The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"Fifteen hundred rupees of capital--every rupee we could beg, borrow, or
steal--are
invested
on these two camels," said Dravot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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From more than fiends on earth,
Thy life and love are riven,
To join the
untainted
mirth
Of more than thrones in heaven--
XII.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He was the
inventor
of the planh, the Provencal dirge, and some circumstantial evidence points to his having died on crusade as a follower of Louis VII of France.
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Troubador Verse |
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" Lear did not know where
Knowsley
was, or what it
meant; but the old gentleman was the thirteenth Earl of Derby.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O form of grace,
For human passion madly
yearning!
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Lewis Carroll |
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fill'd all things with himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First nam'd these notes a
melancholy
strain;
And many a poet echoes the conceit,
Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme
When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonlight, to the influxes
Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements
Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song
And of his fame forgetful!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Through no disturbance of my soul,
Or strong compunction in me wrought,
I
supplicate
for thy control; 35
But in the quietness of thought:
Me this unchartered freedom tires; [C]
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their name,
I long for a repose that [8] ever is the same.
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William Wordsworth |
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Wie traurig steigt die
unvollkommne
Scheibe
Des roten Monds mit spater Glut heran
Und leuchtet schlecht, dass man bei jedem Schritte
Vor einen Baum, vor einen Felsen rennt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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For me no mother bore within her womb,
And, save for wedlock evermore eschewed,
I vouch myself the
champion
of the man,
Not of the woman, yea, with all my soul,--
In heart, as birth, a father's child alone.
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Aeschylus |
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till the marks
Of fire and
belching
thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering upon the other!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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130
Know then, that after Lucifer from Heav'n
(So call him,
brighter
once amidst the Host
Of Angels, then that Starr the Starrs among)
Fell with his flaming Legions through the Deep
Into his place, and the great Son returnd
Victorious with his Saints, th' Omnipotent
Eternal Father from his Throne beheld
Thir multitude, and to his Son thus spake.
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Milton |
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Though faction may rack us, or party divide us,
And
bitterness
break the gold links of our story,
Our father and leader is ever beside us.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"I would know why," -- he said -- "thou
wishedst
me
Less legs and bigger brows; and when?
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Sidney Lanier |
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XIV
His blazing eyes, like two bright shining shields,
Did burne with wrath, and
sparkled
living fyre:
As two broad Beacons,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So often on the wings of thought I fly
Up to heaven's blissful seats, that I appear
As one of those whose
treasure
is lodged there,
The rent veil of mortality thrown by.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The artist is the creator of
beautiful
things.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris,
Il ferait volontiers de la terre un debris
Et dans un baillement
avalerait
le monde;
C'est l'Ennui!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Life
swelleth
in a whitening wave,
And dasheth thee and me apart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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At once she pitch'd
headlong
into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I survived to mourn her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The word iron was
figuratively
used by the ancients to signify military force in general.
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Tacitus |
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My second rank, too small the first,
Crowned, crowing on my father's breast,
A half
unconscious
queen;
But this time, adequate, erect,
With will to choose or to reject.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He enters: in the hall a crowd,
No more the music thunders loud,
Some a mazurka occupies,
Crushing and a confusing noise;
Spurs of the Cavalier Guard clash,
The feet of
graceful
ladies fly,
And following them ye might espy
Full many a glance like lightning flash,
And by the fiddle's rushing sound
The voice of jealousy is drowned.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ECLOGUE VII
MELIBOEUS CORYDON THYRSIS
Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
Had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
Had
gathered
in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
And Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk-
Both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
Ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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LXXXIII
Twice in
fraternal
guise and oftener threw
Leo his arms about the cavalier;
And next his helmet from his head withdrew,
And kiss'd him on both cheeks with loving cheer.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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) Indeed I hardly knew poor Omar was so
far gone till his Apologist
informed
me.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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o'er drowsy roofs, inert and dull,
Shaking her lap, of silv'ry music full,
Rousing without remorse the drones abed,
Tripping like joyous bird with tiniest tread,
Quiv'ring like dart that trembles in the targe,
By a frail crystal stair, whose viewless marge
Bears her slight footfall, tim'rous half, yet free,
In innocent extravagance of glee
The graceful elf alights from out the spheres,
While the quick spirit--thing of eyes and ears--
As now she goes, now comes, mounts, and anon
Descends, those
delicate
degrees upon,
Hears her melodious spirit from step to step run on.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If, after all, we must with Wilmot own,
The cordial drop of life is love alone,
And Swift cry wisely, "Vive la
Bagatelle!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
despairing
minor.
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Sidney Lanier |
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--qui boirais
Ton gout de
framboise
et de fraise,
O chair de fleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
[Greek text inserted here]
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling
to maculate giraffe.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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IV
The diver at Sorrento from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the
lustrous
sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer, gleameth Yet presseth back the aether where it streameth.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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For in the Twelve
Tables, long before the time of the
Licinian
laws, a severe
punishment was denounced against the citizen who should compose
or recite verses reflecting on another.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In the sun,
Upon the second step of that small pile,
Surrounded by those wild unpeopled hills,
He sat, and ate [1] his food in solitude: 15
And ever, scattered from his palsied hand,
That, still attempting to prevent the waste,
Was baffled still, the crumbs in little showers
Fell on the ground; and the small mountain birds,
Not venturing yet to peck their
destined
meal, 20
Approached within the length of half his staff.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or
wherefore
should I kame my hair?
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And
whatsoever
insect pass,
A honey bears away
Proportioned to his several dearth
And her capacity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis
flambent
aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les serpents ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre atmosphere s'eleve un theatre
Que construisit le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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There be more things to greet the heart and eyes
In Arno's dome of Art's most princely shrine,
Where
Sculpture
with her rainbow sister vies;
There be more marvels yet--but not for mine;
For I have been accustomed to entwine
My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields
Than Art in galleries: though a work divine
Calls for my spirit's homage, yet it yields
Less than it feels, because the weapon which it wields
LXII.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XXI
I can tell not only about a
discomfort
far greater than others,
But of a horror besides, thinking of which will arouse
Every fiber in me to revulsion.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Next seized two
wretches
more, and headlong cast,
Brain'd on the rock; his second dire repast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Ich weiss mich
trefflich
mit der Polizei,
Doch mit dem Blutbann schlecht mich abzufinden.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I do not
remember
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Diverse lingue, orribili favelle,
parole di dolore, accenti d'ira,
voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle
facevano
un tumulto, il qual s'aggira
sempre in quell' aura sanza tempo tinta,
come la rena quando turbo spira.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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They stopped not far from the ancient sepulchres,
Where lie the cold relics of our
ancestral
rulers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
V
"She whispers it in each
pathetic
strenuous slow endeavour,
When in mothering she unwittingly sets wounds on what she loves;
Yet her primal doom pursues her, faultful, fatal is she ever;
Though so deft and nigh to vision is her facile finger-touch
That the seers marvel much.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Youths and boys minding geese and ducks:
Women and girls tending
mulberries
and hemp.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Bee't their comfort
We are comming thither:
Gracious
England hath
Lent vs good Seyward, and ten thousand men,
An older, and a better Souldier, none
That Christendome giues out
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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nor this the least,
When due
libation
shall have crown'd the feast,
Safe to my home to send your happy guest.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There is not a bird but
delights
in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my thatched cottage.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ah no, said they, but forth she may not come:
For she of late is lightned of her wombe, 140
And hath
encreast
the world with one sonne more,
That her to see should be but troublesome.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Her joy can make the sick man well,
And through her anger too he dies,
And fools she fashions of the wise,
And
handsome
men age at her spell,
And status, wealth she can dispel
And raise the beggar to the skies.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
cardinal
is coming here to-night
To see the execution.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CCL
Bitter great grief has
Charlemagne
the King,
Who Duke Naimun before him sees lying,
On the green grass all his clear blood shedding.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who sharpened his nails with a file,
Till he cut off his thumbs, and said calmly, "This comes
Of
sharpening
one's nails with a file!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Why should I seek and never find
That
something
which I have not had?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Hail
venerable
guest!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Laden with shining arms the men-folk tread
By the long wagons where their goods lie hidden;
They watch the heaven with eyes grown wearied
Of
hopeless
dreams that come to them unbidden.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
TO LIFE
O LIFE with the sad seared face,
I weary of seeing thee,
And thy draggled cloak, and thy
hobbling
pace,
And thy too-forced pleasantry!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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XL
Herminius smote down Aruns:
Lartius laid Ocnus low:
Right to the heart of Lausulus
Horatius
sent a blow.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O'er heapy shields, and o'er the prostrate throng,
Collecting spoils, and
slaughtering
all along,
Through wide Buprasian fields we forced the foes,
Where o'er the vales the Olenian rocks arose;
Till Pallas stopp'd us where Alisium flows.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But lest the breast be purged, what conflicts then,
What perils, must bosom, in our own
despite!
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Lucretius |
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Comme le sable morne et l'azur des deserts,
Insensibles
tous deux a l'humaine souffrance,
Comme les longs reseaux de la houle des mers,
Elle se developpe avec indifference.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You must be like them if you desire them,
Scorn trifles and embrace a better aim
Than wine or sleep or praise;
Hunt
knowledge
as the lover wooes a maid,
And ever in the strife of your own thoughts
Obey the nobler impulse; that is Rome:
That shall command a senate to your side;
For there is no might in the universe
That can contend with love.
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Emerson - Poems |
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E la virtu che lo sguardo m'indulse,
del bel nido di Leda mi divelse,
e nel ciel
velocissimo
m'impulse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then in my wrath I broke the bough
That I had tended so with care,
Hoping its scent should fill the air;
I crushed the eggs, not heeding how
Their ancient promise had been fair:
I would have
vengeance
now.
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Christina Rossetti |
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seu memor ille mea contentus
manserit
umbra
et tanti cineres duxerit esse meos,
discite uenturam iam nunc sentire senectam,
caelibis ad curas nec uacet ulla uia.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Where
its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human
life has planted itself,--and such is the
beginning
of Rome, the
establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on
the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A
starving
tom-cat I feel quite like,
That o'er the fire ladders crawls
Then softly creeps, ground the walls.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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6
Now if a
thousand
perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not
astonish me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Pork,
refractory
in boiling.
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James Russell Lowell |
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despite my days all lost,
Despite my nights in doting folly spent
With that fierce passion which my bosom rent
At sight of her, too lovely for my cost;
Vouchsafe at length that, by thy grace, I turn
To wiser life, and
enterprise
more fair,
So that my cruel foe, in vain his snare
Set for my soul, may his defeat discern.
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Petrarch |
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charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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attempt ye still to rise,
By
mountains
piled on mountains, to the skies,
Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I hear the dance-music of all nations,
The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,
The bolero to
tinkling
guitars and clattering castanets.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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How
mightestow
for reuthe me bigyle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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er were,
Two
fyngeres
?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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One thing alone can hope to answer your fear;
It is that which
struggles
and blinds us and burns between us.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--thy
priestly
raiment
Fills me with dread--thy ebony crucifix
With horror and awe!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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