Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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33792Are these thy breasts, are these thine eyes, these two Golden- bright flowers of harmonious hue?
33792Are they the strands of thy smooth, glossy hair?
33792Did he pass you so fleet,--Where, yon at the cross, the three hundred roads meet-- With distressfulness panting, and wailing with cold?
33792Have you met him, the savage wind, do you remember?
33792Our two glad souls are they, That pastime take, and stray Along the terraces and woodland grass?
33792What are those forms that yonder slowly pass?
45466AFTERNOON What matter for their fullest flower October days or April bright?
45466Ah, say, from what deep distances unknown So many gleaming birds have come With wings sun- sown?
45466And nothing, nothing is better than to feel Happy and limpid still-- after what years?
45466And yet my heart says still with fervent stress: What matter that the years grow heavier?
45466For love means exaltation''s ceaseless deeds; Oh you whose sweetness sweetens my proud heart, What need to weigh the pure gold of our dream?
45466Hours of fragrant flowering, will you come again?
45466What matters it if reason with its snows Falls chilling on such poignant ecstasy?
45467In the forest do you hear the dead wood fall?
45467What matter if their foliage be wan?
45467What matter?
45465A quiet vow or one of passion We sought to slay?
45465II What tho''we see it break before us into flowers, This garden where we pass the clear and silent hours?
45465Or ever prayer in silence heard, Whose dim, unuttered word We sought to stay?
45465The rest with futile, listless touch?
45465VII Oh, let it knock upon our door, That hand that taps with futile touch; We have our joy, the rest-- what can it offer more?
45465What matters it that naught but tears, Our halting speech avail For that whose puissant beauty, as it nears, Doth make our two hearts quail?
45465XIII Of what avail the hectic reasoning Of what we were and what we may attain?
45465XXVIII Was there ever in us one caress, One joyous laugh, or tenderness We dared not strew before us on our way?
45470And nothing, nothing is better than to feel thus, still happy and serene, after how many years?
45470Do you hear the dead wood falling in the forest?
45470Hours girt with blossom, will you ever return?
45470O you whose gentleness bathes my proud heart, what need to weigh the pure gold of our dream?
45470Was there a prayer heard in secret whose hands stretched out gently over our bosom we had not clasped?
45470Was there one appeal, one purpose, one tranquil or violent desire whose pace we had not quickened?
45470Who can say from what far- off and unknown distances so many new birds have come with sun on their wings?
45470XXVIII Was there in us one fondness, one thought, one gladness, one promise that we had not sown before our footsteps?
45470is it not indeed in us that grows the pleasantest and the gladdest garden in the world?
45470let the passing hand knock with its futile fingers on the door; our hour is so unique, and the rest-- what matters the rest with its futile fingers?
35524Et c''est l''esclavage, n''est- ce pas? 35524 Still, thou poor child, this childish fear of me?
35524Where is the heavenly goddess,so they cry,"Whose loveliness can match thy perfect frame?
35524A bright May morn is dawning in thy breast: Is it a phantom''s voice that soothes thy grief?
35524ART THOU WAKING?
35524After our outwatched nights and feverish brows, What do we know, save that we nothing know?
35524Am I not like in this gloam a Cluster of fruit concealed By the leaves, and by nothing revealed, Save in the night its aroma?
35524Am I stricken with terror?
35524And He of those desolate hands, Who was my visitor grim?
35524And open in the dewy, dustless air Its dainty chalice with blue petals, where The shade of bushes makes a shy retreat?
35524And that the lilies of my valleys Are dewy with passion- balm That for his touching tarries?
35524And these strange beams, That like a white and scintillant raiment drape His limbs in folds of light?
35524And what young god, all sun and spring, can vie With all this freshness blent with tender flame?"
35524Are thy tired spirit and thy parched mouth aching For the cooling, carnal draught of their caress?
35524Art thou waking, my perfume sunny, My perfume of gilded bees, Art thou floating along the breeze, My perfume of sweet honey?
35524But what a snow is this that trembling gleams Frail on his flank, and buries him in our sight?
35524But what is this disgrace To me, the flesh of his flesh now and ever?
35524Can they be worth the hymn To your ecstatic eyes of mine that swim?
35524Come from what far sea- isles or pestilent parts?
35524Come from what feverish or methodic marts?
35524Comes he from seas afar, Where islands are?
35524Comes the expected dawn in opal veil?
35524Did he, a weak, frail enemy advance Before the One who strikes, and wills us prone?
35524Does he feel I am straining my arms?
35524Does he know, now the hour is dim, That I am half opening my hair, Does he know that it scents the air, Does its odour reach to him?
35524Does some one wait for you there?
35524Does the unquiet night allegiance show thee?
35524Does thy heart, Tasso, burn for thy Princess?
35524Hast thou not seen, force without end, immortal rhythm and rhyme, Desire impelling me beyond the bounds of Time?"
35524Hath not this evening that old loveliness?
35524He sails to what pale daughters, To what horizons dim?
35524He sings, he comes we know not whence; What would he have from us?
35524His hatreds?
35524Horizons?
35524Horizons?
35524Horizons?
35524Horizons?
35524How many more have flowed?
35524In the hush of the gloam, when my feet Roam through the rich garden- closes, Dost thou tell I am coming, thou smell Of my lilacs, and my warm roses?
35524Into a flower?
35524Into a stone?
35524Into the earth?
35524Into the sea?
35524Into us?
35524Is it an unseen angel''s touch?
35524Is it this which is to thee most dear?
35524Is it to any one among you known Whence comes this adolescent, white Traveller, who has halted with us in the night?
35524Now in this April morning, sweet With folded shadows and doves cooing, The dear child with her shy conceit What is she busy doing?
35524One scarce can see, take care-- Where are you wending, where are you wending?
35524Or a sister shelling peas at the bed''s foot of an incurable?
35524Or from unkempt Forests, or from sterile plains, Whose vastness never any man has dreamt?
35524Or is your gathering gloaming Indifference alone?
35524Or were there monsters to be overthrown, Some day of courage blind, pierced with his lance, And then his wing grazed Death?
35524Out come the men: What ho?
35524Poor eyes, you lamps that are failing, How little remains of your glow?
35524Say you that I am vain?
35524Shall not our love be like the violet, Sweet?
35524She had three diadems of gold, To whom did she give them?
35524She?
35524That storm the almanac announces, Where is it?
35524Their fatherland?
35524Thy forehead furrowed by sad memory, Are these a shadow''s hands that on it rest?
35524Une fleur au soleil se penche.... N''est ce pas un cygne enchanté?
35524WHAT USE IS SPEECH?
35524Was it a vain dream?
35524What boots?
35524What is the fatherland to yokels?
35524What matter if I let the fervour seize My quivering soul?
35524What matter?
35524What of the few, chance tears they have prevented?
35524What use is action?
35524What use is speech, what use is it to say Words that without an echo die away, And only leave vain sadness after?
35524When will the tempest come?
35524Whence did the stranger unto us descend?
35524Where are you wending, where are you wending?
35524Where?
35524Who can see?
35524Who has unloosened my tresses, As through the dark places I came?
35524Who is this child thus dawning on our sight?
35524Who knows?
35524Who was it hushed our voices?
35524Why does a brother''s voice console not brother?
35524Why in the dark do they not hail each other?
35524Why is my heart so chill Under these skies overcast, In these winters that last and last, These winters calm and still?
35524Why should we madly follow fugitive Inclement pride and crumbling hopes Along the precipices of the heavy night, That swallows up all ruined light?
35524X. I have sought for thirty years, my sisters, Where hides he ever?
35524à soi- même entr''ouvert: N''est- ce pas qu''y ruisselle au front morne une mitre?