play the part that looks back on the actor or
actress!
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Whitman |
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fill'd all things with himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain;
And many a poet echoes the conceit,
Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme
When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonlight, to the influxes
Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements
Surrendering
his whole spirit, of his song
And of his fame forgetful!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes
indicate
that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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It is true, indeed, that his arrival had
consolidated the party, and by his successful
engagement
he had
silenced the current criticism of their slow marching.
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Tacitus |
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If a man should
prosecute
as much as could be said of everything, his
work would find no end.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He quarreled with General
Aupick, and
disdained
his mother.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ANOTHER
FRAGMENT
(B)
Her hair was brown, her sphered eyes were brown,
And in their dark and liquid moisture swam,
Like the dim orb of the eclipsed moon;
Yet when the spirit flashed beneath, there came _315
The light from them, as when tears of delight
Double the western planet's serene flame.
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Shelley |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold,
With purple robes inwrought, and stiff with gold,
Precipitant in fear would wing their flight,
And curse their
cumbrous
pride's unwieldy weight.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We can not bring ourselves to believe that the selections of the "Book
of Gems" are such as will impart to a
poetical
reader the clearest
possible idea of the beauty of the school-but if the intention had
been merely to show the school's character, the attempt might have been
considered successful in the highest degree.
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Poe - 5 |
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The son of
the latter couple was Donne's
intimate
friend George Gerrard
or Garrard.
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John Donne |
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II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost
labyrinthine
hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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My mad singing
startles
the valleys and hills:
The apes and birds all come to peep.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden
soundless
speed
Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So
variously
seem'd all things wrought, [14]
I marvell'd how the mind was brought
To anchor by one gloomy thought;
And wherefore rather I made choice
To commune with that barren voice,
Than him that said, "Rejoice!
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Tennyson |
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If then the present race of mankind err,
Seek in
yourselves
the cause, and find it there.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Know thou, O stranger to the fame
Of this much lov'd, much
honoured
name!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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is
resolued
by
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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1 Carmina qui quondam studio
flore{n}te
p{er}egi.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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You
Spaniard
of Spain!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The old
Countess no longer made the
slightest
pretensions to beauty, but she
still clung to all the habits of her youth, and spent as much time at
her toilet as she had done sixty years before.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Poor Man, the flie, aft bizzes by,
And aft, as chance he comes thee nigh,
Thy damn'd auld elbow yeuks wi'joy
And hellish
pleasure!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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870
But why expose them to such
confrontation?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The star hath ridden high
Thro' many a tempest, but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye;
And here, in thought, to thee--
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne--
* The Humanitarians held that God was to be
understood
as
having a really human form.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'--
My bridegroom
answered
in his turn,
Myself had almost answered 'yea:'
When through the flashing nave I heard
A struggle and resounding 'nay.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[_She
releases
him.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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[38] What's this ye
undertake?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
The king said: "You have well
described
it.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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And so I dare to hope
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led; more like a man
Flying from
something
that he dreads, than one
Who sought the thing he loved.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ Why should they not if they are
durable?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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5
A little moment past so
smiling!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Nay, rather let us work
an
enduring
peace and a bridal compact.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Calm, deep, and still is now my heart,
With tranquil waters overflowed;
A lake whose unseen
fountains
start,
Where once the hot volcano glowed.
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Longfellow |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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40
Time wuz, the rhymes come crowdin' thick
Ez office-seekers arter 'lection,
An' into ary place 'ould stick
Without no bother nor objection;
But sence the war my
thoughts
hang back
Ez though I wanted to enlist 'em,
An' subs'tutes,--_they_ don't never lack,
But then they'll slope afore you've mist 'em.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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Soon as the sun
Hath climb'd the middle heav'ns, the prophet old,
Emerging while the breezy zephyr blows,
And cover'd with the scum of ocean, seeks 490
His
spacious
cove, in which outstretch'd he lies.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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349, 356_
Monbron,
Fougeret
de, _Le Cosmopolite, ou le Citoyen du Monde_, ii.
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Byron |
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She went that evening from the abbey gray,
Her task
committing
to another's hand;
-- Left it to Fraud to feed, till her return,
The war, and make the fires she kindled burn;
XXVII
And she believed, that she with greater power
Should go, did Pride with her as well repair;
And she (for all were guested in one bower)
In search of her had little way to fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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to some other place
The
hardness
of thy coward eye,
The falsehood of thy sallow face.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The
eldest of these is
accidentally
killed by the second, 2440.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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We are like bees that, having fed all day
On mountain-heather, go to a tumbling stream
To please their little honey-heated thirsts;
And soon as they have toucht the singing relief,
The
swiftness
of the water seizes them.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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42), when he
had penetrated as far as Mount Atlas, and increased his
reputation by suppressing the rebellion of Boadicea when he
was
governor
of Britain (A.
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Tacitus |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O bitter words of
conscience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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While nature to his birth
presents
This masque of quarrelling elements,
A numerous fleet of cormorants black,
That sailed insulting o'er the wrack,
Received into their cruel care.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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illa saepe gregis diti placitura magistro
ad iuuenem festa est uecta puella die,
cum qua fecundi
redierunt
munera ruris,
caseus et niueae candidus agnus ouis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_v_
_The Speech of Men_
(_a_)
PROSPICITO
tecum tacitus quid quisque loquatur:
sermo hominum mores et celat et indicat idem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Non scese mai con si veloce moto
foco di spessa nube, quando piove
da quel confine che piu va remoto,
com' io vidi calar l'uccel di Giove
per l'alber giu,
rompendo
de la scorza,
non che d'i fiori e de le foglie nove;
e feri 'l carro di tutta sua forza;
ond' el piego come nave in fortuna,
vinta da l'onda, or da poggia, or da orza.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Siquoi iure bono sacer alarum obstitit hircus,
Aut siquem merito tarda podagra secat,
Aemulus iste tuos, qui vostrum exercet amorem,
Mirificost
fato nactus utrumque malum,
Nam quotiens futuit, totiens ulciscitur ambos: 5
Illam adfligit odore, ipse perit podagra.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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_Perhaps
read_ gan aryse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Their native fastnesses not more secure
Than they in
doubtful
time of troublous need:
Their wrath how deadly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Derriere les rochers une chienne inquiete
Nous
regardait
d'un oeil fache,
Epiant le moment de reprendre au squelette
Le morceau qu'elle avait lache.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless
warblers
singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And mused, how grand
If all of this could last beyond a doubt--
This placid moon, this plump _gemuthlichkeit_;
Pipe, breath and summer never going out--
To vegetate through all
eternity
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their
spindles
the consenting Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I am still, in the Apostle Paul's phrase, "The old man with his
deeds," as when we were
sporting
about the "Lady Thorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that expecting presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres
humftins
qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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10
I almost hear thy Mitylenean love-song
In the spring night,
When the still air was odorous with blossoms,
And in the hour
Thy first wild girl's-love
trembled
into being, 15
Glad, glad and fond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Along the
lichened
pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering footsteps tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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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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Who would take on such an
adversary?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Despite her
lowering
brow and haughty breast,
One thing she cannot, my fond heart deter
From tender hopes and passionate sighs for her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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I called not thee to burial of my dead,
Nor count thy
presence
here a welcome thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Say not those smiles that we shall meet again
Within that bright
pavilion
which their beams _125
Shall build o'er the waste world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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E poi ch'a
riguardar
oltre mi diedi,
vidi genti a la riva d'un gran fiume;
per ch'io dissi: <
ch'i' sappia quali sono, e qual costume
le fa di trapassar parer si pronte,
com' i' discerno per lo fioco lume>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Bacchus on the wing,
A
conquering!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But no such
everlastingness
for me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Herrick uses the noun and its
adjective
rather curiously of
the dead: cp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Where is your
Husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The trenches pass'd, the
assembled
kings around
In silent state the consistory crown'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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" I answering thus:
"Declare, as thou dost wish that I above
May carry tidings of thee, who is he,
In whom that sight doth wake such sad
remembrance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ECLOGUE VII
MELIBOEUS CORYDON THYRSIS
Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
Had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
Had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
And Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk-
Both in the flower of age,
Arcadians
both,
Ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But over them, lying there,
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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XIV
That
Emperour
hath ended now his speech.
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Chanson de Roland |
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To whom Penelope
discrete
replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Donne's mind was
naturally
serious and
religious; it was not naturally devout or ascetic, but worldly and
ambitious.
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John Donne |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
I made reply that having already
received
my life at his hands, I
trusted not merely in his good nature but in his help.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_Genetrix
nato te filia Nerei.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His steed he spurs, gallops with great effort;
He goes, that count, to strike with all his force,
The shield he breaks, the hauberk's seam unsews,
Slices the heart, and
shatters
up the bones,
All of the spine he severs with that blow,
And with his spear the soul from body throws
So well he's pinned, he shakes in the air that corse,
On his spear's hilt he's flung it from the horse:
So in two halves Aeroth's neck he broke,
Nor left him yet, they say, but rather spoke:
"Avaunt, culvert!
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Chanson de Roland |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Islanded
in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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By the hour of dawn he was proud and stark,
Kissed the Indian babes with a sigh,
Went forth to live on roots and bark,
Sleep in the trees, while the years howled by--
Calling the catamounts by name,
And buffalo bulls no hand could tame,
Slaying never a living creature,
Joining the birds in every game,
With the
gorgeous
turkey gobblers mocking,
With the lean-necked eagles boxing and shouting;
Sticking their feathers in his hair,--
Turkey feathers,
Eagle feathers,--
Trading hearts with all beasts and weathers
He swept on, winged and wonder-crested,
Bare-armed, barefooted, and bare-breasted.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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