Here on my breast flows her hair, an
abundance
of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
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eormen-lāfe
æðelan
cynnes
(_the treasures of the dragon's cave_) 2235.
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Beowulf |
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Mechul honur
schaltou
haue,
& alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I spake; nought answer'd he, but sullen join'd 690
His fellow-ghosts; yet, angry as he was,
I had prevail'd even on him to speak,
Or had, at least,
accosted
him again,
But that my bosom teem'd with strong desire
Urgent, to see yet others of the dead.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ashes of Soldiers
Ashes of
soldiers
South or North,
As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes,
And again the advance of the armies.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And when the vision seemed to swerve,
'T was but the flickering shine
That gave new grace, a
lovelier
curve,
To every dream-like line.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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thy prison is a holy place
And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod
Until his very steps have left a trace
Worn as if thy cold
pavement
were a sod,
By Bonnivard!
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Golden Treasury |
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representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But I
think the two
passages
have a common origin in some version of Hesiod's
?
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Robert Herrick |
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Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a perished creature
Entreat us tenderly
To ponder little workmanships
In crayon or in wool,
With "This was last her fingers did,"
Industrious until
The thimble weighed too heavy,
The
stitches
stopped themselves,
And then 't was put among the dust
Upon the closet shelves.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Aeneas, wrathful at their mad
onslaught, rushes on them,
towering
high with levelled spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sara Teasdale |
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She in reply
Said
something
in an undertone
And at the table sat her down.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_Hawkie_, a cow,
properly
one with a white face.
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Robert Forst |
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Two blows I aimed at thee, for twice thou
kissedst
my
fair wife; but I struck thee not, because thou restoredst them to me
according to agreement.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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to-rent {and}
vnioigned
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Alone" is stated to have been written by Poe in the album of
a
Baltimore
lady (Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the
Foundation
information page at www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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practically
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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GD} Los now
repented
that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins To heal the wound of his smiting
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous [bloody] wine *
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Blake - Zoas |
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A peevish self-will'd
harlotry
it is.
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Shakespeare |
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Even the woman we love may afford us
uncertain
enjoyment;
Nowhere can feminine lap safely encouch a man's head.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nay, I rather thrilled,
Distrusting
every light that seemed to gild
The onward path, and feared to overlean
A finger even.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The incidents
recorded
of this storm are matter of history
in and around Tampa.
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Sidney Lanier |
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From her
friendship
I'm severed
Yet my faith's so in place,
That I can barely counter
The beauty of her face.
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Troubador Verse |
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O skilful Death and full of bitterness,
Well mayst thou boast that thou the best
chevalier
That any folk e'er had, hast from us taken;
Sith nothing is that unto worth pertaineth
But had its life in the young English King,
And better were it, should God grant his pleasure That he should live than many a living dastard That doth but wound the good with ire and sadness.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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at
dignitees
{and} powers 1424
ne ben not goode of hir owen kynde.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_
[171] Camoens seems to have his eye on the picture of Gama, which is
thus
described
by _Faria y Sousa_: "He is painted with a black cap,
cloak, and breeches edged with velvet, all slashed, through which
appears the crimson lining, the doublet of crimson satin, and over it
his armour inlaid with gold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they old acquaintances, --
First time
together
thrown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Where is thy boast
Of Holofernes
captured?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In this expedition, nations were subdued, kings made captive, and
Vespasian
was held forth to the fates.
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Tacitus |
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Not uninvented that, which thou aright 470
Beleivst so main to our success, I bring;
Which of us who beholds the bright surface
Of this Ethereous mould whereon we stand,
This continent of spacious Heav'n, adornd
With Plant, Fruit, Flour Ambrosial, Gemms & Gold,
Whose Eye so
superficially
surveyes
These things, as not to mind from whence they grow
Deep under ground, materials dark and crude,
Of spiritous and fierie spume, till toucht
With Heav'ns ray, and temperd they shoot forth 480
So beauteous, op'ning to the ambient light.
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Milton |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Tacitus |
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"You'll sometimes find that one or two
Are all you really need
To let the wind come
whistling
through--
But _here_ there'll be a lot to do!
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Lewis Carroll |
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_The Men of the House of Colonna_, _The Czars_, _Charles XII Riding
Through the Ukraine_ are portrayed each with his
individual
historical
gesture, with a luminosity as strong as the colour and movement which
they gave to their time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Evening was there, and here the noon of night;
and full upon our
forehead
smote the beams.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit www.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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So we've found a use for one
of our three nurseries, after all, Aline, now that Hilda
occupies
one of them.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Facts, centuries before,
He
traverses
familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror
trembling
& affright
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
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blake-poems |
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Canto XXXIII
'Deus, venerunt gentes', alternando
or tre or quattro dolce salmodia,
le donne incominciaro, e lagrimando;
e Beatrice,
sospirosa
e pia,
quelle ascoltava si fatta, che poco
piu a la croce si cambio Maria.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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when
mingling
souls forget to blend,
Death hath but little left him to destroy!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_When he shifts from side to side
Earthquakes gape and open wide;_
_When a
nightmare
makes him snore,
All the dead volcanoes roar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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We will proceed no further in this Businesse:
He hath Honour'd me of late, and I haue bought
Golden
Opinions
from all sorts of people,
Which would be worne now in their newest glosse,
Not cast aside so soone
La.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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DI-BAL,
ideogram
in incantations, 194, 10.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
|
Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In many
editions
this couplet comes after
l.
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Alexander Pope |
|
III
'Tis a woodland
enchanted!
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of
collisions
and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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As I know that no one--no, not
even Kitty, for whom it is written as some sort of
justification
of
my conduct--will believe me, I will go on.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It felt that, in spite of all possible pains,
It had somehow contrived to lose count,
And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains
By
reckoning
up the amount.
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Lewis Carroll |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Po |
|
XXI
When she
sometime
had fought upon her horse,
She from the courser on her feet descends:
To compass and more freely put in force,
As by the enchantress schooled, her wily ends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" Perhaps a truth
Is so far plain in this, that Italy,
Long
trammelled
with the purple of her youth
Against her age's ripe activity,
Sits still upon her tombs, without death's ruth
But also without life's brave energy.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Or des vergers fleuris se
figeaient
en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
unfeeling
heart can't know a pain so sweet:
Love reigns on earth above, not beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
"
Chatterton
soon
after told Mr.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It seemed in the
darkness
a sound they heard,--
Was it feeble moaning or uttered word?
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Both gladly now
deferred
their task;
Nor was there wanting other aid--
A Poet, one who loves the brooks
Far better than the sages' books, 85
By chance had thither strayed;
And there the helpless lamb he found
By those huge rocks encompassed round.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O great Latonian progeny, 5
Of
greatest
Jove descendancy,
Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
Deep in the Delian dell;
That of the mountains reign thou Queen
And forest ranges ever green, 10
And coppices by man unseen,
And rivers resonant.
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(_and
others_)
with his
wondyrful; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You descended through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on
nocturnal
waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
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Appoloinaire |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
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Emerson - Poems |
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This would make her an exact or close
contemporary
of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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_zag-sal_,
liturgical
note, 103 f.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Only ye would not pass beyond the cape
That has the poplar on it: there ye fixt
Your limit, oft
returning
with the tide.
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Tennyson |
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The tenor of this
production,
especially
its audacious allusion to the murder of
the emperor Paul, father of the then reigning Tsar, assuredly
deserved, according to aristocratic ideas, the deportation to
Siberia which was said to have been prepared for the author.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
And the old Cats said, "Be
particularly
careful not to meddle with a
clangle-wangle if you should see one.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Wilde - Poems |
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And of such bond methinks I saw
The universal form: for that whenever
I do but speak of it, my soul dilates
Beyond her proper self; and, till I speak,
One moment seems a longer lethargy,
Than five-and-twenty ages had appear'd
To that emprize, that first made Neptune wonder
At Argo's shadow
darkening
on his flood.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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So they stormed the iron Hill,
O'er the sleepers lying still,
And their trumpets sang them forward through the dull
succeeding
dawns,
But the thunder flung them wide,
And they crumpled up and died,--
They had waged the war of monarchs--and they died the death of pawns.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Before himself the
Emperour
has him led.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he
beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern
clouds, or thou
tremblest
at the gates of the west.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And this one looked at him
With soft eyes
Lit with
infinite
comprehension,
And said, "My poor child!
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Stephen Crane |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender
soldiers
from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Mais, si j'avais voulu t'attaquer au defaut
De l'armure, ta honte egalerait ta gloire,
Et tu ne serais plus qu'un foetus
derisoire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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520
What savage manners, what
hardened
hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly softened?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The first
state of man was the state of nature when he lived in
innocent
ignorance
with his fellow-creatures.
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Alexander Pope |
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O heaven, what tears, what loud
complaints
ensue!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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At last, one fine day,
Saveliitch
came into my room with a letter in his
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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art thou not ashamed
To doat upon a
feature?
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Robert Forst |
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Many translations exist, the best
being those of Legge in English and of
Couvreur
in French.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nero had
dispatched
them as an advance-guard to
Alexandria;[60] the long voyage back again had damaged their health,
and Galba had spared no expense in looking after them.
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Tacitus |
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O Colonia, that longest to disport thyself on a long bridge and art
prepared for the dance, but that fearest the trembling legs of the
bridgelet builded on re-used shavings, lest supine it may lie stretched in
the hollow swamp; may a good bridge take its place
designed
to thy fancy,
on which e'en the Salian dances may be sustained: for the which grant to
me, Colonia, greatest of gifts glee-exciting.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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compliance
for any
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My
thoughts
and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No living thing was there beside one woman,
Whom I found wandering in the streets, and she
Was withered from a
likeness
of aught human _2760
Into a fiend, by some strange misery:
Soon as she heard my steps she leaped on me,
And glued her burning lips to mine, and laughed
With a loud, long, and frantic laugh of glee,
And cried, 'Now, Mortal, thou hast deeply quaffed _2765
The Plague's blue kisses--soon millions shall pledge the draught!
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Shelley |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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`Allas,
Fortune!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Fan was so moved by
their reply that he
exempted
their husbands from national service.
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Li Po |
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