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When, bathed in Dawn of living red,
Majestic frowned the
mountain
head,
"Tell me my fault," was all he said.
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Nay, not till thieves are set to guard
The gold, and corsairs called to keep
O'er peaceful commerce watch and ward,
And wolves to herd the helpless sheep,
Shall men and women look to thee--
Thou
ruthless
Old Man of the Sea--
To safeguard law and freedom on the deep!
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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You had not yet achieved my tender age,
When many a tyrant, and many a savage
Monster had felt the full force of your strength:
Already, the triumphant scourge of insolence, 940
You'd secured the shores of the two seas:
Fearing no violence the
traveller
felt free.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my
tremulous
hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
Cast her ashes into the sea,--
She shall escape, she shall aspire,
She shall arise to make men free:
She shall arise in a sacred scorn,
Lighting the lives that are yet unborn;
Spirit supernal, Splendour eternal,
ENGLAND!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CHORUS
True is the word thou spakest of my garb;
But speak I unto thee as citizen,
Or Hermes' wandbearer, or
chieftain
king?
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" But the very want
of these, in place of
supporting
the objection intended by Voltaire,
points out the happy judgment and peculiar excellence of Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lea, grass,
untilled
land.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Kalm
says that the noise of the fall is
sometimes
heard at Quebec, about
eight miles distant, and is a sign of a northeast wind.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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for, hour by hour,
Here in the never-ended afternoon,
O sweeter than all memories of thee,
Deeper than any
yearnings
after thee
Seem'd those far-rolling, westward-smiling seas,
Watched from this tower.
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Tennyson |
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c)
indicating
extent, with acc.
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Beowulf |
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CXII
Upon the beach the courser plants his feet,
And goaded by the rowel, towers in air,
And gallops with Rogero in mid seat,
While on the croup behind him sate the fair;
Who of his banquet so the monster cheat;
For him too
delicate
and dainty fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Cheadle
Was put in the stocks by the Beadle
For stealing some pigs, some coats, and some wigs,
That
horrible
person of Cheadle.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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As I have said, I found him there, lifeless;
His side was pierced, and to rouse me truly
His blood in the dust
inscribed
my duty;
Or rather his valour, reduced to such a state,
Spoke to me through his wounds, urging haste;
And, to be heard by the most just of kings,
Lends me the voice of those sad openings.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ond' io, ch'era ora a la marina volto
dove l'acqua di Tevero s'insala,
benignamente
fu' da lui ricolto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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it was just outside a garden,
and trees laden with fruit
stretched
their boughs over the garden
wall, and dropped their flowers upon his tomb, so that the stone was
hidden under them.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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One morning he
suffered
the Common Change
And his body was one with the dust and dirt of the hill.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What would he
think of
Cezanne?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thanatos
is not a god,
not at all a King of Terrors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You brought me even here, where I
Live on a hill against the sky
And look on
mountains
and the sea
And a thin white moon in the pepper tree.
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Meredith - Poems |
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But I should ill become this Throne, O Peers,
And this Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd
With splendor, arm'd with power, if aught propos'd
And judg'd of public moment, in the shape
Of
difficulty
or danger could deterre
Me from attempting.
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Milton |
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Won't it be rather
horrible?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I will
send a
subscription
bill or two, next post; when I intend writing my
first kind patron, Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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"
And--"A blind
understanding!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Who could keep a smiling wit,
Roasted so in heart and hide,
Turning on the sun's red spit,
Scorched
by love inside?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields
transport
the standing corn.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All the comic poems are
unusually
rich and fine in rhythm, which
seems to exult in its mastery over material so foreign to it.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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2503 Huga = Hūga (marked long,
correctly, in the list of names, but not
elsewhere)
l.
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Beowulf |
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as thou liv'st in all this sky and sea
That likewise
lovingly
do live in thee,
So melt my soul in thee, and thine in me,
Divine Tranquillity!
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Sidney Lanier |
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I
certainly
should not be weeping, if I were not blown out
with lentils.
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Aristophanes |
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For whom
This
glorious
sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?
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of all tortures
_That_ torture the worst
Has abated--the terrible
Torture of thirst
For the naphthaline river
Of Passion accurst:--
I have drank of a water
That
quenches
all thirst:--
Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground--
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground.
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Poe - 5 |
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Yes, and not only words that thou and I
Out of our sexes with a flame's escape
Are
fashioned
into one.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Administrative Assistant Li of
Lingzhou
309 5.
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It is a more natural
translation
of the Greek, and gives a far more
wonderful vista for the close of the Wanderer's life.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Poetry, in this latter age, hath proved but a mean mistress to such as
have wholly addicted
themselves
to her, or given their names up to her
family.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Phyllis does not dwell
On visual and
familiar
things like these;
What moves her is the spell
Of inner themes and inner poetries:
Could but by Sunday morn
Her gay new gown come, meads might dry to dun,
Trains shriek till ears were torn,
If Fred would not prefer that Other One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ch'u P'ing's[30] prose and verse
Hang like the sun and moon;[31]
The king of Ch'u's arbours and towers
Are only
hummocks
in the ground.
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Li Po |
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Perrette, whose appetite increased
just as her lover's vigour ceased,
In her fond
reckoning
defeated,
Considered she was greatly cheated--
If duty, well discharged, such blame
Deserve; for many a highborn dame
Would be content with such deceit.
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La Fontaine |
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My frail
strength
flees me in my need!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And you are mine,
My
sweetheart!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_deuincta
tenentem_
uel _tenet dum_; cf.
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Latin - Catullus |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
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Rilke - Poems |
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First Titus gave tall Caeso
A death wound in the face;
Tall Caeso was the bravest man
Of the brave Fabian race:
Aulus slew Rex of Gabii,
The priest of Juno's shrine;
Valerius smote down Julius,
Of Rome's great Julian line;
Julius, who left his mansion,
High on the Velian hill,
And through all turns of weal and woe
Followed
proud Tarquin still.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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I
answered
out of my astonishment:--"What do you want with HER?
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Kipling - Poems |
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And little venture for the bold,
Or laurel for our valiant Chief,
Save some
blockaded
British thief,
Full fraught with murder in his hold,
Caught unawares at ebb or flood--
Or dull bombardment, day by day,
With fort and earth-work, far away,
Low couched in sullen leagues of mud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How often have I seen (and worthily) these censors of the
family undertaken by some honest rustic and
cudgelled
thriftily!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Onward we pass Massilia's barren strand,
A waste of wither'd grass and burning sand;
Where his thin herds the meagre native leads,
Where not a riv'let laves the doleful meads;
Nor herds, nor
fruitage
deck the woodland maze;
O'er the wild waste the stupid ostrich strays,
In devious search to pick her scanty meal,
Whose fierce digestion gnaws the temper'd steel.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Two cords of oak weighed down the grinding sled,
And
cornstalk
fodder rustled overhead;
The oxen's muzzles, as they shouldered through,
Were silver-fringed; the driver's own was blue
As the coarse frock that swung below his knee.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Why could it not have been some
one less
important
to him?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So one day when I was nine years old my
father
punished
me--the only time I was ever punished--by
shutting me in a room alone for a whole day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It makes the parting tranquil
And keeps the soul serene,
That
gentlemen
so sprightly
Conduct the pleasing scene!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You are giving
yourself
too much trouble, Father.
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Yeats |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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May ye, whom here I leave, gladden your wives
And see your children blest, and may the pow'rs
Immortal with all good enrich you all,
And from
calamity
preserve the land!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Celle-la droite encor, fiere et sentant la regle,
Humait
avidement
ce chant vif et guerrier;
Son oeil parfois s'ouvrait comme l'oeil d'un vieil aigle;
Son front de marbre avait l'air fait pour le laurier!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least
obeisance
made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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Poe - 5 |
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Luvah
breaking
in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously misrecognised in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The strong light only
increases
its effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,
That in the frosty country called Trace,
Within thy grisly temple ful of drede
Honoured
art, as patroun of that place!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take
possession
of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time
The heavy eyelids filled with
fleeting
dreams.
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Sara Teasdale |
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copy at the Museum
corrects
the
misplacement of the epithet, reading:--
"But we must on and thither tend
Where Tullus and rich Ancus blend," etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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With it will sink in dust each towering hope,
Cherish'd so long within my
faithful
breast;
No more shall we resent, fear, smile, complain:
Then shall we clearly trace why some are blest,
Through deepest misery raised to Fortune's top,
And why so many sighs so oft are heaved in vain.
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
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That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
The
sleepers
of the House?
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Whence is that
knocking?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old
ecstasies
Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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The fool is he
In gentle things,
weighing
the more and less
Of love by his own heart's untenderness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For-thy be glad, myn owene dere brother, 405
If she be lost, we shal
recovere
another.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Suddenly wakened with a sound of talk
And laughter at the limit of the wood,
And glancing through the hoary boles, he saw,
Strange as to some old prophet might have seemed
A vision
hovering
on a sea of fire,
Damsels in divers colours like the cloud
Of sunset and sunrise, and all of them
On horses, and the horses richly trapt
Breast-high in that bright line of bracken stood:
And all the damsels talked confusedly,
And one was pointing this way, and one that,
Because the way was lost.
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild
resplendence
of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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You shall love all that loves me and that I love: clouds, and silence,
and night; the vast green sea; the unformed and multitudinous waters;
the place where you are not; the lover you will never know; monstrous
flowers, and
perfumes
that bring madness; cats that stretch themselves
swooning upon the piano and lament with the sweet, hoarse voices of
women.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Their stores complete, and ready now to weigh,
A spy was sent their summons to convey:
An artist to my father's palace came,
With gold and amber chains, elaborate frame:
Each female eye the
glittering
links employ;
They turn, review, and cheapen every toy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Tell me whose seeing 1035
Wouldn't be misled, like mine, by noble
bearing?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"In coming to a decision in these cases it seemed, on the whole,
preferable to take the risk of
including
too much rather than the
opposite, and to leave the task of further winnowing to the hands of
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Emerson - Poems |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Amid no bells nor bravos
The
bystanders
will tell!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hugo - Poems |
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If to review his country be his fate,
Be it through toils and sufferings long and late;
His lost
companions
let him first deplore;
Some vessel, not his own, transport him o'er;
And when at home from foreign sufferings freed,
More near and deep, domestic woes succeed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Though great your deeds stay ever faithful;
Return more worthy of her if possible,
And in all your
exploits
prove so true,
It will be bliss to her to marry you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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