And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes,
And hands which offer early flowers,
Walk smiling o'er this paradise;
Above, the
frequent
feudal towers
Through green leaves lift their walls of grey,
And many a rock which steeply lours,
And noble arch in proud decay,
Look o'er this vale of vintage bowers:
But one thing want these banks of Rhine,--
Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine!
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It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the president of language, is called _deorum
hominumque
interpres_.
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my fond regard
For ane that shares my bosom,
Inspires
my Muse to gie 'm his dues
For deil a hair I roose him.
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Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,
By grace of poets and their silver tongue,
Henceforth
to live the happy isles among.
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Now the Land, with drying tears,
Counts him up his flocks of years,
"See," he says, "my substance grows;
Hundred-flocked my
Herdsman
goes,
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman stands
On the Past's broad meadow-lands,
Come from where ye mildly graze,
Black herds, white herds, nights and days.
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The
thunderous
downshoot deafened him;
Half he choked in the lashing spray:
Life is sweet, and the grave is grim,--
Which way?
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but he is
enclosed
in so grete angre for nede of ?
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The styles are taken from
Classical
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Ronsard |
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"Cursed," he cried, "be
cowardice
and
covetousness both; in you are villany and vice, that virtue destroy.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The culture, too, which licks the world to shape,
The devil himself cannot escape;
The phantom of the North men's
thoughts
have left behind them,
Horns, tail, and claws, where now d'ye find them?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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er hou shal I my-seluen saue
To lyue in
maidenhede?
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Had my lips been smitten into music by the
kisses that but made them bleed,
You had walked with Bice and the angels on
that verdant and
enamelled
mead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the
fragrance
hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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crinibus
insignem
quis acuta cuspide Phoebum
instruat, Aoniam Marte mouente lyram?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But into France demands he my departure;
He'll follow me to Aix, where is my Castle;
There he'll receive the law of our Salvation:
Christian
he'll be, and hold from me his marches.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Still, sir, thou wert wanting in good faith; but as it
proceeded
from
no immorality, thou being only desirous of saving thy life, the less I
blame thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yet lovely in captivity she lies,
Filled with soft colours, where the
wavering
weed
Moves gently and discloses to our eyes
Blurred shining veins of rock and lucent shells
Under the light-shot water; and here repose
Small quiet fish and dimly glowing bells
Of sleeping sea-anemones that close
Their tender fronds and will not now awake
Till on these rocks the waves returning break.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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for all the gold upon ground I would not go with thee nor bear thee
fellowship
through this wood 'on foot farther.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_The Firetail's Nest_
"Tweet" pipes the robin as the cat creeps by
Her nestling young that in the elderns lie,
And then the bluecap tootles in its glee,
Picking the flies from orchard apple tree,
And "pink" the chaffinch cries its well-known strain,
Urging its kind to utter "pink" again,
While in a quiet mood hedgesparrows try
An inward stir of
shadowed
melody.
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John Clare |
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this is bitter and profitable: this
instructs and would inform us: what need we know any thing, that are
nobly born, more than a horse-race, or a hunting-match, our day to break
with citizens, and such innate
mysteries?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN
INCIDENT
IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
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John Clare |
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The color on the cruising cloud,
The
interdicted
ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There Paradise is found!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The hoot of the
steamers
on the Thames is plain.
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Imagists |
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Not thou, but customary thought is here
Molested and annoyed; the only nerve
Can carry anguish from this to thy soul,
Is that credulity which ties the mind
Firmly to
notional
creature as to real.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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|| _cibe_(_i_ La1)_les_ GORLa1:
_cybel{l}es_
B: _Cybebes_
Bentley || _tua_ Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"From th'
empyrean
seat of holy love
Alone thy sorrows to console I move.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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In cave if I
presumed
to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then
Criticism
the Muse's handmaid prov'd,
To dress her charms, and make her more belov'd:
But following wits from that intention stray'd,
Who could not win the mistress, woo'd the maid; 105
Against the Poets their own arms they turn'd,
Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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Armoire a doux secrets, pleine de bonnes choses,
De vins, de parfums, de liqueurs
Qui feraient delirer les
cerveaux
et les coeurs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
On
housebacks
pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Qui des Dieux osera, Lesbos, etre ton juge,
Et condamner ton front pali dans les travaux,
Si ses balances d'or n'ont pese le deluge
De larmes qu'a la mer ont verse tes
ruisseaux?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The axles of our
chariots
touch: our short swords meet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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the spirit flown
forever!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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mine gefrǣge
(_as I learned through the
narrative
of others_), 777, 838, 1956, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A
thousand
gallons of red wine
We carry in the ship's hold;
With girls on board at the waves' will
We are glad to drift or stay.
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Li Po |
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>>,
mi pinse con la forza del suo peso:
per ch'io di
coruscar
vidi gran feste.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Behold This Swarthy Face
Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes,
This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,
My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly
on the lips with robust love,
And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a
kiss in return,
We observe that salute of American
comrades
land and sea,
We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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King
Sad news, and an
obsessive
sense of duty!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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He corrupted Nero and introduced
him to every kind of depravity; then ventured on some villainies
behind his back, and finally
deserted
and betrayed him.
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Tacitus |
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"Why warbles he that skies are fair
And coombs alight," she cried, "and fallows gay,
When I have placed no
sunshine
in the air
Or glow on earth to-day?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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This only would I have thee clearly note:
That so my
conscience
have no plea against me;
Do fortune as she list, I stand prepar'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pale
fireflies
pulsed within the meadow-mist
Their halos, wavering thistledowns of light;
The loon, that seemed to mock some goblin tryst,
Laughed; and the echoes, huddling in affright,
Like Odin's hounds, fled baying down the night.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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83-86, is that the gnomes fill the girls' minds with hopes of a
splendid
marriage
and so induce them to "deny love.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sometimes
a
nightingale sings to the moon, weary of empty hills.
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Li Po |
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I cannot
describe
the
delicious feeling which thrilled through me at this moment, I seized her
hand and pressed it in a transport of delight, while bedewing it with my
tears.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXI
Home, horse and foot, the Nubian host arraid
By squadrons, all, from wasted Africk go;
But to their king, first, thanks
Astolpho
paid,
And said, he an eternal debt should owe;
In that he had in person given him aid
With all his might and main against the foe.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They do but answer to the love in thine,
Yet
secretly
I wonder thou shouldst love me.
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Longfellow |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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estaat; _rest_ estate; Ten Brink _rightly
supplies_
and
_after_ Estat (_sic_).
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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Sappho |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
It thus began: "If any certain news
Of Valdimagra and the
neighbour
part
Thou know'st, tell me, who once was mighty there
They call'd me Conrad Malaspina, not
That old one, but from him I sprang.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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The indications and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw,
indicates
itself in parts;
What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of
singers, and their words;
The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark--but
the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark;
The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
He is the glory and extract, thus far, of things and of the human race.
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Whitman |
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'Twas then, the studious head or generous mind,
Follower of God, or friend of human-kind,
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore
The faith and moral Nature gave before;
Re-lumed her ancient light, not kindled new;
If not God's image, yet His shadow drew:
Taught power's due use to people and to kings,
Taught nor to slack, nor strain its tender strings,
The less, or greater, set so justly true,
That touching one must strike the other too;
Till jarring interests, of
themselves
create
The according music of a well-mixed state.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Within
bestrewn
thy bridegroom see
On couch of Tyrian cramoisy
All imminent awaiting thee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Ne'er, while I lived there, he
loathlier
found me,
bairn in the burg, than his birthright sons,
Herebeald and Haethcyn and Hygelac mine.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I looked at sunrise once,
And then I looked at them,
And wishfulness in me arose
For
circumstance
the same.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a
polished
crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Come le pecorelle escon del chiuso
a una, a due, a tre, e l'altre stanno
timidette atterrando l'occhio e 'l muso;
e cio che fa la prima, e l'altre fanno,
addossandosi a lei, s'ella s'arresta,
semplici e quete, e lo 'mperche non sanno;
si vid' io muovere a venir la testa
di quella mandra
fortunata
allotta,
pudica in faccia e ne l'andare onesta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I
mean in the way he recites when alone, or unconscious of an audience,
for before an audience he will remember the imperfection of his ear in
note and tone, and cling to daily speech, or
something
like it.
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Yeats |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I watch the fog float in at the window
With the whole world gone blind,
Everything, even my longing, drowses,
Even the
thoughts
in my mind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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An ydole of fals portraiture
Is she, for she wil sone wryen;
She is the
monstres
heed y-wryen,
As filth over y-strawed with floures;
Hir moste worship and hir [flour is] 630
To lyen, for that is hir nature;
Withoute feyth, lawe, or mesure
She is fals; and ever laughinge
With oon eye, and that other wepinge.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes--
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair
appearance
lies.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'You are a most
annoying
person.
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Yeats |
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My Lord, I stand so
squeezed
among the crowd
I cannot lift my hands unto my head.
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Tennyson |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling
breakfast
plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston,
1912.
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Imagists |
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there she stands,
Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe;
An empty urn within her withered hands,
Whose holy dust was
scattered
long ago;
The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now;
The very sepulchres lie tenantless
Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow,
Old Tiber!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
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blake-poems |
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anne
parentum
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Frustrantur falsis gaudia lacrimulis,
Vbertim thalami quas intra lumina fundunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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VI
Qui dira ces langueurs et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec
douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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`For which my
counseil
is, whan it is night,
Thou to hir go, and make of this an ende; 1115
And blisful Iuno, thourgh hir grete mighte,
Shal, as I hope, hir grace un-to us sende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'Tis double honour in a woman thought,
When by her charms a torpid heart is caught;
She, who in icy bosoms flame can raise,
Deserving
doubtless
is of treble praise.
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La Fontaine |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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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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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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