So they gathered cones together,
Gathered seed-cones of the pine-tree,
Gathered blue cones of the fir-tree,
In the woods by Taquamenaw,
Brought them to the river's margin,
Heaped them in great piles together,
Where the red rocks from the margin
Jutting
overhang
the river.
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When they are gone, to each his fair domain,
In his Chapelle at Aix will Charles stay,
High
festival
will hold for Saint Michael.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Within that fairest form, the female mind,
Untainted by the poison clouds which rest
On the dark world, a sacred home did find: _975
But else, from the wide earth's maternal breast,
Victorious Evil, which had dispossessed
All native power, had those fair children torn,
And made them slaves to soothe his vile unrest,
And minister to lust its joys forlorn, _980
Till they had learned to breathe the
atmosphere
of scorn.
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Say the Saints--Fresh Souls increase us,
None
languish
nor recede.
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For wher-so men had pleyd or waked,
Me thoghte the felawship as naked
Withouten
hir, that saw I ones,
As a coroune withoute stones.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There are howling shells below me, and my
bursting
bombs reply.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Waddy's story were true,
he was, argued his wife,
untrustworthy
to the last degree.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Therefore, with wary warning, school my son,
Though he be
lessoned
by the gods already,
To curb the vaunting that affronts high Heaven!
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Aeschylus |
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Such
controversies
or disputations
(carried with more labour than profit) are odious; where most times the
truth is lost in the midst or left untouched.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He was for Hrothgar of heroes the dearest,
of trusty vassals betwixt the seas,
whom she killed on his couch, a
clansman
famous,
in battle brave.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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charities and
charitable
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States.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"God knows that for myself I've scanty care;
Past
scrimmages
have proved as much to all;
In Eastern lands and South I've had my share
Both of the blade and ball.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--
Yet silenced cannot be this throbbing
Which
dolefulness
alone dispels.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'twas
sunlight
to my heart.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Southey printed
selections
from
Donne's poems in his _Select Works of the British Poets from
Chaucer to Jonson_ (1831).
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John Donne |
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Their faith the
everlasting
troth;
Their expectation fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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[SHE
APPROACHES
HIM SOLEMNLY.
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Shelley |
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quis huic deo
compararier
ausit?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Rather, instantly
Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should,
Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare,
And let these bands of greenery which
insphere
thee,
Drop heavily down,--burst, shattered everywhere!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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GD}
For Elemental Gods their
thunderous
Organs blew; creating
Delicious Viands.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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That "irresistible needle-touch,"
as one of her best critics has called it,
piercing
at once the very
core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as
it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling
power.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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mittitur
infestos alter speculator in hostis,
in riuale oculos alter, ut hoste, tenet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus
choosing
one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Early or late, the falling rain
Arrived in time to swell his grain;
Stream could not so
perversely
wind
But corn of Guy's was there to grind:
The siroc found it on its way,
To speed his sails, to dry his hay;
And the world's sun seemed to rise
To drudge all day for Guy the wise.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In
compliance
with these instructions, the freedman returned at once to Domitian, when he found Agricola on his passage to Rome According to Dion (liii.
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Tacitus |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who says it, knows not God, nor love, nor thee;
For love is large as is yon heavenly dome:
In love's great blue, each passion is full free
To fly his
favorite
flight and build his home.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of withered oak and
shrouded
fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O Queen o'er Argos throned high,
O Woman, sister of the twain,
God's Horsemen, stars without a stain,
Whose home is in the
deathless
sky,
Whose glory in the sea's wild pain,
Toiling to succour men that die:
Long years above us hast thou been,
God-like for gold and marvelled power:
Ah, well may mortal eyes this hour
Observe thy state: All hail, O Queen!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet I had thought you were of those that praised
Whatever
life could make the pulse run quickly,
Even though it were brief, and that you held
That a free gift was better than a forced.
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Yeats |
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Too close a secret
overwhelms
me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Do you fear to lose
yourself
on Hercules' track?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whence
is this sudden sheen of
weather?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Show me, he says, the fruit that rots _before_
one can pluck it, and [a still stronger expression of his
diseased
craving
for agony] trees that fade so quickly as to be every day just putting
forth new green, only to tantalize one with perpetual promise and
perpetual disappointment.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Severer triumph, by himself
Experienced, who can pass
Acquitted from that naked bar,
Jehovah's
countenance!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Bend o'er th' abyss, the else
impervious
gloom 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When he left the table, all made way for him to pass; the cards were
shuffled, and the
gambling
went on.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LXXXVII
1 AMONG the holy
Mountains
high
Is his foundation fast,
There Seated in his Sanctuary,
His Temple there is plac't.
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Milton |
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optima prima fere manibus rapiuntur auaris,
inplentur
numeris deteriora suis:
tristia Phylacidae Thersites funera uidit,
iamque cinis uiuis fratribus Hector erat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Though well I see thy graces far above
The dear, though mortal, object of my love,
Of youth eternal well the
difference
know,
And the short date of fading charms below;
Yet every day, while absent thus I roam,
I languish to return and die at home.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Nothing that I ever saw in
Nature left a more delightful
impression
on my mind than that which I
have attempted, alas, how feebly!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The pranking bat its nighty circlet makes;
The glow-worm burnishes its lamp anew
Oer meadows dew-besprent; and beetle wakes
Enquiries ever new,
Teazing each passing ear with murmurs vain,
As wanting to pursue
His
homeward
path again.
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John Clare |
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There is scarcely
anything
to which I am so feelingly alive
as the honour and welfare of my country: and, as a poet, I have no
higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.
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Robert Burns |
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I prefer deeper patience,
Monotony
of stalled beasts.
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Imagists |
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Most
melancholy
at that time, O Friend!
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William Wordsworth |
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I wol
merueylen
on ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XV
Stung, at these tidings, by the amorous dart --
Within, new fire inflames the cavalier;
And strait,
together
with the burning smart,
Shoots through his bones a chill, produced by fear;
Fear, that new wrath had stifled in her heart
That mighty love, wherewith she burned whilere.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pere adoptif de ceux qu'en sa noire colere
Du Paradis
terrestre
a chasses Dieu le Pere,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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ONE day, said Phillis, with unusual glee,
Pretending
with the Gascon to be free:--
A favour do me:--nothing very great;
Assist to dupe one jealous of his mate;
You'll find it very easy to be done,
And doubtless 'twill produce a deal of fun.
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La Fontaine |
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Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri
C'est sur eux que pleurent les saules
Le grand Pan l'amour Jesus-Christ
Sont bien morts et les chats miaulent
Dans la cour je pleure a Paris
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
L'amour est mort j'en suis tremblant
J'adore de belles idoles
Les souvenirs lui ressemblant
Comme la femme de Mausole
Je reste fidele et dolent
Je suis fidele comme un dogue
Au maitre le lierre au tronc
Et les Cosaques Zaporogues
Ivrognes pieux et larrons
Aux steppes et au decalogue
Portez comme un joug le Croissant
Qu'interrogent les astrologues
Je suis le Sultan tout-puissant
O mes Cosaques Zaporogues
Votre Seigneur eblouissant
Devenez mes sujets fideles
Leur avait ecrit le Sultan
Ils rirent a cette nouvelle
Et repondirent a l'instant
A la lueur d'une chandelle
Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Plus criminel que Barrabas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzebuth es-tu la-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas a tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arraches a coup de pique
Ta mere fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulceres des croutes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes richesses garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes medicaments
Voie lactee {1}
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
Regret des yeux de la putain
Et belle comme une panthere
Amour vos baisers florentins
Avaient une saveur amere
Qui a rebute nos destins
Ses regards laissaient une traine
D'etoiles dans les soirs tremblants
Dans ses yeux nageaient les sirenes
Et nos baisers mordus sanglants
Faisaient pleurer nos fees marraines
Mais en verite je l'attends
Avec mon coeur avec mon ame
Et sur le pont des Reviens-t'en
Si jamais reviens cette femme
Je lui dirai Je suis content
Mon coeur et ma tete se vident
Tout le ciel s'ecoule par eux
O mes tonneaux des Danaides
Comment faire pour etre heureux
Comme un petit enfant candide
Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
Ma colombe ma blanche rade
O marguerite exfoliee
Mon ile au loin ma Desirade
Ma rose mon giroflier
Les satyres et les pyraustes
Les egypans les feux follets
Et les destins damnes ou faustes
La corde au cou comme a Calais
Sur ma douleur quel holocauste
Douleur qui doubles les destins
La licorne et le capricorne
Mon ame et mon corps incertains
Te fuient o bucher divin qu'ornent
Des astres des fleurs du matin
Malheur dieu pale aux yeux d'ivoire
Tes pretres fous t'ont-ils pare
Tes victimes en robe noire
Ont-elles vainement pleure
Malheur dieu qu'il ne faut pas croire
Et toi qui me suis en rampant
Dieu de mes dieux morts en automne
Tu mesures combien d'empans
J'ai droit que la terre me donne
O mon ombre o mon vieux serpent
Au soleil parce que tu l'aimes
Je t'ai menee souviens-t'en bien
Tenebreuse epouse que j'aime
Tu es a moi en n'etant rien
O mon ombre en deuil de moi-meme
L'hiver est mort tout enneige
On a brule les ruches blanches
Dans les jardins et les vergers
Les oiseaux chantent sur les branches
Le printemps clair l'Avril leger
Mort d'immortels argyraspides
La neige aux boucliers d'argent
Fuit les dendrophores livides
Du printemps cher aux pauvres gens
Qui resourient les yeux humides
Et moi j'ai le coeur aussi gros
Qu'un cul de dame damascene
O mon amour je t'aimais trop
Et maintenant j'ai trop de peine
Les sept epees hors du fourreau
Sept epees de melancolie
Sans morfil o claires douleurs
Sont dans mon coeur et la folie
Veut raisonner pour mon malheur
Comment voulez-vous que j'oublie
Les sept epees
La premiere est toute d'argent
Et son nom tremblant c'est Paline
Sa lame un ciel d'hiver neigeant
Son destin sanglant gibeline
Vulcain mourut en la forgeant
La seconde nommee Noubosse
Est un bel arc-en-ciel joyeux
Les dieux s'en servent a leurs noces
Elle a tue trente Be-Rieux
Et fut douee par Carabosse
La troisieme bleu feminin
N'en est pas moins un chibriape
Appele Lul de Faltenin
Et que porte sur une nappe
L'Hermes Ernest devenu nain
La quatrieme Malourene
Est un fleuve vert et dore
C'est le soir quand les riveraines
Y baignent leurs corps adores
Et des chants de rameurs s'y trainent
La cinquieme Sainte-Fabeau
C'est la plus belle des quenouilles
C'est un cypres sur un tombeau
Ou les quatre vents s'agenouillent
Et chaque nuit c'est un flambeau
La Sixieme metal de gloire
C'est l'ami aux si douces mains
Dont chaque matin nous separe
Adieu voila votre chemin
Les coqs s'epuisaient en fanfares
Et la septieme s'extenue
Une femme une rose morte
Merci que le dernier venu
Sur mon amour ferme la porte
Je ne vous ai jamais connue
Voie lactee {2}
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
Les demons du hasard selon
Le chant du firmament nous menent
A sons perdus leurs violons
Font danser notre race humaine
Sur la descente a reculons
Destins destins impenetrables
Rois secoues par la folie
Et ces grelottantes etoiles
De fausses femmes dans vos lits
Aux deserts que l'histoire accable
Luitpold le vieux prince regent
Tuteur de deux royautes folles
Sanglote-t-il en y songeant
Quand vacillent les lucioles
Mouches dorees de la Saint-Jean
Pres d'un chateau sans chatelaine
La barque aux barcarols chantants
Sur un lac blanc et sous l'haleine
Des vents qui tremblent au printemps
Voguait cygne mourant sirene
Un jour le roi dans l'eau d'argent
Se noya puis la bouche ouverte
Il s'en revint en surnageant
Sur la rive dormir inerte
Face tournee au ciel changeant
Juin ton soleil ardente lyre
Brule mes doigts endoloris
Triste et melodieux delire
J'erre a travers mon beau Paris
Sans avoir le coeur d'y mourir
Les dimanches s'y eternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise
Soirs de Paris ivres du gin
Flambant de l'electricite
Les tramways feux verts sur l'echine
Musiquent au long des portees
De rails leur folie de machines
Les cafes gonfles de fumee
Crient tout l'amour de leurs tziganes
De tous leurs siphons enrhumes
De leurs garcons vetus d'un pagne
Vers toi toi que j'ai tant aimee
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
LES COLCHIQUES
Le pre est veneneux mais joli en automne
Les vaches y paissant
Lentement s'empoisonnent
Le colchique couleur de cerne et de lilas
Y fleurit tes yeux sont comme cette fleur-la
Violatres comme leur cerne et comme cet automne
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
Les enfants de l'ecole viennent avec fracas
Vetus de hoquetons et jouant de l'harmonica
Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des meres
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupieres
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dement
Le gardien du
troupeau
chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pre mal fleuri par l'automne
PALAIS
A Max Jacob
Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Reve
Mes reveuses pensees pieds nus vont en soiree
Le palais don du roi comme un roi nu s'eleve
Des chairs fouettees des roses de la roseraie
On voit venir au fond du jardin mes pensees
Qui sourient du concert joue par les grenouilles
Elles ont envie des cypres grandes quenouilles
Et le soleil miroir des roses s'est brise
Le stigmate sanglant des mains contre les vitres
Quel archet mal blesse du couchant le troua
La resine qui rend amer le vin de Chypre
Ma bouche aux agapes d'agneau blanc l'eprouva
Sur les genoux pointus du monarque adultere
Sur le mai de son age et sur son trente et un
Madame Rosemonde roule avec mystere
Ses petits yeux tout ronds pareils aux yeux des Huns
Dame de mes pensees au cul de perle fine
Dont ni perle ni cul n'egale l'orient
Qui donc attendez-vous
De reveuses pensees en marche a l'Orient
Mes plus belles voisines
Toc toc Entrez dans l'antichambre le jour baisse
La veilleuse dans l'ombre est un bijou d'or cuit
Pendez vos tetes aux pateres par les tresses
Le ciel presque nocturne a des lueurs d'aiguilles
On entra dans la salle a manger les narines
Reniflaient une odeur de graisse et de graillon
On eut vingt potages dont trois couleurs d'urine
Et le roi prit deux oeufs poches dans du bouillon
Puis les marmitons apporterent les viandes
Des rotis de pensees mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux reves mort-nes en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandes en godiveaux
Or ces pensees mortes depuis des millenaires
Avaient le fade gout des grands mammouths geles
Les os ou songe-creux venaient des ossuaires
En danse macabre aux plis de mon cervelet
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles
Mais nom de Dieu!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[171] Camoens seems to have his eye on the picture of Gama, which is
thus
described
by _Faria y Sousa_: "He is painted with a black cap,
cloak, and breeches edged with velvet, all slashed, through which
appears the crimson lining, the doublet of crimson satin, and over it
his armour inlaid with gold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In 1697, Pierre Bayle published at Rotterdam, his "Historical and
Critical Dictionary," in which the lives of men were
associated
with a
comment that suggested, from the ills of life, the absence of divine care
in the shaping of the world.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Multa enim (ut dixi)
probanda
in eo, multa etiam
admiranda sunt; eligere modo curæ sit, quod utinam ipse fecisset.
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Tacitus |
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3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large
six column tablet nearly complete,
carrying
originally, according to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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]
[Sidenote B:
Scarcely
had the first course commenced,]
[Sidenote C: when there rushes in at the hall-door a knight;]
[Sidenote D: the tallest on earth]
[Sidenote E: he must have been.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The force of great
Eurymachus
alone
And bold Antinous, yet untired, unknown:
Those only now remain'd; but those confess'd
Of all the train the mightiest and the best.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then again they all tried, and the tinker he swore
That the
hogshead
had grown twice as heavy or more.
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John Clare |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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hys
rauyssynge
4124
courses abouten ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The feelings that could once such noble life inspire
Are quenched and
trampled
out in passion's mire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Tennyson |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most
gracious
singer of high poems!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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This
freedom from the usual faults of
satirists
may be
traced to several causes ; partly to the honhommie
which, with all his talents for satire, was a pecu-
liar characteristic of the man, and which rendered
him as little disposed to take offence, and as pla-
cable when it was offered, as any man of his time;
partly to the integrity of his nature, which, while
it prompted him to champion any cause in which
justice had been outraged or innocence wmnged,
effectually preserved him from the wanton exer-
cise of his wit for the gratification of malevo-
lence; partly, perhaps principally, to the fact,
that both the above qualities restricted him to
encounters in which he had personally no con-
cern.
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Marvell - Poems |
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He was enraged, in such a way,
To be kept waiting there all day,
With two such
beauties
in the public road;
Scarce able to be civil even,
He wished them both--well, not in heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Great
businesse
must be wrought ere Noone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin;
A green-grown pond she just has pass'd,
And from the brink she hurries fast,
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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blake-poems |
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In
mounting
higher,
The angels would press on us and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Waller's sweetness:'
Waller and Denham were poets of the century before Pope; they are almost
forgotten to-day, but were
extravagantly
admired in his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an
adornment
bland,
As farewell gift: a gentle rhyme.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
criticisms
of the editor do not
particularly please us.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some
confusion
of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Among
other stories of its origin a local tradition
preserves
the one here
given.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
I come
forthwith
in your midst, I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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BOOK III
Song of Myself
1
I
celebrate
myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXVIII
HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,
sandy strand of the sea to tread
and
widespread
ways.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The wind hath all thy holy hair
To kiss and to sing through and to flare
Like torch-flames in the
passionate
air,
About thee, O Miranda.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Steadily
sure his division advances,
Gay as the light on its weapons that dances.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--proceed no further;
God won't accept your thanks for
Murther!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The men were
trampling
all over my back,
and I lay low.
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Kipling - Poems |
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