The men were
trampling
all over my back,
and I lay low.
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From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony
This universal frame began:
When nature
underneath
a heap
Of jarring atoms lay
And could not heave her head,
The tuneful voice was heard from high
Arise, ye more than dead!
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
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But yet it was not long before
There opened in the sky a narrow door,
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sill;
And the earth's night seem'd pressing there,--
All as a beggar on some festival would peer,--
To gaze into a room of light beyond,
The hidden silver
splendour
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Across the travelling
landscape
evenly drooped and lifted
The telegraph wires, thick ropes of snow in the windless air;
They drooped and paused and lifted again to unseen summits,
Drawing the eyes and soothing them, often, to a drowsy stare.
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Give me the lyre, I said, and let me sing
My song of battle: Words like flaming stars
Shot down with power to burn the palaces;
Words like bright
javelins
to fly with fierce
Hate of the oily Philistines and glide
Through all the seven heavens till they pierce
The pious hypocrites who dare to creep
Into the Holy Places.
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Pres d'un
ruisseau
sans eau la bete ouvrant le bec,
Baignait nerveusement ses ailes dans la poudre,
Et disait, le coeur plein de son beau lac natal:
<< Eau, quand donc pleuvras-tu?
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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Captain Gilbert Frankau, from _A Song of the Guns_; "Place de la
Concorde" and "In War-Time," by Florence Earle Coates, from _The
Collected Poems of Florence Earle Coates_; "Harvest Moon" and "Harvest
Moon, 1915," by Josephine Preston Peabody, from
_Harvest
Moon_; "The
Mobilization in Brittany" and "The Journey," by Grace Fallow Norton,
from _Roads_, and "Rheims Cathedral--1914," by Grace Hazard Conkling,
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OF GRACE
(BALLATA, FRAGMENT) ii
FPULL well thou knowest, song, what grace I mean,
E'en as thou know'st the
sunlight
I have lost.
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besides, the stainless effluence,
Born of the wild vine's bosom, shining store
Treasured to age, this bright and
luscious
wine.
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If only I could
recollect
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XC
The Franks arise, and stand upon their feet,
They're well absolved, and from their sins made clean,
And the Archbishop has signed them with God's seal;
And next they mount upon their chargers keen;
By rule of knights they have put on their gear,
For battle all
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He claimed to be the
best by
drinking
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
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the
temptations of
misapplied
self-love, and the wrong pursuits of power,
pleasure, and false happiness.
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Farms the sunny landscape dappled,
Swandown clouds dappled the farms,
Cattle lowed in mellow distance
Where far oaks
outstretched
their arms.
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All he
believes
in is "an humbler heaven," where he shall be free from
the evils of this life.
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By willow courses he took his path,
Spied what a nest the kingfisher hath,
Marked the fields green to aftermath,
Marked where the red-brown field-mouse ran,
Loitered
awhile for a deep-stream bath,
Yawned for a fellow-man.
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R sed uix ab eadem
manu
6 _truf_(_ff_
a)_antem_
Da: _crissantem_ marg.
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Ye see that I have not
Wherewith
to guard him, O angels, divine ones That pass us a-flying,
Sith sleepeth my child here Stay ye the branches.
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Trust not too much to colour,
beauteous
boy;
White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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It pleased your
lordship
of late to ask my opinion touching the education
of your sons, and especially to the advancement of their studies.
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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greatest
geniuses of Italy, Boccaccio and
Petrarch, were both attached to Giovanna, and had a more charitable
opinion of her than most of their contemporaries.
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Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The next long hour slowly strikes at last,
The whole house stirs again, the feast is past,
And sadly passes by the
afternoon
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"
To whom the chief: "In thy
capacious
mind
Since daring zeal with cool debate is join'd,
Attend a deed already ripe in fate:
Attest, O Jove!
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[89]
Well I know in the end they'll be
scattered
and lost;
But I cannot bear to see them thrown away
With my own hand I open and shut the locks,
And put it carefully in front of the book-curtain.
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[55]
With lowered hands and
levelled
voices they sobbed a muffled song.
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Would you weave your dim moan with the
chantings
of love at my feast?
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For each
ecstatic
instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
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You know
you
promised
ever so long ago.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was
pleasure
there.
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vous qui voulez manger
Le Lotus
parfume!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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And Goethe, with that
reaching
eye
His soul reached out from, far and high,
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By the Nine Gods he swore it,
And named a
trysting
day,
And bade his messengers ride forth,
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array.
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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I met Kitty on the
homeward
road--a shadow among shadows.
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Hark to that mingled scream
Rising from workshop and mill--
Hailing some
marvelous
sight;
Mighty breath of the hours,
Poured through the trumpets of steam;
Awful tornado of time,
Blowing us whither it will!
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Una, Truth, is the sole
daughter
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Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make time's spoils
despised
every where.
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It's a good way, though, come to think, coz ye enjy the sense
O' lendin' lib'rally to the Lord, an' nary red o' 'xpense:
Sence then I've gut my name up for a gin'rous-hearted man
By jes' subscribin' right an' left on this high-minded plan;
I've gin away my
thousans
so to every Southun sort
O' missions, colleges, an' sech, ner ain't no poorer for 't.
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since
separated
from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Though my
strength
is great, my love is too.
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āre = _possessions,
holding_
(Kl.
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when
calamity
and age
With vigorous youth, unknown to cares, engage!
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The fourthe was cleped
COMPANYE
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IX
Eight lances' shock, that eight such
warriors
guide,
Which all at once against the king they rest,
Endured the stout and scaly serpent's hide,
In which the cruel Moor his limbs had drest.
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geatolīc
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Now, round black Afric's coast our navy veer'd,
And, to the world's mid circle, northward steer'd:
The southern pole low to the wave declin'd,
We leave the isle of Holy Cross[371] behind:
That isle where erst a Lusian, when he pass'd
The tempest-beaten cape, his anchors cast,
And own'd his proud ambition to explore
The
kingdoms
of the morn could dare no more.
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The poor inhabitant below
Was quick to learn the wise to know,
And keenly felt the
friendly
glow,
And softer flame;
But thoughtless follies laid him low,
And stain'd his name!
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Myself a millionnaire
In little wealths, -- as girls could boast, --
Till broad as Buenos Ayre,
You drifted your dominions
A different Peru;
And I
esteemed
all poverty,
For life's estate with you.
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far nearer my heart (sole thou) than life of the longest, 215
Son, I perforce dismiss to doubtful, dangerous chances,
Lately
restored
to me when eld draws nearest his ending,
Sithence such fortune in me, and in thee such boiling of valour
Tear thee away from me so loath, whose eyne in their languor
Never are sated with sight of my son, all-dearest of figures.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[_He takes up the Helmet
which
LEAGERIE
had laid down upon the table when he went to break out
the bottom of the window.
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And in good faith I'd thought it strange
T' have found in me this sudden change;
But that I
understood
by dreams
These only were but Love's extremes;
Who fires with hope the lover's heart,
And starves with cold the self-same part.
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CLI
Love is too young to know what
conscience
is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
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CONTENTS
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
Le Directeur
Melange
adultere
de tout
Lune de Miel
The Hippopotamus
Dans le Restaurant
Whispers of Immortality
Mr.
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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Holds now
remembrance
none of what she was.
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A priest
presides
over them, dressed in woman's apparel; but the gods worshipped there are said, according to the Roman interpretation, to be Castor and Pollux.
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LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or
vanished
out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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With clank of scabbards and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred
Pennsylvanians
close
On twice ten thousand gallant foes.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Fond hope allured me on with meteor flight,
And Love my fancy fed with vain delight,
Chasing through fairy fields her
pageants
gay.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Women's Voices
Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest,
Sweet and
omnipotent
mother, O Earth!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Islanded
in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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POEMS
AVE IMPERATRIX
SET in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
England!
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Wilde - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Beowulf |
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As for the subject, Euripides received
it from Phrynichus, and
doubtless
from other sources.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So, when I weary of praising the dawn and the sun-
set,
Let me be no more counted among the immortals; But number me amid the
wearying
ones,
Let me be a man as the herd,
And as the slave that is given in barter.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It is a supreme moment in the life of a
nation when it is able to turn now and again from its preoccupations,
to delight in the capricious power of the artist as one delights in the
movement of some wild creature, but nobody can tell with
certainty
when
that moment is at hand.
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Yeats |
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[453] A staff in use among the
Lacedaemonians
for writing cipher
despatches.
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Aristophanes |
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Creed, hope, anticipation and despair,
Are but a mingling, as of day and night;
The globe, surrounded by
deceptive
air,
Is all enveloped in the same half-light.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Making a poem is like
begetting
a son:
you cannot know whether you have a wise man or a fool, until you
produce him to the world to try him.
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Robert Burns |
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Yet neither scorn nor hate did it devise,
But sad
compassion
and atoning zeal!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And dost thou think
my untamed thoughts and speak my vast
language?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
It was not easy for Petrarch to pass from the coast of Tuscany to Rome;
for war between the Ursini and Colonna houses had been renewed with more
fury than ever, and filled all the
surrounding
country with armed men.
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Petrarch |
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The feud she avenged
that yesternight, unyieldingly,
Grendel in
grimmest
grasp thou killedst, --
seeing how long these liegemen mine
he ruined and ravaged.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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