Long-absent Harold reappears at last;
He of the breast which fain no more would feel,
Wrung with the wounds which kill not, but ne'er heal;
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him
In soul and aspect as in age: years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but
sparkles
near the brim.
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kindness
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messager
took leve and wente
Upon his wey, and never ne stente
Til he com to the derke valeye 155
That stant bytwene roches tweye
Ther never yet grew corn ne gras,
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The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A
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flake of snow
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Debates if it will go.
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I hear you: yet more clear than all one note,
One sudden hail I still remember best,
That came on sunny days from one afloat
And drew me to the pane in certain quest
Of a long brown face, bare arms and flimsy vest,
In fragments through the branches,
Above the green reflections:
Paused by the willows in your
varnished
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You, with your oars at rest.
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Gilgamish
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fearing the
effeminate
effects of his friend's attachment, prevents
him forcibly from entering a house.
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You are
brighter
than apples,
Sweeter than tulips,
You are the great flood of our souls
Bursting above the leaf-shapes of our hearts,
You are the smell of all Summers,
The love of wives and children,
The recollection of the gardens of little children,
You are State Houses and Charters
And the familiar treading of the foot to and fro on a road it knows.
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[86]
Alluding
to his renewed banishment.
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Ay,
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in Jewry.
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
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From murderous Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic
cuisine!
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Thou Being, All-seeing,
O hear my fervent pray'r;
Still take her, and make her
Thy most
peculiar
care!
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Independently
of her personal charms, I cannot conceive
Laura otherwise than as a kind-hearted, loveable woman, who could not
well be supposed to be totally indifferent to the devotion of the most
famous and fascinating man of his age.
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They tried to use in poetry the language of common speech, the language
of Italy rather than that of Rome, and to bring into
literature
once
again colour and motion.
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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
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O sweet
simplicity
of days gone by!
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Only he mourned the
baseness
of mankind,
And--that the beds too short he still doth find.
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soon shall we see mate
Griffins with mares, and in the coming age
Shy deer and hounds
together
come to drink.
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Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
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For, being
transported
by my jealousies
To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
Camillo for the minister to poison
My friend Polixenes; which had been done
But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
My swift command, though I with death and with
Reward did threaten and encourage him,
Not doing it and being done.
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THE host
returned
and found his friend content;
To pardon him Alaciel gave consent;
And 'tween them things would equally divide
Of royal bosoms clemency's the pride.
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Too easily kindled was the ecstasy
Of fleshly passion, with a joyous flame
Too readily
answering
the Spirit's fire!
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She that me learns to love and to suffer,
And wills that my trust, and lust's negligence
Be rein'd by reason, shame, and reverence,
With his
hardiness
takes displeasure.
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Suddenly he
cried with a loud voice, 'Woe unto all who smite those who dwell within
the Light of the Lord, for they shall wander among the ungovernable
shadows, and follow the
ungovernable
fires!
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That then he swung about his head, and cast among his friends,
Who
scrambled
and took it up with shouts.
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And he had nothing to say, nothing easy--
He
mentioned
ten million men, mentioned them as having gone west,
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies.
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Perhapshedidnotjest;
theysaysomesimpleshave
More wide-spanned power than old wives draw
from them.
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Shall I not see the room in which you slept,
Palpitant still and
breathing
of your thoughts,
Where maiden dreams adown the ways of sleep
Swept noiselessly with damosels and knights
To tourneys where the trumpet made no sound,
Blow as he might, the scarlet trumpeter,
And were the dreams not sometimes brimmed with tears
That waked you when the night was loneliest?
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And
shipwrecked
there, when all efforts fail.
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We laughed and paid the forfeit, glad to pay--
Being
recompensed
beyond our sacrifice
With that nor Death nor Time can take away.
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The text of the poems is
remarkable
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which in some cases affect crucial words in quite short poems, in
others extend to a whole line or couplet.
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This poem was written
on the morning after the bombardment of Fort McHenry, while the
author was a
prisoner
on the British fleet.
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Be this within my heart, indelible--
_Offend not with thy
tongue_!
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A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played
measures
brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
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Sing her that streams and silvan foliage loves,
Whate'er on Algidus' chill brow is seen,
In
Erymanthian
groves
Dark-leaved, or Cragus green.
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Again, since all things kind by kind obtain
Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life;
Since Nature hath inviolably decreed
What each can do, what each can never do;
Since naught is changed, but all things so abide
That ever the variegated birds reveal
The spots or stripes
peculiar
to their kind,
Spring after spring: thus surely all that is
Must be composed of matter immutable.
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*****
TRANSLATIONS
PRELUDE
As
treasures
that men seek,
Deep-buried in sea-sands,
Vanish if they but speak,
And elude their eager hands,
So ye escape and slip,
O songs, and fade away,
When the word is on my lip
To interpret what ye say.
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Vassilissa Igorofna
instantly
had a great wish to go and see the Pope's
wife, and, by the advice of Ivan Kouzmitch, she took Masha, lest she
should be dull all alone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Like a man making himself in drunken sleep
A king, my soul, drunk with its earthly war,
Kept idle all its terrible want of thee,
Believed itself managing arms with God;
Yea, when my
trampling
hurry through the earth
Made cloudy wind of the light human dust,
I thought myself to move in the dark danger
Of blinding God's own face with blasts of war!
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him
tōgēanes
fēng, _caught at
him, grasped at him_, 1543; w.
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Sanche
You know how justice moves, with what slowness,
How often the crime fails to meet redress;
That slow and
doubtful
course provokes more tears.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Hence I will excite thir minds
With more desire to know, and to reject
Envious commands, invented with designe
To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt
Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,
They taste and die: what
likelier
can ensue?
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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The Angel Michael
continues
from the Flood to relate what shall succeed;
then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain who that
Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall;
his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascention; the state of the
Church till his second Coming.
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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the God's love blazes higher,
Till all
difference
expire.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Glorieuse vierge mere
Qui a nul onques amere
Ne fus en terre ne en mer,
Ta douceur ores m'apere
Et ne
sueffres
que mon pere
De devant li me jecte puer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yet shall I go to him,
With all
endeavour
to relieve thy plight--
So thou wilt curb the tempest of thy tongue!
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Aeschylus |
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his
appleseeds
in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their butterfly nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He was starving and still too proud to accept the
invitations of his
landlady
and of a friendly chemist to take various
meals with them.
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For, wel wene I, ther with him be
A fair and Ioly companye
Fulfilled
of alle curtesye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Being out of trumps she now leads the king of clubs; but the
baron, who has
actually
held more spades than Belinda, trumps it with
the queen of spades.
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Emerson - Poems |
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For men bihoveth, in som gyse, 6605
Som-tyme [leven] goddes servyse
To gon and
purchasen
her nede.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
And when the dog heard this he laughed in his heart and turned from
them saying, "O blind and foolish cats, has it not been written and
have I not known and my fathers before me, that that which raineth
for prayer and faith and
supplication
is not mice but bones.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Christian soldier,
beguiled
by Falsehood, doffs
the armor of God, and indulges in sinful pleasures, and loses his purity.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'Within a day or two after this,' (Thistlethwaite wrote to Dean
Milles,) 'I saw
Phillips
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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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Aeschylus |
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GD}
He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I
Among all other animals who prey
On earth, or who unite in
friendly
wise,
Whether they mix in peace or moody fray,
No male offends his mate.
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
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He
insisted
upon leaping
the stile, and said he could cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air.
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Poe - 5 |
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Fame is
profitless
as pelf,
A good in Nature not allowed
They love me, as I love a cloud
Sailing falsely in the sphere,
Hated mist if it come near.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O
Enionwhere
we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our God shall be
In all the future left, no kingly doll
Decked out with
dreadful
sceptre, steel, and stole,
But walk the earth--a man, in Charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night,
November
26, 1792.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He laid him down on the sun-burned earth
And
ravelled
a flower and looked away--
Play?
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Robert Forst |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Constable
& Co.
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Imagists |
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In 1829, Emerson was called by the Second or Old North Church in Boston
to become the
associate
pastor with Rev.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" he shouted, long and loud;
And "Who wants my
potatoes?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I am the only thing he could not endure:
And is it him I should
undertake
to defend?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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God is all fore-part; for, we never see
Any part
backward
in the Deity.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ships of the line, each one,
Ye to the
westward
run,
Always before the gale,
Under a press of sail,
With weight of metal all untold.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The inanimate object and the
living creature in nature are not seen in the sharp contours of their
isolation; they are viewed and interpreted in the atmosphere that
surrounds them, in which they are enwrapped and so densely veiled that
the outlines are only dimly visible, be that atmosphere the mystic grey
of northern
twilight
or the dark velvety blue of southern summer nights.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,[6]
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy and grey,
Dim with a dull imprisoned ray, 30
A sunbeam which hath lost its way,
And through the crevice and the cleft
Of the thick wall is fallen and left;
Creeping o'er the floor so damp,
Like a marsh's meteor lamp:[7]
And in each pillar there is a ring,[8]
And in each ring there is a chain;
That iron is a
cankering
thing,
For in these limbs its teeth remain,
With marks that will not wear away, 40
Till I have done with this new day,
Which now is painful to these eyes,
Which have not seen the sun so rise
For years--I cannot count them o'er,
I lost their long and heavy score
When my last brother drooped and died,
And I lay living by his side.
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Byron |
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