qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux
crapauds
que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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Sestiacos nunc fama sinus
pelagusque
natatum
iactet et audaci uictos delphinas ephebo!
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Call the game fair,
And pay your
winners!
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Hugo - Poems |
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose
Doorways
are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
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while slow carried through the pitying crowd,
To his inward senses these words spake aloud; 1031
Written in star-light on the dark above:
_Dearest
Endymion!
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"The Jews originating from the Egyptians
deserted
Egypt through
sedition, at the same time despising the religion of the Egyptians.
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They are
here published as they were written, with very few and superficial
changes;
although
it is fair to say that the titles have been
assigned, almost invariably, by the editors.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"I have sinned," quoth he, "I have sinned, I wot"--
And the tears ran adown his old cheeks at the thought:
They dropped fast on the book, but he read on the same,
And aye was the silence where should be the NAME,--
As the
choristers
told it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Who dares forgive what none can
overlook?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
hawthorns
here were hung with may,
But still they seem in deader green,
The sun een seems to lose its way
Nor knows the quarter it is in.
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John Clare |
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(Grendel)
slǣpende
fræt folces Denigea fȳftȳne men, 1582.
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Beowulf |
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Tis Winter, and I love to read indoors,
When the Moon hangs her
crescent
up on high;
While on the window shutters the wind roars,
And storms like furies pass remorseless by.
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John Clare |
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LV
Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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Sappho |
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He had worked
himself up, after seven years, to a Cashier's position in a Huddersfield
Bank; and all his experience lay among the
factories
of the North.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ A word of address, generally
equivalent
to 'fellow' or
'sir.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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With what regret from many a place we go,
Though
tenderest
bonds may bind us to it!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To the good old man
sad in heart, 'twas
heaviest
sorrow.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O
Frugality!
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Robert Burns |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is
indented
two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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213) to the days of his great success when his 'Homer'
was the talk of the town, he asserts his ignorance of all the arts of
puffery and his independence of mutual
admiration
societies.
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Alexander Pope |
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BAL DES PENDUS
Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres
paladins
du diable,
Les squelettes de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the
innocent
Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sir, can you tell
Where he
bestowes
himselfe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
In the preparation of the
Riverside
Edition of the _Poems_, Mr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I taste a liquor never brewed,
From
tankards
scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I acquire,
As I reflect and compare, my first
understanding
of marble,
See with an eye that feels, feel with a hand that sees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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but I am not now
That which I have been--and my visions flit
Less
palpably
before me--and the glow
Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And now, in that old castle in the wood,
His daughters, in the dawn of womanhood,
Returning from their convent school, had made
Resplendent with their bloom the forest shade,
Reminding him of their dead mother's face,
When first she came into that gloomy place,--
A memory in his heart as dim and sweet
As
moonlight
in a solitary street,
Where the same rays, that lift the sea, are thrown
Lovely but powerless upon walls of stone.
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Longfellow |
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In the
rhetoric
of rancour he is
a distinguished practitioner.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This is clear--
you fell on the
downward
slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you clutched this larch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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[Castle Douglas is a thriving
Galloway
village: it was in other days
called "The Carlinwark," but accepted its present proud name from an
opulent family of mercantile Douglasses, well known in Scotland,
England, and America.
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Robert Burns |
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whose anger is his guide,
Who glories in
unutterable
pride.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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Your fathers' guilt you still must pay,
Till, Roman, you restore each shrine,
Each temple,
mouldering
in decay,
And smoke-grimed statue, scarce divine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The remedy of
fruitfulness
is
easy, but no labour will help the contrary; I will like and praise some
things in a young writer which yet, if he continue in, I cannot but
justly hate him for the same.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The
blissful
meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Given his lack of explanation, this in particular would seem somewhat arbitrary; although there do appear to be some markings on the page which could be suggestions for the re-ordering of the material, these do not seem conclusive enough to justify this silent
alteration
to the text as it appears in the Erdman edition.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_
Shortened
form of _of_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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and mellow horn;
Involve your serpent necks in
changeful
rings,
Rolled wantonly between your slippery wings,
Or, starting up with noise and rude delight,
Force half upon the wave your cumbrous flight.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And Troilus wel waxen was in highte,
And complet formed by proporcioun
So wel, that kinde it not amenden mighte;
Yong, fresshe, strong, and hardy as lyoun; 830
Trewe as steel in ech condicioun;
On of the beste
enteched
creature,
That is, or shal, whyl that the world may dure.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The rush of their charge is
resounding
still
That saved the army at Chancellorsville.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Tu te n'andrai con questo antivedere:
se nel mio
mormorar
prendesti errore,
dichiareranti ancor le cose vere.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--But, O God,
Strengthen me that I bend not into scorn
Of all this desperate folk; for I am weak
With pitying their
lamentable
souls.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Milles was
President
of the Society of Antiquaries and his commentary
is characterized by Professor Skeat as 'perhaps the most surprising
trash in the way of notes that was ever penned.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I have seen you command: your soldiering:
While age sends ice
coursing
through my veins,
Your rare courage has secured our gains;
Well, to cut short superfluous discourse,
You are today what I was once, perforce.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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His bridle far out-streaming,
His flanks all blood and foam,
He sought the
southern
mountains,
The mountains of his home.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--Very often,
in company with these sharpers, I
observed
an order of men somewhat
different in habits, but still birds of a kindred feather.
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Poe - 5 |
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Whiter she is than Helen was,
The
loveliest
flower of May,
Full of courtesy, sweet lips she has,
And ever true word does say.
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Troubador Verse |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way
composed
for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
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Appoloinaire |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Enthroned in radiance there he sits, not blind,
Quiver'd, and naked, or by shame just veil'd,
A live, not fabled boy, with changeful wing;
Thence unto me he lends
instruction
kind,
And arts of verse from meaner bards conceal'd,
Thus am I taught whate'er of love I write or sing.
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But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her Temperance over Appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain,
Oppresses else with Surfet, and soon turns
Wisdom to Folly, as
Nourishment
to Winde.
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' I doubt indeed if the crude
circumstance of the world, which seems to create all our emotions, does
more than reflect, as in multiplying mirrors, the emotions that have
come to
solitary
men in moments of poetical contemplation; or that
love itself would be more than an animal hunger but for the poet and
his shadow the priest, for unless we believe that outer things are the
reality, we must believe that the gross is the shadow of the subtle,
that things are wise before they become foolish, and secret before they
cry out in the market-place.
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The time-relations are not altogether good in this long passage
which
describes
the rejoicings of "the day after"; but the present
shift from the riders on the road to the folk at the hall is not
very violent, and is of a piece with the general style.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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clernesse
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Som such
resemblances
methinks I find
Of our last Eevnings talk, in this thy dream,
But with addition strange; yet be not sad.
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
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Who comest down to bless our furrow'd fields,
Or stand like Beauty smiling 'mid the corn:
Mistress of mirth and ease and summer dreams,
Who
lingerest
among the woods and streams
To help us heap the harvest 'neath the moon,
And homeward laughing lead the lumb'ring teams:
Who teachest to our children thy wise lore;
Who keepest full the goodman's golden store;
Who crownest Life with plenty, Death with flow'rs;
Peace, Queen of Kindness--but of earth, no more.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Must you needs be so cruel, you
beautiful
Broom,
Because you are covered with paint?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having
unhooked
a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
foregoing
["Auld Rob Morris," and "Duncan Gray,"[206]] I submit, my
dear Sir, to your better judgment.
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Where else will they study color under greater
advantages?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Like pictures, or like books gay coverings made
For lay-men, are all women thus array'd; 40
Themselves
are mystick books, which only wee
(Whom their imputed grace will dignifie)
Must see reveal'd.
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Accomplish
all thy pleasure, thou art free.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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WERE her intentions fully as expressed,
Or contrary to what her lips confessed,
No matter which her view, 'twas very plain,
If she would Hispal's services retain,
'Twere right the youth with promises to feed,
While his
assistance
she so much must need:
As soon as he was ready to depart
She pressed him fondly to her glowing heart,
And charged him with a letter to the king;
This Hispal hastened to the prince to bring;
Each sail he crowded:--plied with ev'ry oar;
A wind quite fair soon brought him to shore;
To court he went, where all with eager eyes,
Demanded if he lived, amid surprise,
And where he left the princess; what her state?
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La Fontaine |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A
swelling
of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Mad Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
With his
eighteen
other crazy men, went in and took the town.
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Of this people, Ammianus Marcellinus, in his account of the reign of
Valentinian
and Valens, thus speaks:—"A sudden commotion arose among the Quadi; a nation at present of little consequence, but which was formerly extremely warlike and potent, as their exploits sufficiently evince.
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It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The
wrinkles
of the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It
reappears
in _The Staple of News_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The savage breast
is the native soil of revenge; a vice, of all others, peculiarly stamped
with the
character
of hell.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You ask, in either
language
skill'd!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Proud of her spouse, the imperial fair
Must thank the gods that shield from death;
His sister too:--let matrons wear
The suppliant wreath
For
daughters
and for sons restored:
Ye youths and damsels newly wed,
Let decent awe restrain each word
Best left unsaid.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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No long discourse
together
may we have;
Full well I know, Charles waits not our attack,
I take the glove from you, in spite of that.
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Chanson de Roland |
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`And therfor wostow what I thee
beseche?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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