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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Bravely have you wrestled with me,
Thrice have wrestled stoutly with me,
And the Master of Life, who sees us,
He will give to you the
triumph!
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Kind as a mother herself, she touched his cheeks with her hands:
"Blessed is she who has borne thee,
although
she should weep as she
stands.
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Induced by such
predictions
of the Loxian,
Against his will he drove me out,
And shut me from the houses; but Zeus' rein
Compelled him by force to do these things.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It was impossible to reform
these natures; they were dried and
hardened
in their ill.
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O, we have been
betrayed!
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Longfellow |
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(then the queen began)
Oh much-enduring, much
experienced
man!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Hate not a thing too much, lest you be drawn
Wry from
yourselves
and close to the thing ye hate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Count
Sir, to defend all that I hold sublime,
Such minor
disobedience
is no crime;
However great it seems, you will allow
My service is such as to efface it now.
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no bard's
ecstatic
lays
Nor polish'd prose your deathless name can raise
To match your genuine worth!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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All day long I love the oaks,
But, at nights, yon little cot,
Where I see the chimney smokes,
Is by far the
prettiest
spot.
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The Cotter's
Saturday
Night
XIV.
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"
The comely face looked up again,
The deft hand
lingered
on the thread
"Sweet, tell me what is Homer's sting,
Old Homer's sting?
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Sordello
to himself
Drew him, and cry'd: "Lo there our enemy!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Meanwhile Patroclus sweats, the fire to raise;
The tent is brighten'd with the rising blaze:
Then, when the languid flames at length subside,
He strows a bed of glowing embers wide,
Above the coals the smoking
fragments
turns
And sprinkles sacred salt from lifted urns;
With bread the glittering canisters they load,
Which round the board Menoetius' son bestow'd;
Himself, opposed to Ulysses full in sight,
Each portion parts, and orders every rite.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The sun, it is said,
hid his face rather than shine on so
barbarous
a deed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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`My dere nece,' quod he, `it am I;
Ne
wondreth
not, ne have of it no fere;'
And ner he com, and seyde hir in hir ere,
`No word, for love of god I yow biseche; 755
Lat no wight ryse and heren of oure speche.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Als du im Saal mit deiner
himmlischen
Kunst
Beethoven zeigst, und seinem Willen nach
Mit den zehn Fingern fuehrst der Leute Gunst,
Zehn Zungen sagen was der Meister sprach.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He said, and at his word, forth went a son
Of Dolius; at the gate he stood, and thence
Beholding
all that multitude at hand,
In accents wing'd thus to Ulysses spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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ABCLa1a
7 _ipsa_ ABC
9 _circum
siliens_
GR: _circum silens al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The sun right up above the mast
Had fix'd her to the ocean:
But in a minute she 'gan stir
With a short uneasy motion--
Backwards and
forwards
half her length
With a short uneasy motion.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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My great uncle is the high commander,3 his
reputation
is as a senior of the realm.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And
suddenly
I surrender the garrison,
Feigning treason!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Quand elle eut de mes os suce toute la moelle,
Et que
languissamment
je me tournai vers elle
Pour lui rendre un baiser d'amour, je ne vis plus
Qu'une outre aux flancs gluants, toute pleine de pus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A18_, _N_, _TC_]
[134 sweet, _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _S96:_ sweets,
_1635-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_]
[137 owing] owning _1669_]
[139 soule] souls _1669_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S_]
[153 fame,] flame, _1633_]
[154 for _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_ through
_1635-69_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_, _Chambers_]
[156 middle] midle _1633_, _D_]
[157 grace;] grace, _1633_]
[159 Glorifiedst]
Glorifiest
_1633 some copies_, _D_, _H49_]
[162 Deliver, and] Deliver us, and _Chambers_]
[163 through] though, _1633_
that] thy _B_, _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]
[164 is still] still is _1633 some copies_, _1635-69_]
[166 fits;] fits, _1633_]
[173 clothes _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TC:_
robes _1635-69_, _B_ (robe), _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]
[175 born; _Ed:_ born, _1633-69_]
[196 When] Where _many MSS.
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Though weak thine infant feet,
What strange amaze this new and strange world gives
To thy sweet virgin soul, that
spotless
lives
In virgin body sweet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Never, please God His Angels and His Saints,
Never by me shall
Frankish
valour fail!
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Chanson de Roland |
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And I know a grove
Of large extent, hard by a castle huge,
Which the great lord inhabits not; and so
This grove is wild with
tangling
underwood,
And the trim walks are broken up, and grass,
Thin grass and king-cups grow within the paths.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Such testimony, even though not a single fragment remained to us from which
to judge her poetry for ourselves, might well
convince
us that the
supremacy acknowledged by those who knew all the triumphs of the genius of
old Greece was beyond the assault of any modern rival.
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Sappho |
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I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting
pictures
of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The meadow grass could be
cemented
down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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On the top of the
Crumpetty
Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Shiver the palaces of glass;
Shrivel the rainbow-colored walls,
Where in bright Art each god and sibyl dwelt
Secure as in the zodiac's belt;
And the
galleries
and halls,
Wherein every siren sung,
Like a meteor pass.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Hee's heere in double trust;
First, as I am his Kinsman, and his Subiect,
Strong both against the Deed: Then, as his Host,
Who should against his
Murtherer
shut the doore,
Not beare the knife my selfe.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'444 Scotists and Thomists:'
mediaeval scholars,
followers
respectively of Duns Scotus and Thomas
Aquinas.
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Alexander Pope |
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Per lor
maladizion
si non si perde,
che non possa tornar, l'etterno amore,
mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Incapable
of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Against the
subtleties
which would make poetry a study-not a passion-it
becomes the metaphysician to reason-but the poet to protest.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then sorrow seiz'd me, which e'en now revives,
As my thought turns again to what I saw,
And, more than I am wont, I rein and curb
The powers of nature in me, lest they run
Where Virtue guides not; that if aught of good
My gentle star, or something better gave me,
I envy not myself the
precious
boon.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We must make a theatre for ourselves and
our friends, and for a few simple people who
understand
from sheer
simplicity what we understand from scholarship and thought.
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Yeats |
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No
likeness
of our country do ye bear,
But semblance as of Libyan womankind.
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Aeschylus |
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Hoeder, the blind old God,
Whose feet are shod with silence,
Pierced through that gentle breast
With his sharp spear, by fraud
Made of the mistletoe,
The
accursed
mistletoe!
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Longfellow |
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Thy sister doth not haunt these fields, Pandion is not here,
Here is no cruel Lord with
murderous
blade,
No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving comrades made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
With half-shut book, and many a winding walk
Where rustic lovers stray at eve in happy simple talk.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The sulphur-coloured stars are
hurrying
through the Western
gate!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Christmas celebrated anew,
mentioned
full often.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Just as on the
flowerless
carpets of
Persia tulip and rose blossom indeed, and are lovely to look on, though
they are not reproduced in visible shape or line; just as the pearl and
purple of the sea shell is echoed in the church of St Mark at Venice;
just as the vaulted ceiling of the wondrous chapel at Ravenna is made
gorgeous by the gold and green and sapphire of the peacock's tail,
though the birds of Juno fly not across it; so the critic reproduces the
work that he criticises in a mode that is never imitative, and part of
whose charm may really consist in the rejection of resemblance, and
shows us in this way not merely the meaning but also the mystery of
beauty, and by transforming each art into literature solves once for all
the problem of art's unity.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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* I have often noticed a peculiar movement of the fire-flies;
--they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common
centre, into
innumerable
radii.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Behold what
blessings
wealth to life can lend!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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gylleð
grǣg-hama (_the gray
garment_
[byrnie] _rings_); (_the gray wolf
yelleth_?
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Beowulf |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Chimene
You should rather take part in all this joy,
Blessing the grace the Heavens employ,
Madame, no one but me
deserves
to suffer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Search well the measure--
The words--the
syllables!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He was
educated
at St.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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this genius needs for exaltation,
When all's said and however the proud may wince,
A little marble from our
princely
mines!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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AN OLD MAN,
_formerly
servant to Agamemnon_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And as she sleep, anoon-right tho hir mette, 925
How that an egle,
fethered
whyt as boon,
Under hir brest his longe clawes sette,
And out hir herte he rente, and that a-noon,
And dide his herte in-to hir brest to goon,
Of which she nought agroos, ne no-thing smerte, 930
And forth he fleigh, with herte left for herte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The meadows mine, the mountains mine, --
All forests,
stintless
stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is only our ignorance of this order
which keeps us from
realizing
this fact.
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Alexander Pope |
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'122 Scylla':
the
daughter
of King Nisus in Grecian legends.
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Alexander Pope |
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[629] Son of Epicles, and
mentioned
by Thucydides.
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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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The cannon had been
dragged hither the
preceding
evening.
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Fur diesmal sieh dich immer satt;
Ich weiss dir so ein Schatzchen auszuspuren,
Und selig, wer das gute
Schicksal
hat,
Als Brautigam sie heim zu fuhren!
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[Sidenote B: Softly she sits by his side,]
[Sidenote C: and tells the knight that he has
forgotten
what she taught him
the day before.
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e schene blod over his
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sea Garden
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SOLEIL ET CHAIR
Le Soleil, le foyer de tendresse et de vie,
Verse l'amour brulant a la terre ravie,
Et, quand on est couche sur la vallee, on sent
Que la terre est nubile et deborde de sang;
Que son immense sein, souleve par une ame,
Est d'amour comme dieu, de chair comme la femme,
Et qu'il renferme, gros de seve et de rayons,
Le grand fourmillement de tous les
embryons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Le gouffre a
toujours
soif; la clepsydre se vide.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thy wyle
Serveth of nought, so
weylaway
the whyle!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The infant listened to the strain,
Now here, now there, its
thoughts
were driven--
But the Fay and the Peri waited in vain,
The soul soared above such a sensual gain--
The child rose to Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Yet, to be just to these poor men of pelf,
Each does but hate his
neighbour
as himself:
Damned to the mines, an equal fate betides
The slave that digs it, and the slave that hides.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At the same time he perpetually harassed the enemy by sudden incursions; and, after sufficiently
alarming
them, by an interval of forbearance, he held to their view the allurements of peace.
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Tacitus |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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ei misero frater adempte mihi,
Ei misero fratri
iocundum
lumen ademptum,
Tecum una totast nostra sepulta domus,
Omnia tecum una perierunt gaudia nostra, 95
Quae tuos in vita dulcis alebat amor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For I requesting to be Sestius' guest 10
Read against claimant Antius a speech,
Full-filled with
poisonous
pestilential trash.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He seems the center around which stars glow
While all earth's
ostentations
surge below.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I to hexameters tell, in
pentameters
I will confide it:
During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They
stripped
him of his canvas clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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There's mercy in every place,
And mercy,
encouraging
thought!
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Golden Treasury |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the
adoration
of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd, Man's
Forgiveness
give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But within this fretted shell,
The wonder of Love made visible,
The King a private gentle mood
There placed, of
pleasant
quietude.
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That we can judge only with regard to our own
system, being ignorant of the
relations
of systems and things, v.
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I stood on a tower in the wet,
And New Year and Old Year met,
And winds were roaring and blowing;
And I said, 'O years that meet in tears,
Have ye aught that is worth the
knowing?
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What
concerne
they,
The generall cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
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