When all was darkened, with Etnean throe
The earth clos'd--gave a solitary moan--
And left him once again in
twilight
lone.
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Than
thoughte
he thus: `If I my tale endyte
Ought hard, or make a proces any whyle,
She shal no savour han ther-in but lyte,
And trowe I wolde hir in my wil bigyle.
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Moreover, his
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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She was nor this nor that of those beings divine,
But each and the whole--an essence of all the Nine;
With tentative foot she neared to my halting-place,
A pensive smile on her sweet, small,
marvellous
face.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'twas too much;
Methought I fainted at the charmed touch,
Yet held my recollection, even as one
Who dives three fathoms where the waters run
Gurgling in beds of coral: for anon, 640
I felt upmounted in that region
Where falling stars dart their
artillery
forth,
And eagles struggle with the buffeting north
That balances the heavy meteor-stone;--
Felt too, I was not fearful, nor alone,
But lapp'd and lull'd along the dangerous sky.
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XXX
And all the while she stood upon the ground,
The
wakefull
dogs did never cease to bay,?
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un fouillis de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels plaintifs et les pales Boucher,
Seuls,
respirent
l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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A
complete
list of Masefield's works sent on request.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And yet I live, to endless grief a prey,
'Reft of that star, my loved, my certain guide,
Disarm'd my bark, while
tempests
round me blow!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Dei cinque che mi fan cerchio per ciglio,
colui che piu al becco mi s'accosta,
la
vedovella
consolo del figlio:
ora conosce quanto caro costa
non seguir Cristo, per l'esperienza
di questa dolce vita e de l'opposta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But in general they represent mere
joyous creatures of nature, unthwarted by law and
unchecked
by
self-control.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Ere long if she nor welcomes me, nor frees,
But, as her wont, between the two retains,
By the sweet poison
circling
through my veins,
My life, O Love!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Forthwith from Councel to the work they flew,
None arguing stood, innumerable hands
Were ready, in a moment up they turnd
Wide the Celestial soile, and saw beneath 510
Th' originals of Nature in thir crude
Conception; Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame
They found, they mingl'd, and with suttle Art,
Concocted
and adusted they reduc'd
To blackest grain, and into store conveyd:
Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth
Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone,
Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls
Of missive ruin; part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.
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Say they who counsel Warr, we are decreed, 160
Reserv'd and destin'd to Eternal woe;
Whatever
doing, what can we suffer more,
What can we suffer worse?
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Milton |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Poe - 5 |
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What if the breath that kindl'd those grim fires 170
Awak'd should blow them into
sevenfold
rage
And plunge us in the Flames?
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Milton |
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At this moment I cannot
say that I was much overjoyed at my deliverance, but I cannot say either
that I
regretted
it, for my feelings were too upset.
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Aeschylus |
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In its present dress, it has gained
immortal
honour from
Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of
Creation
wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Hine hālig god
"for ār-stafum us onsende,
"tō West-Denum, þæs ic wēn hæbbe,
"wið
Grendles
gryre: ic þǣm gōdan sceal
385 "for his mōd-þræce mādmas bēodan.
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Meredith - Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The erlie nowe an horse and beaver han,
And nowe agayne appered on the feeld;
And manie a mickle knyghte and mightie manne
To his dethe-doyng swerd his life did yeeld;
When Siere de Broque an arrowe longe lett flie, 375
Intending
Herewaldus
to have sleyne;
It miss'd; butt hytte Edardus on the eye,
And at his pole came out with horrid payne.
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Stephen Crane |
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--The
complaint
of
Caligula was most wicked of the condition of his times, when he said they
were not famous for any public calamity, as the reign of Augustus was, by
the defeat of Varus and the legions; and that of Tiberius, by the falling
of the theatre at Fidenae; whilst his oblivion was eminent through the
prosperity of his affairs.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As the tidings silence the
strenuous
cannonade,
Peace at last!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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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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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Though I have always loved
solitude
and silence, I am a great gossip
with my friends, which arises, perhaps, from my seeing them but rarely.
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quid fles et madidos lacrimis corrumpis ocellos
pectoraque
insana plangis aperta manu?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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WASTED HOURS
How many buds in this warm light
Have burst out
laughing
into leaves!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Full of first hope, burning with youthful love,
She, at her will, as plainly now appears,
Has led me many years,
But for one end, my nature best to prove:
Oft showing me her shadow, veil, and dress,
But never her sweet face, till I, who right
Knew not her power to bless,
All my green youth for these,
contented
quite,
So spent, that still the memory is delight:
Since onward yet some glimpse of her is seen,
I now may own, of late,
Such as till then she ne'er for me had been,
She shows herself, shooting through all my heart
An icy cold so great
That save in her dear arms it ne'er can thence depart.
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Petrarch |
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= 'Before the Fire, which
destroyed
the old
Cathedral, St.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I never wear my
best coat on a journey, though
perchance
I could show a certificate to
prove that I have a more costly one, at least, at home, if that were
all that a gentleman required.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And should I wait thy word, to endure
A little for thine easing, yea, or pour
My strength out in thy toiling
fellowship?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Such a
wondrous
thing!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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iam
loquaces
ore rauco stagna cygni perstrepunt:
et canoras non tacere diua iussit alites:
adsonat Terei puella subter umbram populi,
ut putes motus amoris ore dici musico
et neges queri sororem de marito barbaro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden
soundless
speed
Through secret channels in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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my sides were shaking in the midst of all my quaking
To hear her talk of Indians when the guns began to roar:
She had seen the burning village, and the
slaughter
and the pillage,
When the Mohawks killed her father, with their bullets through
his door.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Fadeless
and young (and what if the latest birth of creation?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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More blest the life of godly eremite,
Such as on lonely Athos may be seen,
Watching
at eve upon the giant height,
Which looks o'er waves so blue, skies so serene,
That he who there at such an hour hath been,
Will wistful linger on that hallowed spot;
Then slowly tear him from the witching scene,
Sigh forth one wish that such had been his lot,
Then turn to hate a world he had almost forgot.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O Love, O Wife, thine eyes are they,
-- My springs from out whose shining gray
Issue the sweet
celestial
streams
That feed my life's bright Lake of Dreams.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yes, thou mayst
challenge!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The mountain's magic-mad to-night,
And if your guide's to be a Jack-o'lantern's light,
Strict
rectitude
you'll scarce require.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Alas, we must not stay
together
here.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note the
Euphuistic
balance in xxvii.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_
MY
HONOURED
FRIEND,
The enclosed I have just wrote, nearly extempore, in a solitary inn in
Selkirk, after a miserable wet day's riding.
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The
second marks two stages in the argument: a stable
judgement
compels
us to acknowledge religion, and that there can be only one.
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John Donne |
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A victim ox beneath the sacred hand
Of great
Alcinous
falls, and stains the sand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Will Gaul or
Muscovite
redress ye?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Now as two
instruments
to the same key
Being tuned by art, if the one touched be.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Though they be broken they have piercing eyes,
That shine like pools where water sleeps at night;
The astonished and divine eyes of a child
Who laughs at all that
glitters
in the world.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Chinese poet
introduces
himself as a timid recluse,
"Reading the Book of Changes at the Northern Window," playing chess with
a Taoist priest, or practising caligraphy with an occasional visitor.
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But if thy object Fame's far summits be,
Whose
inclines
many a skeleton o'erlies
That missed both dream and substance, stop and see
How absence wears these cheeks and dims these eyes!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His choice will prove to
courtiers
as in this
That there's but scant reward for present service.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Indeed, the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much wrong:
Have drown'd my Honour in a shallow Cup,
And sold my
Reputation
for a Song.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Moste Birtha boon
requeste
and bee denyd?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e
maystres
of Merlyn, mony ho[2] taken;
For ho hat3 dalt drwry ful dere sum tyme,
With ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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,
_Memoires
Secrets sur la Russie_, _vi.
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Byron |
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Its emerald crags glowed in her beauty's glance;
Through the green
splendour
of the water deep
She saw the constellations reel and dance
Like fire-flies--and withal did ever keep _270
The tenour of her contemplations calm,
With open eyes, closed feet, and folded palm.
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Shelley |
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Who, straight propitious, in prophetic strain
Will teach you to repass the
unmeasured
main.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or moi, bateau perdu sous les cheveux des anses,
Jete par l'ouragan dans l'ether sans oiseau,
Moi dont les Monitors et les voiliers des Hanses
N'auraient pas repeche la carcasse ivre d'eau,
Libre, fumant, monte de brumes violettes,
Moi qui trouais le ciel
rougeoyant
comme un mur
Qui porte, confiture exquise aux bons poetes,
Des lichens de soleil et des morves d'azur,
Qui courais tache de lunules electriques,
Plante folle, escorte des hippocampes noirs,
Quand les Juillets faisaient crouler a coups de triques
Les cieux ultramarins aux ardents entonnoirs,
Moi qui tremblais, sentant geindre a cinquante lieues
Le rut des Behemots et des Maelstroms epais,
Fileur eternel des immobilites bleues,
Je regrette l'Europe aux anciens parapets.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Is there no chance of
sharing?
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Aristophanes |
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"
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
YOU did not come,
And
marching
Time drew on, and wore me numb.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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WILLOUGHBY-MEADE: One or two
observations
occur to me in
connection with the translation of this poetry into English.
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Li Po |
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But this is a subject which it is perhaps
premature
to discuss.
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Shelley |
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When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my
memories
of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Je sais combien il faut, sur la colline en flamme,
De peine, de sueur et de soleil cuisant
Pour
engendrer
ma vie et pour me donner l'ame;
Mais je ne serai point ingrat ni malfaisant,
Car j'eprouve une joie immense quand je tombe
Dans le gosier d'un homme use par ses travaux,
Et sa chaude poitrine est une douce tombe
Ou je me plais bien mieux que dans mes froids caveaux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Farr off from these a slow and silent stream,
Lethe the River of
Oblivion
roules
Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks,
Forthwith his former state and being forgets,
Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
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But after he had taken his own
pleasures, he should have
provided
for his
* The monks.
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Tacitus |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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As he wished it to retain that place in subsequent
editions
of his
Works, it retains it in this one.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and
whispering
tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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This was
without doubt the small debauch of the
innocent
old woman (or the
purified old woman), the well-earned consolation for another of the
burdensome days without a friend, without conversation, without joy,
without a confidant, that God had allowed to fall upon her perhaps for
many years past--three hundred and sixty-five times a year!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For Destiny never swerves
Nor yields to men the helm;
He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves,
Throughout
the solid realm.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O Ajax, son of glorious
Telamon!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that
_Nin-lil_ is an
erroneous
reading for _Nin-sun_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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never sure were seen such brilliant eyes,
In this our age or in the older years,
Which mould and melt me, as the sun melts snow,
Into a stream of tears adown the vale,
Watering the hard roots of that laurel green,
Whose boughs are
diamonds
and gold whose hair.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed
Like ample banner flung abroad
To all the
dwellers
in the plains
Round about, a hundred miles,
With salutation to the sea and to the bordering isles.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sometimes
there was a double
click and a whir and another click.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Cleis speaks no word to me,
For the land where she has gone
Lieth mute at dusk and dawn
Like a windless
tideless
sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Yes, I had something of a subtler sense,
And often looking round was moved to smiles 210
Such as a
delicate
work of humour breeds;
I read, without design, the opinions, thoughts,
Of those plain-living people now observed
With clearer knowledge; with another eye
I saw the quiet woodman in the woods, 215
The shepherd roam the hills.
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