SEMI-CHORUS
Sing we the
bounteous
streams that ripple and gush
through the city;
Quickening flow they and fertile, the soft new life of
the plain.
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A wooden block for hats or wigs;
hence, a
blockish
or stupid head.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sometimes, too,
Asunder rent by wanton gusts, it raves
And
imitates
the tearing sound of sheets
Of paper--even this kind of noise thou mayst
In thunder hear--or sound as when winds whirl
With lashings and do buffet about in air
A hanging cloth and flying paper-sheets.
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Lucretius |
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Haply if, where she is, my glance I bend,
This harass'd heart to cheer,
Methinks
that Love I hear
Pleading my cause, and see him succour lend.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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-------- The Sports and
Pastimes
of the People of England.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yet not
unrecompensed
the man shall roam,
Who at the call of summer quits his home, 10
And plods through some wide realm o'er vale and height,
Though seeking only holiday delight; [3]
At least, not owning to himself an aim
To which the sage would give a prouder name.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Chatterton's own circle of
acquaintance
was far less brilliant.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These
fencers in
religion
I like not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And well he loved to quit his home
And, Calmuck, in his wagon roam
To read new
landscapes
and old skies;--
But oh, to see his solar eyes
Like meteors which chose their way
And rived the dark like a new day!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Noi repetiam Pigmalion allotta,
cui
traditore
e ladro e paricida
fece la voglia sua de l'oro ghiotta;
e la miseria de l'avaro Mida,
che segui a la sua dimanda gorda,
per la qual sempre convien che si rida.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Behind them now the Cape of Praso[89] bends,
Another ocean to their view extends,
Where black-topp'd islands, to their longing eyes,
Lav'd by the gentle waves,[90] in
prospect
rise.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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`The kinges fool is woned to cryen loude, 400
Whan that him
thinketh
a womman bereth hir hye,
"So longe mote ye live, and alle proude,
Til crowes feet be growe under your ye,
And sende yow thanne a mirour in to prye
In whiche that ye may see your face a-morwe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Yet
sometimes
we are liked ashamed, to be
Taking so much love from you, all for naught.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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'
Bridemaids and
bridegroom
shrank in fear,
But I stood high who stood at bay:
'And if I answer yea, fair Sir,
What man art thou to bar with nay?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Je suis les membres et la roue,
Et la victime et le
bourreau!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my
swaddling
bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Things
which they admitted to be indifferent, and which,
without
violation
of conscience, they might have
forborne to enforce, they remorselessly urged on
those who solemnly declared that without such a
violation they could not comply.
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Marvell - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Come, I will take you down
underneath
this impassive exterior--I will tell
you what to say of me;
Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
The friend, the lover's portrait, of whom his friend, his lover, was
fondest,
Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within
him--and freely poured it forth,
Who often walked lonesome walks, thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
Who pensive, away from one he loved, often lay sleepless and dissatisfied
at night,
Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he loved might secretly
be indifferent to him,
Whose happiest days were far away, through fields, in woods, on hills, he
and another, wandering hand in hand, they twain, apart from other
men,
Who oft, as he sauntered the streets, curved with his arm the shoulder of
his friend--while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
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Whitman |
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The
devilish
pack from rules deliverance boasts.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Like flowers sequestered from the sun
And wind of summer, day by day
I
dwindled
paler, whilst my hair
Showed the first tinge of grey.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Marks,
notations
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Meredith - Poems |
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Peer of a God
meseemeth
he,
Nay passing Gods (and that can be!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Huge witness to the folly of mankind;
Four distant
mountains
when the moonlight shined
Seem covered with its shade.
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Hugo - Poems |
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If what's beneath the sky knew eternity,
The monuments, whose form I had you draw,
Not on paper but in marble, porphyry,
Would yet
preserve
their live antiquity.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And oft, robb'd of my perfect mind, I thought
At last my feet a resting-place had found:
Here will I weep in peace, (so fancy wrought,)
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here watch, of every human friend disowned,
All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood--
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound:
And
homeless
near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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*Friezes
from Tadmor and Persepolis--
From Balbec, and the stilly, clear abyss
**Of beautiful Gomorrah!
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Poe - 5 |
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The _Faerie Queene_ was the product of certain definite
conditions
which
existed in England toward the close of the sixteenth century.
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But the
impudent
dwarf answered just as before and when Prince Geraint
moved on toward his master he struck out his whip and cut the prince's
cheek so that the blood streamed upon the purple scarf dyeing it red.
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Tennyson |
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how I am
trembling
with
cold!
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Aristophanes |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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God from His holy seat, in calm of unarmed power,
Brings forth the deed, at its
appointed
hour!
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Aeschylus |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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every tie that links me here is dead;
Mysterious Fate, thy mandate I obey,
Since hope and peace, and joy, for aye are fled, _30
I come,
terrific
power, I come away.
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Shelley |
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To whom
Gerenian
Nestor thus replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXXIX
'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
The golden broom should blow;
The
hawthorn
sprinkled up and down
Should charge the land with snow.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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THUS Richard pleasantly
employed
his time,
Contented lived, concentring joys sublime.
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La Fontaine |
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And their friends, the
loitering
heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" With his helmet on his
head, and spear in his hand, he roams up to the rock, and then he hears
from that high hill beyond the brook a
wondrous
wild noise.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Burns consented, and before he left the table,
the various
traditions
which belonged to the ruin were passing through
his mind.
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Robert Forst |
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Nature hath no surprise,
No ambuscade of beauty 'gainst mine eyes
From brake or lurking dell or deep defile;
No humors, frolic forms -- this mile, that mile;
No rich
reserves
or happy-valley hopes
Beyond the bend of roads, the distant slopes.
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Sidney Lanier |
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1881
PREFACE
Eugene Oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's
greatest
poet,
having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe
except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable
contribution to literature.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In
this desire to approach the Nameless One, the young Brother in _The Book
of a Monk's Life_ builds up about God parables, images and legends
reminiscent of those of the 17th century Angelus Silesius, but sustained
by a more pregnant
language
because exalted by a more ardent visionary
force.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_ It did not sound sad to Keats at first, but as it
dies away it takes colour from his own
melancholy
and sounds pathetic to
him.
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Keats |
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Conway) after my selection had already been decided
on; and the few
departures
from the last printed text which might on
comparison be found in the present volume are due to my having had the
advantage of following this revised copy.
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Whitman |
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Am I not at work from morn till night
Sounding the deeps of oracles umbilical
Which for man's
guidance
never come to light,
With all their various aptitudes, until I call?
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James Russell Lowell |
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"O, happy be the
woodbine
bower,
Nae nightly bogle make it eerie;
Nor ever sorrow stain the hour,
The place and time I met my Dearie!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Let me not pass thee by, O Cinyras, bravest in war of Ligurian captains,
and thee, Cupavo, with thy scant company, from whose crest rise the swan
plumes, fault, O Love, of thee and thine, and
blazonment
of his father's
form.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But an
inferior
not dependent?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But the efficacy of this system depends entirely on
the
proselytism
of individuals, and grounds its merits, as a benefit to
the community, upon the total change of the dietetic habits in its
members.
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Shelley |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sara Teasdale |
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At half-past three a single bird
Unto a silent sky
Propounded but a single term
Of
cautious
melody.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou
awakened
the sleeper?
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hygebendum
fæst (beorn him
langað), _fast (shut) in the bonds of his bosom, the man longs for_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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'They made a ful good engendring,'
Quod Love, 'for who-so soothly telle, 6115
They
engendred
the devel of helle!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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She would probably
never be allowed to know the
entrancing
pleasure of a single moment's
solitude.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And I lie so composedly,
Now in my bed,
(Knowing her love)
That you fancy me dead--
And I rest so contentedly,
Now in my bed,
(With her love at my breast)
That you fancy me dead--
That you shudder to look at me,
Thinking me dead:--
But my heart it is brighter
Than all of the many
Stars in the sky,
For it
sparkles
with Annie--
It glows with the light
Of the love of my Annie--
With the thought of the light
Of the eyes of my Annie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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blake-poems |
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And I must be obedient in all things;
Give up my will to yours; go where you please;
Come when you call; sit at the council-board
Among the
unshapely
bodies of old men.
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Yeats |
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many fearful natures in one name,
I know ye; and these lakes and echoes know
The darkness and the
clangour
of your wings.
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Shelley |
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In this process is to be found the
explanation
of much of
the peculiar quality of the songs of Burns.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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are,
he fond [him] redy
sittinde
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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swythynne
speeke, or instante thou shalte die.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
Starboard
it was--and so,
Like a black squall's lifting frown,
Our mighty bow bore down
On the iron beak of the Foe.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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at brout hys mete,
Prev[i]ly he
shoullde
hym gete
A lytyll ynke and perchemyne, 265
And all hys lyffe he wrote there In.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
Are met--as if at home they could not die--
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And
fertilise
the field that each pretends to gain.
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-colored Ass;
But the length of its ears so
promoted
his fears,
That it killed that Old Man of Madras.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The golden cups, remaining in vain, were taken, 28 no more, the
tasseled
curtains blowing lightly.
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then trimm'd with brazen shears
The wretch, and shorten'd of his nose and ears;
His hands and feet last felt the cruel steel:
He roar'd, and
torments
gave his soul to hell.
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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And doc^ in the
pomegranates
close.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE BRIDGE OF CLOUD
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant
visions, as of old!
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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How should we seek to Thee for power
Who scorned Thee
yesterday?
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To what benevolent demon, then, do I owe being thus
surrounded
with
mystery, with silence, with peace, and sweet odours?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me
regardais
il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The hunting and
unlacing
the wild boar (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thir glittering Tents he passd, and now is come
Into the blissful field, through Groves of Myrrhe,
And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and Balme;
A Wilderness of sweets; for Nature here
Wantond as in her prime, and plaid at will
Her Virgin Fancies, pouring forth more sweet,
Wilde above rule or art;
enormous
bliss.
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Milton |
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Except for insults, do you lack
courage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_egit_ h
392 _certatum_ GORVenCh ||
_ruentes_
ap: _tuentes_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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ATOSSA
Disaster
to the army came, through ruin on the deep!
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Aeschylus |
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I do not
remember
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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