Trebuchant sur les mots comme sur les paves,
Heurtant
parfois des vers depuis longtemps reves.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Came home the Crookham way, by the Thorn, and the little muddy pond"
(Dorothy Wordsworth's
Alfoxden
Journal).
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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These bright standards are now
advanced
on the distant
hillsides, not in large armies, but in scattered troops or single
file, like the red men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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During the ride I turned over in my
mind a
thousand
projects for rescuing the poor girl without being able
to decide on any.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thus whosoe'er have held the stuff of things
To be but fire, and out of fire the sum,
And whosoever have constituted air
As first
beginning
of begotten things,
And all whoever have held that of itself
Water alone contrives things, or that earth
Createth all and changes things anew
To divers natures, mightily they seem
A long way to have wandered from the truth.
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Lucretius |
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Since, stranger, not ungraceful is thy speech,
Who hast but vindicated in our ears
Thy question'd prowess, angry that this youth
Reproach'd thee in the presence of us all, 290
That no man qualified to give his voice
In public, might affront thy courage more;
Now mark me, therefore, that in time to come,
While feasting with thy children and thy spouse,
Thou may'st inform the Heroes of thy land
Even of our
proficiency
in arts
By Jove enjoin'd us in our father's days.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Idomeneosne
petam montes?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thence he pursues his
appointed
path.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"I've a notion
that in the end it will be found that the most helpful work done
for India in this generation was wrought by Lady
Dufferin
in drawing
attention--what work that was, by the way, even with her husband's great
name to back it to the needs of women here.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Defer to the you,
she has
certitude
for, me?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Draw me a
champion
mounted on a steed ;
And after him a brave brigade of horse,
Armed at all points, ready to reenforce
His ; this assault upon a single man.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And this reviving Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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While every Trojan thus, and every aid,
The advice of wise Polydamas obey'd,
Asius alone,
confiding
in his car,
His vaunted coursers urged to meet the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A
worthless
woman; mere cold clay
As all false things are: but so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou
revivest
me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The hazel and the
hawthorn
intermingled were all
overgrown with moss, and upon their boughs sat many sad birds that
piteously piped for pain of the cold.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent
advance and retreat--the enemy triumphs--the prison, the handcuffs, the
iron necklace and anklet, the scaffold, garrote, and lead-balls, do their
work--the cause is asleep--the strong throats are choked with their own
blood--the young men drop their
eyelashes
toward the ground when they pass
each other .
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Whitman |
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"Then thou, dread Lord of Fate, unmov'd remain,
Nor let weak change thine awful
counsels
stain,
For Lusus' race thy promis'd favour show;
Swift as the arrow from Apollo's bow
Let Maia's[87] son explore the wat'ry way,
Where, spent with toil, with weary hopes, they stray;
And safe to harbour, through the deep untried,
Let him, empower'd, their wand'ring vessels guide;
There let them hear of India's wish'd-for shore,
And balmy rest their fainting strength restore.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You
received
your orders at the foot of Taibai, you will gallop your horse to beside Chou Pool.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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FAUST:
Dass ich mich nur nicht selbst
vergesse!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
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Euripides - Electra |
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what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Gaze on Oppression, till at that dread risk _85
Aghast she pass from the Earth's disk:
Fear not, but gaze--for freemen
mightier
grow,
And slaves more feeble, gazing on their foe:--
If Hope, and Truth, and Justice may avail,
Thou shalt be great--All hail!
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Shelley |
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His corpus tremulum conplectens undique vestis
Candida purpurea talos incinxerat ora,
Annoso niveae residebant vertice vittae,
Aeternumque manus
carpebant
rite laborem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Waldo
Slantwise, with head on
outstretched
arm, He huddles, silent, unaware —
A lonely man, a homeless man,
Uncared for, and he does not care.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But the man they
belonged
to / is not there.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sol thro' white
curtains
shot a tim'rous ray,
And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day:
Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, 15
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake:
Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the ground,
And the press'd watch return'd a silver sound.
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Alexander Pope |
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Enter
Macbeths
Wife alone with a Letter.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The letter came
This is my faith, and my mind's heritage
This is the ballad of Langemarck
This was the gleam then that lured from far
Those who have stood for thy cause when the dark was around thee
Thou warden of the western gate, above
Manhattan
Bay
Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea
Three hundred thousand men, but not enough
To the Judge of Right and Wrong
'T was in the piping time of peace
Under our curtain of fire
Under the tow-path past the barges
Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee
Was there love once?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And this dark heart is vainly craving[me]
For he who soars alone above,
And leaves my soul
unworthy
saving.
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Byron |
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--Oui l'Homme est triste et laid, triste sous le ciel vaste,
Il a des vetements, parce qu'il n'est plus chaste,
Parce qu'il a sali son fier buste de Dieu,
Et qu'il a rabougri, comme une idole au feu,
Son corps
olympien
aux servitudes sales!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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" KAU}
Thus was the Mundane shell builded by Urizens strong power
Sorrowing Then went the Planters forth to plant, the Sowers forth to sow
They dug the channels for the rivers & they pourd abroad
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The seas & lakes, they reard the
mountains
& the rocks & hills
On broad pavilions, on pillard roofs & porches & high towers
In beauteous order, thence arose soft clouds & exhalations
Wandering even to the sunny orbs Cubes of light & heat {Lowercase "cubes" mended to "Cubes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And look--a thousand
Blossoms
with the Day
Woke--and a thousand scatter'd into Clay:
And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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After our departure,
the servants will
probably
all go out, or go to sleep.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
V
Hear how it
babbles!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The keepers of fat lambkins chant their loves
To silvan reeds, all in the grassy lea,
And
pleasure
Him who tends the flocks and groves
Of dark-leaved Arcady.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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although
so vast 660
My love is still for thee.
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Keats |
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Let no man say, `He at his lady's feet
Lays worship that to Heaven alone belongs;
Yea, swings the incense that for God is meet
In
flippant
censers of light lover's songs.
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Sidney Lanier |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The critics' wrath did darkly frown
Upon thy muse's mighty lay;
But blasts that break the blossom down
Do only stir the bay;
And thine shall flourish, green and long,
With the
eternity
of song.
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John Clare |
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conpari Venus pudore mittit ante uirgines:
'una res est quam rogamus: cede, uirgo Delia,
ut nemus sit
incruentum
de ferinis stragibus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Incipit
Prohemium
Secundi Libri.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those
children
nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the
perfumed
tincture of the roses.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Yu, yu" / cry the
wandering
deer
As they carry fodder / to their young in the wood.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The editors are confid ent that the magazine's year will be regarded as notable in
American
literature.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She returned to
Hyderabad
in September 1898, and in
the December of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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She knew the dread thing coming, but her clear
Cheek never changed: till
suddenly
she fled
Back to her own chamber and bridal bed:
Then came the tears and she spoke all her thought.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Dardanus, who sailed to the Teucrian
land, the first father and founder of the Ilian city, was born, as
Greeks relate, of Electra the Atlantid; Electra's sire is ancient Atlas,
whose
shoulder
sustains the heavenly spheres.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"From
restorations
of Thy fane,
From smoothings of Thy sward,
From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane
Deliver us O Lord!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Nor can blame cling to thee; the snow
From swinish footprints takes no staining,
But, leaving the gross soils of earth below,
Its spirit mounts, the skies regaining,
And
unresentful
falls again,
To beautify the world with dews and rain.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I was struck most by her
voice, wherein I found the remembrance of the most delicious contralti,
as well as a little of the hoarseness of a throat
continually
laved with
brandy.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their
innocent
hands.
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blake-poems |
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Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or
gluttoning
on all, or all away.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sotto
ciascuna
uscivan due grand' ali,
quanto si convenia a tanto uccello:
vele di mar non vid' io mai cotali.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On
passionless
absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome,
In search of
mischief
still on Earth to roam.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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'[554] Whence comes this
effeminate?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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AUTOMNE MALADE
Automne malade et adore
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neige
Dans les vergers
Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits murs
Au fond du ciel
Des eperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aime
Aux lisieres lointaines
Les cerfs ont brame
Et que j'aime o saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la foret qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille a feuille
Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'ecoule
HOTELS
La chambre est veuve
Chacun pour soi
Presence neuve
On paye au mois
Le patron doute
Payera-t-on
Je tourne en route
Comme un toton
Le bruit des fiacres
Mon voisin laid
Qui fume un acre
Tabac anglais
O La Valliere
Qui boite et rit
De mes prieres
Table de nuit
Et tous ensemble
Dans cet hotel
Savons la langue
Comme a Babel
Fermons nos Portes
A double tour
Chacun apporte
Son seul amour
CORS DE CHASSE
Notre histoire est noble et tragique
Comme le masque d'un tyran
Nul drame hasardeux ou magique
Aucun detail indifferent
Ne rend notre amour pathetique
Et Thomas de Quincey buvant
L'opium poison doux et chaste
A sa pauvre Anne allait revant
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
VENDEMIAIRE
Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais a l'epoque ou finissaient les rois
Tour a tour ils mouraient silencieux et tristes
Et trois fois courageux devenaient trismegistes
Que Paris etait beau a la fin de septembre
Chaque nuit devenait une vigne ou les pampres
Repandaient leur clarte sur la ville et la-haut
Astres murs becquetes par les ivres oiseaux
De ma gloire attendaient la vendange de l'aube
Un soir passant le long des quais deserts et sombres
En rentrant a Auteuil j'entendis une voix
Qui chantait gravement se taisant quelquefois
Pour que parvint aussi sur les bords de la Seine
La plainte d'autres voix limpides et lointaines
Et j'ecoutai longtemps tous ces chants et ces cris
Qu'eveillait dans la nuit la chanson de Paris
J'ai soif villes de France et d'Europe et du monde
Venez toutes couler dans ma gorge profonde
Je vis alors que deja ivre dans la vigne Paris
Vendangeait le raisin le plus doux de la terre
Ces grains miraculeux qui aux treilles chanterent
Et Rennes repondit avec Quimper et Vannes
Nous voici o Paris Nos maisons nos habitants
Ces grappes de nos sens qu'enfanta le soleil
Se sacrifient pour te desalterer trop avide merveille
Nous t'apportons tous les cerveaux les cimetieres les murailles
Ces berceaux pleins de cris que tu n'entendras pas
Et d'amont en aval nos pensees o rivieres
Les oreilles des ecoles et nos mains rapprochees
Aux doigts allonges nos mains les clochers
Et nous t'apportons aussi cette souple raison
Que le mystere clot comme une porte la maison
Ce mystere courtois de la galanterie
Ce mystere fatal fatal d'une autre vie
Double raison qui est au-dela de la beaute
Et que la Grece n'a pas connue ni l'Orient
Double raison de la Bretagne ou lame a lame
L'ocean chatre peu a peu l'ancien continent
Et les villes du Nord repondirent gaiement
O Paris nous voici boissons vivantes
Les viriles cites ou degoisent et chantent
Les metalliques saints de nos saintes usines
Nos cheminees a ciel ouvert engrossent les nuees
Comme fit autrefois l'Ixion mecanique
Et nos mains innombrables
Usines manufactures fabriques mains
Ou les ouvriers nus semblables a nos doigts
Fabriquent du reel a tant par heure
Nous te donnons tout cela
Et Lyon repondit tandis que les anges de Fourvieres
Tissaient un ciel nouveau avec la soie des prieres
Desaltere-toi Paris avec les divines paroles
Que mes levres le Rhone et la Saone murmurent
Toujours le meme culte de sa mort renaissant
Divise ici les saints et fait pleuvoir le sang
Heureuse pluie o gouttes tiedes o douleur
Un enfant regarde les fenetres s'ouvrir
Et des grappes de tetes a d'ivres oiseaux s'offrit
Les villes du Midi repondirent alors
Noble Paris seule raison qui vis encore
Qui fixes notre humeur selon ta destinee
Et toi qui te retires Mediterranee
Partagez-vous nos corps comme on rompt des hosties
Ces tres hautes amours et leur danse orpheline
Deviendront o Paris le vin pur que tu aimes
Et un rale infini qui venait de Sicile
Signifiait en battement d'ailes ces paroles
Les raisins de nos vignes on les a vendanges
Et ces grappes de morts dont les grains allonges
Ont la saveur du sang de la terre et du sel
Les voici pour ta soif o Paris sous le ciel
Obscurci de nuees fameliques
Que caresse Ixion le createur oblique
Et ou naissent sur la mer tous les corbeaux d'Afrique
O raisins Et ces yeux ternes et en famille
L'avenir et la vie dans ces treilles s'ennuyent
Mais ou est le regard lumineux des sirenes
Il trompa les marins qu'aimaient ces oiseaux-la
Il ne tournera plus sur l'ecueil de Scylla
Ou chantaient les trois voix suaves et sereines
Le detroit tout a coup avait change de face
Visages de la chair de l'onde de tout
Ce que l'on peut imaginer
Vous n'etes que des masques sur des faces masquees
Il souriait jeune nageur entre les rives
Et les noyes
flottant
sur son onde nouvelle
Fuyaient en le suivant les chanteuses plaintives
Elles dirent adieu au gouffre et a l'ecueil
A leurs pales epoux couches sur les terrasses
Puis ayant pris leur vol vers le brulant soleil
Les suivirent dans l'onde ou s'enfoncent les astres
Lorsque la nuit revint couverte d'yeux ouverts
Errer au site ou l'hydre a siffle cet hiver
Et j'entendis soudain ta voix imperieuse
O Rome
Maudire d'un seul coup mes anciennes pensees
Et le ciel ou l'amour guide les destinees
Les feuillards repousses sur l'arbre de la croix
Et meme la fleur de lys qui meurt au Vatican
Macerent dans le vin que je t'offre et qui a
La saveur du sang pur de celui qui connait
Une autre liberte vegetale dont tu
Ne sais pas que c'est elle la supreme vertu
Une couronne du triregne est tombee sur les dalles
Les hierarques la foulent sous leurs sandales
O splendeur democratique qui palit
Vienne le nuit royale ou l'on tuera les betes
La louve avec l'agneau l'aigle avec la colombe
Une foule de rois ennemis et cruels
Ayant soif comme toi dans la vigne eternelle
Sortiront de la terre et viendront dans les airs
Pour boire de mon vin par deux fois millenaire
La Moselle et le Rhin se joignent en silence
C'est l'Europe qui prie nuit et jour a Coblence
Et moi qui m'attardais sur le quai a Auteuil
Quand les heures tombaient parfois comme les feuilles
Du cep lorsqu'il est temps j'entendis la priere
Qui joignait la limpidite de ces rivieres
O Paris le vin de ton pays est meilleur que celui
Qui pousse sur nos bords mais aux pampres du nord
Tous les grains ont muri pour cette soif terrible
Mes grappes d'hommes forts saignent dans le pressoir
Tu boiras a longs traits tout le sang de l'Europe
Parce que tu es beau et que seul tu es noble
Parce que c'est dans toi que Dieu peut devenir
Et tous mes vignerons dans ces belles maisons
Qui refletent le soir leurs feux dans nos deux eaux
Dans ces belles maisons nettement blanches et noires
Sans savoir que tu es la realite chantent ta gloire
Mais nous liquides mains jointes pour la priere
Nous menons vers le sel les eaux aventurieres
Et la ville entre nous comme entre des ciseaux
Ne reflete en dormant nul feu dans ses deux eaux
Dont quelque sifflement lointain parfois s'elance
Troublant dans leur sommeil les filles de Coblence
Les villes repondaient maintenant par centaines
Je ne distinguais plus leurs paroles lointaines
Et Treves la ville ancienne
A leur voix melait la sienne
L'univers tout entier concentre dans ce vin
Qui contenait les mers les animaux les plantes
Les cites les destins et les astres qui chantent
Les hommes a genoux sur la rive du ciel
Et le docile fer notre bon compagnon
Le feu qu'il faut aimer comme on s'aime soi-meme
Tous les fiers trepasses qui sont un sous mon front
L'eclair qui luit ainsi qu'une pensee naissante
Tous les noms six par six les nombres un a un
Des kilos de papier tordus comme des flammes
Et ceux-la qui sauront blanchir nos ossements
Les bons vers immortels qui s'ennuient patiemment
Des armees rangees en bataille
Des forets de crucifix et mes demeures lacustres
Au bord des yeux de celle que j'aime tant
Les fleurs qui s'ecrient hors de bouches
Et tout ce que je ne sais pas dire
Tout ce que je ne connaitrai jamais
Tout cela tout cela change en ce vin pur
Dont Paris avait soif
Me fut alors presente
Actions belles journees sommeils terribles
Vegetation Accouplements musiques eternelles
Mouvements Adorations douleur divine
Mondes qui vous rassemblez et qui nous ressemblez
Je vous ai bus et ne fut pas desaltere
Mais je connus des lors quelle saveur a l'univers
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers
Sur le quai d'ou je voyais l'onde couler et dormir les belandres
Ecoutez-moi je suis le gosier de Paris
Et je boirai encore s'il me plait l'univers
Ecoutez mes chants d'universelle ivrognerie
Et la nuit de septembre s'achevait lentement
Les feux rouges des ponts s'eteignaient dans la Seine
Les etoiles mouraient le jour naissait a peine
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I speak not of men's creeds--they rest between
Man and his Maker--but of things allowed,
Averred, and known,--and daily, hourly seen--
The yoke that is upon us doubly bowed,
And the intent of tyranny avowed,
The edict of Earth's rulers, who are grown
The apes of him who humbled once the proud,
And shook them from their
slumbers
on the throne;
Too glorious, were this all his mighty arm had done.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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No torture from his hand
Nor any machination in the world
Shall force mine
utterance
ere he loose, himself,
These cankerous fetters from me.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And they, they
whispered
kindly to him 'Come!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Zacocia (governor of Mozambique) made no doubt but our people were of
some
Mohammedan
country.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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my father, Petr' Andrejitch," sobbed he, in a
trembling
voice; "do
not make me die of sorrow.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then farther, fainter, till she is lost, Forging to
westward
through the night;
Westward her deep-voiced tones are tossed,
And the ghostly glare of her great searchlight.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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e
bytydynge
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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I blow an arouse
Through the world's wide house
To quicken the torpid earth:
Grappling
I fling
Each feeble thing,
But bring strong life to the birth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I can enjoy her while she's kind,
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes the wings and will not stay,
I puff the
prostitute
away.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thy father and mother both--'tis strange to tell--
Had failed thee, though for them the deed was well,
The years were ripe, to die and save their son,
The one child of the house: for hope was none,
If thou
shouldst
pass away, of other heirs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Nay, how could I, torn
From thee, live on, I and my babes
forlorn?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Storm, wind, the wild March sky, sunsets and dawns; the birds and
bees, butterflies and flowers of her garden, with a few trusted
human friends, were
sufficient
companionship.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Alexander Pope |
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What widens within you Walt
Whitman?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Desire from joy gains strength in
weightier
measure.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Aye, Frederick, by my mountain birthright Prince
O' th' Romans, chosen king, crowned emperor,
Heaven's sword-bearer, monarch of Burgundy
And Arles--the tomb of Karl I dared profane,
But have
repented
me on bended knees
In penance 'midst the desert twenty years;
My drink the rain, the rocky herbs my food,
Myself a ghost the shepherds fled before,
And the world named me as among the dead.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It would, of course, be
rash to say that all such poems were
addressed
to his wife.
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John Donne |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Here, here the slaves and prisoners be
From
shackles
free;
And weeping widows, long opprest,
Do here find rest.
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Robert Herrick |
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Fond hope allured me on with meteor flight,
And Love my fancy fed with vain delight,
Chasing through fairy fields her
pageants
gay.
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Petrarch |
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It glanced on flowing flag and rippling pennon,
And the white sails of ships;
And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon
Hailed it with
feverish
lips.
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Longfellow |
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Then, in close
conference
combined, my crew
Each other thus bespake--He carries home
Silver and gold from AEolus received,
Offspring of Hippotas, illustrious Chief--
And thus a mariner the rest harangued.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Holyrood Palace--_Fraser's Magazine_
The Humble Home--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
The
Eighteenth
Century--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
Still be a Child--_Dublin University Magazine_
The Pool and the Soul--_R.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Holyrood Palace--_Fraser's Magazine_
The Humble Home--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
The
Eighteenth
Century--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
Still be a Child--_Dublin University Magazine_
The Pool and the Soul--_R.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Holyrood Palace--_Fraser's Magazine_
The Humble Home--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
The
Eighteenth
Century--_Author of "Critical Essays"_
Still be a Child--_Dublin University Magazine_
The Pool and the Soul--_R.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Without
parchment
brief, I bestow
On Filhol the verses I sing now,
In the plain Romance tongue, that he
May take them to Uc le Brun, anew.
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Troubador Verse |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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O Lord, Thou kens what zeal I bear,
When
drinkers
drink, an' swearers swear,
An' singin there, an' dancin here,
Wi' great and sma';
For I am keepit by Thy fear
Free frae them a'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The queen awakes, deliver'd of her woes;
With florid joy her heart
dilating
glows:
The vision, manifest of future fate,
Makes her with hope her son's arrival wait.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then they whispered to each other,
"O
delightful
little brother,
What a lovely walk we've taken!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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When I a ship see on the seas,
Cuff'd with those wat'ry savages,
And
therewithal
behold it hath
In all that way no beaten path,
Then, with a wonder, I confess
Thou art our way i' th' wilderness;
And while we blunder in the dark,
Thou art our candle there, or spark.
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Robert Herrick |
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