I
encounter
no troubles like those.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I must have two or three thousand at least in the
Bank--twenty or thirty years more
provided
for, that is to say.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[18]
XXVIII
"There was a Youth whom I had loved so long,
That when I loved him not I cannot say: 245
'Mid the green mountains many a thoughtless song [19]
We two had sung, like
gladsome
birds [20] in May;
When we began to tire of childish play,
We seemed still more and more to prize each other;
We talked of marriage and our marriage day; 250
And I in truth did love him like a brother,
For never could I hope to meet with such another.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old
honoured
dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet since the grapple needs must be,
I who have wandered in the night
With Dante, Petrarch's Laura known,
Seen Vallombrosa's groves breeze-blown,
Met Angelo and Raffael,
Against
iconoclastic
might
In this grim hour must wish thee well!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
"No; is he a
soldier?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So
prosperous
stars, though absent to the sense,
Bless those they shine for by their influence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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How can you say that it is a delusion,
When all our learned and good men believe it,--
Our Ministers and
worshipful
Magistrates?
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Longfellow |
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From their frail nest the robins rouse,
In your pungent darkness stirred,
Twittering
a low drowsy word--
And me you shelter, even me.
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Sara Teasdale |
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From habit they acquire their skill, and from their
skill a graceful manner; yet from hence draw no gain or hire: though
this
adventurous
gaiety has its reward, namely, that of pleasing the
spectators.
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Tacitus |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But
everything
that touches you and me
Welds us as played strings sound one melody.
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Rilke - Poems |
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When suddenly I seem'd to hear
A moan, a
lamentable
sound.
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William Wordsworth |
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hift, vntill the
midnights
cocke doe crow.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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These must assist her in her countermines,
To overthrow the Derby-House designs ;
Whilst
Positive
walks, like Woodcock in the park,
Contriving projects with a brewer's clerk ; ♦
Thus all employ themselves, and, without pity.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For as a body without proportion cannot be goodly, no more can the
action, either in comedy or tragedy, without his fit bounds: and every
bound, for the nature of the subject, is
esteemed
the best that is
largest, till it can increase no more; so it behoves the action in
tragedy or comedy to be let grow till the necessity ask a conclusion;
wherein two things are to be considered: first, that it exceed not the
compass of one day; next, that there be place left for digression and
art.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Satire is, indeed, the
only sort of
composition
in which the Latin poets, whose works
have come down to us, were not mere imitators of foreign models;
and it is therefore the only sort of composition in which they
have never been rivalled.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Conceytes
wronge,
What harm they doon, for now live I to longe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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All _that _which is so
indispensable
in Song is precisely all _that
_with which _she _has nothing whatever to do.
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Poe - 5 |
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[425] _What time he claim'd the proud
Castilian
throne.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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(See Baudelaire's
letter to Sainte-Beuve in the newly
published
Letters, 1841-1866.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A modern writer, whose poetical genius cannot
be too much admired, chooses to call it a
_frippery
way of writing_.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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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 the priestly care.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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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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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
But I know that they go toward the best--toward
something
great.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ivan Kouzmitch came back to us, and turned his whole
attention
to the
enemy.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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]
Out of the eastern shadow of the Earth,
Amid the clouds upon its margin gray
Scattered by Night to swathe in its bright birth
In gold and fleecy snow the infant Day,
The
glorious
Sun arose: beneath his light, _5
The earth and all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Already I have vowed it, to do nought
Save after counsel with my people ta'en,
King though I be; that ne'er in after time,
If ill fate chance, my people then may say--
_In aid of
strangers
thou the state hast slain_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Would not one say that all these delicate corollae, all
these calices,
explosions
of odours and colours, execute a mystical
dance around the hieratic staff?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land, --
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
The wind blew hollow frae the hills,
By fits the sun's
departing
beam
Look'd on the fading yellow woods,
That wav'd o'er Lugar's winding stream:
Beneath a craigy steep, a Bard,
Laden with years and meikle pain,
In loud lament bewail'd his lord,
Whom Death had all untimely ta'en.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He
was, in truth, the father of the second school of Latin poetry,
the only school of which the works have
descended
to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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>>
Que diras-tu ce soir, pauvre ame solitaire,
Que diras-tu, mon coeur, coeur
autrefois
fletri,
A la tres belle, a la tres bonne, a la tres chere,
Dont le regard divin t'a soudain refleuri?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And
Trinculo
is reeling ripe; where should they
Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
SONG OF THE STATUE
Who so loveth me that he
Will give his
precious
life for me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The hoot of the
steamers
on the Thames is plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Whether her golden hair curls languidly,
Or whether it swims by, in two flowing waves
That over her breasts wander there, and stray,
And across her neck float playfully:
Whether a knot, ornamented richly,
With many a ruby, many a rounded pearl,
Ties the stream of her
rippling
curls,
My heart delights itself, contentedly.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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True
mourning
in
rooms
- not the cemetery -
to find only
absence -
- in presence
of things
60.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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On Queda's fields the genial rays inspire
The richest gust of spicery's
fragrant
fire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O
metamorphose
mystique
De tous mes sens fondus en un!
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between
mountain
and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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Sappho |
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This cannot be done so
satisfactorily
as in the words of Mr.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Watch
patiently
till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from
time to time.
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Of verity, they'll laugh aloud, like men,
Shaken asunder by a spasm of mirth,
Or sprinkle with dewy tear-drops cheeks and chins,
And have the cunning hardihood to say
Much on the
composition
of the world,
And in their turn inquire what elements
They have themselves,--since, thus the same in kind
As a whole mortal creature, even they
Must also be from other elements,
And then those others from others evermore--
So that thou darest nowhere make a stop.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's nourished by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My
familiar
surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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_ ci
WINTERTIME
nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Like the
astrologers
of eld,
In that bright vision I beheld
Greater and deeper mysteries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
And while I go away, you, Sir
Lancelot, will sit in my chair to-morrow at the
tournament
and be the
judge there of the field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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A solid staff and knotted, for his need,
That shepherd had,
wherewith
he smote the peer;
Whose violence and ire all bounds exceed,
Who seems withal to wax more fierce than e'er:
A cuff he levels at that rustic's head,
And splits the solid bone, and lays him dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_
A sad man on a summer day
Did look upon the earth and say--
"Purple cloud the hill-top binding;
Folded hills the valleys wind in;
Valleys with fresh streams among you;
Streams with bosky trees along you;
Trees with many birds and blossoms;
Birds with music-trembling bosoms;
Blossoms
dropping dews that wreathe you
To your fellow flowers beneath you;
Flowers that constellate on earth;
Earth that shakest to the mirth
Of the merry Titan Ocean,
All his shining hair in motion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh, prophesy no more to-morrow's splendor,
Be no more
shamefaced
to speak out for Truth,
Lay on her altar all the gushings tender,
The hope, the fire, the loving faith of youth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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BRANDER:
Doppelt
Schwein!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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org
[Picture: Image of Blake's
original
page of The Tyger]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
AND
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
[Picture: The Astolaf Press, Guildford]
LONDON: R.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So 't is will'd
On high, there where the great
Archangel
pour'd
Heav'n's vengeance on the first adulterer proud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And faith, 'tis
pleasant
till 'tis past:
The mischief is that 'twill not last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was erewhile unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and
youthful
year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" It is
unmitigated
East where they live.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For at the issue,
Hovering
mightily
fledge to beat it on,
A climate of demon's wings o'erarches man,
The hatred God has sent pursuing him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
I have long had a thorough hold
of his ferocious heroes, for his high-flown
language
and of the monstrous
blustering words which his great, gaping mouth hurls forth thick and
close without curb or measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
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Meredith - Poems |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I regret that its length
renders it unsuitable for the
purposes
of this lecture.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The thought is quiet as a flake, --
A crash without a sound;
How life's reverberation
Its
explanation
found!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nusiligga,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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All you on the
numberless
islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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" Two previous poems had
appeared
in the
"Broadway journal" over the signature of "A.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem
Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been
ranked as the first of
American
lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which
has so long controlled the destinies of American Letters, in conducting
the thing called "The North American Review.
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Poe - 5 |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A
glimmering
furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A
glimmering
furrow of melancholy ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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ai
schullen
also; whan ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Inspecting
Ghosts is something new!
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Lewis Carroll |
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that once did visit me,
Making night
glorious
with your smile, where are ye?
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Longfellow |
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Each thing melts
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid globe;
Strength
should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead;
Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong-
Between whose endless jar justice resides-
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
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Shakespeare |
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All things are in continual motion
in every direction, and there is an endless supply of material
bodies from
infinite
space.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Here's where I sat at a table surrounded by good-natured Germans;
Over on that side the girl, finding a seat for herself
Next to her mother where, frequently shifting her bench, she arranged
Nicely for me to perceive profile and curve of her neck;
Speaks just a little more loudly than women in Rome are accustomed;
Significant glance as she pours--misses the glass with the wine
So that it spills on the table, and she with a delicate finger
Over its surface can draw circles in damp arabesque:
Her name
entwining
in mine, while my eyes most eagerly follow
All that her fingertip writes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
Bellerephon was the first to ride Pegasus when he
attacked
the Chimaera.
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Appoloinaire |
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