And the Thought of Death close-walking the other side of me,
And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of
companions,
I fled forth to the hiding
receiving
night, that talks not,
Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
To the solemn shadowy cedars, and ghostly pines so still.
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With the
lessening
smoke and thunder,
Our glasses around we aim--
What is that burning yonder?
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Prison, Reading, Berkshire,
July 7th, 1896
Presented
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additional
contact information:
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Questa favilla tutta mi raccese
mia
conoscenza
a la cangiata labbia,
e ravvisai la faccia di Forese.
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Full of music--full of manhood, womanhood,
infancy!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I felt myself
disturbed
with confused thoughts.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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With Juno goes the Hours
And Graces
strewing
flowers.
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an
blisfulnesse
oute of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Headlong
themselves
they threw
Down from the verge of Heaven; eternal wrath
Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
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One climbs a
molehill
for a bunch of may,
One stands on tiptoe for a linnet's nest
And pricks her hand and throws her flowers away
And runs for plantin leaves to have it drest.
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John Clare |
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wherefore
weep you so?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Sine his
Ecclesia
non vocatur; de
quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O fates,
Grant that the envious blade slaying artists shall
make them
undying!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That she's a perfect virgin I've no doubt,
Nor can we find a chaster round about;
Her very doll more
innocent
won't prove,
Than this sweet nymph design'd with us to move.
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La Fontaine |
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's
Paradise
to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But, framed among the other stores,
Something
has caught Miss Thompson's eye
(O worldliness!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Already the venom flows towards my heart,
An unaccustomed chill pierces my dying heart: 1640
Already I see as if through a clouded sky,
Heaven, and a husband my
presence
horrifies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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''T was all I had,' she
stricken
gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Angel of Death
descends
to address Jesus, Who dies.
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'They called me theirs,
Who so
controlled
me;
Yet every one
Wished to stay, and is gone,
How am I theirs,
If they cannot hold me,
But I hold them?
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Emerson - Poems |
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* * * *
Hesperus e nobis, aequales,
abstulit
unam
* * * *
_Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o Hymenaee_!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I laughed, and spoke to one near me,
"Will he
prevail?
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Stephen Crane |
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Where'er she moves, whatever dames among,
Beauteous or graceful,
matchless
she below.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly
referred
to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[58] _pataku_ has apparently the same sense
originally
as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'Tis strange, the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy:
Is it less strange, the
prodigal
should waste
His wealth, to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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Step up an' take a nipper, sir; I'm dreffle glad to see ye:' 110
But now it's 'Ware's my
eppylet?
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James Russell Lowell |
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My liege, I am advised what I say;
Neither
disturbed
with the effect of wine,
Nor heady-rash, provok'd with raging ire,
Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.
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Shakespeare |
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Stretching, arching his muscular loins, a breath
From his gaping muzzle heavy with thirst
Issues with a sudden shock, quick and harsh,
And great lizards warm from the noon heat stir,
Then vanish
gleaming
through the tawny grass.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then he thought of her, and Indian people;
Tryin' to measure, by the church's steeple,
Just how
Christian
our great nation's been
Toward those native tribes so full of sin.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A proof, old traitor, of thy
cowardliness!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Bathe now in the stream before you,
Wash the war-paint from your faces,
Wash the blood-stains from your fingers,
Bury your war-clubs and your weapons,
Break the red stone from this quarry,
Mould and make it into Peace-Pipes,
Take the reeds that grow beside you,
Deck them with your brightest feathers,
Smoke the calumet together,
And as brothers live
henceforward!
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Longfellow |
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You like not that his will should heap the world
About him in a fumbled den of toil;
And set the strength of his spirit, not to joy,
But to
laborious
money; so you stand forth
And think with spoken wind to make such stir
And rumble in the inwards of man's life,
That he in a noble colic will leap up
Out of his cave of work and breathe sweet air.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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His
directions
settled all the land.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
I muse among these silent fanes
Whose spacious
darkness
guards your dust;
Around me sleep the hoary plains
That hold your ancient wars in trust.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now one by one, the pious and the just
Are seated by us,
radiantly
risen
From their dull prison in the dust.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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-i was accused of
breaking the law, Li Po had come to his
assistance
and had him released.
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Li Po |
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A very monument of
ignorant
perversity.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXIX
Says Blancandrins "Gentle the Franks are found;
Yet a great wrong these dukes do and these counts
Unto their lord, being in counsel proud;
Him and
themselves
they harry and confound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The syndicate did not concern itself greatly with
criticisms
of
attack and the like.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton"
westward
bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Planh below was
previously
attributed, by Pound and others, to Bertran de Born.
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Troubador Verse |
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Now
that they have grafted trees, and pay a price for them, they collect
them into a plat by their houses, and fence them in,--and the end of
it all will be that we shall be
compelled
to look for our apples in a
barrel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Each of these
landlords
walked amidst his farm,
Saying, ''Tis mine, my children's and my name's.
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Emerson - Poems |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And when she saw him she cried, 'An old mortal song heard
floating
from
a tent of skin, as we rode, I and mine, through a camping-place at
night.
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Yeats |
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e dyuersite of preciouse
ostelment?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Can he for me so pitously
compleyne?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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So
scoffing
in ambiguous words, he scarce
Had ended; when to Right and Left the Front
Divided, and to either Flank retir'd.
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Milton |
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The red hot boiling billows foamed in the
stooping
clouds,
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.
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John Clare |
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= Jonson makes
frequent
use of the
subjunctive.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing
in a jar.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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they wander on
In gladness all; but thou, me thinks, most glad,
My gentle-hearted
Charles!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And then I crept along the gloom and saw
They had hewn the
drawbridge
down into the river.
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Tennyson |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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THE PANTHER
His weary glance, from passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;
It seems to him there are a
thousand
bars
And out beyond those bars the empty air.
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Rilke - Poems |
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According to her vida, she was married to Guillem or Guilhem de Poitiers, Count of Viennois, but was in love with and sang about
Raimbaut
of Orange, 1146-1173.
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Troubador Verse |
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{28a}
"Nor haply will like it the Heathobard lord,
and as little each of his liegemen all,
when a thane of the Danes, in that doughty throng,
goes with the lady along their hall,
and on him the old-time
heirlooms
glisten
hard and ring-decked, Heathobard's treasure,
weapons that once they wielded fair
until they lost at the linden-play {28b}
liegeman leal and their lives as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
This translation or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments,
excluding
things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_
Lance and spear upon the height,
bristling
strange in fiery light,
While the castle stood in shade.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE TREE
CONTENTS
PERSONAE
LA FRAISNE 5 CINO 7 NA AUDIART
VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE II A VILLONAUD, BALLAD OF THE GIBBET 12 MESMERISM 14 FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO
IN TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
17
CAMARADERIE
FOR E.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new
Marriage
I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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Et, sur le debut suivant, apres passablement d'autres choses d'autres
gens:
_On dirait des soldats d'Agrippa d'Aubigne
Alignes au cordeau par
Philibert
Delorme.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy
birthright!
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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_incinxerat_
GD:
_inexcinxerat_ Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Beowulf |
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You Felons on Trial in Courts
You felons on trial in courts,
You convicts in prison-cells, you
sentenced
assassins chain'd and
handcuff'd with iron,
Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Enter_ OVERREACH, _with
distracted
looks,
driving in_ MARRALL _before him_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Ye crystal
firmamental
bars
That hold the skyey waters free
From tide or tempest's ecstasy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Two years have passed, and with the
second volume it has seemed best to state at once the reasons which
actuated its
contributors
to join in such a venture.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
)
This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be
fathers in their turns,
In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
Of him countless
immortal
lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
Mais alors, tu as ton
vautour!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Treacherous
now he is keeping his word: giving me themes for my poems
While he is stealing my time, potency, presence of mind.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the
strongly
heathen character of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For
though the argument of an epic poem be far more
diffused
and poured out
than that of tragedy, yet Virgil, writing of AEneas, hath pretermitted
many things.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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London:
Macmillan
and Co.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me
regardais
il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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That gaily blooms, but ev'n in
blooming
dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Scarce can my knees these
trembling
limbs sustain,
And scarce my heart support its load of pain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
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Rilke - Poems |
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--Peregrine Pickle, Launcelot Greaves, and Ferdinand
Count Fathom, I still want; but as I said, the veriest
ordinary
copies
will serve me.
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Robert Burns |
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