Pennifeather had
actually
knocked down his uncles friend for some
alleged excess of liberty that the latter had taken in the uncle's
house, of which the nephew was an inmate.
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Poe - 5 |
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what had we done
To have such a
seneschal?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For he who is our
murderous
persecutor
Is shielded by a father's holy name,
Or I would--
[STOPS ABRUPTLY.
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Shelley |
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Habt Ihr so
mancherlei?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I had not ended, when, like rapid mill,
Upon its centre whirl'd the light; and then
The love, that did inhabit there, replied:
"Splendour eternal, piercing through these folds,
Its virtue to my vision knits, and thus
Supported, lifts me so above myself,
That on the sov'ran essence, which it wells from,
I have the power to gaze: and hence the joy,
Wherewith I sparkle, equaling with my blaze
The
keenness
of my sight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
passionate
teeming plays this curtain hid!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Her love, too, is quite
different
from
his.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Then," said the
atom,
choosing
her words very deliberately, "I shall write to my
lawyer-peoples and tell them that you are a very bad woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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From its green urn the rose unfolding grand,
Weighs down the exquisite
smallness
of her hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are
stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is
marching
on.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull
realities?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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er no
forlyued
wy?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
splendours
of the past day?
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Whitman |
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I, with none beside,
Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake,
Still track your
footprints
'neath the broiling sun.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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100
ad quam tum properans fertur simul undique pubes
Graeca
penetralis
deseruisse focos,
ne Paris abducta gauisus libera moecha
otia pacato degeret in thalamo.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And so to magic my soul I've given,
If, haply, by spirits' mouth and might,
Some mysteries may not be brought to light;
That to teach, no longer may be my lot,
With bitter sweat, what I need to be taught;
That I may know what the world contains
In its
innermost
heart and finer veins,
See all its energies and seeds
And deal no more in words but in deeds.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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CCLXX
That Emperour is now
returned
to Aix.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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= Whalley believed this to be an allusion to the
'boy of Bilson,' but, as Gifford points out, this case did not occur
until 1620, four years after the
production
of the present play.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Next valiant Mnestheus took his stand with bow bent, aiming
high with levelled eye and arrow; yet could not,
unfortunate!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A best
disgrace
a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this involves the grave.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Our city, torn by faction's throes,
Dacian and Ethiop well-nigh razed,
These with their
dreadful
navy, those
For archer-prowess rather praised.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The still and stealthy speeding of the pilgrim days unheeding,
At rest upon the roadway that their feet unfaltering trod,
The
faithful
unto death abide, with trust unshaken,
The morn when they shall waken to the reveille of God.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"To Helen" first
appeared
in the 1831 volume, as did also "The
Valley of Unrest" (as "The Valley Nis"), "Israfel," and one or two
others of the youthful pieces.
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Poe - 5 |
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"I fear thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in
diseased
flesh,
Ambition is engendered readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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`Ye, blisful god, han me so wel beset
In love, y-wis, that al that bereth lyf 835
Imaginen ne cowde how to ben bet;
For, lord, with-outen
Ialousye
or stryf,
I love oon which that is most ententyf
To serven wel, unwery or unfeyned,
That ever was, and leest with harm distreyned.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Keats had lifted up his
hymeneal
curls from out
the poppy-seeded wine,
With ambrosial mouth had kissed my forehead,
clasped the hand of noble love in mine.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Have they been seen speaking together,
searching?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
shepherd
broke his hook and lost the skin;
He found a badger hole and bolted in.
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John Clare |
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The truth does not more
wonderfully
walk,
Whose gestures are the stars, than in her ways
This queen's body sways.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Sir, can you tell
Where he bestowes
himselfe?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Men will know I
conquered
easily;
And only my regret would be left me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Oft have I heard our dame in furtive murmurs o'er telling,
When with her
handmaids
alone, these her flagitious deeds,
Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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interdum
uouet, interdum, quod langueat illa,
dicit in aeternos aspera uerba deos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The flowers of the field have dabbled their
powdered
cheeks;
The mountain grasses are bent level at the waist.
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Li Po |
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For when I rose from sleep, the Morning Star _485
Shone through the woodbine-wreaths which round my
casement
were.
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Shelley |
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A deed is to be done--
Castiglione
lives!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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can he name forget,
Gown, sacred shield, undying fire,
And Jove and Rome are
standing
yet?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Why doe we hold our tongues,
That most may clayme this
argument
for ours?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The father was a villain, but the
children
are
innocent.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In storms by sea, in perils on the shore;
Forget whatever was in Fortune's power,
And share the
pleasures
of this genial hour.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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25
And my hero, while so human,
Should be even as the gods are,
In that shrine of utter gladness,
With the
tranquil
stars above it
And the sea below.
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Sappho |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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*****
Lest, after the manner of the winged flames,
The ramparts of the world should flee away,
Dissolved amain throughout the mighty void,
And lest all else should likewise follow after,
Aye, lest the thundering vaults of heaven should burst
And splinter upward, and the earth forthwith
Withdraw from under our feet, and all its bulk,
Among its mingled wrecks and those of heaven,
With slipping asunder of the primal seeds,
Should pass, along the
immeasurable
inane,
Away forever, and, that instant, naught
Of wrack and remnant would be left, beside
The desolate space, and germs invisible.
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Lucretius |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Grosart
from the
monument
in Dean Prior Church.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If, while the news through every city flies,
All Ithaca and
Cephalenia
rise?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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The gilded youth flocked around him, neglecting society,
preferring
the
charms of faro to those of their sweethearts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Civilis renews
blockade
of Vetera.
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Tacitus |
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Then in
dolorous
dread he beat his head:
"No earthly prize or pelf
Is the thing I've lost in tempest tossed,
But the Body of Christ Himself!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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III
She feigns as well with that
deceitful
scout;
(Fitting with him the father of all lies)
Watches his thievish hands in fear and doubt;
And follows every motion with her eyes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their
banquets
been dreaded,
Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Or scalle we menne of mennys sprytes appere, 1110
Doeynge hym favoure for hys favoure donne,
Swefte to hys pallace thys
damoiselle
bere,
Bewrynne oure case, and to oure waie be gonne?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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But, for his ugly sins
The saintly maid
rebuking
him, away
Scamp'ring he turn'd, fast as his hide-bound corpse
Would bear him.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin
creators
that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all scientific genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Neither
softened
his soul, nor the sire's bequest
weakened in war.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les
brasseries
borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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No doubt they were
elevated for a moment as by the
reminiscence
of a previous state of
existence, when even they were foresters and outlaws.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For all the fierce and casual contacts,
something
keeps us apart.
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I fear me, I fear me yon dome of
diaphanous
gleam
Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream, --
Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night,
Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light,
Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem
But a bubble that broke in a dream,
If a bound of degree to this grace be laid,
Or a sound or a motion made.
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Sidney Lanier |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest
alone--with nothing like to thee--
Worthiest of God, the holy and the true,
Since Zion's desolation, when that he
Forsook his former city, what could be,
Of earthly structures, in his honour piled,
Of a sublimer aspect?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
His wife's pure kiss he waved aside,
And
prattling
boys, as one disgraced,
They tell us, and with manly pride
Stern on the ground his visage placed.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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By many a sea-holm where the shock
Of ocean's battle falls, and into spray
Gives up its ghosts of strife; by reef and rock
Ravaged by their eternal brute affray
With
monstrous
frenzies of their shore's green foe;
Where overstream and overfall and undertow
Strive, snatch away;
A wistful voice, without a sound,
Shall dwell beside Pomona, on the sea,
And speak the homeward- and the outward-bound,
And touch the helm of passing minds
And bid them steer as wistfully--
Saying: "He did great work, until the winds
And waters hereabout that night betrayed
Him to the drifting death!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Of these am I, who thy protection claim, 105
A
watchful
sprite, and Ariel is my name.
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"For we throw out acclamations of self-thanking, self admiring,
With, at every mile run faster,--'O the
wondrous
wondrous age!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Estat ai en greu cossirier
I've been in great distress of mind,
About a knight whom I possessed,
How I've loved him to excess
I want known,
throughout
all time;
Now I feel myself betrayed
Because I did not tell my love,
In great torment so I prove,
In bed or in my clothes arrayed.
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Troubador Verse |
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We needn't talk of
your mother; she has never touched a drop of
anything
since she was
born, except '_kvass_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You
shall be the Queen of men with green eyes, whose breasts also I have
wounded in my nocturnal caress: men that love the sea, the immense green
ungovernable sea; the unformed and multitudinous waters; the place where
they are not; the woman they will never know; sinister flowers that seem
to bear the incense of some unknown religion;
perfumes
that trouble the
will; and all savage and voluptuous animals, images of their own folly.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But 'tis strange:
And oftentimes, to winne vs to our harme,
The Instruments of
Darknesse
tell vs Truths,
Winne vs with honest Trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Who hath not,
With life's new quiver full of winged years,
Shot at a venture, and then, following on,
Stood
doubtful
at the Parting of the Ways?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Safe from pursuit, and shut from mortal view,
Dismiss'd with fame, the
favoured
youth withdrew.
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Iliad - Pope |
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This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western
mystery!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
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Sappho |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There, a king may fitly lie,
Who, bursting that heroic heart of his
At lost Novara, that he could not die
(Though thrice into the cannon's eyes for this
He plunged his shuddering steed, and felt the sky
Reel back between the fire-shocks), stripped away
The ancestral ermine ere the smoke had cleared,
And, naked to the soul, that none might say
His kingship covered what was base and bleared
With treason, went out
straight
an exile, yea,
An exiled patriot.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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'
nec mora; Parrhasiae
sonuerunt
sibila cannae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--"
More
Endymion
heard not: down his steed him bore,
Prone to the green head of a misty hill.
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Keats |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In sea-girt Ithaca new ships and old
Abound, and I will chuse, myself, for thee
The prime of all, which without more delay
We will launch out into the
spacious
Deep.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Ruins of Three of those Towers are yet shown by the
Peasantry; as also the Swamp in which Bahram sunk, like the Master of
Ravenswood, while
pursuing
his Gur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation
information
page at www.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly
appetite
to please.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Diuellish Macbeth,
By many of these traines, hath sought to win me
Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me
From ouer-credulous hast: but God aboue
Deale
betweene
thee and me; For euen now
I put my selfe to thy Direction, and
Vnspeake mine owne detraction.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Othello, leave some officer behind,
And he shall our
commission
bring to you,
With such things else of quality and respect
As doth import you.
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Shakespeare |
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XLIV
O but my delicate lover,
Is she not fair as the
moonlight?
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Sappho |
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