Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which
fragments
have
survived.
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Oh
Beatrice!
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Byron |
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E io: <
si ch'io esca d'un dubbio per costui;
poi mi farai,
quantunque
vorrai, fretta>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It is an accustom'd action with her, to seeme
thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her
continue
in
this a quarter of an houre
Lad.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The true
sportsman
can shoot you almost any of his game from his
windows: what else has he windows or eyes for?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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* * * * *
Are cottages of mud and stone,
By valley wood and glen,
And their calm
dwellers
little known
Men, and but common men,
That drive afield with carts and ploughs?
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John Clare |
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Stands
Scotland
where it did?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What is a
thyrsus?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The hours
Are
flitting
fast, and time is precious to me.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the
reddened
light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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erfore I
folowynge
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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FROM HAFIZ
I said to heaven that glowed above,
O hide yon sun-filled zone,
Hide all the stars you boast;
For, in the world of love
And
estimation
true,
The heaped-up harvest of the moon
Is worth one barley-corn at most,
The Pleiads' sheaf but two.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If there's no help for this, and swiftly,
And my fine lady love me, goddamn,
I'll die, by the head of Saint Gregory,
If she'll not kiss me,
wherever
I am!
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Troubador Verse |
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They had
my
positive
orders to drink as much as they could.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Can la verz folha s'espan
When the greenery unfolds
And the branch is white with flower,
With sweet
birdsong
in that hour
My heart gently onward goes.
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Troubador Verse |
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_ The
Pleiades
are seven stars making a constellation.
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Keats |
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Farewell
to France
8.
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Byron |
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THe belle was pleased the 'prentice to prefer:
A handsome lad with truth we may aver,
Quite young, well made, with
fascinating
eye:
Such charms are ne'er despised we may rely,
But treasures thought, no FAIR will e'er neglect;
Whate'er her senses say, she'll these respect.
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La Fontaine |
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_ For a note on Herrick's Fairy Poems and on the
_Description of the King and Queene of the
Fayries_
(1635), in which
part of this poem was first printed, see Appendix.
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Robert Herrick |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you
remember
his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot obliquely run;
Thy
firmness
makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But treat the goddess like a modest fair,
Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare;
Let not each beauty
everywhere
be spied,
Where half the skill is decently to hide.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then pocketed bracelets and chains and rings
As if they were
mushrooms
or some such things,
With no more thanks, (the greedy-guts!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In such like extremes, why,
extremes
will come pat;
So let's go and wet all our whistles with that.
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John Clare |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats |
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Frae morn to e'en its nought but toiling,
At baking, roasting, frying, boiling;
An' though the gentry first are stechin,
Yet even the ha' folk fill their pechan
Wi' sauce, ragouts, and sic like trashtrie,
That's little short o'
downright
wastrie.
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Robert Forst |
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With a sad
primaeval
motion
Towards the sunset isles of Boshen
Still the Turtle bore him well.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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(draws a cross-handled dagger, and raises it on high)
Behold the cross
wherewith
a vow like mine
Is written in Heaven!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Away with these
disgraceful
wailing robes!
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Shakespeare |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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La Fontaine |
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Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp,
When Agrican with all his Northern powers
Besieg'd Albracca, as
Romances
tell;
The City of Gallaphrone, from thence to win 340
The fairest of her Sex Angelica
His daughter, sought by many Prowest Knights,
Both Paynim, and the Peers of Charlemane.
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Milton |
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And yet
persuade
the world they must obey ;
Of avarice and luxury complain.
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Marvell - Poems |
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From me my Silvia ran away,
And running therewithal
A
primrose
bank did cross her way,
And gave my love a fall.
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Robert Herrick |
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That oaten pipe of hers is mute
Or thrown away; but with a flute
Her loneliness she cheers;
This flute, made of a hemlock stalk,
At evening in his homeward walk
The
Quantock
woodman hears.
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Golden Treasury |
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_
Duckworth
& Co.
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Imagists |
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The author of the Decamerone regarded
Petrarch
as his literary master.
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Petrarch |
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"You see," cried the little old man, "that he is
deceiving
you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'Twas vast, and desolate, and icy-cold;
And all around--But
wherefore
this to thee
Who in few minutes more thyself shalt see?
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Keats |
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Pour l'enfance d'Helene
frissonnerent
les fourres et les ombres, et le
sein des pauvres, et les legendes du ciel.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We have a very brutal master, a perfect
glutton for beans,[10] and most bad-tempered; 'tis Demos of the Pnyx,[11]
an
intolerable
old man and half deaf.
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Aristophanes |
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And if it be
Prometheus
stole from heaven
The fire which we endure, it was repaid
By him to whom the energy was given
Which this poetic marble hath arrayed
With an eternal glory--which, if made
By human hands, is not of human thought
And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid
One ringlet in the dust--nor hath it caught
A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which 'twas wrought.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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(_c_) A
tendency
for the tones to go in _pairs_, _e.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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PARTING WITH FRIENDS AT A WINESHOP IN NANKING
The wind blowing through the willow-flowers fills the shop with scent;
A girl of Wu has served wine and bids the
traveller
taste.
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Li Po |
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For should Man finally be lost, should Man 150
Thy creature late so lov'd, thy youngest Son
Fall
circumvented
thus by fraud, though joynd
With his own folly?
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Milton |
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Lewis Carroll |
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But nature is a
stranger
yet;
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And
Ardennes
waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturniug brave,--alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When Li Yang-ping became
Governor
of T'ang-tu, Po went to live near him.
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Li Po |
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He had given him a
brain and heart, and so had
equipped
his soul with the two strong wings
of knowledge and love, whereby it can mount to hang its nest under the
eaves of heaven.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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An adverse star, a fate here only wrong,
Entrusts
to one who worships her dear name,
Yet haply injures by his praise her fame.
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Petrarch |
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CONTENTS
_A Foreword_ _III_
AMY LOWELL
Lilacs _3_
Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme _8_
The Swans _13_
Prime _16_
Vespers _17_
In Excelsis _18_
La Ronde du Diable _20_
ROBERT FROST
Fire and Ice _25_
The Grindstone _26_
The Witch of Coos _29_
A Brook in the City _37_
Design _38_
CARL SANDBURG
And So To-day _41_
California City Landscape _49_
Upstream _51_
Windflower Leaf _52_
VACHEL LINDSAY
In Praise of Johnny Appleseed _55_
I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry _66_
JAMES OPPENHEIM
Hebrews _75_
ALFRED KREYMBORG
Adagio: A Duet _79_
Die Kuche _80_
Rain _81_
Peasant _83_
Bubbles _85_
Dirge _87_
Colophon _88_
SARA TEASDALE
Wisdom _91_
Places _92_
_Twilight_ (Tucson)
_Full Moon_ (Santa Barbara)
_Winter Sun_ (Lenox)
_Evening_ (Nahant)
Words for an Old Air _97_
Those Who Love _98_
Two Songs for
Solitude
_99_
_The Crystal Gazer_
_The Solitary_
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
Monolog from a Mattress _103_
Waters of Babylon _110_
The Flaming Circle _112_
Portrait of a Machine _114_
Roast Leviathan _115_
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
A Rebel _127_
The Rock _128_
Blue Water _129_
Prayers for Wind _130_
Impromptu _131_
Chinese Poet Among Barbarians _132_
Snowy Mountains _133_
The Future _134_
Upon the Hill _136_
The Enduring _137_
JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER
Old Man _141_
Tone Picture _142_
They Say-- _143_
Rescue _144_
Mater in Extremis _146_
Self-Rejected _147_
H.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They stopped not far from the ancient sepulchres,
Where lie the cold relics of our
ancestral
rulers.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Mia madre a servo d'un segnor mi puose,
che m'avea
generato
d'un ribaldo,
distruggitor di se e di sue cose.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Besides the one,
Like David, poet was, the other shone
As fine musician--rumor spread their fame,
Declaring
them divine, until each name
In Italy's fine sonnets met with praise.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But yet
Hardly at all during those many suns
Appeared a fowl, nor from the woods went forth
The sullen
generations
of wild beasts--
They languished with disease and died and died.
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Lucretius |
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Donations
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Glorious is the legacy of
Taizong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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When flowing cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our
careless
heads with roses crown'd,
Our hearts with loyal flames;
When thirsty grief in wine we steep,
When healths and draughts go free--
Fishes that tipple in the deep
Know no such liberty.
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Golden Treasury |
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_153_
NOW have I made my monument: and now
Nor brass shall longer live, nor loftier raise
The
royallest
pyramid its superb brow.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
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Robert Forst |
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Sign this deed
Admitting
everything, and we can keep
All the proceedings secret.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I
announce
a man or woman coming--perhaps you are the one (_So long_!
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Whitman |
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The things Heaven made
Man was meant to use;
A thousand guilders
scattered
to the wind may come back again.
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Li Po |
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Forgetful in their towers of our tuneing
Once for Wind-runeing They dream us-toward and
"
Sighing, say,
Passionate Cino, of the
wrinkling
eyes,
Gay Cino, of quick laughter,
Cino, of the dare, the jibe,
Frail Cino, strongest of his tribe
That tramp old ways beneath the sun-light, Would Cino of the Luth were here!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Or bring ye steel and gold,
That Kings may dupe and slay the
multitude?
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Shelley |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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MENALCAS
"In dazzling sheen with
unaccustomed
eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_Like a wedge in a block, wring to the barre,
Bearing-like Asses; and more
shamelesse
farre, &c.
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John Donne |
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' He speaks, and
advances
into the
level ring.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And he who takes what love brings too,
Though little it grant of hope's fine brew,
Cannot fail to find
pleasures
new
And in fresh joy rich recompense:
So that I praise the honours sent,
The gifts, neck, hands that make me kiss,
My remedy for all amiss.
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Troubador Verse |
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We are not idle, but send her straight
Defiance back in a full
broadside!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'sicine me patriis auectam, perfide, ab aris,
perfide, deserto
liquisti
in litore, Theseu?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Whether people grow fat by joking, or
whether there is
something
in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I
have never been quite able to determine; but certain it is that a lean
joker is a rara avis in terris.
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Poe - 5 |
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On
visionary
views would fancy feed,
Till his eye streamed with tears.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Hedgers now along the road
Homeward bend beneath their load;
And from the long furrowed seams,
Ploughmen loose their weary teams:
Ball, with urging lashes wealed,
Still so slow to drive a-field,
Eager blundering from the plough,
Wants no whip to drive him now;
At the stable-door he stands,
Looking round for friendly hands
To loose the door its
fastening
pin,
And let him with his corn begin.
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John Clare |
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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the darkness to betray
The black
embarasst
flood sheared by the stems?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I knew not this, and therefore did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its helpless form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I
complaind
in the mild air, because I fade away.
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blake-poems |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet cruel one, if you still seek fresh glory
Attack some more
rebellious
enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I use the word 'animal' in
its widest sense, as
including
the physical not more than the moral
and vital being.
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Poe - 5 |
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[51] They were 'Guards' who had
escorted
Nero on his singing
tours through Greece.
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Tacitus |
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Thou ance was i' the
foremost
rank,
A filly buirdly, steeve, an' swank;
An' set weel down a shapely shank,
As e'er tread yird;
An' could hae flown out-owre a stank,
Like ony bird.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
CORYDON
"This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With
branching
antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
And many a maydes sorwes for to newe; 305
And, for the more part, al is untrewe
That men of yelpe, and it were brought to preve;
Of kinde non
avauntour
is to leve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Whom, to the gods when suppliant fathers bow
They name the
standard
of their dearest vow.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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From--" Days"
As on the languorous settle
Slumber evaded me long,
Then bring me no wondrous saga,
Nor sooth me with slumbrous song
From maidens of mythical regions
That
favoured
my fancy erewhile,
But snare me into your bondage
Flute-players from the Nile.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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