After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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* * * * *
NOTE: The Old English "yogh" characters have been
translated
both
upper and lower-case yoghs to digit 3's.
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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The old dames, jealous of their whispered praise,
Throw in their hints of man's deluding ways;
And one, to give her counsels more effect,
And by example illustrate the fact
Of
innocence
oercome by flattering man,
Thrice tapped her box, and pinched, and thus began.
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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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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Emerson - Poems |
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For Aeschylus, though steeped in the glory of the world of legend, would
not lightly accept its judgment upon
religious
and moral questions, and
above all would not, in that region, play at make-believe.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He next from her of Silence makes demand,
Who of his motions easily might know;
As one who from one land to the other hied,
Kindling
and scattering fire on either side.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand;
Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,
And not King Richard; thou most
beauteous
inn,
Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee,
When triumph is become an alehouse guest?
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Shakespeare |
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is
solemnest
of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
In many forms we try
To utter God's infinity,
But the
boundless
hath no form,
And the Universal Friend
Doth as far transcend
An angel as a worm.
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* * * * *
[I find the date of this is placed in 1792, in contradiction, by
mistake, to what I have
asserted
in 'Guilt and Sorrow'.
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds
unassailed
its argent armoury
From all the gathering gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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The rest if I should tell, I fear my friend
My closest friend would deem the facts untrue; 10
And
therefore
it were wisely left untold;
Yet if you will, why, hear it to the end.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages
coulaient
comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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like a bad leech falling sick
Thou art faint at soul, and canst not find the drugs
Required
to save thyself.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered
grass and leaves, so softly and
serenely
bright, I thought I had never
bathed in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic
heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The
shouting
and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of
bickering
gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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and
wherefore
sent
So near a hostile armament?
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Byron |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Thus turns the human track
Backward
upon itself, I stand once more
By this small stream.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are
bemoaning
the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Take up the steel, and show us if indeed
Rumour speak true," Right swift Orestes took
The Dorian blade, back from his
shoulders
shook
His brooched mantle, called on Pylades
To aid him, and waved back the thralls.
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCVII
And as he
fastened
his on her fair eyes,
His Bradamant he called to mind again.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Yet for the moment I cherish my good friend, 44
clasping
his hand as we walk by the roadside.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to AElla_ in his own
handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which
contained
strange
textual variations.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
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Poe - 5 |
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Il nous semble, d'ailleurs, qu'il est des cas ou la publicite
n'est pas seulement un encouragement, ou elle peut avoir l'influence
d'un conseil utile et appeler le vrai talent a se degager, a se
fortifier, en elargissant ses voies, en
etendant
son horizon.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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One of the Moorish pilots
deserted, and some of the Portuguese who were on shore to get fresh
water were
attacked
by the natives, but were rescued by a timely
assistance from the ships.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Births have brought us
richness
and variety,
And other births will bring us richness and variety.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The rest of soul,
Throughout
the body scattered, but obeys--
Moved by the nod and motion of the mind.
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Lucretius |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well contented with the
spacious
starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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) Pehlevi, the old Heroic
Sanskrit
of Persia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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God grant, not that, not that, but some plain grace
Of manhood to the man who brings me love:
A father of
straight
children, that shall move
Swift on the wings of War.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this
pestilential
tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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Sisyphus
in uita quoque nobis ante oculos est
qui petere a populo fascis saeuasque securis
imbibit et semper uictus tristisque recedit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'T was my
strength
of passion slew me!
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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aquae
strepentis
uitreus lambit liquor
sulcoque ductus irrigat riuus sata.
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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Li Po |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Il nous
est difficile de savoir pourquoi
Verlaine
a corrige <> en <
voile>>, ou s'agit-il d'un moment d'inattention?
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Did they achieve nothing for good, for
themselves?
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Whitman |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Of course just as there are
false dawns before the dawn itself, and winter days so full of sudden
sunlight that they will cheat the wise crocus into
squandering
its gold
before its time, and make some foolish bird call to its mate to build on
barren boughs, so there were Christians before Christ.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Stephen Crane |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
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Troubador Verse |
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The third most
glorious
of these majesties
Give aid, O sapphires of th' eternal see, And by your light illume pure verity.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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An
exception
is on page 251 et seq.
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John Donne |
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Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Mightier
than Egypt's tombs,
Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,
We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
A keep for life for practical invention.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Happy at the News that the
Imperial
Army is Already at the Edge ofRebel Territory 355 Today I look on the will of Heaven, how can those wandering souls forgive you?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But don't think at the moment of loving you
I find myself innocent in my own eyes, or approve,
Or that slack complacency has fed the poison, 675
Of this wild passion that
troubles
all my reason.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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An' now, ye chosen Five-and-Forty,
May still your mither's heart support ye,
Then, though a
minister
grow dorty,
An' kick your place,
Ye'll snap your fingers, poor an' hearty,
Before his face.
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Robert Burns |
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The other
characters
fall easily into their niches.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But here, where murder
breathed
her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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All things worth praise
That unto Khadeeth's mart have
From far been brought through perils over-passed, All santal, myrrh, and spikenard that disarms The pard's swift anger; these would weigh but light 'Gainst thy delights, my
Khadeeth!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Yet
wherefore?
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Shelley |
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_The Hue and Cry_ was
played
February
9, 1608.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Your hot blood taught you
carelessness
of death
With every breath.
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