Note: Pound adapts and
utilises
phrases from verse 1, 'qual cor mi vai: that goes to my heart' at the start of Canto XCI; 'es laissa cader: lets fall' and 'de joi sas alas: with joy, its wings' in Notes for Canto CXVII et seq.
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--Now
deckward
tramp the bands,
Yellow as autumn leaves, alive as spring;
And as each host draws out upon the sea
Beyond which lies the tragical To-be,
None dubious of the cause, none murmuring,
Wives, sisters, parents, wave white hands and smile,
As if they knew not that they weep the while.
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XXXIII
But turning morning into night,
Tired by the ball's
incessant
noise,
The votary of vain delight
Sleep in the shadowy couch enjoys,
Late in the afternoon to rise,
When the same life before him lies
Till morn--life uniform but gay,
To-morrow just like yesterday.
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une
sorciere
blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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Yea,
Holofernes
now can bring no shame
Upon me that Ozias hath not brought.
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HE
ENDEAVOURS
TO FIND PEACE IN THE THOUGHT THAT SHE IS IN HEAVEN.
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Only the Raven knows this,
And he will not
disclose
this.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This, then, is the humble, the
nameless,--
The lover, the husband and father, the struggler with shadows,
The one who went down under
shoutings
of chaos!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I know the grass
Must grow
somewhere
along this Thracian coast, If only he would come some little while and find
it me.
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I no longer deserve this
gracious
tenderness.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I assure you that to my lovely friend you
are
indebted
for many of my best songs.
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Robert Forst |
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But beneath, the Evil Spirits
Lay in ambush, waiting for him,
Broke the treacherous ice beneath him,
Dragged him
downward
to the bottom,
Buried in the sand his body.
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Longfellow |
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Let it be but the witless mating of beasts,
Tamed and
curiously
knowing itself
And cunning in its own delight: What then?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Turk with a most mighty
preparation
makes for Cyprus.
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Shakespeare |
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_The Book of Hours_ contains three parts written at different periods in
the poet's life: _The Book of a Monk's Life_ (1899); _The Book of
Pilgrimage_ (1901), and _The Book of Poverty and Death_ (1903), although
the entire volume was not
published
until several years later.
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Meredith - Poems |
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All folk
literature
has indeed a passion whose like is not in modern
literature and music and art, except where it has come by some straight
or crooked way out of ancient times.
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O coeurs de salete, bouches epouvantables,
Fonctionnez
plus fort, bouches de puanteurs!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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God and all His saints that I will never say that ever ye
attempted
to
flee from any man.
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sang musing, as you hastened
Within the
fragrant
thicket.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A true country of Cockaigne, I have said; where all is rich, correct and
shining, like a beautiful conscience, or a
splendid
set of silver, or a
medley of jewels.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Groaning for grief and shame he shows them the cut in his neck, which
he had received for his
unfaithfulness
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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To each in turn the doting father promised
The ring, and on his death-bed, sorely grieving
To
disappoint
two heirs, he had two rings
Made like the first, so close that none could tell
The model from the copies.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut boulders to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the
splendour
of your ragged coast.
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_ Eritis sicut Deus,
scientes
bonum et malum.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
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Or on my
frailties
why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
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because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
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And like a river in flood thro' a burst dam
Descends the ruthless Norman--our good King
Kneels mumbling some old bone--our
helpless
folk
Are wash'd away, wailing, in their own blood--
HAROLD.
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To her vision pure and cold
The night's wild tale is told
On the
glistening
leaf, in the mid-road pool,
The garden mold turned dark and cool,
And the meadows' trampled acres.
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e tytelet, token, & tyxt of her werkke3,
1516 How le[des] for her lele luf hor lyue3 han auntered,
Endured for her drury dulful stounde3,
& after wenged with her walour & voyded her care,
[C] & bro3t blysse in-to boure, with
bountees
hor awen.
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I feel as
confused
by all you've said,
As if 'twere a mill-wheel going round in my head!
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XERXES
Right
resolute
they are!
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These, says Cicero, were admirers
of the Attic manner; but it were to be wished that they had the
wholesome blood, not merely the bones, of their
favourite
declaimers.
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A thick
coating of the latter was
accordingly
plastered upon the coating of tar.
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Poe - 5 |
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As Life is on each paddle's flight to-day,
And more than Life or lives to Neuha: Love
Freights
the frail bark and urges to the cove;
And now the refuge and the foe are nigh--
Yet, yet a moment!
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Byron |
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The
Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known Air, then a dozen
bars of his own, then a few more notes of the Air, and so on alternately:
thus saving the listener, if not from all risk of
recognising
the melody
at all, at least from the too-exciting transports which it might produce
in a more concentrated form.
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There, on
thoughts
that once were mine,
Day looks down the eastern steep,
And the youth at morning shine
Makes the vow he will not keep.
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"
"For every vein and pulse
throughout
my frame
She hath made tremble.
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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VAGRANCY
When the slow year creeps hay-ward, and the skies
Are warming in the summer's mild surprise,
And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond
Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond,
It is a
pleasant
thing to dream at ease
On sun-warmed thyme, not far from beechen trees.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Thou therefore rise: vanish thy weariness
By the mind's effort, in each struggle form'd
To vanquish, if she suffer not the weight
Of her
corporeal
frame to crush her down.
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būend are the
compounds
ceaster-, fold-, grund-,
lond-būend.
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young Corinthian Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a
swooning
love of him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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" But
(speak-ing to Jesus) he says, "What beautiful or
admirable
thing have
you said or done, though you was (sp) called upon in the temple to give
some manifest sign that you were the son of God?
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Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius germanum
amittere
crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Thou wanton baggage with
unblushing
face,
Thee on the spot I'll instantly chastise,
And then thy husband of the fact advise.
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La Fontaine |
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What else is the Palladium (with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from
sacking?
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But they, placed high on the top of all
virtue, looked down on the stage of the world and
contemned
the play of
fortune.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I love to see the shaking twig
Dance till the shut of eve,
The sparrow on the cottage rig,
Whose chirp would make believe
That Spring was just now
flirting
by
In Summer's lap with flowers to lie.
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John Clare |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Degas and Zuloaga seem to have combined their
art on one canvas to give to this dancer the abundant
elasticity
of
grace and the splendid fantasy of colour.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ere a week was over Minnie
weepingly
returned his ring,
Told him his "unhappy weakness" stopped all thought of marrying.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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s father, Guo Zhiyun, had been
military
commissioner of Longyou.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The silver, Sallust, shows not fair
While buried in the greedy mine:
You love it not till
moderate
wear
Have given it shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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An lack a land thy sacring rite,
The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
Thou willing:--with such Deity
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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org/dirs/2/0/0/2002
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previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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Ye
recording
angels,
Open your books and read?
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Longfellow |
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Depressed,
depressed
the scholar in the narrow street:
Clasping a shadow, he dwells in an empty house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The compressed and punctuated
translation
is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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He seized upon
it, dashed off his first sketch in less than a fortnight, and published
it
anonymously
in a 'Miscellany' issued by Lintot in 1712.
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Alexander Pope |
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The truth is, I found it a very
convenient
business to
have ?
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Robert Burns |
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Come, outfence him with
some
wheelwright
slang?
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Aristophanes |
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more
spiritual!
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Whitman |
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But the crime's
wrought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of
Contemporary
Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And HoBACE
patiently
its strokes does take.
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Marvell - Poems |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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Villon |
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I will not ask thee what strange anger sent
That blaze of proud
contempt
in the King's face:
But ere the voice of the King seals up thy life
In an unalterable judgment, I
Am granted now to come as his last message:
And, as I will, to speak.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Aeschylus |
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_insert_
to _after_ need; B.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
(See 'The Life and
Correspondence
of Robert Southey', vol.
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William Wordsworth |
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I had hoped to see
A scene of wondrous glory, as was told
Of some great God who in a rain of gold
Broke open bars and fell on Danae:
Or a dread vision as when Semele
Sickening for love and unappeased desire
Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire
Caught her brown limbs and slew her utterly:
With such glad dreams I sought this holy place,
And now with
wondering
eyes and heart I stand
Before this supreme mystery of Love:
Some kneeling girl with passionless pale face,
An angel with a lily in his hand,
And over both the white wings of a Dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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About twelve by the moon-dial
One, more filmy than the rest
(A kind which, upon trial,
They have found to be the best)
Comes down--still down--and down
With its centre on the crown
Of a mountain's eminence,
While its wide circumference
In easy drapery falls
Over hamlets, over halls,
Wherever
they may be--
O'er the strange woods--o'er the sea--
Over spirits on the wing--
Over every drowsy thing--
And buries them up quite
In a labyrinth of light--
And then, how deep!
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Poe - 5 |
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`Santa Maria', well thou
tremblest
down the wave,
Thy `Pinta' far abow, thy `Nina' nigh astern:
Columbus stands in the night alone, and, passing grave,
Yearns o'er the sea as tones o'er under-silence yearn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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HE BLESSES ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
OF HIS PASSION.
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Petrarch |
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I am as lovely as a dream in stone,
And this my heart where each finds death in turn,
Inspires
the poet with a love as lone
As clay eternal and as taciturn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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