(So call him, for so mingling blame with praise
And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends,
Masking his birth-name, wont to character
His wild-wood fancy and
impetuous
zeal)
'Tis true that, passionate for ancient truths,
And honouring with religious love the Great
Of older times, he hated to excess,
With an unquiet and intolerant scorn,
The hollow puppets of an hollow age,
Ever idolatrous, and changing ever
Its worthless idols!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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After doing so, he addressed a
letter of
compliment
to Milton, the terms of
which evince the strong admiration with which
his illustrious friend had inspired him.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Nor they cannot sate their lust
By merely gazing on the bodies, nor
They cannot with their palms and fingers rub
Aught from each tender limb, the while they stray
Uncertain
over all the body.
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Lucretius |
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Gutenberg
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methods and addresses.
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Stephen Crane |
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LFS}
Enion said--Thy fear has made me tremble thy terrors have
surrounded
me *{this verse paragraph appears to be an insertion over erased text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly penetrate her--
she opening to you,
engulfing
you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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XXXVII
A gentle youth, his dearely loved Squire, 320
His speare of heben wood behind him bare,
Whose harmefull head, thrice heated in the fire,
Had riven many a brest with
pikehead
square:
A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit, 325
Who under him did trample?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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BOOK FIFTH
THE GAMES OF THE FLEET
Meanwhile Aeneas and his fleet in unwavering track now held mid passage,
and cleft the waves that
blackened
under the North, looking back on the
city that even now gleams with hapless Elissa's funeral flame.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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You should be buried in the desert out of sight
And not a dog should howl
miscarried
moans
Over your foul bones.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE SINGING WIRE
Ethereal, faint that music rang,
As, with the bosom of the breeze,
It rose and fell and
murmuring
sang
Aeolian harmonies!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For if you were by my
unkindness
shaken,
As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time;
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffer'd in your crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Pope,
skimming the cream of good sense and expression wherever he could find
it, had made, not exactly poetry, but an honest, salable butter of
worldly wisdom which pleasantly lubricated some of the drier morsels of
life's daily bread, and, seeing this, scores of
harmlessly
insane people
went on for the next fifty years coaxing his buttermilk with the regular
up and down of the pentameter churn.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The wavering corn is like gold, still,
Perhaps not so rich nor so hale,
Roses with
greetings
unfold still,
Be though their bloom something pale.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
poetic genius of my country found me, as the
prophetic
bard Elijah did
Elisha--at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over
me.
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Robert Burns |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of
scorching
steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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nay, and, to be noted, live
like
Antipodes
to others in the same city?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Lucretius |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ah why refuse the
blameless
bliss?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Rodrigue is dead, or
languishing
in prison.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then here
contented
will I lie!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"Well: Love and Pain
Be
kinsfolk
twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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--
_I watch thee as thou art,
I will accept thy
fainting
heart, be strong.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ich bin sonst allen
Menschen
gut;
Aber wie ich mich sehne, dich zu schauen,
Hab ich vor dem Menschen ein heimlich Grauen,
Und halt ihn fur einen Schelm dazu!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Round the wide world are sought those men divine
Who public structures raise, or who design;
Those to whose eyes the gods their ways reveal,
Or bless with salutary arts to heal;
But chief to poets such respect belongs,
By rival nations courted for their songs;
These states invite, and mighty kings admire,
Wide as the sun
displays
his vital fire.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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et serie fulcite genus: mihi cumba uolenti
soluitur
aucturis tot mea fata meis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
The pupils sat, all grinning,
And
rejoiced
in the game.
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Stephen Crane |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No brimming
tankards
flow.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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) But men chose this to do
Less in the hope of conquering than to give
Their enemies a goodly cause of woe,
Even though thereby they
perished
themselves,
Since weak in numbers and since wanting arms.
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Lucretius |
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In order that the reader may judge fairly of these fragments of
the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a
Plebeian
who has
just voted for the reelection of Sextius and Licinius.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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at veyne
ymaginac{i}ou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Who will say that he saw, as
midnight
struck
Its tremulous golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Every traveller I've ever known has complained of poor treatment:
He whom I recommend
treatment
delicious receives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Such as the
proudest
hearts may feel
When great joy or great good they see!
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Troubador Verse |
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'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A line ending with a
"level" has
consequently
to some extent the effect of a "feminine
ending.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
When the prophet, a complacent fat
man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my
knowledge!
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Stephen Crane |
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THE rank of 'squire till lately he had claimed;
Now scarcely was he even mister named;
Of wealth by Cupid's stratagems bereft,
A single farm was all the man had left;
Friends very few, and such as God alone,
Could tell if friendship they might not disown;
The best were led their pity to express;
'Twas all he got: it could not well be less;
To lend without security was wrong,
And former favours they'd forgotten long;
With all that
Frederick
could or say or do,
His liberal conduct soon was lost to view.
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La Fontaine |
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WITH all her art th'
enchantress
could not find,
A charm to guard her 'gainst the urchin blind;
Though she'd the pow'r to stop the star of day,
She burned to gain a being formed of clay.
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La Fontaine |
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So I say,
neighbor!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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Dark all without it knits ; within
It opens
passable
and thin.
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Marvell - Poems |
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this flesh how it
crumbles
to dust and is blown!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl,
How
charmingly
sweet you sing!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'I ask no bauble miniature,
Nor
ringlets
dead
Shorn from her comely head,
Now that morning not disdains
Mountains and the misty plains
Her colossal portraiture;
They her heralds be,
Steeped in her quality,
And singers of her fame
Who is their Muse and dame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Crowded--can we believe,
not in utter disgust,
in
ironical
play--
but the maker of cities grew faint
with the beauty of temple
and space before temple,
arch upon perfect arch,
of pillars and corridors that led out
to strange court-yards and porches
where sun-light stamped
hyacinth-shadows
black on the pavement.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat together and thus
conversed
in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a
thousand
errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He answered 'Do not so;
Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
But stay the very riping of the time;
And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
Let it not enter in your mind of love;
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship, and such fair ostents of love
As shall
conveniently
become you there.
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Shakespeare |
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We will not line his thin
bestained
cloak
With our pure honours, nor attend the foot
That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
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Shakespeare |
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nous secouerons toute la nuit les sistres
La voix ligure etait-ce donc un talisman
Et si tu n'es pas de droite tu es sinistre
Comme une tache grise ou le pressentiment
Puisque l'absolu choit la chute est une preuve
Qui double devient triple avant d'avoir ete
Nous avouerons que les grossesses nous emeuvent
Les ventres pourront seuls nier l'aseite
Vois les vases sont pleins d'humides fleurs morales
Va-t'en mais denude puisque tout est a nous
Ouis du choeur des vents les
cadences
plagales
Et prends l'arc pour tuer l'unicorne ou le gnou
L'ombre equivoque et tendre est le deuil de ta chair
Et sombre elle est humaine et puis la notre aussi
Va-t'en le crepuscule a des lueurs legeres
Et puis aucun de nous ne croirait tes recits
Il brillait et attirait comme la pantaure
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
Et les femmes la nuit feignant d'etre des taures
L'eussent aime comme on l'aima puisqu'en effet
Il etait pale il etait beau comme un roi ladre
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Au lieu du roseau triste et du funebre faix
Que n'alla-t-il vivre a la cour du roi D'Edesse
Maigre et magique il eut scrute le firmament
Pale et magique il eut aime des poetesses
Juste et magique il eut epargne les demons
Va-t'en errer credule et roux avec ton ombre
Soit!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Seek honest gains, without
pretence!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A neat
and
substantial
monument is to be erected over his remains, with a Latin
epitaph written by himself; for he was accustomed to say, pleasantly,
"that there was at least one occasion in a scholar's life when he might
show the advantages of a classical training.
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James Russell Lowell |
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It ceased; yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the
sleeping
woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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OSWALD Stoop for a moment; 'tis an act of justice;
And where's the triumph if the delegate
Must fall in the
execution
of his office?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Suddenly
three black hands holding
extinguishers come through the window and extinguish
the torches.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
keeping this work in the same format with its
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Though to both that couch be free,
I keep the scaffold block
reserved
for me.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Created by the Lamb of God around
On all sides within & without the Universal Man
The Daughters of Beulah follow sleepers in all their Dreamst
Creating Spaces lest they fall into Eternal Death
The Circle of Destiny
complete
they gave to it a Space
And namd the Space Ulro & brooded over it in care & love*
{this entire passage is written vertically down the right margin and appears to have been first entered lightly (pencil?
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Blake - Zoas |
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This thawed to life in Uncle Reuben's throat
A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote, 410
Like those queer fish that doze the
droughts
away,
And wait for moisture, wrapped in sun-baked clay;
This warmed the one-eyed fiddler to his task,
Perched in the corner on an empty cask,
By whose shrill art rapt suddenly, some boor
Rattled a double-shuffle on the floor;
"Hull's Victory" was, indeed, the favorite air,
Though "Yankee Doodle" claimed its proper share.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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My hours with rapture fill'd,
Which no
suspicion
wrongs;
And all the blandishments distill'd
From all my songs.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But Khoda shefa midehed--Heaven gives relief--as the
Mussulmans
say when
you tread upon their toes.
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Poe - 5 |
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Sliding between her raiment and smooth breasts, it
coils without touch, and instils its
viperous
breath unseen; the great
serpent turns into the twisted gold about her neck, turns into the long
ribbon of her chaplet, inweaves her hair, and winds slippery over her
body.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Talk of
interpolation
here is absurd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Zeuxis and Parrhasius are said to be
contemporaries; the first found out the reason of lights and shadows in
picture, the other more
subtlely
examined the line.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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HALBHEXE
(unten):
Ich tripple nach, so lange Zeit;
Wie sind die andern schon so weit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
Came
children
walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the fountains draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted,
guardian
once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I was
disappointed
in the size of
the river here; it appeared shrunk to a mere mountain-stream.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This indisputable axiom has been
ignored more in
theories
about ballads--about epic material--than in
theories about the epics themselves.
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
drifting
cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Elvire
Happily this fear shall
disappoint
you.
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For the crimson flower of our life is eaten by
the
cankerworm
of truth,
And no hand can gather up the fallen withered
petals of the rose of youth.
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Wilde - Poems |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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And doun from thennes faste he gan avyse
This litel spot of erthe, that with the see 1815
Embraced
is, and fully gan despyse
This wrecched world, and held al vanitee
To respect of the pleyn felicitee
That is in hevene above; and at the laste,
Ther he was slayn, his loking doun he caste; 1820
And in him-self he lough right at the wo
Of hem that wepten for his deeth so faste;
And dampned al our werk that folweth so
The blinde lust, the which that may not laste,
And sholden al our herte on hevene caste.
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qu'ont donc crie ces entrecotes
Ces grands pates ces os a moelle et mirotons
Langues de feu ou sont-elles mes pentecotes
Pour mes pensees de tous pays de tous les temps
CHANTRE
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
CREPUSCULE
A Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin
Frolee par les ombres des morts
Sur l'herbe ou le jour s'extenue
L'arlequine s'est mise nue
Et dans l'etang mire son corps
Un charlatan crepusculaire
Vante les tours que l'on va faire
Le ciel sans teinte est constelle
D'astres pales comme du lait
Sur les treteaux l'arlequin bleme
Salue d'abord les spectateurs
Des sorciers venus de Boheme
Quelques fees et les enchanteurs
Ayant decroche une etoile
Il la manie a bras tendu
Tandis que des pieds un pendu
Sonne en mesure les cymbales
L'aveugle berce un bel enfant
La biche passe avec ses faons
Le nain regarde d'un air triste
Grandir l'arlequin trismegiste
ANNIE
Sur la cote du Texas
Entre Mobile et Galveston il y a
Un grand jardin tout plein de roses
Il contient aussi une villa
Qui est une grande rose
Une femme se promene souvent
Dans le jardin toute seule
Et quand je passe sur la route bordee de tilleuls
Nous nous regardons
Comme cette femme est mennonite
Ses rosiers et ses vetements n'ont pas de boutons
Il en manque deux a mon veston
La dame et moi suivons presque le meme rite
LA MAISON DES MORTS
A Maurice Raynal
S'etendant sur les cotes du cimetiere
La maison des morts l'encadrait comme un cloitre
A l'interieur de ses vitrines
Pareilles a celles des boutiques de modes
Au lieu de sourire debout
Les mannequins grimacaient pour l'eternite
Arrive a Munich depuis quinze ou vingt jours
J'etais entre pour la premiere fois et par hasard
Dans ce cimetiere presque desert
Et je
claquais
des dents
Devant toute cette bourgeoisie
Exposee et vetue le mieux possible
En attendant la sepulture
Soudain
Rapide comme ma memoire
Les yeux ses rallumerent
De cellule vitree en cellule vitree
Le ciel se peupla d'une apocalypse
Vivace
Et la terra plate a l'infini
Comme avant Galilee
Se couvrit de mille mythologies immobiles
Un ange en diamant brisa toutes les vitrines
Et les morts m'accosterent
Avec des mines de l'autre monde
Mais leur visage et leurs attitudes
Devinrent bientot moins funebres
Le ciel et la terre perdirent
Leur aspect fantasmagorique
Les morts se rejouissaient
De voir leurs corps trepasses entre eux et la lumiere
Ils riaient de voir leur ombre et l'observaient
Comme si veritablement
C'eut ete leur vie passee
Alors je les denombrai
Ils etaient quarante-neuf hommes
Femmes et enfants
Qui embellissaient a vue d'oeil
Et me regardaient maintenant
Avec tant de cordialite
Tant de tendresse meme
Que les prenant en amitie
Tout a coup
Je les invitai a une promenade Loin des arcades de leur maison
Et tous bras dessus bras dessous
Fredonnant des airs militaires
Oui tous vos peches sont absous
Nous quittames le cimetiere
Nous traversames la ville
Et rencontrions souvent
Des parents des amis qui se joignaient
A la petite troupe des morts recents
Tous etaient si gais
Si charmants si bien portants
Que bien malin qui aurait pu
Distinguer les morts des vivants
Puis dans la campagne
On s'eparpilla
Deux chevau-legers nous joignirent
On leur fit fete
Ils couperent du bois de viorne
Et de sureau
Dont ils firent des sifflets
Qu'ils distribuerent aux enfants
Plus tard dans un bal champetre
Les couples mains sur les epaules
Danserent au son aigre des cithares
Ils n'avaient pas oublie la danse
Ces morts et ces mortes
On buvait aussi
Et de temps a autre une cloche
Annoncait qu'un autre tonneau
Allait etre mis en perce
Une morte assise sur un banc
Pres d'un buisson d'epine-vinette
Laissait un etudiant
Agenouille a ses pieds
Lui parler de fiancailles
Je vous attendrai
Dix ans vingt ans s'il le faut
Votre volonte sera la mienne
Je vous attendrai
Toute votre vie
Repondait la morte
Des enfants
De ce monde ou bien de l'autre
Chantaient de ces rondes
Aux paroles absurdes et lyriques
Qui sans doute sont les restes
Des plus anciens monuments poetiques
De l'humanite
L'etudiant passa une bague
A l'annulaire de la jeune morte
Voici le gage de mon amour
De nos fiancailles
Ni le temps ni l'absence
Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses
Et un jour nous auront une belle noce
Des touffes de myrte
A nos vetements et dans vos cheveux
Un beau sermon a l'eglise
De longs discours apres le banquet
Et de la musique
De la musique
Nos enfants
Dit la fiancee
Seront plus beaux plus beaux encore
Helas!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Service without
recompense
-
A Breton's hope has equal sense -
Makes a slave of a noble lord,
By custom and usage, set apart.
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I shunned his eyes, that
faithful
man's,
I shunned the toiling Hassan's glance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I do not
remember
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Rilke - Poems |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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--Thy Monarch calleth,
Rise, O Subject, and follow Him:
He is
stronger
than Death or Devil,
Fear not thou if the foe be grim.
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