The eternal gates
terrific
porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
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For
needfully
bihoveth it not to be
That thilke thinges fallen in certayn 1005
That ben purveyed; but nedely, as they seyn,
Bihoveth it that thinges, whiche that falle,
That they in certayn ben purveyed alle.
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How long I stayed alone
With the corpse I never knew,
For I fainted dead as stone:
When I came to life once more
I was down upon the floor,
With
neighbors
making ado
To bring me back to life.
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The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestination
round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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"
IL CUORE
Ronsard me
celebroit!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There are no
artistic
abominations upon the walls.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My
direction
for two or three weeks will be at Mr.
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She's past the bridge that's in the dale,
And now the thought
torments
her sore,
Johnny perhaps his horse forsook,
To hunt the moon that's in the brook,
And never will be heard of more.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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, _night-bale,
destruction
by night_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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contemporary
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Villon |
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"In the
beginning
was the _Word_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Born,
September
5th, 1751--Died, 16th October 1774.
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Here days and night are divided into seasons of conduct and governed
by rules of
blameless
accuracy.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,
Left the warm
precincts
of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
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Golden Treasury |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A patch of
flowering
grass,
low, trailing--
you brushed this:
the green stems show yellow-green
where you lifted--turned the earth-side
to the light:
this and a dead leaf-spine,
split across,
show where you passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cool upon his brow
The quiet
darkness
brooded, as he scanned
The starry sky.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With
thousands
upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Ronsard |
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Things are cheap in
proportion
as they are common;
For two farthings, I buy a whole bundle.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He suddenly caught the wonted flame, and the
heat known of old pierced him to the heart and overran his melting
frame: even as when, bursting from the thunder peal, a sparkling cleft
of fire shoots through the storm-clouds with
dazzling
light.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Whoever laughs
somewhere
out in the night
Laughs without cause in the night
Laughs at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words
attitudes
ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, Tanner 306, in the
Bodleian
Library:
To my ever to be respected friend
M^r John Done secretary to my
Lord Keeper give these.
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
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XXV
And so
Tattiana
was her name,
Nor by her sister's brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The cynosure of every eye.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They said, "This is a
dreadful
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"A
HELPMEET
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Christina Rossetti |
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Soon, however, I
descended
to details, and regarded
with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, air,
gait, visage, and expression of countenance.
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Poe - 5 |
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Villages burned down to dust,
Torture, murder, bestial lust,
Filth too foul for printer's ink,
Crime from which the apes would shrink--
Strange the offerings that you press
On the God of
Righteousness!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In a happier strain he remembered Matthew
Henderson: this is one of the
sweetest
as well as happiest of his
poetic compositions.
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Edited with Notes and an
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Byron |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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For what may we surmise
A blow
inflicted
can achieve besides
Shaking asunder and loosening all apart?
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Lucretius |
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"Then
carelessly
remark 'Old coon!
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Or with your mother and
sisters?
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"
Under the stars the air was light
But dark below the boughs,
The still air of the
speechless
night,
When lovers crown their vows.
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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The
bulkhead
double-doors were double-locked
And swollen tight and buried under snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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`For al-so seur as day cometh after night,
The newe love, labour or other wo,
Or elles selde seinge of a wight,
Don olde
affecciouns
alle over-go.
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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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4340
I drede, certeyn, that so fare I;
For hope and
travaile
sikerly
Ben me biraft al with a storm;
The floure nil seden of my corn.
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Towards the close it is
suggested
that, caught in a cunning
spring set for another, they have met, or may meet, with a violent and
sudden death.
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Lord Byron's/ Tales:/
Consisting
of/ The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos,/
The Corsair, Lara;/ With all the Notes:/ Hebrew Melodies,/ and other
Poems.
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Byron |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the
windflower
playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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accept from all
My stores
selected
as the richest far
And noblest gift for finish'd beauty--This.
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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I
don't think I had any special
hankering
to write poetry as a
little child, though I was of a very fanciful and dreamy nature.
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lēoht
unfǣger
(_an
uncanny light issued from his eyes_), 727; so, þæt [fram] þām gyste
[gryre-] brōga stōd, 2229.
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Beowulf |
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Or how borne by the ship to the
yeasting
shore-line of Dia
Came she?
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(_The sound of a
mountain
horn floats on the air.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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They were making for the steeple,--the old soldier and his people;
The pigeons circled round us as we climbed the
creaking
stair,
Just across the narrow river--O, so close it made me shiver!
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)
Les minutes, mortel folatre, sont des gangues
Qu'il ne faut pas lacher sans en
extraire
l'or!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thompson
24 _gener
socerque_
Verg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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CHORUS
But hast thou proof, to make
assurance
sure?
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_Horum annorum, quos in fastis habemus, MAGNUS
annos duodecim millia
nonagentos
quinquaginta quatuor amplectitur
solstitiales scilicet.
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Tacitus |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The spirit was silent; but he took
Mortar and stone to build a wall;
He left no loophole great or small
Through which my straining eyes might look: 20
So now I sit here quite alone
Blinded with tears; nor grieve for that,
For nought is left worth looking at
Since my
delightful
land is gone.
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And about all old friends and old times," added Pagett,
detecting with quick insight a look of
disappointment
in the mechanic's
face.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I have therefore
supplied titles of my own to such pieces as bear none in the original
edition: wherever a real title appears in that edition, I have
retained
it.
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Whitman |
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The fallow fields glitter like water indeed,
And
gossamers
twitter, flung from weed unto weed.
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John Clare |
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Patroclus
now the unwilling beauty brought;
She, in soft sorrows, and in pensive thought,
Pass'd silent, as the heralds held her hand,
And of look'd back, slow-moving o'er the strand.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with
clapping
him.
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
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_ And how not hear the fly-whirled virgin,
Daughter of Inachus, who Zeus' heart warmed
With love, and now the courses over long,
By Here hated, forcedly
performs?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Yet peach-bloom bright as April saw
Blushed there anew, in blood that flowed
O'er faces white with death-dealt awe;
And ruddy flowers of warfare grew,
Though withering winds as of the desert blew,
Far at the right while Ewell and Early,
Plunging
at Slocum and Wadsworth and Greene,
Thundered in onslaught consummate and surly;
Till trembling nightfall crept between
And whispered of rest from the heat of the whelming strife.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A pleader, a dissembler,
An epicure, a thief, --
Betimes an oratorio,
An ecstasy in chief;
The Jesuit of orchards,
He cheats as he enchants
Of an entire attar
For his
decamping
wants.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
Swift as the word, advancing from the crowd,
He made obeisance, and thus spoke aloud:
"Vouchsafes the
reverend
stranger to display
His manly worth, and share the glorious day?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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suffred
ap{ro}chen
to ?
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Imagists |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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gongan wolde (_still he would not yet go out_), 2082; gēn is eall æt þē
lissa gelong (_yet all my favor belongs to thee_), 2150; þā gēn, _then
again_, 2678, 2703; swā hē nū gēn dēð, _as he still does_, 2860; furður
gēn,
_further
still, besides_, 3007; nū gēn, _now again_, 3169; ne gēn, _no
more, no farther_: ne wæs þæt wyrd þā gēn, _that was no more fate_ (fate no
longer willed that), 735.
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Beowulf |
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I am not gone to Elysium, most noble colonel, but am still here in
this sublunary world, serving my God, by
propagating
his image, and
honouring my king by begetting him loyal subjects.
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Robert Burns |
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the
memories
that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine fashion) Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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How solemn, as one by one,
As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty--as the men file by where I
stand;
As the faces, the masks appear--as I glance at the faces, studying the
masks;
As I glance upward out of this page, studying you, dear friend, whoever you
are;--
How solemn the thought of my
whispering
soul, to each in the ranks, and to
you!
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Whitman |
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What need I then despair,
Though ills stand round about me;
Since
mischiefs
neither dare
To bark or bite without Thee?
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Robert Herrick |
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And all preparation is for it--and identity is for it--and life and
materials
are altogether for it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
And one
boundless
reach of sky.
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Longfellow |
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Fui
chiamato
Currado Malaspina;
non son l'antico, ma di lui discesi;
a' miei portai l'amor che qui raffina>>.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It breaks the
sunlight
bound on bound:
Goes singing as it leaps along
To sheep-bells with a dreamy sound
A dreamy song.
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Christina Rossetti |
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