" And
yet,
whenever
Wine, Wine-bearer, &c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' The
fact is that both words were
sometimes
spelt _geere_, as well
as in a variety of other ways.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Then Pallas, Goddess azure-eyed, her thoughts
Elsewhere directing, all the city ranged
In
semblance
of Telemachus, each man
Exhorting, at the dusk of eve, to seek
The gallant ship, and from Noemon, son
Renown'd of Phronius, ask'd, herself, a bark,
Which soon as ask'd, he promis'd to supply.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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net),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So sieh dies Zeichen
Dem sie sich beugen,
Die
schwarzen
Scharen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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London:
documents
at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Beowulf |
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It thou canst not
With
anything
compare.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sweet to his mate, recumbent o'er his young,
The
nightingale
his spousal anthem sung;
From ev'ry bower the holy chorus rose,
From ev'ry bower the rival anthem flows.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She hath such
tendance
as the dying crave?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He was among the
garrison
of Mayence
when this place was besieged by the Prussians, and obliged to
capitulate after a long and famous siege (from 6th April 1793 to 22nd
July 1793).
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William Wordsworth |
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stod,
&
grantede
him wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" She replied:
"No greater grief than to
remember
days
Of joy, when mis'ry is at hand!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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SWANS
NIGHT is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their
reflection
in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.
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Sara Teasdale |
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speak and
perchance
I shall let myself be softened.
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Aristophanes |
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No crier to the polling summons the eager throng;
No Tribune
breathes
the word of might that guards the weak from
wrong.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A coolness of
twilight
takes
Its way to you at each beat
Whose imprisoned flutter makes
The horizon gently retreat.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My son while he was infant yet, and own'd 660
An infant's mind, could never give consent
That I should wed and leave him; but at length,
Since he hath reached the stature of a man,
He wishes my departure hence, the waste
Viewing
indignant
by the suitors made.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So that not fainting, but
refresht
and astonisht
And strangely spirited and divinely angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--For a man to write well, there
are required three necessaries--to read the best authors, observe the best
speakers, and much exercise of his own style; in style to
consider
what
ought to be written, and after what manner.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued accompaniment a note of
gratitude
for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O hours with all
illusion
rife,
As ere the heart divined what ill meant!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
With these words of cheer they arose and
continued
their journey.
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Longfellow |
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Io non posso negar quel che tu chiedi;
in giu son messo tanto perch' io fui
ladro a la sagrestia d'i belli arredi,
e
falsamente
gia fu apposto altrui.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Oh I would live in myself only
And build my life lightly and still as a dream--
Are not my
thoughts
clearer than your thoughts
And colored like stones in a running stream?
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Sara Teasdale |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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By Sidney and
Clifford
Lanier.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
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Imagists |
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Live: you've nothing to condemn
yourself
for there:
Your passion becomes a commonplace affair.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whathastthouwrought, Or brought, or sought
wherewith
to pay the fee?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The presence of
Chvabrine
and of the crowd around us prevented me from
expressing to him all the feelings which filled my heart.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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we alone of the earth are free;
The child in our cradles is bolder than he;
For where is the heart and
strength
of slaves?
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Tennyson |
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And I choose
Clarence
only for Protector.
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Shakespeare |
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But I look on thee--on thee--
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing
oblivion
beyond memory;
As one who sits and gazes from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump
They dropp'd down one by one.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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 |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" And on the child
The Earl of Halifax
benignly
smiled,
As with her heavy burden she passed on,
Looked back, then turned the corner, and was gone.
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Longfellow |
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Silent the warrior smiled, and pleased resign'd
To tender passions all his mighty mind;
His beauteous
princess
cast a mournful look,
Hung on his hand, and then dejected spoke;
Her bosom laboured with a boding sigh,
And the big tear stood trembling in her eye.
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Iliad - Pope |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Speed the
garment!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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When on that boy the kevil fell
To stay the
fearsome
noise,
"Gae in," they cried, "whate'er betide,
Thou prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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None did dare
To use again the spoken air
Of that far-charming voice, until
A
Christian
resting on the hill,
With a thoughtful smile subdued
(Seeming learnt in solitude)
Which a weeper might have viewed
Without new tears, did softly say,
And looked up unto heaven alway
While he praised the Earth--
"O Earth,
I count the praises thou art worth,
By thy waves that move aloud,
By thy hills against the cloud,
By thy valleys warm and green,
By the copses' elms between,
By their birds which, like a sprite
Scattered by a strong delight
Into fragments musical,
Stir and sing in every bush;
By thy silver founts that fall,
As if to entice the stars at night
To thine heart; by grass and rush,
And little weeds the children pull,
Mistook for flowers!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Let no one in the fort
know
anything
until the time comes.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(63)
Our idol, Honour's motive force,
Round which
revolves
the universe.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And when I use such a phrase as that, I need not
say that I am not alluding to any external
sanction
or command.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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By availing himself of a
singular crisis in public feeling, he had obtained the consent of
the Commons to the
abolition
of the Tribuneship, and had been the
chief of that Council of Ten to which the whole direction of the
state had been committed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"Are you
thinking
of commissions in hand?
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Kipling - Poems |
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DIE KUCHE
She lets the hydrant water run:
He fancies lonely, banal,
bald-headed mountains,
affected
by the daily
caress of the tropical sun,
weeping tears the length of brooks
down their faces and flanks.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LINES TO ELLEN
Tell me, maiden, dost thou use
Thyself thro' Nature to
diffuse?
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Emerson - Poems |
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[Cromek, an anxious and curious inquirer,
informed
me, that the Twa
Dogs was in a half-finished state, when the poet consulted John
Wilson, the printer, about the Kilmarnock edition.
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Robert Forst |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Tennyson |
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Closer yet I
approach
you:
What thought you have of me, I had as much of you--
I laid in my stores in advance;
I considered long and seriously of you before you were born.
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Whitman |
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Clean of the ashes that
Repentance
sprinkled,
The meek head poises like a flower-bell.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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'54 one Plebeian card':
one of Belinda's
opponents
is now out of trumps and discards a low card
on her lead.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken, Christoph Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings
lamentably
chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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In the daytime one hides from
ravening
tigers and in the night from
long serpents, that sharpen their fangs and lick blood, slaying men
like grass.
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Li Po |
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--Sun, who tarries on high, contemplating Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace,
enraptured
foretold.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They rode at a rapid trot, now chatting
together, now watching some stray weasel or rabbit
scuttling
away
in the darkness.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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* * * * *
Are cottages of mud and stone,
By valley wood and glen,
And their calm dwellers little known
Men, and but common men,
That drive afield with carts and
ploughs?
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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At this period of his life he scarcely
slept at all; worked all day and
dissipated
at night.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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refers to giving up a
scholar?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his
sunburnt
forehead slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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PRINCE KURBSKY,
disgraced
Russian noble.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But the words have scarce been spoken, when the ominous
calm is broken,
And a
bellowing
crash has emptied all the vengeance of the storm!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Or love the wers, though
wrecches
on it cryen?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui tremblait dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les dernieres venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux centurions emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns pourrissent dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la
tristesse
disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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XX And soon [37] with this he other matter blended,
Cheerfully uttered, with demeanour kind, 135
But stately in the main; and when he ended, [38]
I could have laughed myself to scorn to find
In that
decrepit
Man so firm a mind.
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This was the last agony, this the goal of the
long ways; thence it was I had
departed
when God landed me on your
coasts.
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me in-to
prisoun!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Who bade the
harassed
maiden's peace return?
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Aeschylus |
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Le lor parole, che rendero a queste
che dette avea colui cu' io seguiva,
non fur da cui venisser manifeste;
ma fu detto: <
con noi venite, e troverete il passo
possibile
a salir persona viva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Rodrigue
But the
infamous
shall not remain above.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Erdman
indicates
that a linking line "must have been dropped in transcribing from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So great the swiftness,
So great, again, the store of idol-things,
And so, when
perishes
the former image,
And other is gendered of another pose,
The former seemeth to have changed its gestures.
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on hand gyfen,
1679;
syððan
ǣrest wearð gyfen .
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Beowulf |
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--Not how shrines of gods
And idols crack
outworn?
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Lucretius |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats |
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A friend to lift the curtain up
That hides from man the mortal goal,
And with glad
thoughts
of faith and hope
Surprise the exulting soul.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It drops as
fiercely
down on us as if
We were to be its prey.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of
luminous
stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He suffered from
rheumatic
fever complicated by an enlarged heart, and died in October 1879, aged eight.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Risposto
fummi: <
che quell' opere fosser?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If there were then extant songs which gave a
vivid and touching
description
of an event, the saddest and the
most glorious in the long history of the Fabian house, nothing
could be more natural than that the panegyrist should borrow from
such songs their finest touches, in order to adorn his speech.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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, _lord of the
hereditary
estate_ (realm): nom.
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Beowulf |
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A
thousand
masses I hear and offer,
Burn oil, wax candles in my hand,
So that success God might ensure,
For striving alone won't climb her stair.
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Troubador Verse |
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130
Aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna
Lux mea se nostrum contulit in gremium,
Quam
circumcursans
hinc illinc saepe Cupido
Fulgebat crocina candidus in tunica.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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they are seeking
Death in life, as best to have:
They are binding up their hearts away from breaking,
With a
cerement
from the grave.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Let me conclude by--the recitation of yet another brief poem--one very
different in
character
from any that I have before quoted.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I'm wife; I've
finished
that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It's safer so.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This year, he says, has
produced
poets in great
abundance.
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Tacitus |
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[2] Honor the etext refund and replacement
provisions
of this
"Small Print!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There shallow draughts
intoxicate
the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Alexander Pope |
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Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd
satisfaction?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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We thought our Union grand, and our
Constitution
grand,
I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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