* * *
When the purple flame shoots up,
And Love ascends his throne,
I cannot hear your songs, O birds,
For the
witchery
of my own.
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Secure, unnoted, Conrad's prow passed by,
And
anchored
where his ambush meant to lie; 600
Screened from espial by the jutting cape,
That rears on high its rude fantastic shape.
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Byron |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of
unlovely
eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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' The catual and his
attendants
prostrated
themselves an the ground, while the Lusians on their bended knees adored
the blessed virgin.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For through the world to-night a murmur thrills
As at some new-born prodigy of time--
Peace dies like twilight bleeding on the hills,
And
Darkness
creeps to hide the hateful crime.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the darkness to betray
The black
embarasst
flood sheared by the stems?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes
outshine
the dying day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How
admirable
the day!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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modified
and printed and given
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Wilde - Poems |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,
The
primitive
chants of the Nile boatmen,
The sacred imperial hymns of China,
To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
A band of bayaderes.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Doth any deem me fool, to hold a fair
Maid in my room and seek no joy, but spare
Her
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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' And in this fashion
All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
Severals and
generals
of grace exact,
Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
Excitements to the field or speech for truce,
Success or loss, what is or is not, serves
As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.
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Shakespeare |
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Lear's works to
have been the prevalent characteristics of the
inhabitants
of
Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He was answered, that he
followed
his father's.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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_Madame_: Do you heare, Sir,
Mere-craft _takes_
Wittipol
_a?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"What is said by a few who are considered as Christians, concerning the
doctrine of Jesus and the precepts of Christianity, is not
designed
for
the wiser, but for the more unlearned and ignorant part of mankind.
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Tacitus |
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But, when we vanish hence,
Shall they lie
forceless
in the dark below,
Save to make green their little length of souls,
Or deepen pansies for a year or two,
Who now to us are shining-sweet as gods?
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James Russell Lowell |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your
sleeping
boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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The man
screamed
and struggled,
And bit madly at the feet of the god.
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Stephen Crane |
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--There be many before thee,
Who have
suffered
and had patience.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Stirred to weeping, the sound of pines replies, and
mournful
streams join our secret sobs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'Neath blood-red hands my young life
withered
there.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is
mastered
now,
And I 'm accustomed to him grown, --
He hurts a little, though.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In spirit-worlds he trod alone,
But walked the earth unmarked, unknown,
The near bystander caught no sound,--
Yet they who
listened
far aloof
Heard rendings of the skyey roof,
And felt, beneath, the quaking ground;
And his air-sown, unheeded words,
In the next age, are flaming swords.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The 'blanks' indeed take on importance, at first glance; the versification demands them, as a surrounding silence, to the extent that a fragment, lyrical or of a few beats, occupies, in its midst, a third of the space of paper: I do not
transgress
the measure, only disperse it.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,
Like petals from a rose,
When
suddenly
across the June
A wind with fingers goes.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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* * * * *
LIFT up your large black satin eyes which are like
cushions
where one
sinks!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
'Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The treasure of a fool is always in his tongue, said the witty comic
poet; {33c} and it appears not in anything more than in that nation,
whereof one, when he had got the inheritance of an unlucky old grange,
would needs sell it; {33d} and to draw buyers
proclaimed
the virtues of
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There were many individuals of dashing appearance, whom I easily
understood as
belonging
to the race of swell pick-pockets with which
all great cities are infested.
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Poe - 5 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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O
Captain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But women dwell in man; our temple is
The honour of man's sensual ecstasy,
Our safety the
imagined
sacredness
Fashion'd about us, fashion'd of his pleasure.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For the same reason the whole
landscape is more variegated and
picturesque
than by day.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Give me the man of sturdy palm
And vigorous brain;
Hearty, companionable, sane,
'Mid all commotions calm,
Yet filled with quick, enthusiastic fire;--
Give me the man
Whose impulses aspire,
And all his
features
seem to say, "I can!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Not so, when diademed with rays divine,
Touched with the flame that breaks from Virtue's shrine,
Her
priestless
muse forbids the good to die,
And opes the temple of Eternity.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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is
frequent
in the vocative, especially
when postponed: "Beowulf lēofa," l.
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Beowulf |
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It ceas'd: 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 - Lyrical Ballads |
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Come 'l segnor ch'ascolta quel che i piace,
da indi
abbraccia
il servo, gratulando
per la novella, tosto ch'el si tace;
cosi, benedicendomi cantando,
tre volte cinse me, si com' io tacqui,
l'appostolico lume al cui comando
io avea detto: si nel dir li piacqui!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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O ill-starred maid, what frenzy caught thy soul
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields
With their feigned lowings, yet no one of them
Of such
unhallowed
union e'er was fain
As with a beast to mate, though many a time
On her smooth forehead she had sought for horns,
And for her neck had feared the galling plough.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Give me a sword,
quick, or a
conviction
tablet.
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Aristophanes |
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Knee, ix, 34,
projection
(of rocks).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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in Italy 171
The Dance 190
A Tale of
Villafranca
195
A Court Lady 200
An August Voice 207
Christmas Gifts 213
Italy and the World 217
A Curse for a Nation 227
LAST POEMS:--
Little Mattie 241
A False Step 246
Void in Law 248
Lord Walter's Wife 252
Bianca among the Nightingales 259
My Kate 267
A Song for the Ragged Schools of London 270
May's Love 279
Amy's Cruelty 280
My Heart and I 284
The Best Thing in the World 287
Where's Agnes?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The speeches of
Falstaff
are as
perfect in their style as the soliloquies of Hamlet.
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Yeats |
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And what in me seems wanting, but that I 450
May also in this poverty as soon
Accomplish
what they did, perhaps and more?
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Milton |
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If folk would but stop attributing to God, motives, opinions, arrangements and likings, which they'd
con|sider
an insult to set down to any wise and good friend of their own, how much useless bother would come to an end!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Poi sorridendo disse: <
nepote di
Costanza
imperadrice;
ond' io ti priego che, quando tu riedi,
vadi a mia bella figlia, genitrice
de l'onor di Cicilia e d'Aragona,
e dichi 'l vero a lei, s'altro si dice.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then come on, come on and yield
A savour like unto a blessed field
When the
bedabbled
morn
Washes the golden ears of corn.
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Robert Herrick |
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Email contact links and up to
date contact
information
can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official page at www.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year,
And
whistled
and roar'd in the winter alone,
Is gone,--and the birch in its stead is grown.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Meantime
let all in Thessaly who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You must haue
patience
Madam
Wife.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A smile
Bat painted on her cheek; and her fix'd gaze
Bent on the point, at which my vision fail'd:
When thus her words
resuming
she began:
"I speak, nor what thou wouldst inquire demand;
For I have mark'd it, where all time and place
Are present.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" Our way
Upright within the rock arose, and fac'd
Such part of heav'n, that from before my steps
The beams were
shrouded
of the sinking sun.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Fresh feeres will dry the bright blue eyes
We late saw
streaming
o'er.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'
But there are others supplied by his own, and his sister's letters, and
also by the
Grasmere
Journal.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au
tournant
d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I turn my body and gaze
longingly
towards the West.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And those bright fireflies wafting in between
And over the swaying cornstalks, just above
All their dark-feathered helmets, like little green
Stars come low and
wandering
here for love
Of this dark earth, and wandering all serene--!
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
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Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,
To which the fainting Traveler might spring,
As springs the
trampled
herbage of the field!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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End of Act II
Act III Scene I (Rodrigue, Elvire)
Elvire
Why are you here, Rodrigue, you
reprobate?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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/ The Second Edition/ Of/ These Poems is inscribed,/, By/ His
Obliged Ward,/ And/
Affectionate
Kinsman,/ The Author.
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Byron |
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Mais a present, le labeur comble, toi, tes calculs, toi,
tes impatiences, ne sont plus que votre danse et votre voix, non fixees
et point forcees, quoique d'un double evenement d'invention et de succes
une liaison, en l'humanite fraternelle est
discrete
par l'univers sans
images;--la force et le droit reflechissent la danse et la voix a
present seulement appreciees.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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From this letter it appears that this epic, to which he owed the laurel
and no small part of his living reputation, had not yet been published,
with the exception of thirty-four verses, which had appeared at Naples
through the
indiscretion
of Barbatus.
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Petrarch |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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To him it seemed to say, 'Stay near to me,' as to Howard it had
said, 'Go yonder, to those other joys and other
sceneries
I have told
you of.
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Yeats |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sergeant
of the Guards
II.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The proper way to read the verses is to make an immense
emphasis
on the
monosyllabic rhymes, which indeed ought to be shouted out by a chorus.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Have they no crafts to mind at home, that
hitherward
they stray?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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THE TRANSFIGURATION
Immortal
clothing
I put on
So soon as, Julia, I am gone
To mine eternal mansion.
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Robert Herrick |
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ONE day it happened, as our beauteous belle
Was sleeping in a wood beside a dell,
By chance there passed, quite near, a wand'ring knight,
Like those the ladies
followed
with delight,
When they on palfreys rode in days of old,
And purity were always thought to hold.
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La Fontaine |
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Tranquil talk was better than any medicine;
Gradually
the feelings came back to my numbed heart.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take 100
From aching brows the aureole crown--
His locks writhed like a cloven snake--
He left his throne to grovel down
And lick the dust of Seraphs' feet:
For what is knowledge duly
weighed?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Folk are more and more
delighted
with it.
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Aristophanes |
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editions
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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blake-poems |
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