Lyde mine, be bold,
Broach the
treasured
Caecuban,
And batter Wisdom in her own stronghold.
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Banquets
and game tables, operas, balls, promenades down the Corso?
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Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with
filthiest
kiss.
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"
"After fifteen years of such religious, almost superstitious
idolatry
and
self-sacrifice!
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Se la gente ch'al mondo piu traligna
non fosse stata a Cesare noverca,
ma come madre a suo figlio benigna,
tal fatto e fiorentino e cambia e merca,
che si sarebbe volto a Simifonti,
la dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
sariesi
Montemurlo
ancor de' Conti;
sarieno i Cerchi nel piovier d'Acone,
e forse in Valdigrieve i Buondelmonti.
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He
spent his days under the oak-shades of Windsor Great Park; and the
magnificent
woodland
was a fitting study to inspire the various
descriptions of forest scenery we find in the poem.
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II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost
labyrinthine
hall.
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Verum id non inpune feres: nam te omnia saecla
Noscent, et qui sis fama
loquetur
anus.
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AUTOMNE MALADE
Automne malade et adore
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neige
Dans les vergers
Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits murs
Au fond du ciel
Des eperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aime
Aux lisieres lointaines
Les cerfs ont brame
Et que j'aime o saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la foret qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille a feuille
Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'ecoule
HOTELS
La chambre est veuve
Chacun pour soi
Presence neuve
On paye au mois
Le patron doute
Payera-t-on
Je tourne en route
Comme un toton
Le bruit des fiacres
Mon voisin laid
Qui fume un acre
Tabac anglais
O La Valliere
Qui boite et rit
De mes prieres
Table de nuit
Et tous ensemble
Dans cet hotel
Savons la langue
Comme a Babel
Fermons nos Portes
A double tour
Chacun apporte
Son seul amour
CORS DE CHASSE
Notre histoire est noble et tragique
Comme le masque d'un tyran
Nul drame
hasardeux
ou magique
Aucun detail indifferent
Ne rend notre amour pathetique
Et Thomas de Quincey buvant
L'opium poison doux et chaste
A sa pauvre Anne allait revant
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
VENDEMIAIRE
Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais a l'epoque ou finissaient les rois
Tour a tour ils mouraient silencieux et tristes
Et trois fois courageux devenaient trismegistes
Que Paris etait beau a la fin de septembre
Chaque nuit devenait une vigne ou les pampres
Repandaient leur clarte sur la ville et la-haut
Astres murs becquetes par les ivres oiseaux
De ma gloire attendaient la vendange de l'aube
Un soir passant le long des quais deserts et sombres
En rentrant a Auteuil j'entendis une voix
Qui chantait gravement se taisant quelquefois
Pour que parvint aussi sur les bords de la Seine
La plainte d'autres voix limpides et lointaines
Et j'ecoutai longtemps tous ces chants et ces cris
Qu'eveillait dans la nuit la chanson de Paris
J'ai soif villes de France et d'Europe et du monde
Venez toutes couler dans ma gorge profonde
Je vis alors que deja ivre dans la vigne Paris
Vendangeait le raisin le plus doux de la terre
Ces grains miraculeux qui aux treilles chanterent
Et Rennes repondit avec Quimper et Vannes
Nous voici o Paris Nos maisons nos habitants
Ces grappes de nos sens qu'enfanta le soleil
Se sacrifient pour te desalterer trop avide merveille
Nous t'apportons tous les cerveaux les cimetieres les murailles
Ces berceaux pleins de cris que tu n'entendras pas
Et d'amont en aval nos pensees o rivieres
Les oreilles des ecoles et nos mains rapprochees
Aux doigts allonges nos mains les clochers
Et nous t'apportons aussi cette souple raison
Que le mystere clot comme une porte la maison
Ce mystere courtois de la galanterie
Ce mystere fatal fatal d'une autre vie
Double raison qui est au-dela de la beaute
Et que la Grece n'a pas connue ni l'Orient
Double raison de la Bretagne ou lame a lame
L'ocean chatre peu a peu l'ancien continent
Et les villes du Nord repondirent gaiement
O Paris nous voici boissons vivantes
Les viriles cites ou degoisent et chantent
Les metalliques saints de nos saintes usines
Nos cheminees a ciel ouvert engrossent les nuees
Comme fit autrefois l'Ixion mecanique
Et nos mains innombrables
Usines manufactures fabriques mains
Ou les ouvriers nus semblables a nos doigts
Fabriquent du reel a tant par heure
Nous te donnons tout cela
Et Lyon repondit tandis que les anges de Fourvieres
Tissaient un ciel nouveau avec la soie des prieres
Desaltere-toi Paris avec les divines paroles
Que mes levres le Rhone et la Saone murmurent
Toujours le meme culte de sa mort renaissant
Divise ici les saints et fait pleuvoir le sang
Heureuse pluie o gouttes tiedes o douleur
Un enfant regarde les fenetres s'ouvrir
Et des grappes de tetes a d'ivres oiseaux s'offrit
Les villes du Midi repondirent alors
Noble Paris seule raison qui vis encore
Qui fixes notre humeur selon ta destinee
Et toi qui te retires Mediterranee
Partagez-vous nos corps comme on rompt des hosties
Ces tres hautes amours et leur danse orpheline
Deviendront o Paris le vin pur que tu aimes
Et un rale infini qui venait de Sicile
Signifiait en battement d'ailes ces paroles
Les raisins de nos vignes on les a vendanges
Et ces grappes de morts dont les grains allonges
Ont la saveur du sang de la terre et du sel
Les voici pour ta soif o Paris sous le ciel
Obscurci de nuees fameliques
Que caresse Ixion le createur oblique
Et ou naissent sur la mer tous les corbeaux d'Afrique
O raisins Et ces yeux ternes et en famille
L'avenir et la vie dans ces treilles s'ennuyent
Mais ou est le regard lumineux des sirenes
Il trompa les marins qu'aimaient ces oiseaux-la
Il ne tournera plus sur l'ecueil de Scylla
Ou chantaient les trois voix suaves et sereines
Le detroit tout a coup avait change de face
Visages de la chair de l'onde de tout
Ce que l'on peut imaginer
Vous n'etes que des masques sur des faces masquees
Il souriait jeune nageur entre les rives
Et les noyes flottant sur son onde nouvelle
Fuyaient en le suivant les chanteuses plaintives
Elles dirent adieu au gouffre et a l'ecueil
A leurs pales epoux couches sur les terrasses
Puis ayant pris leur vol vers le brulant soleil
Les suivirent dans l'onde ou s'enfoncent les astres
Lorsque la nuit revint couverte d'yeux ouverts
Errer au site ou l'hydre a siffle cet hiver
Et j'entendis soudain ta voix imperieuse
O Rome
Maudire d'un seul coup mes anciennes pensees
Et le ciel ou l'amour guide les destinees
Les feuillards repousses sur l'arbre de la croix
Et meme la fleur de lys qui meurt au Vatican
Macerent dans le vin que je t'offre et qui a
La saveur du sang pur de celui qui connait
Une autre liberte vegetale dont tu
Ne sais pas que c'est elle la supreme vertu
Une couronne du triregne est tombee sur les dalles
Les hierarques la foulent sous leurs sandales
O splendeur democratique qui palit
Vienne le nuit royale ou l'on tuera les betes
La louve avec l'agneau l'aigle avec la colombe
Une foule de rois ennemis et cruels
Ayant soif comme toi dans la vigne eternelle
Sortiront de la terre et viendront dans les airs
Pour boire de mon vin par deux fois millenaire
La Moselle et le Rhin se joignent en silence
C'est l'Europe qui prie nuit et jour a Coblence
Et moi qui m'attardais sur le quai a Auteuil
Quand les heures tombaient parfois comme les feuilles
Du cep lorsqu'il est temps j'entendis la priere
Qui joignait la limpidite de ces rivieres
O Paris le vin de ton pays est meilleur que celui
Qui pousse sur nos bords mais aux pampres du nord
Tous les grains ont muri pour cette soif terrible
Mes grappes d'hommes forts saignent dans le pressoir
Tu boiras a longs traits tout le sang de l'Europe
Parce que tu es beau et que seul tu es noble
Parce que c'est dans toi que Dieu peut devenir
Et tous mes vignerons dans ces belles maisons
Qui refletent le soir leurs feux dans nos deux eaux
Dans ces belles maisons nettement blanches et noires
Sans savoir que tu es la realite chantent ta gloire
Mais nous liquides mains jointes pour la priere
Nous menons vers le sel les eaux aventurieres
Et la ville entre nous comme entre des ciseaux
Ne reflete en dormant nul feu dans ses deux eaux
Dont quelque sifflement lointain parfois s'elance
Troublant dans leur sommeil les filles de Coblence
Les villes repondaient maintenant par centaines
Je ne distinguais plus leurs paroles lointaines
Et Treves la ville ancienne
A leur voix melait la sienne
L'univers tout entier concentre dans ce vin
Qui contenait les mers les animaux les plantes
Les cites les destins et les astres qui chantent
Les hommes a genoux sur la rive du ciel
Et le docile fer notre bon compagnon
Le feu qu'il faut aimer comme on s'aime soi-meme
Tous les fiers trepasses qui sont un sous mon front
L'eclair qui luit ainsi qu'une pensee naissante
Tous les noms six par six les nombres un a un
Des kilos de papier tordus comme des flammes
Et ceux-la qui sauront blanchir nos ossements
Les bons vers immortels qui s'ennuient patiemment
Des armees rangees en bataille
Des forets de crucifix et mes demeures lacustres
Au bord des yeux de celle que j'aime tant
Les fleurs qui s'ecrient hors de bouches
Et tout ce que je ne sais pas dire
Tout ce que je ne connaitrai jamais
Tout cela tout cela change en ce vin pur
Dont Paris avait soif
Me fut alors presente
Actions belles journees sommeils terribles
Vegetation Accouplements musiques eternelles
Mouvements Adorations douleur divine
Mondes qui vous rassemblez et qui nous ressemblez
Je vous ai bus et ne fut pas desaltere
Mais je connus des lors quelle saveur a l'univers
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers
Sur le quai d'ou je voyais l'onde couler et dormir les belandres
Ecoutez-moi je suis le gosier de Paris
Et je boirai encore s'il me plait l'univers
Ecoutez mes chants d'universelle ivrognerie
Et la nuit de septembre s'achevait lentement
Les feux rouges des ponts s'eteignaient dans la Seine
Les etoiles mouraient le jour naissait a peine
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Lo, how dismay
Is fallen on the camp in a strange wind:
The ground, that seemed as spread with yellow embers,
Leaps into blazing, and like cinders whirled
And scattered up among the flames, are black
Bands of frantic men
flickering
about!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Laugh at the unshed leaf, say what you will,
Call me in all things what I was before,
A
flutterer
in the wind, a woman still;
I tell you I am what I was and more.
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Behind me did they stretch in solemn train,
Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched
Till all was
tranquil
as a summer sea.
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XIX
Vladimir, hourly more a slave
To
youthful
Olga's beauty bright,
Into delicious bondage gave
His ardent soul with full delight.
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ce
proclaime
thy wisdom with those woders,
Rarer then sommers snowes, or winters thunders.
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John Donne |
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THOU wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine--
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All
wreathed
with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
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Poe - 5 |
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erinne oure lord was ybore; in
Bethleem
iwis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Quintus Fabius and Publius Decius were elected
Censors at a
momentous
crisis.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when
strewing
her glorious presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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"How can you expect me to be
thinking?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Queen Gulnaar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes
bordered
with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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O
miserable
he who sings
Some strain impure, whose numbers fall
Along the cruel wind that brings
Death to some child beneath his wall.
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Hugo - Poems |
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In the
wandering
transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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er ful mony,
552 Sir
Doddinaual
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The mist of eve was rising,
The sun was
hastening
down,
When he was aware of a princely pair
Fast pricking towards the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--this murder wove and planned;
For me, an infant yet in swaddling bands,
Of the three children youngest, Atreus sent
To banishment by my sad father's side:
But Justice brought me home once more, grown now
To manhood's years; and stranger tho' I was,
My right hand reached unto the chieftain's life,
Plotting and
planning
all that malice bade.
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Aeschylus |
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Contraries
are not mixed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Man is a lumpe 193
84-7 To the
Countesse
of Bedford.
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John Donne |
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So is he mine: and in such bloody distance,
That euery minute of his being, thrusts
Against my neer'st of Life: and though I could
With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight,
And bid my will auouch it; yet I must not,
For certaine friends that are both his, and mine,
Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall,
Who I my selfe struck downe: and thence it is,
That I to your assistance doe make loue,
Masking the Businesse from the common Eye,
For sundry
weightie
Reasons
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Translated
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STORK, author of "Sea and Bay," etc.
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Phials full of sinister fluids, alternating with
shining knives and
instruments
of surgery, hung from this living girdle.
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Swythynne
flie from mee, and ne further saie;
Radher thanne heare thie love, I woulde bee dead.
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But this soul-nest is also a
cemetery
of the seven
sorrows.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Hence, further, every creature--any one
From out them all--compounded is the same
Of bones, blood, veins, heat, moisture, flesh, and thews--
All differing vastly in their forms, and built
Of
elements
dissimilar in shape.
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Boccaccio's Garden and its faery,
The love, the joyaunce, and the
gallantry!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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After the _Aeneid_, the epic style must be of
this fashion:
Ibant ovscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna:
Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna
Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum
condidit
umbra
Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Its subject was taken
from the old cycle of Arthurian legends, which were
brightened
with the
terrorless magic of Ariosto and Tasso.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I Tiresias, old man with
wrinkled
dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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"Alone" is stated to have been written by Poe in the album of
a
Baltimore
lady (Mrs.
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' The
change is unnecessary if we consider the
conditional
clause
as an after-thought on the part of Fitzdottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He was also attracted by El Greco--not an
unnatural admiration, considering the sombre
extravagance
of his own
genius.
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And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping
blindness
stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains
Rehumanizing from the Spectre in pangs of maternal love
Ingrate they wanderd scorning her drawing her life majesticSpectrous Life
Repelling her away & away by a dread repulsive power
Into Non Entity revolving around in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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God's said to dwell there,
wheresoever
He, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Moving my spirit past the last defence
That shieldeth mortal things from mightier sight, Where freedom of the soul knows no alloy,
I saw what forms the lordly powers employ; Three splendours, saw I, of high holiness, From clarity to clarity ascending
Through all the roofless, tacit courts
extending
In aether which such subtle light doth bless
As ne'er the candles of the stars hath wooed; Know ye herefrom of their similitude.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Jesus is sent to Herod, who,
expecting
to see a miracle, is disappointed.
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It has caused too much stir to be allowed,
And already the King its end has vowed;
You know my soul,
sensitive
to your pain,
Will work to quench it at its source again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad:
vnnaturall
deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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V
The council ends, and that King Marsilie
Calleth aside Clarun of Balaguee,
Estramarin
and Eudropin his peer,
And Priamun and Guarlan of the beard,
And Machiner and his uncle Mahee,
With Jouner, Malbien from over sea,
And Blancandrin, good reason to decree:
Ten hath he called, were first in felony.
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Chanson de Roland |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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One hears the towering
creature
rend the seas,
Frustrated, cowering, and his pleas ignored.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He
returned
to the game, staked fifty
thousand rubles on each card, and came out ahead, after paying his
debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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As I say, this
Mistress
Elbow, being, as
I say, with child, and being great-bellied, and longing, as I
said, for prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,
Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the rest, as I
said, and, as I say, paying for them very honestly; for, as you
know, Master Froth, I could not give you three pence again-
FROTH.
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Shakespeare |
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For
certeynly
no suche [a] beeste
To be loved is not worthy,
Or bere the name of druery.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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a
thoughtful
Swain, upon whose head 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Art thou there
already?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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These hands have helped it go and even race;
Not all the motion, though, they ever lent,
Not all the miles it may have thought it went,
Have got it one step from the
starting
place.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Wilbur, who seems to Slave been a tolerable Latin scholar after the
fashion of his day, yet we have
determined
to print them here, partly as
belonging to the _res gestae_ of this collection, and partly as a
warning to their putative author which may keep him from such indecorous
pranks for the future.
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James Russell Lowell |
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at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
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Aeschylus |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe
everywhere
in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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When twenty, Horace was a student of
philosophy
at Athens.
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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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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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"Hearken, O poet, whom I led
From the dark wood:
dismissing
dread,
Now hear this angel in my stead.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Lucas_
_REQUIESCANT_
In lonely watches night by night
Great visions burst upon my sight,
For down the
stretches
of the sky
The hosts of dead go marching by.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I then would die,
And my last
thoughts
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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these, and more, are flashing to us from the procession;
As it moves changing, a
kaleidoscope
divine it moves changing before us.
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Whitman |
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Here he renewed his
studies, and began his poem on the
discovery
of India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_There is a growing
desire to
overrate
them.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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--Read before the Sons of the
Revolution, New-York,
February
22, 1887, and adopted as the poem of the
Society.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their
habitation
chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A
chatterbox
will one day be his death!
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_ He came by stealth, and unlocked my
den,
And I have drunk the blood since then
Of thrice three hundred
thousand
men.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But nature is a stranger yet;
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor
simplified
her ghost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thus in 1833:--
Remember you that pleasant day
When, after roving in the woods,
('Twas April then) I came and lay
Beneath those gummy chestnut bud
That
glistened
in the April blue,
Upon the slope so smooth and cool,
I lay and never thought of _you_,
But angled in the deep mill pool.
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Tennyson |
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To
comprehend
a nectar
Requires sorest need.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Before all my tinder
Dies away into coals, coals then to ashes decline,
She will be back and new faggots as well as big logs will be blazing,
Making a
festival
where lovers will warm up the night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We hear the warlike
clarions
we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in indolence reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
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Blake - Zoas |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The rough roar
Shakes the brown tents on Ganges'
trembling
shore;
The waves of Indus from the banks recoil;
And matrons, howling on the strand of Nile,
By the pale moon, their absent sons deplore:
Long shall they wail; their sons return no more.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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]
[Sidenote C: The image of the Virgin was
depicted
upon his shield.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Quiv' era l'Aretin che da le braccia
fiere di Ghin di Tacco ebbe la morte,
e l'altro ch'annego
correndo
in caccia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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and so
propitious
gales
Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails;
But if thy impious hands the flocks destroy,
The gods, the gods avenge it, and ye die!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his
thoughts
of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He's a Moppsikon
Floppsikon
bear!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The deadly diamonds shining in their crowns
Do wound the
foreheads
of their Majesties
And glitter through a setting of blood-gouts
As if they smiled to think how men are slain
By the sharp facets of the gem of power,
And how the kings of men are slaves of stones.
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Sidney Lanier |
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TO A NEW PASSION By William Laird
O newcome Passion, furious charioteer,
With whip, reins, voice ruling the steeds diverse
That whirl along my life, what height or gulf
Gave birth to thee, what Might poured forth thy
strength?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A demon constellation shook the Pole Star, the aura of killing lay level over the
imperial
tombs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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