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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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There were fine passages in all, but these
were often
embedded
in thoughts which have evidently a special value
to his mind, but are to other men the counters of an unknown coinage.
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Yeats |
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What have I to fear in life or death
Who have known three things: the kiss in the night,
The white flying joy when a song is born,
And meadowlarks
whistling
in silver light.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And angles, idle
utensils
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Marvell - Poems |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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III
Miles slid, and the sight of the port upgrew
As they sped on;
When slipping its bond the
bracelet
flew
From her fondled arm.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Who will twine
The hasty wreath from myrtle-tree
Or
parsley?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It was not Hermes led thee here, but Eros,
And swifter than his arrows were thine eyes
In
wounding
me.
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Longfellow |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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Yet in my heart there was a beating storm
Bending my
thoughts
before it, and I strove
To say too little lest I say too much,
And from my eyes to drive love's happy shame.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Lady Bedford was a student and a poet, and the patron
of
scholars
and poets.
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John Donne |
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Let Earth, with grain and cattle rife,
Crown Ceres' brow with
wreathen
corn;
Soft winds, sweet waters, nurse to life
The newly born!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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E'en now, this instant, great Ulysses, laid
At rest, or wandering in his country's shade,
Their guilty deeds, in hearing, and in view,
Secret revolves; and plans the
vengeance
due.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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) hide in what things Allius sent me
Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
Neither shall
fugitive
Time from centuries ever oblivious
Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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You love nor her, nor me, nor any; nay,
You shame your mother's
judgment
too.
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Tennyson |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And,
sickened
with excess of dread,
Prone to the dust he bent his head,
And lay like one three-quarters dead
The whisper left him--like a breeze
Lost in the depths of leafy trees--
Left him by no means at his ease.
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Lewis Carroll |
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350
Next Sire du Mouline fell upon the grounde,
Quite
throughe
his throte the lethal javlyn preste,
His soule and bloude came roushynge from the wounde;
He closd his eyen, and opd them with the blest.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He spoke; a
rustling
urges thro' the trees,
Instant new vigour strings his active knees,
Wildly he glares around, and raging cries,
"And must another snatch my lovely prize!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[Illustration]
The Bountiful Beetle,
who always carried a Green
Umbrella
when it didn't rain,
and left it at home when it did.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CCXXI
The sixth column is mustered of Bretons;
Thirty thousand
chevaliers
therein come;
These canter in the manner of barons,
Upright their spears, their ensigns fastened on.
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Chanson de Roland |
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in the dust with thee,
Would I could find a refuge from
despair!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" And that
illustrious
judgment
by the most learned M.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And his lips, too,
How
beautifully
parted!
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Byron |
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"Well," murmured one, "Let whoso make or buy,
My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry:
But fill me with the old
familiar
Juice,
Methinks I might recover by and by.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Moon was shining slobaciously from the star-bespangled sky,
while her light irrigated the smooth and shiny sides and wings and backs of
the Blue-Bottle-Flies with a peculiar and trivial splendor, while all
Nature cheerfully
responded
to the cerulean and conspicuous circumstances.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_Si
traviato
e 'l folle mio desio.
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Petrarch |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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but welcome the
hour when the advocate shall adduce all these same
arguments
against you
and shall summon your accomplices to give witness.
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Aristophanes |
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In the snowy winter of 1646, Jonathan Rudd, who dwelt
in the settlement of Saybrook Fort, at the mouth of the Connecticut,
sent for Winthrop to celebrate a
marriage
between himself and a certain
"Mary" of Saybrook, whose last name has been lost.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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But loudly, sweetly sang the slippers
In the basket with the kippers;
And loud and sweet the
answering
thrills
From her lone heart on the hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Such verse must inevitably
forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism
and the enforced
conformity
to accepted ways.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Time's lapse
bringeth
all lessons home.
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Aeschylus |
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It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make
complaint
against them.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and
untouched
by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Transcriber's Note: Title page of first (1667) edition of
Paradise Lost follows:
Paradise
lost.
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Milton |
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Earth's glories flee of human eyes unseen,
Earth's kingdoms fade to a
remembered
dream,
But thine henceforth shall be a power supreme,
Dazzling command and rich dominion,
The winds thy heralds and thy vassals all
The silver-belted planets and the sun.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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THE
FAVORITE
SULTANA.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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- matter, the
cleanliest
shift is to
kiss.
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Shakespeare |
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O'BRIEN
Boston
(To be
published
by Henry Holt fit Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence
Mitchell
Kennerley 1917
A Few Figs from Thistles Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It was the
windfall
for which the youth had been waiting to enable him to
gratify his first love.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The parent's heart that nestled fond in thee,
That heart how sunk, a prey to grief and care;
So deckt the
woodbine
sweet yon aged tree;
So, from it ravish'd, leaves it bleak and bare.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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III
Days of the future,
prophetic
days,--
Silence engulfs the roar of war;
Yet, through all coming years, repeat the praise
Of those leal comrades brave, who come no more!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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L'ENNEMI
Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un tenebreux orage,
Traverse
ca et la par de brillants soleils;
Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage
Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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`And for thou me, that coude leest deserve
Of hem that nombred been un-to thy grace,
Hast holpen, ther I lykly was to sterve, 1270
And me
bistowed
in so heygh a place
That thilke boundes may no blisse pace,
I can no more, but laude and reverence
Be to thy bounte and thyn excellence!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Miu at Soochow; he
reprinted
it in facsimile.
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Li Po |
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I'd just dropt asleep when I dreamed Robin spoke,
And the
casement
it gave such a shake,
As if every pane in the window was broke;
Such a patter the gravel did make.
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John Clare |
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The dry Land, Earth, and the great receptacle
Of
congregated
Waters he call'd Seas:
And saw that it was good, and said, Let th' Earth
Put forth the verdant Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, 310
And Fruit Tree yeilding Fruit after her kind;
Whose Seed is in her self upon the Earth.
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Milton |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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To see the gathering grudge in every breast,
Smiles on her lips a spleenful joy express'd;
While on her wrinkled front, and eyebrow bent,
Sat
stedfast
care, and lowering discontent.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls
wreathed
with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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T.S. Eliot |
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1 Moved to tears in the gray-green mist, 32 mountain gates, closed in ten
thousand
layers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is but the result of
writing with the understanding, or with the instinct, that _the tone,
_in composition, should always be that which the mass of mankind would
adopt--and must
perpetually
vary, of course, with the occasion.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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What I have heard,
Is plain, thou sayst: but wherefore God this way
For our
redemption
chose, eludes my search.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to
flatterer
stopped are.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In newer days of war and trade,
Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
When Science armed and guided war,
And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
When France, where poet never grew,
Halved and dealt the globe anew,
GOETHE, raised o'er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life
And brought
Olympian
wisdom down
To court and mart, to gown and town.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Not far remote my Ithacans I saw
Fires
kindling
on the coast; but me with toil
Worn, and with watching, gentle sleep subdued;
For constant I had ruled the helm, nor giv'n
That charge to any, fearful of delay.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different
Fishermen, in parcels marked out by imaginary lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O shell-borne King
sublime!
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Keats |
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110
Then doubtful stood Ulysses toil-inured,
Whether to strike him
lifeless
to the earth
At once, or fell him with a managed blow.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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- Um Lebens oder
Sterbens
willen
Bitt ich mir ein paar Zeilen aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I
wondered
which would miss me least,
And when Thanksgiving came,
If father'd multiply the plates
To make an even sum.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
generous
spark extinct revive,
Teach me to love and to forgive,
Exact my own defects to scan,
What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
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Golden Treasury |
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We crossed
Dorchester
Bridge, over the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Celestial, whether among the Thrones, or nam'd
Of them the Highest, for such of shape may seem
Prince above Princes, gently hast thou tould
Thy message, which might else in telling wound,
And in performing end us; what besides 300
Of sorrow and dejection and despair
Our
frailtie
can sustain, thy tidings bring,
Departure from this happy place, our sweet
Recess, and onely consolation left
Familiar to our eyes, all places else
Inhospitable appeer and desolate,
Nor knowing us nor known: and if by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of him who all things can, I would not cease
To wearie him with my assiduous cries: 310
But prayer against his absolute Decree
No more availes then breath against the winde,
Blown stifling back on him that breaths it forth:
Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
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Milton |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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None could her
beautiful
declare,
Yet viewing her from head to foot,
None could a trace of that impute,
Which in the elevated sphere
Of London life is "vulgar" called
And ruthless fashion hath blackballed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Its step
funereal
lingers like the swing
Of passing bell--'tis death, or else the king.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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, _wavering_ (like flame), _ghostlike, without
distinct
bodily
form_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos
terribles
bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So
deliciously
you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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"I wish'd myself the fair young beech
That here beside me stands,
That round me,
clasping
each in each,
She might have lock'd her hands.
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When endless night had seal'd his mortal eyes,
And brave Alonzo's spirit sought the skies,
The second of the name, the valiant John,
Our
thirteenth
monarch, now ascends the throne.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Much of his fates I know; but check'd by fear
I stand; the hand of violence is here:
Here boundless wrongs the starry skies invade,
And injured
suppliants
seek in vain for aid.
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A sadder, yet more
pleasing
sound ;
The stock-doves, whose fair necks are graced
With nuptial rings, their ensigns chaste,
Yet always, for some cause unknown, ««
Sad pair, unto the elms they moan.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Crossing
the Po, Caecina tried to undermine the loyalty of the
Othonians
by
negotiations and promises.
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Tacitus |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Who that surveyed thee, when that day
Thou deemed that future glory ray
Would here be ever bright;
Feared that, ere long, all France thy grave
From
pettifoggers
vain would crave
Beneath that column's height?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed
to the heavens.
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Reynell, printer), embodies the corrections
indicated
in
this Table.
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And the people of the village
Welcomed him with songs and dances,
Made a joyous feast, and shouted:
"Honor be to
Hiawatha!
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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