
Annie
La maison des morts
Clotilde
Cortege
Marizibill
Le voyageur
Marie
La blanche neige
Poeme lu au mariage d'Andre Salmon
L'Adieu
Salome
La porte
Merlin et la vieille femme
Saltimbanques
Le larron
Le vent nocturne
Lul de Faltenin
La tzigane
L'ermite
Automne
L'Emigrant de Landor Road
Rosemonde
Le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier
Descendant des hauteurs
Rhenanes
Nuit rhenane
Mai
La synagogue
Les cloches
La Loreley
Schinderhannes
Rhenane d'automne
Les sapins
Les femmes
Signe
Un soir
La dame
Les fiancailles
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
J'observe le repos du dimanche
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Clair de lune
1909
A la Sante
Automne malade
Hotels
Cors de chasse
Vendemiaire
ZONE
A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien
Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin
Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine
Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre anciennes
La religion seule est restee toute neuve la religion
Est restee simple comme les hangars de Port-Aviation
Seul en Europe tu n'es pas antique o Christianisme
L'Europeen le plus moderne c'est vous Pape Pie X
Et toi que les fenetres observent la honte te retient
D'entrer dans une eglise et de t'y confesser ce matin
Tu lis les prospectus les catalogues les affiches qui chantent
tout haut
Voila la poesie ce matin et pour la prose il y a les journaux
Il y a les livraisons a 25 centimes pleines d'aventures policieres
Portraits des grands hommes et mille titres divers
J'ai vu ce matin une jolie rue dont j'ai oublie le nom
Neuve et propre du soleil elle etait le clairon
Les directeurs les ouvriers et les belles steno-dactylographes
Du lundi matin au samedi soir quatre fois par jour y passent
Le matin par trois fois la sirene y gemit
Une cloche rageuse y aboie vers midi
Les inscriptions des enseignes et des murailles
Les plaques les avis a la facon des perroquets criaillent
J'aime la grace de cette rue industrielle
Situee a Paris entre la rue Aumont-Thieville et l'avenue des
Ternes
Voila la jeune rue et tu n'es encore qu'un petit enfant
Ta mere ne t'habille que de bleu et de blanc
Tu es tres pieux et avec le plus ancien de tes camarades Rene
Dalize
Vous n'aimez rien tant que les pompes de l'Eglise
Il est neuf heures le gaz est baisse tout bleu vous sortez du
dortoir en cachette
Vous priez toute la nuit dans la chapelle du college
Tandis qu'eternelle et adorable profondeur amethyste
Tourne a jamais la
flamboyante
gloire du Christ
C'est le beau lys que tous nous cultivons
C'est la torche aux cheveux roux que n'eteint pas le vent
C'est le fils pale et vermeil de la douloureuse mere
C'est l'arbre toujours touffu de toutes les prieres
C'est la double potence de l'honneur et de l'eternite
C'est l'etoile a six branches
C'est Dieu qui meurt le vendredi et ressuscite le dimanche
C'est le Christ qui monte au ciel mieux que les aviateurs
Il detient le record du monde pour la hauteur
Pupille Christ de l'oeil
Vingtieme pupille des siecles il sait y faire
Et change en oiseau ce siecle comme Jesus monte dans l'air
Les diables dans les abimes levent la tete pour le regarder
Ils disent qu'il imite Simon Mage en Judee
Ils crient s'il sait voler qu'on l'appelle voleur
Les anges voltigent autour du joli voltigeur
Icare Enoch Elie Apollonius de Thyane
Flottent autour du premier aeroplane
Ils s'ecartent parfois pour laisser passer ceux que transporte la
Sainte-Eucharistie
Ces pretres qui montent eternellement elevant l'hostie
L'avion se pose enfin sans refermer les ailes
Le ciel s'emplit alors de millions d'hirondelles
A tire-d'aile viennent les corbeaux les faucons les hiboux
D'Afrique arrivent les ibis les flamants les marabouts
L'oiseau Roc celebre par les conteurs et les poetes
Plane tenant dans les serres le crane d'Adam la premiere tete
L'aigle fond de l'horizon en poussant un grand cri
Et d'Amerique vient le petit colibri
De Chine sont venus les pihis longs et souples
Qui n'ont qu'une seule aile et qui volent par couples
Puis voici la colombe esprit immacule
Qu'escortent l'oiseau-lyre et le paon ocelle
Le phenix ce bucher qui soi-meme s'engendre
Un instant voile tout de son ardente cendre
Les sirenes laissant les perilleux detroits
Arrivent en chantant bellement toutes trois
Et tous aigle phenix et pihis de la Chine
Fraternisent avec la volante machine
Maintenant tu marches dans Paris tout seul parmi la foule
Des troupeaux d'autobus mugissants pres de toi roulent
L'angoisse de l'amour te serre le gosier
Comme si tu ne devais jamais plus etre aime
Si tu vivais dans l'ancien temps tu entrerais dans un monastere
Vous avez honte quand vous vous surprenez a dire une priere
Tu te moques de toi et comme le feu de l'Enfer ton rire petille
Les etincelles de ton rire dorent le fond de ta vie
C'est un tableau pendu dans un sombre musee
Et quelquefois tu vas le regarder de pres
Aujourd'hui tu marches dans Paris les femmes sont ensanglantees
C'etait et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'etait au declin de
la beaute
Entouree de flammes ferventes Notre-Dame m'a regarde a Chartres
Le sang de votre Sacre-Coeur m'a inonde a Montmartre
Je suis malade d'ouir les paroles bienheureuses
L'amour dont je souffre est une maladie honteuse
Et l'image qui te possede te fait survivre dans l'insomnie et dans
l'angoisse
C'est toujours pres de toi cette image qui passe
Maintenant tu es au bord de la Mediterranee
Sous les citronniers qui sont en fleur toute l'annee
Avec tes amis tu te promenes en barque
L'un est Nissard il y a un Mentonasque et deux Turbiasques
Nous regardons avec effroi les poulpes des profondeurs
Et parmi les algues nagent les poissons images du Sauveur
Tu es dans le jardin d'une auberge aux environs de Prague
Tu te sens tout heureux une rose est sur la table
Et tu observes au lieu d'ecrire ton conte en prose
La cetoine qui dort dans le coeur de la rose
Epouvante tu te vois dessine dans les agates de Saint-Vit
Tu etais triste a mourir le jour ou tu t'y vis
Tu ressembles au Lazare affole par le jour
Les aiguilles de l'horloge du quartier juif vont a rebours
Et tu recules aussi dans ta vie lentement
En montant au Hradchin et le soir en ecoutant
Dans les tavernes chanter des chansons tcheques
Te voici a Marseille au milieu des pasteques
Te voici a Coblence a l'hotel du Geant
Te voici a Rome assis sous un neflier du Japon
Te voici a Amsterdam avec une jeune fille que tu trouves belle et
qui est laide
Elle doit se marier avec un etudiant de Leyde
On y loue des chambres en latin Cubicula locanda
Je m'en souviens j'y ai passe trois jours et autant a Gouda
Tu es a Paris chez le juge d'instruction
Comme un criminel on te met en etat d'arrestation
Tu as fait de douloureux et de joyeux voyages
Avant de t'apercevoir du mensonge et de l'age
Tu as souffert de l'amour a vingt et a trente ans
J'ai vecu comme un fou et j'ai perdu mon temps
Tu n'oses plus regarder tes mains et a tous moments je voudrais
sangloter
Sur toi sur celle que j'aime sur tout ce qui t'a epouvante
Tu regardes les yeux pleins de larmes ces pauvres emigrants
Ils croient en Dieu ils prient les femmes allaitent des enfants
Ils emplissent de leur odeur le hall de la gare Saint-Lazare
Ils ont foi dans leur etoile comme les rois-mages
Ils esperent gagner de l'argent dans l'Argentine
Et revenir dans leur pays apres avoir fait fortune
Une famille transporte un edredon rouge comme vous transportez
votre coeur
Cet edredon et nos reves sont aussi irreels
Quelques-uns de ces emigrants restent ici et se logent
Rue des Rosiers ou rue des Ecouffes dans des bouges
Je les ai vus souvent le soir ils prennent l'air dans la rue
Et se deplacent rarement comme les pieces aux echecs
Il y a surtout des Juifs leurs femmes portent perruque
Elles restent assises exsangues au fond des boutiques
Tu es debout devant le zinc d'un bar crapuleux
Tu prends un cafe a deux sous parmi les malheureux
Tu es la nuit dans un grand restaurant
Ces femmes ne sont pas mechantes elles ont des soucis cependant
Toutes meme la plus laide a fait souffrir son amant
Elle est la fille d'un sergent de ville de Jersey
Ses mains que je n'avais pas vues sont dures et gercees
J'ai une pitie immense pour les coutures de son ventre
J'humilie maintenant a une pauvre fille au rire horrible ma bouche
Tu es seul le matin va venir
Les laitiers font tinter leurs bidons dans les rues
La nuit s'eloigne ainsi qu'une belle Metive
C'est Ferdine la fausse ou Lea l'attentive
Et tu bois cet alcool brulant comme ta vie
Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau-de-vie
Tu marches vers Auteuil tu veux aller chez toi a pied
Dormir parmi tes fetiches d'Oceanie et de Guinee
Ils sont des Christ d'une autre forme et d'une autre croyance
Ce sont les Christ inferieurs des obscures esperances
Adieu Adieu
Soleil cou coupe
LE PONT MIRABEAU
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours apres la peine.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Wohin die Angst des
Kerkers?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Can you give me
anything
to drink?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Up against the arches of the crystal ceiling,
From the horse's nostrils shall steam the
blurting
breath:
Up between the angels pale with silent feeling
Will the Tamer calmly lead the horse of Death.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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