These holy
mathematics
can
In every figure equal man.
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Yet the reader must not infer that the only, or
even the chief, merit of the Rehearsal
Transprosed
consists in wit and banter.
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Marvell - Poems |
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E io a lui: <
piangere
e con lutto,
spirito maladetto, ti rimani;
ch'i' ti conosco, ancor sie lordo tutto>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
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T.S. Eliot |
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You've forgotten the time when you were insane about the
Herriott
woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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God saw,
Surveying his great Work, that it was good:
For of
Celestial
Bodies first the Sun
A mightie Spheare he fram'd, unlightsom first,
Though of Ethereal Mould: then form'd the Moon
Globose, and everie magnitude of Starrs,
And sowd with Starrs the Heav'n thick as a field:
Of Light by farr the greater part he took,
Transplanted from her cloudie Shrine, and plac'd 360
In the Suns Orb, made porous to receive
And drink the liquid Light, firm to retaine
Her gather'd beams, great Palace now of Light.
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Milton |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ei hepen {and}
encresen
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It is only
yourself
I have spoken of.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That _poilu_ across the way,
With the
shrapnel
wound on his head,
Has a sister: she came to-day
To sit awhile by his bed.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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þǣr hē
āfēded
wæs,
694.
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Beowulf |
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_My soul's half:_ Animae
dimidium
meae, Hor.
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Robert Herrick |
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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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As of itself
That
unsubstantial
coinage of the brain
Burst, like a bubble, Which the water fails
That fed it; in my vision straight uprose
A damsel weeping loud, and cried, "O queen!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I'd sooner lie in jail for murder plain and straight,
Pure crime I'd done with my own hand for money, lust, or hate,
Than take a seat in
Parliament
by fellow-felons cheered,
While one of those "not provens" proved me cleared as you are cleared.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Every
modern traveler
involuntarily
uses a similar expression.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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John
Barleycorn
was a hero bold,
Of noble enterprise;
For if you do but taste his blood,
'Twill make your courage rise.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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e
envyronynge
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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troya_ BLa1D
101 _fertur
undique_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pliny speaks of the production of amber in this country as follows:—"It is certain that amber is
produced
in the islands of the Northern Ocean, and is called by the Germans gless.
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Tacitus |
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Poor gapin', glowrin'
Superstition!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Bad news from George on the English throne:
"You are thriving well," said he;
"Now by these
presents
be it known,
You shall pay us a tax on tea;
'T is very small,--no load at all,--
Honor enough that we send the call.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Those parents, who in
nunneries
have got
Their daughters (whether willingly or not),
Most clearly in a glaring error prove,
To fancy God will round their actions move;
'Tis an abuse of what we hold divine;
The Devil with them surely must combine.
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La Fontaine |
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My unseen power weighs upon the heads
Of nations, like the blown
abasement
given
By sedges when they are wretched to the wind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O
beauteous
birds!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Marking of those bright eyes the sun serene
Where reigneth Love, who mine obscures and grieves,
My hopeless heart the weary spirit leaves
Once more to gain its
paradise
terrene;
Then, finding full of bitter-sweet the scene,
And in the world how vast the web it weaves.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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From my own fate,
From out the
darkness
wherein long I fared
Worshipping stars and morsels of the light,
Through doors of golden morning now I pass
Into the great whole light and perfect day
Of shining Beauty, open to me at last.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I
recollect
it well!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
But this popularity was confined to the long,
romantic
poems and the
_Lu-shih_.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[6]
What fond and wayward
thoughts
will slide 25
Into a Lover's head!
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William Wordsworth |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Once Again on Passing by Zhaoling 347 He never shamed or killed those who criticized him directly, 12 the road for the
virtuous
was not hard-going.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the
sprinkled
streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Is this a good
antithesis?
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Alexander Pope |
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I, I who stand and thus exult to see
This man lie wound in robes the Furies wove,
Slain in
requital
of his father's craft.
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Aeschylus |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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T.S. Eliot |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory
conjuring
from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I flee, I confess, from young Aricia, 50
Last of a deadly race that
conspires
against me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Peter's, which might justly evoke the
admiration
even of a
Roman.
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Alexander Pope |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Her closed eyes like weapons sheath'd,
Were seal'd in soft repose;
Her lips still as she
fragrant
breath'd,
It richer dy'd the rose.
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Robert Forst |
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Arch on arch, the grimmest land;
Whittle of a
woodland
bird
Made the pulses dance,
Note of horn in valleys heard
Filled the region with romance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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One barrow, borne of women, lifts them high,
Built up of many a
thousand
human dead.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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how he fumbles about the domains
Which this
comfortless
oven environ!
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William Wordsworth |
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From no other book of his, not excepting _The Book of Hours_, can we
deduce so accurate a conception of Rilke's philosophy of Life and Art as
we can draw from his comparatively short
monograph
on Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Students of the
metrical
system of
Bēowulf will find ample material for their studies in Sievers' exhaustive
essay on that subject (Beiträge, X.
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Beowulf |
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Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
Nor
murdering
hate, can enter in.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Though our love pleads now in your favour,
My soul must equal yours in honour:
Though
offending
me, you prove worthy too;
I must, by your death, prove worthy yet of you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
IN
speaking
of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either
thorough or profound.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yea sometimes in a bustling man-filled place Meseemeth some-wise thy hair wandereth Across mine eyes, as mist that
halloweth
The air awhile and giveth all things grace.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In vain at Court the bankrupt pleads his cause,
His
thankless
country leaves him to her laws.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats - Lamia |
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The fancy possessed me that the man
behind it had
dissolved
away like salt in water, and that it laughed
and sighed, appealed and denounced at the bidding of beings greater or
less than man.
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Yeats |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On
physical
truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Eftsones
I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot's cheer:
My head was turn'd perforce away
And I saw a boat appear.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O
headlong
Anio!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And the Poet, faithful and far-seeing,
Sees, alike in stars and flowers, a part
Of the self-same, universal being,
Which is
throbbing
in his brain and heart.
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Longfellow |
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
purposes
and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He to the left, the parent, whose rash taste
Proves bitter to his seed; and, on the right,
That ancient father of the holy church,
Into whose keeping Christ did give the keys
Of this sweet flow'r: near whom behold the seer,
That, ere he died, saw all the
grievous
times
Of the fair bride, who with the lance and nails
Was won.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Out of it we
Are lifted; and
henceforward
now we are
Sailors travelling in a lovely ship,
The shining sails of it holding a wind
Immortally pleasant, and the malicious sea
Smoothed by a keel that cannot come to wreck.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--
And well I guess it does but cover up
Enmity, hanging falseness between our souls,
And buy at a
dishonest
price the mouth
True nature hath for thee, to speak thee fair.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He
dined alone at an out-of-the-way restaurant, and drank a great deal, in
the hope of
stifling
his emotion.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Scarcely has any
modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect:
the magic, in a continuous glow saturating the substance of every
picture and motive with its own
peculiar
essence.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Imagists |
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But with
austerity!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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3>
THE FERRY
By
Gertrude
Cornwell Hopkins
Crossing the golden meadows,
Crossing the stately river,
Moving down to the southward gate with the far-going vessels, Casting my weary stiffness
To melt in the curl of the wavelets,
Flying free in the wind-whisps
Snapped from the top of the water,
Warmed by the early sunlight,
Touched by the self-same magic
That turns the wallowing brick-barge —
To a delicious, improbable treasure of gold
I myself am improbable
The city's tall shadow stalks forward and touches my shoulder:
I am only a useful rectangle
Built in the high walls of Business,
Now that the shadow has stolen my improbable moment of gold.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the allegory Spenser
intended
her to represent the
Romish church and Mary Queen of Scots.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The English Translation
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
Un Coup de Des - Page 2
Un Coup de Des - Page 3
Un Coup de Des - Page 4
Un Coup de Des - Page 5
Un Coup de Des - Page 6
Un Coup de Des - Page 7
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Un Coup de Des - Page 11
The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
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'
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Few visions have I seen more fair,
Nor many prospects of delight
More
pleasing
than that simple sight!
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What profit hast thou in such
manslaying?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I gained it so,
By
climbing
slow,
By catching at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
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CHARACTER
The sun set, but set not his hope:
Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:
Fixed on the
enormous
galaxy,
Deeper and older seemed his eye;
And matched his sufferance sublime
The taciturnity of time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The story now grows
stranger
still.
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Tacitus |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are
broken, and the
continuation
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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All joys are humbled, all must dance
To her law, and all lords obey
My lady, with her lovely way
Of greeting, her sweet
pleasant
glance,
A hundred years of life I'd grant
To him who has her love in play.
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aue a
Gentleman
from check) be intreated
Mere-craft _promi?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When Taurus in his house doth Phoebus keep,
There pours so bright a virtue from his crest
That Nature wakes, and stands in beauty drest,
The flow'ring meadows start with joy from sleep:
Nor they alone rejoice--earth's bosom deep
(Though not one beam illumes her night of rest)
Responsive
smiles, and from her fruitful breast
Gives forth her treasures for her sons to reap.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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THE INDIAN GIPSY
In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours,
broidered
to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Instead of going out
therefore
to spend the evening as I had proposed,
it occurred to me that I could not do a wiser thing than just eat a
mouthful of supper and go immediately to bed.
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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To him, his love for his wife and children is a
beautiful
thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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My very marrow and life are
consumed
by the
misery of this single one; thou grinnest away composedly at the fate of
thousands!
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[* This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found
in it a refuge from the Baker's
constant
complaints about the
insufficient blacking of his three pair of boots.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The glory is reserved for thy
illustrious
days!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--Published 1800
In the School of--is a tablet on which are inscribed, in gilt letters,
the names of the several persons who have been
Schoolmasters
there since
the foundation of the School, with the time at which they entered upon
and quitted their office.
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I dwell with you where never breath
Is drawn, but fragrance vital flows
From life to life, even as a rose
Unseen pours
sweetness
through each vein
And from the air distills again.
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belle comme la neige,
Oui, tu mourus, enfant, par un fleuve
emporte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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or whose divinity landed thee all
unwitting
on our coasts?
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