WHEN home returned, the girl, each day and night,
Amused her mind with prospects of delight;
By fancy's aid she saw the future pope,
And all prepared to greet her fondest hope;
But what arrived the whole at once o'erthrew
Hats, dukedoms, castles, vanished from the view:
The promised elevation of the NAME
Dissolved
to air:-a little female came!
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How rich the wave, in front, imprest
With evening-twilight's summer hues,
While, facing thus the crimson west,
The boat her silent path
pursues!
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There is
something
in
Plato, but--no, do not call them.
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He spoke
the Lepcha dialect with an indescribable
softening
of the gutturals.
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too late repents me
That I did fall
To love at all--
Since love so much
contents
me.
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Hard fare, hard bed and comic misery,--
The midge, the blue-fly and the mosquito
Painted our necks, hands, ankles, with red bands:
But, on the second day, we heed them not,
Nay, we saluted them Auxiliaries,
Whom earlier we had chid with
spiteful
names.
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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they wad bid nae better,
Than let them ance out owre the water,
Then up among thae lakes and seas,
They'll mak what rules and laws they please:
Some daring Hancocke, or a Franklin,
May set their Highland bluid a-ranklin;
Some Washington again may head them,
Or some Montgomery, fearless, lead them,
Till God knows what may be effected
When by such heads and hearts directed,
Poor dunghill sons of dirt and mire
May to
Patrician
rights aspire!
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar,
And from the hills the shadows
lengthening
fall!
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All the foe's ships
destroyed
by sea or Hre,
Victorious Blake does from the bay retire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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not for wild beasts to roam
But many stood silent & busied in their families
And many said We see no Visions in the darksom air
Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the dismal darksom day
Set stations on this breeding Earth & let us buy & sell
Others arose & schools Erected forming
Instruments
To measure out the course of heaven.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Thus speaketh one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah
luckless
lady!
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Le Directeur
Malheur a la malheureuse Tamise!
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faint outstretchd upon the plain
Wailing runs round the
vValleys
from the Mill & from the Barn
But most the polishd Palaces dark silent bow with dread {"Dark" written on top of "?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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As little children resting,
No more the battle breasting to the rumble of the drums,
Enlinked
by duty's tether, the blue and gray together,
They wait the great hereafter when the last assembly comes.
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III
Had I the ear of wombed souls
Ere their
terrestrial
chart unrolls,
And thou wert free
To cease, or be,
Then would I tell thee all I know,
And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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in whom vain
thoughts
and idle swell,
Thou, who thyself hast tutor'd to forget,
Speak'st to thy heart as if 'twere with thee yet?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Meanwhile
Dordona's lady craved the field;
And loud that martial damsel's bugle pealed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post 307 The Emperor said: ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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but my wings were faint _35
With the delight of a
remembered
dream,
As are the noontide plumes of summer winds
Satiate with sweet flowers.
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Shelley |
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Rimbaud eut le tort incontestable de protester d'abord entre haut et bas
contre la
prolongation
d'a la fin abusives recitations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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which in his helpe he had: 15
Right
faithfull
true he was in deede and word,
But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
But he, who was in conf'rence with my guide,
Turn'd rapid round, and thus the demon spake:
"Stay, stay thee,
Scarmiglione!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Biron was a friend of Henri IV,
Lusignan
a famous family, both associated with the Valois.
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Pale grew her immortality, for woe
Of all these lovers, and she grieved so
I took compassion on her, bade her steep
Her hair in weird syrops, that would keep
Her
loveliness
invisible, yet free
To wander as she loves, in liberty.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'Twere forty to waste time in an assay
Where to himself more harm the smiter wrought
Than to the smitten: in conclusion, they
Closed, and the paynim king Orlando caught,
And strained against his bosom; what Jove's son
Did by Antaeus,
thinking
to have done.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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With his exquisite music he charmed Cerberus,
the fierce dog who guarded hell-gates, into submission, and won Pluto's
consent that he should lead
Eurydice
back to the upper world on one
condition--that he would not look back to see that she was following.
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Keats |
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_Seventh
Edition_,
_1899_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
I still, though
conscience
urg'd' no step advanc'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O sacred light
eternal!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--Mais l'ange des berceaux vient essuyer leurs yeux,
Et dans ce lourd sommeil mit un reve joyeux,
Un reve si joyeux, que leur levre mi-close,
Souriante,
semblait
murmurer quelque chose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then Doullie myghte his bowestrynge drewe, 115
Enthoughte to gyve brave Tosslyn bloudie wounde,
But Harolde's asenglave stopp'd it as it slewe,
And it fell
bootless
on the bloudie grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
ancient lays, unjustly
despised
by the learned and polite, linger
for a time in the memory of the vulgar, and are at length too
often irretrievably lost.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It told the
triumphs
of our King,[lf]
It wafted glory to our God;
It made our gladdened valleys ring,
The cedars bow, the mountains nod;
Its sound aspired to Heaven and there abode!
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Byron |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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One climbs a
molehill
for a bunch of may,
One stands on tiptoe for a linnet's nest
And pricks her hand and throws her flowers away
And runs for plantin leaves to have it drest.
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John Clare |
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e
sellokest
swyn swenged out ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sin alone is that,
Which doth
disfranchise
him, and make unlike
To the chief good; for that its light in him
Is darken'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Southern
winds stretch the sails; we scud over the
foam-flecked waters, whither wind and pilot called our course.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If ever you have
eaten some young pig, sacrificed by us on your altars, with pleasure, may
this
offering
not be without value in your sight to-day.
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Aristophanes |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Entered a dame,
bedecked
with spotted pride.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Of
different
ages, like twin-sisters throve.
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Tennyson |
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'Tis thine,
If so thou wilt,
inheritress
to be
Of this my land, its utmost grace to win.
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Aeschylus |
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Well witting what the torturer's art
Design'd him, with like unconcern
The press of kin he push'd apart
And crowds encumbering his return,
As though, some tedious
business
o'er
Of clients' court, his journey lay
Towards Venafrum's grassy floor,
Or Sparta-built Tarentum's bay.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The first that the general saw were the groups
Of stragglers, and then the
retreating
troops,
What was done?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sythence you wylle notte lette mie suyte avele,
Mie love wylle have yttes joie, altho wythe guylte;
Youre lymbes shall bende,
albeytte
strynge as stele;
The merkye seesonne wylle your bloshes hylte[115].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Concede without a blush,
To grant the "civic guard" is not to grant
The civic spirit, living and awake:
Those lappets on your shoulders, citizens,
Your eyes strain after
sideways
till they ache
(While still, in admirations and amens,
The crowd comes up on festa-days to take
The great sight in)--are not intelligence,
Not courage even--alas, if not the sign
Of something very noble, they are nought;
For every day ye dress your sallow kine
With fringes down their cheeks, though unbesought
They loll their heavy heads and drag the wine
And bear the wooden yoke as they were taught
The first day.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Un matin nous partons, le cerveau plein de flamme,
Le coeur gros de rancune et de desirs amers,
Et nous allons, suivant le rythme de la lame,
Bercant notre infini sur le fini des mers:
Les uns, joyeux de fuir une patrie infame;
D'autres, l'horreur de leurs berceaux, et quelques-uns,
Astrologues noyes dans les yeux d'une femme,
La Circe
tyrannique
aux dangereux parfums.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Kitto also
describes
this "vast chasm," which contained "an enormous
mass of ice, which seems to have fallen from a cliff that overhangs the
ice" (_Travels in Persia_, 1846, i.
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Byron |
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A moment he stood
balancing
with emotion,
And all but lost himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You forge
Through surge,
To be in rending
breakers
rolled.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his
trembling
sun
In human nature's west!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Without a struggle was Argaeus brought
To his unhappy life's
disastrous
end,
And he who slew him never had such thought,
Nor this would have believed: to aid his friend
Intent, (strange chance!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_Coila_, from Kyle, a
district
in Ayrshire, so called, saith tradition,
from Coil, or Coilus, a Pictish monarch.
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Robert Forst |
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The reading, in the edition of 1793,
In these lone vales, if aught of faith may claim,
Thin silver hairs, and ancient hamlet fame;
When up the hills, as now, retreats the light,
Strange apparitions mock the village sight,
is better than that finally adopted,
In these
secluded
vales, if village fame,
Confirmed by hoary hairs, belief may claim;
When up the hills, as now, retired the light,
Strange apparitions mocked the shepherd's sight.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Inspire the highly-favour'd youth
The
destinies
intend her:
Still fan the sweet connubial flame
Responsive in each bosom;
And bless the dear parental name
With many a filial blossom.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Supply_
This, it, with, It.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For a moment when you held me fast in your
outstretched
arms
I thought the river stood still and did not flow.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It speaks of sunken eyes, and wasted cheeks,
And Beauty long deceased--remembers me
Of Joy departed--Hope, the Seraph Hope,
Inurned and entombed:--now, in a tone
Low, sad, and solemn, but most audible,
Whispers of early grave
untimely
yawning
For ruined maid.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[58]
While pastoral pipes and streams the landscape lull, 220
And bells of passing mules that tinkle dull,
In solemn shapes before the admiring eye
Dilated hang the misty pines on high,
Huge convent domes with
pinnacles
and towers,
And antique castles seen through gleamy [59] showers.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Imagists |
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interea Dryadum siluas
saltusque
sequamur
intactos, tua, Maecenas, haud mollia iussa.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE TREE
CONTENTS
PERSONAE
LA FRAISNE 5 CINO 7 NA AUDIART
VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE II A VILLONAUD, BALLAD OF THE GIBBET 12 MESMERISM 14 FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO
IN TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
17
CAMARADERIE
FOR E.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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As if the soldier died without a wound;
As if the fibres of this godlike frame
Were gored without a pang; as if the wretch,
Who fell in battle, doing bloody deeds,
Passed off to Heaven,
translated
and not killed;
As though he had no wife to pine for him,
No God to judge him!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And is it only fear to thee that night
Is
thatched
with stars?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Who would see
Cleopatra
on her bed?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To walk
together
to the Kirk
And all together pray,
While each to his great father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And Youths, and Maidens gay.
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She has no
sympathy
with the myrtles.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It is true I have been accused to the lords, to the king,
and by great ones, but it
happened
my accusers had not thought of the
accusation with themselves, and so were driven, for want of crimes, to
use invention, which was found slander, or too late (being entered so
fair) to seek starting-holes for their rashness, which were not given
them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Emperor
bestowed
food upon him and stirred
the soup with his own hand.
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Li Po |
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Sweet notes of love, the
speaking
tones _55
Of this bright day, sent down to say
That Paradise on Earth is known,
Resound around, beneath, above.
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Shelley |
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They have seen, by countless waters and windows,
The women of your race facing a stony sky;
They have heard, for
thousands
of years, the voices of women
Asking them: "Why .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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what manner of men I
associated
with!
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Aristophanes |
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Yet, to relieve her heart, in
friendly
style
Proverbial words of comfort he applied,
And not in vain, while they went pacing side by side.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"A warlock, a wizard is he,
And lord of the wind and the sea;
And whichever way he sails,
He has ever
favoring
gales,
By his craft in sorcery.
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Longfellow |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Golden Treasury |
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"Ic þā þæs wælmes, þē is wīde cūð,
"grimne
gryrelīcne
grund-hyrde fond.
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Beowulf |
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Like ocean, which the general north wind breaks
Into ten
thousand
waves, and each one makes _20
A mirror of the moon--like some great glass,
Which did distort whatever form might pass,
Dashed into fragments by a playful child,
Which then reflects its eyes and forehead mild;
Giving for one, which it could ne'er express, _25
A thousand images of loveliness.
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Shelley |
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34
Retaking
the Capital I The immortal Guard left the Cinnabar Pole Star,1 demon stars shone on the steps of jade He was compelled to leave the palace and run, 4 he could not just stay, clinging to his mansion.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
Earth's modern wonder, history's seven outstripping,
High rising tier on tier with glass and iron facades,
Gladdening
the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,
Bronze, lilac, robin's-egg, marine and crimson,
Over whose golden roof shall flaunt, beneath thy banner Freedom,
The banners of the States and flags of every land,
A brood of lofty, fair, but lesser palaces shall cluster.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des
cerisiers
de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Although
the prince wards many, in the end
One mighty stroke he cannot scape or fend.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In the
presence
of others I feel so small;
I never can be at my ease at all.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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