- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Where are these
Gentlemen?
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Keats |
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Drink, on the other hand, occurs in its
primitive
varieties,--_ale_
(as here: ealu-wǣg), _mead, beer, wine, līð_ (cider?
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Beowulf |
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Herbert Horne, in his
admirably-chosen
selection
from the _Hesperides_, suggests that the
allusion here is to the great gilt cross at the end of Wood Street.
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Robert Herrick |
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[This
presents
another version of song LXV.
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Robert Forst |
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To him she hasted, in her face excuse
Came Prologue, and
Apologie
to prompt,
Which with bland words at will she thus addrest.
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Milton |
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SILENUS:
O Bacchus, what a world of toil, both now
And ere these limbs were
overworn
with age,
Have I endured for thee!
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Shelley |
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At
the
accession
of James I.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yet why, distraught with woe, do I vainly
lament to the
unknowing
winds, which unfurnished with sense, can neither
hear uttered complaints nor can return them?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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How are we
dangerous?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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' it blew,
Yet wavered oft, and flew
Most
ficklewise
about, or here, or there,
A music now from earth and now from air.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And that more clearly thou perceive how all
These mites of matter are darted round about,
Recall to mind how nowhere in the sum
Of All exists a bottom,--nowhere is
A realm of rest for primal bodies; since
(As amply shown and proved by reason sure)
Space has no bound nor measure, and extends
Unmetered forth in all
directions
round.
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Lucretius |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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where
grandeur
frowned;
Behold!
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Shelley |
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Ye mind me
marching
through these vales
When golden spur was ringing at my heel?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--'Tis morn: with gold the verdant
mountain
glows,
More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Her pure nails on high
dedicating
their onyx,
Anguish, at midnight, supports, a lamp-holder,
Many a twilight dream burnt by the Phoenix
That won't be gathered in some ashes' amphora
On a table, in the empty room: here is no ptyx,
Abolished bauble of sonorous uselessness,
(Since the Master's gone to draw tears from the Styx
With that sole object, vanity of Nothingness).
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Chanson de Roland |
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XVII
But more the passions occupy
The converse of our hermits twain,
And, heaving a regretful sigh,
An exile from their
troublous
reign,
Eugene would speak regarding these.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Reeds in a trice are sprouting and
rustling
in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine;
Yet one I would select from that proud throng,
Partly because they blend me with his line,
And partly that I did his sire some wrong,
And partly that bright names will hallow song;
And his was of the bravest, and when showered
The death-bolts deadliest the thinned files along,
Even where the
thickest
of war's tempest lowered,
They reached no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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He
accordingly
valued his didactic poems
far above his other work; but it is obvious that much of his best poetry
conveys no moral whatever.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O mystic
metamorphosis!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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at libet
innuptis
ficto te carpere questu.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
LXXXVI
Says Oliver: "In this I see no blame;
I have beheld the
Sarrazins
of Spain;
Covered with them, the mountains and the vales,
The wastes I saw, and all the farthest plains.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I have known misfortune, and
I am now
discovering
to the full that prosperity is just as dangerous.
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Tacitus |
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Farai
chansoneta
nueva
I'll make a little song that's new,
Before wind, frost, and rain come too;
My lady tests me, and would prove
How, and in just what way, I am
In love, yet despite all she may do
I'd rather be stuck here in this jam.
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Troubador Verse |
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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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I shall however digest my
thoughts
on the subject as well as
I can.
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Robert Burns |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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(41)
But I must now employ my Muse
With the epistle of my fair;
I
promised!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'T is an instant's play,
'T is a fond ambush,
Just to make bliss
Earn her own
surprise!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pallid soul--thus didst thou ask--is dead the fire
Forever, that
divinely
in us burns?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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150
There, no competitor in wiles well-plann'd
Ulysses found, so far were all surpass'd
In shrewd invention by thy noble Sire,
If thou indeed art his, as sure thou art,
Whose sight breeds wonder in me, and thy speech
His speech
resembles
more than might be deem'd
Within the scope of years so green as thine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Through many
difficulties
have I run,
Ah sooner wert thou lost, I wis, than won.
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John Donne |
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He licked my hand
wondering
to see me muse so,
And wished I would lead on the journey or home,
As though not a moment of spring were to go
In brooding; but I stood, if her spirit might come
And tell me her life, since we left her that day
In the white lilied coffin, and rained down our tears;
But the grave held no answer, though long I should stay;
How strange that this clay should mingle with hers!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
Arbuthnot
warns him against the danger of making foes
(ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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Wise Death, in token of his happy whim,
Wraps old and young in one
enfolding
sheet.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Go, thou Vicegerent of my will, no less
Than of the Father's; but lest thou shouldst faint,
The winged hounds, Famine and Pestilence,
Shall wait on thee, the hundred-forked snake _145
Insatiate
Superstition
still shall.
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Shelley |
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Let Lyde hear those maidens' guilt,
Their famous doom, the ceaseless drain
Of outpour'd water, ever spilt,
And all the pain
Reserved
for sinners, e'en when dead:
Those impious hands, (could crime do more?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Dear friend, vain trouble to
yourself
you're giving;
Whence once you trust yourself, you know the art of living.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
"Hath he let vultures climb his eagle's seat
To make Jove's bolts
purveyors
of their maw?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Keats |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
102 THE POEMS
TO HIS
WORTHY FRIEND DOCTOR WITTY,
UPON HIS
TBANSLATION
OF THE POPULAR ERltOK.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It should be added that this is not a haphazard
anthology
of picked-over
poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Ay;
Be she abused by him or not, I know
God means to give her
marvellous
hands to-night.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Iam ipse Petrarca non solum Catullum in
carminibus et
nominauit
et paene ad uerbum imitatus est, uelut lxxvi.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Say rather, gaun as
Premiers
lead him:
An' saying ay or no's they bid him:
At operas an' plays parading,
Mortgaging, gambling, masquerading:
Or maybe, in a frolic daft,
To Hague or Calais takes a waft,
To mak a tour an' tak a whirl,
To learn bon ton, an' see the worl'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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See how everything
succeeds
to his
wish.
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Aristophanes |
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A clock with
quivering
hands
Leaps to the trajectory-angle of our departure.
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Imagists |
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Oh, if for all my logic, all my dreams,
Provings
of that which is by that which seems,
Fears, hopes, chills, heats, hastes, patiences, droughts, tears,
Wife-grievings, slights on love, embezzled years,
Hates, treaties, scorns, upliftings, loss and gain, --
This earth, no sphere, be all one sickening plane!
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Sidney Lanier |
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His cottage is a humble place of rest
With one spare room to welcome every guest,
And that tall poplar
pointing
to the sky
His own hand planted when an idle boy,
It shades his chimney while the singing wind
Hums songs of shelter to his happy mind.
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John Clare |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_Non nimium
credendum
antiquitati_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He was a gift from God--a sign of pardon--
That child vouchsafed me in my
eightieth
year!
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Hugo - Poems |
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HOWE'ER the belle was to the altar led,
A virgin still, and doomed the squire to wed,
Who, quite impatient,
consummation
sought,
As soon as he the charmer back had brought;
But she solicited the day apart,
And this obtained, alone by prayers and art.
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La Fontaine |
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How poor, how strange, how wrong,
To dream He wrote the little song
I made to Him with love's
unforced
design!
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Sidney Lanier |
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We are sometimes told by
Frenchmen
or Russians that Oscar Wilde
is greater than Shakespeare.
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Li Po |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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Wilde - Poems |
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It will grow
naturally
and simply flowerlike, or as a tree grows.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Since,
evermore
pour in
New lights of rays, and perish then the old,
Just like the wool that's drawn into the flame.
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Lucretius |
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"Much of the
experienced
man I long to hear,
If or his certain eye, or listening ear,
Have learn'd the fortunes of my wandering lord?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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the shield-wall or hedge of
defensive
war --
Hrethelings, of course, are Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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MY aim is now to have
recourse
to these,
And give a story that I trust will please,
In which Saint Julian's prayer, to Reynold D'Ast,
Produced a benefit, good fortune classed.
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La Fontaine |
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The Woman remains
in the background while_
HERACLES
_comes forward.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I saw, and yet
My heart doth stagger, one, that waited thus,
As it befalls that oft one frog remains,
While the next springs away: and Graffiacan,
Who of the fiends was nearest, grappling seiz'd
His clotted locks, and dragg'd him
sprawling
up,
That he appear'd to me an otter.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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) I
agree with Hayward, "the meaning
probably
is, that our Saviour enjoys, in
coming to life again," (I should say, in being born into the upper life,)
"a happiness nearly equal to that of the Creator in creating.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The thought hath
poisoned
all my years.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Scraps of a song keep
rumbling
in my head .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
chevaliers
of France do much repine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living
barbaric
lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Lat this
proverbe
a lore un-to yow be;
"To late y-war, quod Beautee, whan it paste;"
And elde daunteth daunger at the laste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri
C'est sur eux que pleurent les saules
Le grand Pan l'amour Jesus-Christ
Sont bien morts et les chats miaulent
Dans la cour je pleure a Paris
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
L'amour est mort j'en suis tremblant
J'adore de belles idoles
Les souvenirs lui ressemblant
Comme la femme de Mausole
Je reste fidele et dolent
Je suis fidele comme un dogue
Au maitre le lierre au tronc
Et les Cosaques Zaporogues
Ivrognes pieux et larrons
Aux steppes et au decalogue
Portez comme un joug le Croissant
Qu'interrogent les astrologues
Je suis le Sultan tout-puissant
O mes Cosaques Zaporogues
Votre Seigneur eblouissant
Devenez mes sujets fideles
Leur avait ecrit le Sultan
Ils rirent a cette nouvelle
Et repondirent a l'instant
A la lueur d'une chandelle
Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Plus criminel que Barrabas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzebuth es-tu la-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas a tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arraches a coup de pique
Ta mere fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulceres des croutes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes richesses garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes medicaments
Voie lactee {1}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Regret des yeux de la putain
Et belle comme une panthere
Amour vos baisers florentins
Avaient une saveur amere
Qui a rebute nos destins
Ses regards laissaient une traine
D'etoiles dans les soirs tremblants
Dans ses yeux nageaient les sirenes
Et nos baisers mordus sanglants
Faisaient pleurer nos fees marraines
Mais en verite je l'attends
Avec mon coeur avec mon ame
Et sur le pont des Reviens-t'en
Si jamais reviens cette femme
Je lui dirai Je suis content
Mon coeur et ma tete se vident
Tout le ciel s'ecoule par eux
O mes tonneaux des Danaides
Comment faire pour etre heureux
Comme un petit enfant candide
Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
Ma colombe ma blanche rade
O marguerite exfoliee
Mon ile au loin ma Desirade
Ma rose mon giroflier
Les satyres et les pyraustes
Les egypans les feux follets
Et les destins damnes ou faustes
La corde au cou comme a Calais
Sur ma douleur quel holocauste
Douleur qui doubles les destins
La licorne et le capricorne
Mon ame et mon corps incertains
Te fuient o bucher divin qu'ornent
Des astres des fleurs du matin
Malheur dieu pale aux yeux d'ivoire
Tes pretres fous t'ont-ils pare
Tes victimes en robe noire
Ont-elles vainement pleure
Malheur dieu qu'il ne faut pas croire
Et toi qui me suis en rampant
Dieu de mes dieux morts en automne
Tu mesures combien d'empans
J'ai droit que la terre me donne
O mon ombre o mon vieux serpent
Au soleil parce que tu l'aimes
Je t'ai menee souviens-t'en bien
Tenebreuse epouse que j'aime
Tu es a moi en n'etant rien
O mon ombre en deuil de moi-meme
L'hiver est mort tout enneige
On a brule les ruches blanches
Dans les jardins et les vergers
Les oiseaux chantent sur les branches
Le printemps clair l'Avril leger
Mort d'immortels argyraspides
La neige aux boucliers d'argent
Fuit les dendrophores livides
Du printemps cher aux pauvres gens
Qui resourient les yeux humides
Et moi j'ai le coeur aussi gros
Qu'un cul de dame damascene
O mon amour je t'aimais trop
Et maintenant j'ai trop de peine
Les sept epees hors du fourreau
Sept epees de melancolie
Sans morfil o claires douleurs
Sont dans mon coeur et la folie
Veut raisonner pour mon malheur
Comment voulez-vous que j'oublie
Les sept epees
La premiere est toute d'argent
Et son nom tremblant c'est Paline
Sa lame un ciel d'hiver neigeant
Son destin sanglant gibeline
Vulcain mourut en la forgeant
La seconde nommee Noubosse
Est un bel arc-en-ciel joyeux
Les dieux s'en servent a leurs noces
Elle a tue trente Be-Rieux
Et fut douee par Carabosse
La troisieme bleu feminin
N'en est pas moins un chibriape
Appele Lul de Faltenin
Et que porte sur une nappe
L'Hermes Ernest devenu nain
La quatrieme Malourene
Est un fleuve vert et dore
C'est le soir quand les riveraines
Y baignent leurs corps adores
Et des chants de rameurs s'y trainent
La cinquieme Sainte-Fabeau
C'est la plus belle des quenouilles
C'est un cypres sur un tombeau
Ou les quatre vents s'agenouillent
Et chaque nuit c'est un flambeau
La Sixieme metal de gloire
C'est l'ami aux si douces mains
Dont chaque matin nous separe
Adieu voila votre chemin
Les coqs s'epuisaient en fanfares
Et la septieme s'extenue
Une femme une rose morte
Merci que le dernier venu
Sur mon amour ferme la porte
Je ne vous ai jamais connue
Voie lactee {2}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Les demons du hasard selon
Le chant du firmament nous menent
A sons perdus leurs violons
Font danser notre race humaine
Sur la descente a reculons
Destins destins impenetrables
Rois secoues par la folie
Et ces grelottantes etoiles
De fausses femmes dans vos lits
Aux deserts que l'histoire accable
Luitpold le vieux prince regent
Tuteur de deux royautes folles
Sanglote-t-il en y songeant
Quand vacillent les lucioles
Mouches dorees de la Saint-Jean
Pres d'un chateau sans chatelaine
La barque aux barcarols chantants
Sur un lac blanc et sous l'haleine
Des vents qui tremblent au printemps
Voguait cygne mourant sirene
Un jour le roi dans l'eau d'argent
Se noya puis la bouche ouverte
Il s'en revint en surnageant
Sur la rive dormir inerte
Face tournee au ciel changeant
Juin ton soleil ardente lyre
Brule mes doigts endoloris
Triste et melodieux delire
J'erre a travers mon beau Paris
Sans avoir le coeur d'y mourir
Les dimanches s'y eternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise
Soirs de Paris ivres du gin
Flambant de l'electricite
Les tramways feux verts sur l'echine
Musiquent au long des portees
De rails leur folie de machines
Les cafes gonfles de fumee
Crient tout l'amour de leurs tziganes
De tous leurs siphons enrhumes
De leurs garcons vetus d'un pagne
Vers toi toi que j'ai tant aimee
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
LES COLCHIQUES
Le pre est veneneux mais joli en automne
Les vaches y paissant
Lentement s'empoisonnent
Le colchique couleur de cerne et de lilas
Y fleurit tes yeux sont comme cette fleur-la
Violatres comme leur cerne et comme cet automne
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
Les enfants de l'ecole viennent avec fracas
Vetus de hoquetons et jouant de l'harmonica
Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des meres
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupieres
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dement
Le gardien du troupeau chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pre mal fleuri par l'automne
PALAIS
A Max Jacob
Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Reve
Mes
reveuses
pensees pieds nus vont en soiree
Le palais don du roi comme un roi nu s'eleve
Des chairs fouettees des roses de la roseraie
On voit venir au fond du jardin mes pensees
Qui sourient du concert joue par les grenouilles
Elles ont envie des cypres grandes quenouilles
Et le soleil miroir des roses s'est brise
Le stigmate sanglant des mains contre les vitres
Quel archet mal blesse du couchant le troua
La resine qui rend amer le vin de Chypre
Ma bouche aux agapes d'agneau blanc l'eprouva
Sur les genoux pointus du monarque adultere
Sur le mai de son age et sur son trente et un
Madame Rosemonde roule avec mystere
Ses petits yeux tout ronds pareils aux yeux des Huns
Dame de mes pensees au cul de perle fine
Dont ni perle ni cul n'egale l'orient
Qui donc attendez-vous
De reveuses pensees en marche a l'Orient
Mes plus belles voisines
Toc toc Entrez dans l'antichambre le jour baisse
La veilleuse dans l'ombre est un bijou d'or cuit
Pendez vos tetes aux pateres par les tresses
Le ciel presque nocturne a des lueurs d'aiguilles
On entra dans la salle a manger les narines
Reniflaient une odeur de graisse et de graillon
On eut vingt potages dont trois couleurs d'urine
Et le roi prit deux oeufs poches dans du bouillon
Puis les marmitons apporterent les viandes
Des rotis de pensees mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux reves mort-nes en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandes en godiveaux
Or ces pensees mortes depuis des millenaires
Avaient le fade gout des grands mammouths geles
Les os ou songe-creux venaient des ossuaires
En danse macabre aux plis de mon cervelet
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles
Mais nom de Dieu!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Thee, from thy father stolen and bound
To serve in Vulcan's
clangorous
smithy,
Prometheus (primal Yankee) found,
And, when he had tampered with thee,
(Too confiding little maid!
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O I am very sick and
sorrowful!
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Whitman |
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Such a crown
I set upon thy head,--Christ witnessing
With looks of prompting love--to keep thee clear
Of all
reproach
against the sin forgone,
From all the generations which succeed.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So the place of any
building
may
be whole and entire for that work, though too little for a palace.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
unfortunate
host, when he hears someone coming
Scowls and frowns, but can think of no escape.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Often the father of the gods,
a-resting in his
glorious
temple, when on the festal days his annual rites
appeared, gazed on an hundred bulls strewn prone on the earth.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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) The phantom of the
Terrible
hath made me
His son; from out the sepulchre hath named me
Dimitry, hath stirred up the people round me,
And hath consigned Boris to be my victim.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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When we had come, where yet the tender dew
Strove with the sun, and in a place, where fresh
The wind breath'd o'er it, while it slowly dried;
Both hands extended on the watery grass
My master plac'd, in
graceful
act and kind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred
brighter
eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I'll hang upon her neck, a
raptured
wooer,
But only tell me, who shall lead me to her?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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