VII
Yea, seeds of crescive sympathy
Were sown by those more
excellent
than he,
Long known, though long contemned till then--
The gods of men in amity.
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You
flaunted
the fragrance of your blossoms
Through the wide doors of Custom Houses--
You, and sandal-wood, and tea,
Charging the noses of quill-driving clerks
When a ship was in from China.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
And now as glimm'ring dawn appear'd, that breaks
More welcome to the pilgrim still, as he
Sojourns less distant on his
homeward
way,
Darkness from all sides fled, and with it fled
My slumber; whence I rose and saw my guide
Already risen.
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Resolved am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and
character
my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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te quoque
promissam
Xutho, Peneie, Creusam
Phthiotum terris occuluisse ferunt.
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I was twenty when my son Tony was born, and he's not
come to years of
discretion
yet.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"Thus fro' my patrial shore, O traitor, hurried to exile,
Me on a lonely strand hast left, perfidious
Theseus?
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A poor torn heart, a
tattered
heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend
Nor constellation burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of latitudes unknown.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri
C'est sur eux que
pleurent
les saules
Le grand Pan l'amour Jesus-Christ
Sont bien morts et les chats miaulent
Dans la cour je pleure a Paris
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
L'amour est mort j'en suis tremblant
J'adore de belles idoles
Les souvenirs lui ressemblant
Comme la femme de Mausole
Je reste fidele et dolent
Je suis fidele comme un dogue
Au maitre le lierre au tronc
Et les Cosaques Zaporogues
Ivrognes pieux et larrons
Aux steppes et au decalogue
Portez comme un joug le Croissant
Qu'interrogent les astrologues
Je suis le Sultan tout-puissant
O mes Cosaques Zaporogues
Votre Seigneur eblouissant
Devenez mes sujets fideles
Leur avait ecrit le Sultan
Ils rirent a cette nouvelle
Et repondirent a l'instant
A la lueur d'une chandelle
Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Plus criminel que Barrabas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzebuth es-tu la-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas a tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arraches a coup de pique
Ta mere fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulceres des croutes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes richesses garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes medicaments
Voie lactee {1}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Regret des yeux de la putain
Et belle comme une panthere
Amour vos baisers florentins
Avaient une saveur amere
Qui a rebute nos destins
Ses regards laissaient une traine
D'etoiles dans les soirs tremblants
Dans ses yeux nageaient les sirenes
Et nos baisers mordus sanglants
Faisaient pleurer nos fees marraines
Mais en verite je l'attends
Avec mon coeur avec mon ame
Et sur le pont des Reviens-t'en
Si jamais reviens cette femme
Je lui dirai Je suis content
Mon coeur et ma tete se vident
Tout le ciel s'ecoule par eux
O mes tonneaux des Danaides
Comment faire pour etre heureux
Comme un petit enfant candide
Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
Ma colombe ma blanche rade
O marguerite exfoliee
Mon ile au loin ma Desirade
Ma rose mon giroflier
Les satyres et les pyraustes
Les egypans les feux follets
Et les destins damnes ou faustes
La corde au cou comme a Calais
Sur ma douleur quel holocauste
Douleur qui doubles les destins
La licorne et le capricorne
Mon ame et mon corps incertains
Te fuient o bucher divin qu'ornent
Des astres des fleurs du matin
Malheur dieu pale aux yeux d'ivoire
Tes pretres fous t'ont-ils pare
Tes victimes en robe noire
Ont-elles vainement pleure
Malheur dieu qu'il ne faut pas croire
Et toi qui me suis en rampant
Dieu de mes dieux morts en automne
Tu mesures combien d'empans
J'ai droit que la terre me donne
O mon ombre o mon vieux serpent
Au soleil parce que tu l'aimes
Je t'ai menee souviens-t'en bien
Tenebreuse epouse que j'aime
Tu es a moi en n'etant rien
O mon ombre en deuil de moi-meme
L'hiver est mort tout enneige
On a brule les ruches blanches
Dans les jardins et les vergers
Les oiseaux chantent sur les branches
Le printemps clair l'Avril leger
Mort d'immortels argyraspides
La neige aux boucliers d'argent
Fuit les dendrophores livides
Du printemps cher aux pauvres gens
Qui resourient les yeux humides
Et moi j'ai le coeur aussi gros
Qu'un cul de dame damascene
O mon amour je t'aimais trop
Et maintenant j'ai trop de peine
Les sept epees hors du fourreau
Sept epees de melancolie
Sans morfil o claires douleurs
Sont dans mon coeur et la folie
Veut raisonner pour mon malheur
Comment voulez-vous que j'oublie
Les sept epees
La premiere est toute d'argent
Et son nom tremblant c'est Paline
Sa lame un ciel d'hiver neigeant
Son destin sanglant gibeline
Vulcain mourut en la forgeant
La seconde nommee Noubosse
Est un bel arc-en-ciel joyeux
Les dieux s'en servent a leurs noces
Elle a tue trente Be-Rieux
Et fut douee par Carabosse
La troisieme bleu feminin
N'en est pas moins un chibriape
Appele Lul de Faltenin
Et que porte sur une nappe
L'Hermes Ernest devenu nain
La quatrieme Malourene
Est un fleuve vert et dore
C'est le soir quand les riveraines
Y baignent leurs corps adores
Et des chants de rameurs s'y trainent
La cinquieme Sainte-Fabeau
C'est la plus belle des quenouilles
C'est un cypres sur un tombeau
Ou les quatre vents s'agenouillent
Et chaque nuit c'est un flambeau
La Sixieme metal de gloire
C'est l'ami aux si douces mains
Dont chaque matin nous separe
Adieu voila votre chemin
Les coqs s'epuisaient en fanfares
Et la septieme s'extenue
Une femme une rose morte
Merci que le dernier venu
Sur mon amour ferme la porte
Je ne vous ai jamais connue
Voie lactee {2}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Les demons du hasard selon
Le chant du firmament nous menent
A sons perdus leurs violons
Font danser notre race humaine
Sur la descente a reculons
Destins destins impenetrables
Rois secoues par la folie
Et ces grelottantes etoiles
De fausses femmes dans vos lits
Aux deserts que l'histoire accable
Luitpold le vieux prince regent
Tuteur de deux royautes folles
Sanglote-t-il en y songeant
Quand vacillent les lucioles
Mouches dorees de la Saint-Jean
Pres d'un chateau sans chatelaine
La barque aux barcarols chantants
Sur un lac blanc et sous l'haleine
Des vents qui tremblent au printemps
Voguait cygne mourant sirene
Un jour le roi dans l'eau d'argent
Se noya puis la bouche ouverte
Il s'en revint en surnageant
Sur la rive dormir inerte
Face tournee au ciel changeant
Juin ton soleil ardente lyre
Brule mes doigts endoloris
Triste et melodieux delire
J'erre a travers mon beau Paris
Sans avoir le coeur d'y mourir
Les dimanches s'y eternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise
Soirs de Paris ivres du gin
Flambant de l'electricite
Les tramways feux verts sur l'echine
Musiquent au long des portees
De rails leur folie de machines
Les cafes gonfles de fumee
Crient tout l'amour de leurs tziganes
De tous leurs siphons enrhumes
De leurs garcons vetus d'un pagne
Vers toi toi que j'ai tant aimee
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
LES COLCHIQUES
Le pre est veneneux mais joli en automne
Les vaches y paissant
Lentement s'empoisonnent
Le colchique couleur de cerne et de lilas
Y fleurit tes yeux sont comme cette fleur-la
Violatres comme leur cerne et comme cet automne
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
Les enfants de l'ecole viennent avec fracas
Vetus de hoquetons et jouant de l'harmonica
Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des meres
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupieres
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dement
Le gardien du troupeau chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pre mal fleuri par l'automne
PALAIS
A Max Jacob
Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Reve
Mes reveuses pensees pieds nus vont en soiree
Le palais don du roi comme un roi nu s'eleve
Des chairs fouettees des roses de la roseraie
On voit venir au fond du jardin mes pensees
Qui sourient du concert joue par les grenouilles
Elles ont envie des cypres grandes quenouilles
Et le soleil miroir des roses s'est brise
Le stigmate sanglant des mains contre les vitres
Quel archet mal blesse du couchant le troua
La resine qui rend amer le vin de Chypre
Ma bouche aux agapes d'agneau blanc l'eprouva
Sur les genoux pointus du monarque adultere
Sur le mai de son age et sur son trente et un
Madame Rosemonde roule avec mystere
Ses petits yeux tout ronds pareils aux yeux des Huns
Dame de mes pensees au cul de perle fine
Dont ni perle ni cul n'egale l'orient
Qui donc attendez-vous
De reveuses pensees en marche a l'Orient
Mes plus belles voisines
Toc toc Entrez dans l'antichambre le jour baisse
La veilleuse dans l'ombre est un bijou d'or cuit
Pendez vos tetes aux pateres par les tresses
Le ciel presque nocturne a des lueurs d'aiguilles
On entra dans la salle a manger les narines
Reniflaient une odeur de graisse et de graillon
On eut vingt potages dont trois couleurs d'urine
Et le roi prit deux oeufs poches dans du bouillon
Puis les marmitons apporterent les viandes
Des rotis de pensees mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux reves mort-nes en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandes en godiveaux
Or ces pensees mortes depuis des millenaires
Avaient le fade gout des grands mammouths geles
Les os ou songe-creux venaient des ossuaires
En danse macabre aux plis de mon cervelet
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles
Mais nom de Dieu!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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es,
And the two _Coach-men_, with my _Ambler_, bare,
And my three women: wee will liue, i' faith,
The
examples
o' the towne, and gouerne it.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o'er,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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t a
Gentleman
with it, o' the two.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Another
criticism
of his own on his early blank verse, where he
speaks of "the utter want of all rhythm in the verse, the monotony and dead
_plumb down_ of the pauses, and the absence of all bone, muscle and
sinew in the single lines," applies only too well to the larger part of
his work in this difficult metre, so apt to go to sleep by the way.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Of the five,
That make the circle of the vision, he
Who to the beak is nearest, comforted
The widow for her son: now doth he know
How dear he costeth not to follow Christ,
Both from
experience
of this pleasant life,
And of its opposite.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the
blackened
beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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1225
For what new torment have I
reserved
myself?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Tennyson |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Quando Lachesis non ha piu del lino,
solvesi da la carne, e in virtute
ne porta seco e l'umano e 'l divino:
l'altre potenze tutte quante mute;
memoria,
intelligenza
e volontade
in atto molto piu che prima agute.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
-Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
Whatever
will not flower again,
To give him comfort: he and those
Shall bide eternal bedfellows
Where low upon the couch he lies
Whence he never shall arise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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redistributing or providing access to a work with the phrase "Project
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ye
offspring
of Tethys who bore at her breast
Many children, and eke of Oceanus, he
Coiling still around earth with perpetual unrest!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_ I have adopted Grosart's
punctuation and think his
interpretation
of 'beg' must be the right
one--'beg thee as an idiot or natural.
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John Donne |
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With a glad heart, and a
triumphal
face,
The princess to the haughty Pharaoh led
The humble infant of a hated race,
Bathed with the bitter tears a parent shed;
While loudly pealing round the holy place
Of Heaven's white Throne, the voice of angel choirs
Intoned the theme of their undying lyres!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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to dispel 330
A
thousand
years with backward glance sublime?
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Keats |
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Within I am embarrassed that my chimney is not blackened,4 but you have brought fine
delicacies
to help out.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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XIII
Watching
the iris,
The faint and fragile petals--
How am I worthy?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Through
Alexandria
make a jolly march;
Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them.
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Shakespeare |
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Under each shot forth
Two mighty wings,
enormous
as became
A bird so vast.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Please take a look at the important
information
in this header.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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hic iuueni Ismario ne solum in limine caeli
ex Ariadneis aurea temporibus 60
fixa corona foret, sed nos quoque fulgeremus
deuotae flaui uerticis exuuiae,
uuidulum a fluctu cedentem ad templa deum me
sidus in
antiquis
diua nouum posuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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From moral philosophy it took
the soul, the expression of senses, perturbations, manners, when they
would paint an angry person, a proud, an inconstant, an ambitious, a
brave, a magnanimous, a just, a merciful, a compassionate, an humble, a
dejected, a base, and the like; they made all heightnings bright, all
shadows dark, all
swellings
from a plane, all solids from breaking.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'
Notes: I have altered the
position
of the reference to Luserna in the poem for clarity.
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Troubador Verse |
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Phaedra
What benefit do you hope for from this
violence?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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All these poets have a passion for triviality, for
every kind of _tour de force_, for
conceits
and mannerisms.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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His theory, which in his own days attracted
little or no notice, was revived in the present generation by
Niebuhr, a man who would have been the first writer of his time,
if his talent for communicating truths had borne any proportion
to his talent for
investigating
them.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This made you dumb; ignorant
knowledge
of this,
Blind vision of virginity's mightiness,
Did chide the exclamation in your hearts.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O
grievous
the tale is,
And grievous their fall,
To the house, to the land,
And to me above all!
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Aeschylus |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Title: A Treasury of War Poetry
British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917
Author: Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke
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THE
RIVERSIDE
LITERATURE SERIES
A TREASURY OF
WAR POETRY
BRITISH AND AMERICAN POEMS
OF THE WORLD WAR
1914-1917
Edited, With Introduction And Notes, By
GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE
Professor of English in the University of Tennessee
CONTENTS
I.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles
Meet after long divorcement by the isles;
When love, the child of likeness, urgeth on
Their crystal natures to a union:
So meet stolen kisses, when the moony nights
Call forth fierce lovers to their wish'd delights;
So kings and queens meet, when desire convinces
All
thoughts
but such as aim at getting princes,
As I meet thee.
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She had been christened by
Gautier Madame la Presidente, and her
sumptuous
beauty was portrayed by
Ricard in his La Femme au Chien.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Voila que j'ai touche l'automne des idees,
Et qu'il faut
employer
la pelle et les rateaux
Pour rassembler a neuf les terres inondees,
Ou l'eau creuse des trous grands comme des tombeaux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Full twenty
thousand
pounds he with her had
A sprightly youthful wife to ease his care,
And with him ev'ry luxury to share.
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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Not skies serene, with glittering stars inlaid,
Nor gallant ships o'er
tranquil
ocean dancing,
Nor gay careering knights in arms advancing,
Nor wild herds bounding through the forest glade,
Nor tidings new of happiness delay'd,
Nor poesie, Love's witchery enhancing,
Nor lady's song beside clear fountain glancing,
In beauty's pride, with chastity array'd;
Nor aught of lovely, aught of gay in show,
Shall touch my heart, now cold within her tomb
Who was erewhile my life and light below!
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Petrarch |
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SAS}
First he beheld the body of Man pale, cold, the horrors of death
Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain
And all its golden porches grew pale with his sickening light
No more Exulting for he saw Eternal Death beneath
Pale he beheld futurity; pale he beheld the Abyss
Where Enion blind & age bent wept in direful hunger craving
All rav'ning like the hungry worm, & like the silent grave
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Mighty was the draught of
Voidness
to draw Existence in
Terrific Urizen strode above, in fear & pale dismay
He saw the indefinite space beneath & his soul shrunk with horror
His feet upon the verge of Non Existence; his voice went forth {According to Erdman, this line was at one time followed by a line that has been erased.
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In 1812 he was
appointed
by Napoleon editor
of the _Gazette de France_.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then, by
permission
from the Gods obtain'd, 100
To the Achaian Chiefs in circus met
Thetis appointed games.
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While I, remembering, found no word to say,
But felt my quickened heart leap in its place;
Caught
afterglow
thrown back from long set days,
Caught echoes of all music passed away.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Years following years, steal
something
every day,
At last they steal us from ourselves away;
In one our frolics, one amusements end,
In one a mistress drops, in one a friend:
This subtle thief of life, this paltry time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my rhyme?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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to the lofty wheels, with me,
Thy ken
directed
to the point, whereat
One motion strikes on th' other.
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quendam municipem meum de tuo uolo ponte
ire praecipitem in lutum per
caputque
pedesque,
uerum totius ut lacus putidaeque paludis 10
liuidissima maximeque est profunda uorago.
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Latin - Catullus |
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With
what
pleasure
did I use to break up the seal!
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What wonder seized my soul when first I view'd
How motionless the
restless
racer stood,
Whose flying feet, with winged speed before,
Still mark'd with sad mutation sea and shore.
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Petrarch |
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'Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XCVII When the early soft spring-wind comes blowing
XCVIII I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds
XCIX Over the wheat field
C Once more the rain on the mountain
Epilogue
SAPPHO
I
Cyprus, Paphos, or Panormus
May detain thee with their splendour
Of oblations on thine altars,
O imperial Aphrodite.
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Sappho |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Stephen Crane |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But whoever should read the debates in
Congress
might
fancy himself present at a meeting of the city council of some city of
Southern Gaul in the decline of the Empire, where barbarians with a
Latin varnish emulated each other in being more than Ciceronian.
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Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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(and soon appear
He shall, I trust; a hero scorns despair:)
Might he return, I yield my life a prey
To my worst foe, if that avenging day
Be not their last: but should I lose my life,
Oppress'd by numbers in the glorious strife,
I chose the nobler part, and yield my breath,
Rather than bear dishonor, worse than death;
Than see the hand of violence invade
The reverend stranger and the spotless maid;
Than see the wealth of kings
consumed
in waste,
The drunkard's revel, and the gluttons' feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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A
brighter
dwelling-place is here for thee--
* It was entire in 1687--the most elevated spot in Athens.
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Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Robert Herrick |
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But a tragic ending of this kind, though touched by
Hamlet's humour with something of the
surprise
and justice of comedy, is
really not for such as they.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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To eastward ringing, to
westward
winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,
On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost
isles are free;
And the furthermost isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill,
Breaker and beach cry, each to each, "'Tis the Mother who
calls!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If 'the world of
imagination' was 'the world of eternity,' as this doctrine implied, it
was of less importance to know men and nature than to
distinguish
the
beings and substances of imagination from those of a more perishable
kind, created by the phantasy, in uninspired moments, out of memory
and whim; and this could best be done by purifying one's mind, as with
a flame, in study of the works of the great masters, who were great
because they had been granted by divine favour a vision of the unfallen
world from which others are kept apart by the flaming sword that turns
every way; and by flying from the painters who studied 'the vegetable
glass' for its own sake, and not to discover there the shadows of
imperishable beings and substances, and who entered into their own
minds, not to make the unfallen world a test of all they heard and
saw and felt with the senses, but to cover the naked spirit with 'the
rotten rags of memory' of older sensations.
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Inde pater divom sancta cum coniuge natisque
Advenit caelo, te solum, Phoebe, relinquens
Vnigenamque
simul cultricem montibus Idri: 300
Pelea nam tecum pariter soror aspernatast
Nec Thetidis taedas voluit celebrare iugalis,
Qui postquam niveis flexerunt sedibus artus,
Large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae,
Cum interea infirmo quatientes corpora motu 305
Veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of
Proverbs
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Lord grant that thou may aye inherit
Thy mither's person, grace, an' merit,
An' thy poor,
worthless
daddy's spirit,
Without his failins,
'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it,
Than stockit mailens.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And therwithal he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and
sorwfully
he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
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quisue hanc conuexi molem sine fine patentis
signorumque choros ac mundi flammea templa
aeternum et stellis aduersus sidera bellum
cernere et angusto sub pectore claudere posset,
ni tantos animis oculos natura dedisset
cognatamque sui mentem uertisset ad ipsam
et tantum dictasset opus,
caeloque
ueniret
quod uocat in caelum sacra ad commercia rerum
et primas quas dant leges nascentibus astra?
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I sate beside thee all the night, while the moonlight lay forlorn
Strewn round us like a dead world's shroud in ghastly fragments torn:
And through the night, and through the hush, and over the flapping
wing,
We heard beside the
Heavenly
Gate the angels murmuring:
We heard them say, "Put day to day, and count the days to seven,
And God will draw Onora up the golden stairs of heaven.
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Pardon me, noble lord;
I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;
Yet did repent me, after more advice;
For
testimony
whereof, one in the prison,
That should by private order else have died,
I have reserv'd alive.
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Shakespeare |
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And little they mourned
when they had hastily haled it out,
dear-bought
treasure!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_November_
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon;
And, if the sun looks through, tis with a face
Beamless and pale and round, as if the moon,
When done the journey of her nightly race,
Had found him sleeping, and
supplied
his place.
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--the facts are plain:
Detested
was the king:--beloved the swain;
All was accomplished, and the monarch placed
Among the heroes who with horns are graced;
No doubt a dignity not much desired,
Though in repute, and easily acquired.
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La Fontaine |
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Thy father and mother both--'tis strange to tell--
Had failed thee, though for them the deed was well,
The years were ripe, to die and save their son,
The one child of the house: for hope was none,
If thou
shouldst
pass away, of other heirs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Reaching
Zhaoling on My Travels3 Olden ways were worn down by undistinguished rulers, a host of heroes called the Lone Man to account.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Post 173 unam
stropham
excidisse censeo
174-8 om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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What made
directors
cheat in South-Sea year?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A quick small shadow spotted the white world;
Then instantly 'twas huge, and huger grew
By
instants
till it did o'ergloom all space.
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This
approbation
met, and Rod'rick 'gan
To use his arts and execute his plan.
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