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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee
derniere
en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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Coriolanus
must I can thee?
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[IV] Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
Last of ebb, and daylight waning,
Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,
With many a half-caught voice sent up from the eddies,
Many a muffled confession--many a sob and whisper'd word,
As of
speakers
far or hid.
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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why to
advertise
for them?
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75, 84), Byron writes, "Last post I sent you a note fierce as Faliero
himself, in answer to a trashy tourist, who pretends that he could have
been introduced to me;" but at the end of the month,
September
29, 1820,
he withdraws his animadversions: "I open my letter to say, that on
reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [_Sketches descriptive of Italy
in the Years_ 1816, 1817, etc.
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Byron |
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The effect of
a page of her more recent
manuscript
is exceedingly quaint and
strong.
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"Then he will arise so pale,
I shall feel my own lips tremble
With a _yes_ I must not say,
Nathless
maiden-brave, 'Farewell,'
I will utter, and dissemble--
'Light to-morrow with to-day!
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You will never prove faithful to
Love, unless you're submissive too,
And to
neighbours
and strangers you
Act quite humbly,
And to all who live within its view
Obediently.
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Troubador Verse |
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Mehus,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Electric
signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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at here bult of
Bretaygne
kynges
Ay wat3 Arthur ?
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Therwith his pous and pawmes of his hondes
They gan to frote, and wete his temples tweyne, 1115
And, to
deliveren
him from bittre bondes,
She ofte him kiste; and, shortly for to seyne,
Him to revoken she dide al hir peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Campion, _Elegie upon the
Untimely
Death of Prince Henry_.
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IV
Tattiana, Russian to the core,
Herself not knowing well the reason,
The Russian winter did adore
And the cold beauties of the season:
On sunny days the
glistening
rime,
Sledging, the snows, which at the time
Of sunset glow with rosy light,
The misty evenings ere Twelfth Night.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The son of Venus to the counsel yields;
Then o'er their backs they spread their solid shields:
With brass
refulgent
the broad surface shined,
And thick bull-hides the spacious concave lined.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something
was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Heere abiure
The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe,
For
strangers
to my Nature.
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Ein Titel muss sie erst
vertraulich
machen,
Dass Eure Kunst viel Kunste ubersteigt;
Zum Willkomm tappt Ihr dann nach allen Siebensachen,
Um die ein andrer viele Jahre streicht,
Versteht das Pulslein wohl zu drucken,
Und fasset sie, mit feurig schlauen Blicken,
Wohl um die schlanke Hufte frei,
Zu sehn, wie fest geschnurt sie sei.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Light-foot May with Meggan
Sought the choicest spot,
Clothed with thyme-alternate grass:
Then, while day waxed hot,
Sat at ease to play and rest,
A gracious rest and play;
The loveliest maidens near or far, 60
When
Margaret
was away,
Who sat at home to sing and sew.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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And a
tinkling
Eastern wind-bell,
With its fluttering inscription,
From the rafters with bronze music
Should retard the quiet fleeting
Of uncounted hours.
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Sappho |
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But I wonder
If, from its being kept forever under,
These
thoughts
may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Wilde - Poems |
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MEROPS
What care I, so they stand the same,--
Things of the
heavenly
mind,--
How long the power to give them name
Tarries yet behind?
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Emerson - Poems |
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A hermit's life
Oneguine
led,
At seven in summer rose from bed,
And clad in airy costume took
His course unto the running brook.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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We are sometimes told by Frenchmen or
Russians
that Oscar Wilde
is greater than Shakespeare.
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Li Po |
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And--surely--
This should leave a man
content?
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whom Tenedos adores,
And whose bright
presence
gilds thy Chrysa's shores.
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Iliad - Pope |
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While premising that any one who wishes to learn the facts of the
boy-poet's life--his circumstances and surroundings--can find them
all set forth in Professor Wilson's book: while equally if he is
interested in the pseudo-Rowley's language, philologically considered,
he will find this elaborately examined in Professor Skeat's second
volume; it has been thought that the following bibliography of books
dealing with various aspects of the poet which were read and valued in
their day may be found of interest to
students
of literary history.
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I can tell him, that it is on such
individuals
as I, that a nation has
to rest, both for the hand of support, and the eye of intelligence.
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Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence,
Therefore
my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
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Shakespeare |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
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Keats - Lamia |
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That god--
who was the wanderer, the slim
Despoiler of fair women; he--the wise,--
But sweet and glowing as your
thoughts
of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending like your arched brows o'er your eyes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Resolv'd to win, he
meditates
the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a Lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
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Alexander Pope |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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Look on my thin gray hair and hollow cheeks,
And on these hands that may not lift the sword,
This body
trembling
like a wind-blown reed.
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Yeats |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their
innocent
hands.
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blake-poems |
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The
Headsman
of the Pit, above
Earth's floor, to ravish her!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Erect stood He,
scanning
his work proudly.
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Stephen Crane |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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capable of
salvation
or
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Lucretius |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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why this
passionate
despair
For cruel Glycera?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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But she, whose aspect I find imaged here,
Of Pleasure only will to all dispense,
_That_ Fount alone unlock, by no distress
Choked or turned inward, but still issue thence
Unconquered cheer,
persistent
loveliness.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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guidance
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Meredith - Poems |
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To Heav'n thir prayers
Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious windes
Blow'n vagabond or frustrate: in they passd
Dimentionless
through Heav'nly dores; then clad
With incense, where the Golden Altar fum'd,
By thir great Intercessor, came in sight
Before the Fathers Throne: Them the glad Son 20
Presenting, thus to intercede began.
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Milton |
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Shew me your city; give me,
although
coarse,
Some cov'ring (if coarse cov'ring _thou_ canst give)
And may the Gods thy largest wishes grant,
House, husband, concord!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Whereas if flame, already fashioned, lay
Stored up within the forests, then the fires
Could not for any time be kept unseen,
But would be laying all the
wildwood
waste
And burning all the boscage.
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Lucretius |
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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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at may so weel p{er}fo{ur}ny
blisfulnesse
as an estat plenteuo{us} *of alle 1824
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[424]
'There let the cause, as honour wills, be tried,
And, let the lance and
ruthless
sword decide.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
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If it be true that poetry is bred out
of joy and sorrow, one feels as if more
enjoyment
and less suffering had
gone to the making of the _Alcestis_ than to that of the later plays.
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"Nay," quoth a sum of voices in mine ear,
"God's clover, we, and feed His Course-of-things;
The pasture is God's pasture; systems strange
Of food and
fiberment
He hath, whereby
The general brawn is built for plans of His
To quality precise.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yes, you are right, we need not hunt for motives:
There is no crime from which this man would shrink;
He recks not human law; and I have noticed
That often when the name of God is uttered,
A sudden
blankness
overspreads his face.
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive Catalogue of the Medusae of the
Australian
Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Earth trembl'd from her entrails, as again 1000
In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan,
Skie lowr'd, and muttering Thunder, som sad drops
Wept at compleating of the mortal Sin
Original; while Adam took no thought,
Eating his fill, nor Eve to iterate
Her former trespass fear'd, the more to soothe
Him with her lov'd societie, that now
As with new Wine
intoxicated
both
They swim in mirth, and fansie that they feel
Divinitie within them breeding wings 1010
Wherewith to scorn the Earth: but that false Fruit
Farr other operation first displaid,
Carnal desire enflaming, hee on Eve
Began to cast lascivious Eyes, she him
As wantonly repaid; in Lust they burne:
Till Adam thus 'gan Eve to dalliance move.
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Milton |
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Imagists |
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Ethuiusmodistantiaeususestfereinomnibuscantionibussuis
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A rnaldus
Danielis
et nos eum.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ne none
ensample
of lokynge.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_That _pleasure which is at once
the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I
maintain, from the
contemplation
of the Beautiful.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Or a swift meteor, may be,
Across the gloom of heaven would sail
And
disappear
in space; then she
Would haste in agitation dire
To mutter her concealed desire
Ere the bright messenger had set.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Mallarme's spiritual position is taken to be atheistic, and
therefore
religious assumptions should not be made in interpreting these fragments.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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the deeds of death and night,
Urged, hurried forth, and hurled
Upon th'
affrighted
world;
Sword, fire, and famine, with fell fury met,
And all on utmost ruin set;
As, could they but life's miseries foresee,
No doubt all infants would return like thee.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The expecting crowds in still attention hung,
To hear the wisdom of his
heavenly
tongue.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Against the
Teucrians
the forces of sky and sea are spent.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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liebe Frau,
verzweifelt
nicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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How you've revered the formative will of those ancient
artists!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I squeezed the hilt of my sword,
remembering that I had
received
it the eve from her hand, as if for her
defence.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Everyone
knows him and ought to adore him,
Herald of Zeus: Hermes, the healing god.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'tis a gala night
Within the
lonesome
latter years!
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Poe - 5 |
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I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and
the most restless,
I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
The restless sink in their beds, they
fitfully
sleep.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He has learned
to shrug his shoulders,
so he'll shrug his shoulders now:
caterpillars
do it
when they're halted by a stick.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Do not let it serve some impious
purpose!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Elegies have
never before been
published
as here, together in the cyclical form of
their original conception.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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_The Poet's Death_
The world is taking little heed
And plods from day to day:
The vulgar
flourish
like a weed,
The learned pass away.
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John Clare |
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Above, the
pilasters
are like to bars,
And, through their gaps, the dead look at the stars,
While, till the dawn, around Nitrocis' bones,
Spectres hold council, crouching on the stones.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both
paragraphs
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The mother grew yet more uneasy then, and she would come
nearer them, and let on to be stirring the fire or
sweeping
the hearth,
and she would listen for a minute to hear what the poet was saying
to her child.
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Yeats |
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If yet not wasted quite--
So frail a thing before so fierce a flame--
'Tis not from my own strength that safety came,
But that some fear gives might,
Freezing
the warm blood coursing through its veins,
To my poor heart better to bear the strife.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh,
gallantly
they fared forth in khaki and in blue,
America's crusading host of warriors bold and true;
They battled for the rights of man beside our brave Allies,
And now they're coming home to us with glory in their eyes.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Weialala
leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The
portrait
of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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