Blackmouth took the other side:
Honestly
for years an' years he tried
Getting justice for the Indians.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The top of a high
battlemented
tower of a castle.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wildly here, without control,
Nature reigns and rules the whole;
In that sober pensive mood,
Dearest to the feeling soul,
She plants the forest, pours the flood:
Life's poor day I'll musing rave
And find at night a
sheltering
cave,
Where waters flow and wild woods wave,
By bonie Castle Gordon.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Or ever mark'd the pretty beam
A
strawberry
shows half-drown'd in cream?
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Robert Herrick |
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This offspring of the devil,
This
unfrocked
monk, has known how to appear
Dimitry to the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" Which may have
been true at the time, 1864, nevertheless Manet had visited Madrid and
spent much time studying
Velasquez
and abusing Spanish cookery.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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searo-net sēowed
smiðes or-þancum (_the
corselet
woven by the smith's craft_), 406.
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Beowulf |
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ELECTRA
_The scene represents a hut on a desolate
mountain
side; the river Inachus
is visible in the distance.
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Euripides - Electra |
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XXII
"Beneath thy yoke the Volscian
Shall vail his lofty brow;
Soft Capua's curled revellers
Before thy chairs shall bow:
The
Lucumoes
of Arnus
Shall quake thy rods to see;
And the proud Samnite's heart of steel
Shall yield to only thee.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Out of dust to build
What is more than dust,
Walls Amphion piled
Phoebus
stablish
must.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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So have I seene a Dolthead place a stone, 335
Enthoghte
to staie a driving rivers course;
But better han it bin to lett alone,
It onlie drives it on with mickle force;
The erlie, wounded by so base a hynde,
Rays'd furyous doyngs in his noble mynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[_He seizes the book and
pronounces
mysteriously the sign of the spirit.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_
And now we must imagine first,
The Elves present to quench his thirst
A pure seed-pearl of infant dew,
Brought and _beswetted_ in a blue
And pregnant violet; which done,
His kitling eyes begin to run
Quite through the table, where he spies
The horns of papery Butterflies:
Of which he eats, _but with_ a little
_Neat cool allay_ of Cuckoo's spittle;
A little Fuz-ball pudding stands
By, yet not blessed by his hands--
That was too coarse, but _he not spares
To feed upon the candid hairs
Of a dried canker, with a_ sagg
And well
_bestuffed_
Bee's sweet bag:
_Stroking_ his pallet with some store
Of Emme_t_ eggs.
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Robert Herrick |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--But, as
Quintilian
saith, there is a briefness of the parts
sometimes that makes the whole long: "As I came to the stairs, I took a
pair of oars, they launched out, rowed apace, I landed at the court gate,
I paid my fare, went up to the presence, asked for my lord, I was
admitted.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Keats had lifted up his
hymeneal
curls from out
the poppy-seeded wine,
With ambrosial mouth had kissed my forehead,
clasped the hand of noble love in mine.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Wailing and praying
The spirits rise and go: 60
Clear
stainless
spirits
White as white as snow;
Pale spirits, wailing
For an overthrow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Keats
called him "the poets' poet," a title which has been
universally
approved.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[_He goes forth, just as he is, in the
direction
of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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XX
"To-morrow's dawn will glimmer gray,
Bright day will then begin to burn,
But the dark
sepulchre
I may
Have entered never to return.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
"You, madam, are the eternal humorist
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist
With your air
indifferent
and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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Appoloinaire |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Does his
murderer
make this his sanctuary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now when the sister found her brother gone,
And that, for many days, he came not back,
She wept for Sheemah more than for herself;
For Love bides longest in a woman's heart, 40
And flutters many times before he flies,
And then doth perch so nearly, that a word
May lure him back to his accustomed nest;
And Duty lingers even when Love is gone,
Oft looking out in hope of his return;
And, after Duty hath been driven forth,
Then Selfishness creeps in the last of all,
Warming her lean hands at the lonely hearth,
And crouching o'er the embers, to shut out
Whatever paltry warmth and light are left, 50
With
avaricious
greed, from all beside.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
"Your wife is real kind and good, I always come to her when I'm in a fix
but I fear it's more than
comforting
I want.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I find one side a balance and the
antipedal
side a balance,
Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'Tis a Madonna of Vandyk,
An oval
countenance
and pink,
Yon silly moon upon the brink
Of the horizon she is like!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That graft
benevolence
on charities.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from
limbecks
foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In thy clear eyes I descried
Many a proof of love, to-day;
But to-night, those unbelied
Speechful
eyes being gone away,
There's the proof to seek, beside.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
"Indeed I loved you, my chosen friend,
I loved you for life, but life has an end;
Through
sickness
I was ready to tend;
But death mars all, which we cannot mend.
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Christina Rossetti |
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E
comincio
questa santa orazione:
Paradiso ?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As he draws nearer to the
confines
of
authentic history, he will become less and less hard of belief.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now between rib and shoulder shackle him--
HEPHAESTUS
Do it I must--hush thy
superfluous
charge!
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Aeschylus |
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Du kommst ihr gar nicht aus dem Sinne,
Sie hat dich
ubermachtig
lieb.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Meredith - Poems |
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They 're here, though; not a creature failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle
deference
to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Festivals no longer celebrate Ceres, the
nourishing
goddess
Who replaced acorns of old, giving man golden wheat.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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|| _ubi
diuidit_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Among some ancient ballads thrust,
He found them in an almanac,
And the
sagacious
Triquet back
To light had brought them from their dust,
Whilst he "belle Nina" had the face
By "belle Tattiana" to replace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If the subject of drama
or any other art, were a man himself, an eddy of momentary breath, we
might desire the contemplation of perfect characters; but the subject
of all art is passion, the flame of life itself, and a passion can only
be
contemplated
when separated by itself, purified of all but itself,
and aroused into a perfect intensity by opposition with some other
passion, or it may be with the law, that is the expression of the whole
whether of Church or Nation or external nature.
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Yeats |
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Goffredo's powers
Direct their march to Salem's sacred towers;
And plant his throne beneath the Asian skies,
A sacred seat that now
neglected
lies.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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An elderly waiter
with
trembling
hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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We stand among the many
millions
who
Do hourly wait to pass your pathway down.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And forever and forever,
As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes;
The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear,
As the symbol of love in heaven,
And its
wavering
image here.
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Longfellow |
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I share the good with every flower,
I drink the nectar of the hour:--
This is not the ancient earth
Whereof old
chronicles
relate
The tragic tales of crime and fate;
But rather, like its beads of dew
And dew-bent violets, fresh and new,
An exhalation of the time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Enter Lodovico, Montano, Cassio carried in a chair,
and
Officers
with Iago, prisoner.
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Shakespeare |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A form
enormous!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unfortunately
Wordsworth
was not himself consistent--in the various editions issued by
himself--either in the class into which he relegated each poem, or the
order in which he placed it there.
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Yet in his veins there flows a tide Of life's
illimitable
sea;
Yet in his heart there is a voice That calls, and will not let him be.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Listen,
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In charmed communion with his dual mind
He
wandered
Spain, himself both knight and hind,
Redressing wrongs he knew must ever be.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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' _700
Then Mercury swore by the Stygian dew,
That he would never steal his bow or dart,
Or lay his hands on what to him was due,
Or ever would employ his
powerful
art
Against his Pythian fane.
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Shelley |
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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13 Respectfully Seeing Off Guo Yingyi, Vice Censor in Chief and Chief Minister of the Court of the
Imperial
Stud, Going to Fill the Position of Military Commissioner of Longyou: Thirty Couplets An edict sent forth the general of the western mountains to muster Longyou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hygelac then
his comrade fairly with
question
plied
in the lofty hall, sore longing to know
what manner of sojourn the Sea-Geats made.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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KNOWELL: Say that a man should
entertain
thee now,
Would'st thou be modest, humble, just, and true?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this
monument
encloses him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe
everywhere
in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
audiences
of Sophocles and of Shakespeare and of
Calderon were not unlike the audiences I have heard listening in Irish
cabins to songs in Gaelic about 'an old poet telling his sins,' and
about 'the five young men who were drowned last year,' and about 'the
lovers that were drowned going to America,' or to some tale of Oisin
and his three hundred years in _Tir nan Oge_.
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Yeats |
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"
He did; not with cold wonder fearingly,
But Orpheus-like at an Eurydice;
For so
delicious
were the words she sung,
It seem'd he had lov'd them a whole summer long:
And soon his eyes had drunk her beauty up,
Leaving no drop in the bewildering cup,
And still the cup was full,--while he afraid
Lest she should vanish ere his lip had paid
Due adoration, thus began to adore;
Her soft look growing coy, she saw his chain so sure:
"Leave thee alone!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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In
thirteen
hundred seven and twenty, I
--'Twas April, the first hour, on its sixth day--
Enter'd Love's labyrinth, whence is no retreat.
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Petrarch |
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'
A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And
Jealousy
a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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1140-1163)
Rigaut, also Richart or Richartz, de Berbezilh, also Berbezill or Barbesiu, French: Rigaud de Barbezieux, Latin:
Rigaudus
de Berbezillo, was of the petty nobility of Saintonge.
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Troubador Verse |
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Might he know
How conscious consciousness could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the
junction
be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The presence of Chvabrine and of the crowd around us
prevented
me from
expressing to him all the feelings which filled my heart.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh
greenness
shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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ATHROW OF THE DICE NEVER, EVEN WHEN TRULY CAST IN THE ETERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF A SHIPWRECK'S DEPTH, Can be only the Abyss raging, whitened, stalled beneath the desperately sloping incline of its own wing, through an advance falling back from ill to take flight, and veiling the gushers, restraining the surges, gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail, almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan, like a hull of a vessel rocked from side to side
THE MASTER, beyond former calculations, where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet, that readies itself; moves; and merges with the blow that grips it, as one threatens fate and the winds, the unique Number, which cannot be another Spirit, to hurl it into the storm, relinquish the cleaving there, and pass proudly; hesitates, a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secret, rather than taking sides, a hoary madman, on behalf of the waves: one overwhelms the head, flows through the submissive beard, straight shipwreck that, of the man without a vessel, empty no matter where
ancestrally never to open the fist clenched beyond the helpless head, a legacy, in vanishing, to someone ambiguous, the immemorial ulterior demon having, from non-existent regions, led the old man towards this ultimate meeting with probability, this his childlike shade caressed and smoothed and rendered supple by the wave, and shielded from hard bone lost between the planks born of a frolic, the sea through the old man or the old man against the sea, making a vain attempt, an Engagement whose dread the veil of illusion rejected, as the phantom of a gesture will tremble, collapse, madness, WILL NEVER ABOLISH
AS IF A simple insinuation into silence, entwined with irony, or the mystery hurled, howled, in some close swirl of mirth and terror, whirls round the abyss without scattering or dispersing and cradles the virgin index there AS IF
a solitary plume overwhelmed, untouched, that a cap of midnight grazes, or encounters, and fixes, in crumpled velvet with a sombre burst of laughter, that rigid whiteness, derisory, in opposition to the heavens, too much so not to signal closely any bitter prince of the reef, heroically adorned with it, indomitable, but contained by his petty reason, virile in lightning
anxious expiatory and pubescent dumb laughter that IF the lucid and lordly crest of vertigo on the invisible brow sparkles, then shades, a slim dark tallness, upright in its siren coiling, at the moment of striking, through impatient ultimate scales, bifurcated, a rock a deceptive manor suddenly evaporating in fog that imposed limits on the infinite
IT WAS THE NUMBER, stellar outcome, WERE IT TO HAVE EXISTED other than as a fragmented, agonised hallucination; WERE IT TO HAVE BEGUN AND ENDED, a surging that denied, and closed, when visible at last, by some profusion spreading in sparseness; WERE IT TO HAVE AMOUNTED to the fact of the total, though as little as one; WERE IT TO HAVE LIGHTED, IT WOULD BE, worse no more nor less indifferently but as much, CHANCE Falls the plume, rhythmic suspense of the disaster, to bury itself in the original foam, from which its delirium formerly leapt to the summit faded by the same
neutrality
of abyss
NOTHING of the memorable crisis where the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes, WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE a commonplace elevation pours out absence BUT THE PLACE some lapping below, as if to scatter the empty act abruptly, that otherwise by its falsity would have plumbed perdition, in this region of vagueness, in which all reality dissolves
EXCEPT at the altitude PERHAPS, as far as a place fuses with, beyond, outside the interest signalled regarding it, in general, in accord with such obliquity, through such declination of fire, towards what must be the Wain also North A CONSTELLATION cold with neglect and desuetude, not so much though that it fails to enumerate, on some vacant and superior surface, the consecutive clash, sidereally, of a final account in formation, attending, doubting, rolling, shining and meditating before stopping at some last point that crowns it All Thought expresses a Throw of the Dice
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Stephane Mallarme
Fragments - Anatole's Tomb
Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead
'Die Toteninsel / The Isle of the Dead'
Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901), Wikimedia Commons
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
bridegroom
came forth into the porch
With, 'Let us look at the sky,
And question what of the night to be,
Stranger, you and I.
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Robert Forst |
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For a more
detailed
description of this
volume see Winter, pp.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I see these locks in silvery slips,
This drooping gait, this altered size:
But Spring-tide blossoms on thy lips,
And tears take
sunshine
from thine eyes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I am agreed; and would I had given him the best horse in
Padua to begin his wooing that would
thoroughly
woo her, wed her,
and bed her, and rid the house of her!
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Shakespeare |
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It is for me only that he exposed himself to
all the
misfortunes
which have overtaken him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Tho' a' my daily care thou art,
And a' my nightly dream,
I'll hide the
struggle
in my heart,
And say it is esteem.
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Robert Burns |
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And Camoens, with that look he had,
Compelling
India's Genius sad
From the wave through the Lusiad,--
The murmurs of the storm-cape ocean
Indrawn in vibrative emotion
Along the verse.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Siehst du die
Schnecke
da?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
NOT long ago, the writer of these lines,
In the mad pride of intellectuality,
Maintained "the power of words"--denied that ever
A thought arose within the human brain
Beyond the utterance of the human tongue:
And now, as if in mockery of that boast,
Two words-two foreign soft dissyllables--
Italian tones, made only to be murmured
By angels dreaming in the moonlit "dew
That hangs like chains of pearl on Hermon hill,"--
Have stirred from out the abysses of his heart,
Unthought-like thoughts that are the souls of thought,
Richer, far wider, far diviner visions
Than even the seraph harper, Israfel,
(Who has "the
sweetest
voice of all God's creatures")
Could hope to utter.
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Poe - 5 |
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The man who was war commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down
Pennsylvania
Avenue--
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
for the sake of the Boy, for the sake of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Give me three more
sittings
from Bessie and all--the stuff
I want, and the picture will be done.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Father, I bring thee not myself, --
That were the little load;
I bring thee the imperial heart
I had not
strength
to hold.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Mallarme left a series of
fragments
for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE SPY
Yea,
blotting
out the lineage ill-starred!
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Aeschylus |
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They gain more from love who pay
Court by deceiving, in their pride,
Than he who humbly makes his way,
And ever the
suppliant
does abide,
For Amor has no love for the man
Who is honest and noble as I am.
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Troubador Verse |
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