Save where some
solitary
column mourns
Above its prostrate brethren of the cave;
Save where Tritonia's airy shrine adorns
Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave;
Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten grave,
Where the grey stones and unmolested grass
Ages, but not oblivion, feebly brave,
While strangers only not regardless pass,
Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh 'Alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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All
falsehood
and deception.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thee Dacians fierce, and
Scythian
hordes,
Peoples and towns, and Koine, their head,
And mothers of barbarian lords,
And tyrants in their purple dread,
Lest, spurn'd by thee in scorn, should fall
The state's tall prop, lest crowds on fire
To arms, to arms!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Po |
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For one of them denied
the
existence
of the gods and the other was a believer.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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my
nostrils
drink the lives of mMen
[[line]]
The Villages Lament.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Can we be of any service to you, O crusty
Crabbies?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He will
maintain
you like a gentlewoman.
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Shakespeare |
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I am
directly
in a fit of wonder
What'll be the i?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley
The
sleepers
of the House?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What's most theirs is not their own,
But
borrowed
in atoms from iron and stone,
And in their vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is still her part.
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Emerson - Poems |
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(Only certain very bold
instructions
of mine, encroachments etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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High on a turret hoary Priam stands,
And marks the waste of his
destructive
hands;
Views, from his arm, the Trojans' scatter'd flight,
And the near hero rising on his sight!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'While I've a loaf they're welcome to my
blessing
and the chaff.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
Proudly the war bride, ending so,
Sank
breathless
in the dumb white snow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Probably if an adequate audience had been
secured in his lifetime, Chatterton would have revealed the secret
when it had served its purpose--just as Walpole
confessed
to the
authorship of _Otranto_ only when that book had run into a second
edition.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs encircling distant heights and hollows,
You lost
yourself
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que
jonchent
aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_An Essay on
Chatterton_
by S.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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DAMOETAS
Well, was he
Whom I had
conquered
still to keep the goat.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The scene is waken'd, yet its peace unbroke,
By silver'd wreaths of quiet
charcoal
smoke,
That, o'er the ruins of the fallen wood,
Steal down the hills, and spread along the flood.
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William Wordsworth |
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7585
Go, herber you
elleswhere
than here,
That han a lyer called me!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He'll teach my son how to
exercise
command.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Why should, of all things, man, unruFd,
Such unproportion*d
dwellings
build ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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With a bunch of dewy maple, which her right hand held above her,
And which trembled a green shadow in betwixt her and the skies,
As she turned her face in going, thus, she drew me on to love her,
And to worship the
divineness
of the smile hid in her eyes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CHORUS
Home to my heart the
vaunting
goes,
And, quick with terror, on my head
Rises my hair, at sound of those
Who wildly, impiously rave!
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Aeschylus |
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>>
A UNE
MENDIANTE
ROUSSE
Blanche fille aux cheveux roux,
Dont ta robe par ses trous
Laisse voir la pauvrete
Et la beaute,
Pour moi, poete chetif,
Ton jeune corps maladif
Plein de taches de rousseur
A sa douceur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What love that shall kiss my brow
Nor blench at the brand
thereof?
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Euripides - Electra |
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740
"O known
Unknown!
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Keats |
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original
makers, not mere
amanuenses?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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' By his brother's
infernal
streams, by the banks of the pitchy
black-boiling chasm he signed assent, and made all Olympus quiver at his
nod.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Where had this most
interesting
document
come from?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For about two
thousand
five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not
only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists.
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Sappho |
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And might it not be possible to escape them by
turning into one of our narrow New England lanes, shut in though it were
by bleak stone walls on either hand, and where no better flowers were to
be
gathered
than goldenrod and hardhack?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But what availeth suche a long sermoun
Of
aventures
of love, up and doun?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Make haste, Brothers and Sisters, push
With might and main round the ivy-bush,
Struggle and pull at the laurel-tree,
And leave the barberries be
For poor lost
lunatics
like me,
Who set them so high
They overtop the sun in the sky.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Upon its forehead, like a coronet,
Were these
mysterious
words of menace set:
"That which I am, I am; my fatal aim
None can escape, not even yon luminous flame!
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Longfellow |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things,"
commonly
referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"This Herman,"
continued
Tomsky, "is a romantic character; he has the
profile of a Napoleon and the heart of a Mephistopheles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CXIII
He kept no more the way, as he before
Proposed, for
compassing
the whole of Spain:
But stopt his courser on the neighbouring shore
Where lesser Britain runs into the main.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unheard
Midnight
counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is illuminated by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His
best mare had rolled out of stable down the hill and had broken her
back; his decisions were being reversed by the upper Courts, more
than an Assistant
Commissioner
of eight years' standing has a right to
expect; he knew liver and fever, and, for weeks past, had felt out of
sorts.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In modern times the history of the devil
and the Vice as dramatic figures has been
thoroughly
investigated, the
latest works being those of Dr.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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no doubt,'
(Cries prating
_Balbus_)
'something will come out.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
And no old crone in feebler voice could plead
Than
Ladislaus
did.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Not very
dangerous
that way, my good uncle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Return
I turned the key and opened wide the door
To enter my
deserted
room again,
Where thro' the long hot months the dust had lain.
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Sara Teasdale |
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e
corsedest
kyrk, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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A mother who doesn't part with a
daughter
every season has no real
affection.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
"And I beheld high
scaffoldings
of creeds
Crumbling from round Religion's perfect Fane:
And a vast noise of rights, wrongs, powers, needs,
-- Cries of new Faiths that called `This Way is plain,'
-- Grindings of upper against lower greeds --
-- Fond sighs for old things, shouts for new, -- did reign
Below that stream of golden fire that broke,
Mottled with red, above the seas of smoke.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Count said that he regretted not being able to remember, just
at that moment, the precise
dimensions
of any one of the principal
buildings of the city of Aznac, whose foundations were laid in the night
of Time, but the ruins of which were still standing, at the epoch of
his entombment, in a vast plain of sand to the westward of Thebes.
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In mad game
They burst their
manacles
and wear the name
Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
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Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light {According to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a
different
text for 8, ending ?
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She was a gordian shape of
dazzling
hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
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When the night is
gathering
all is gray.
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Kipling - Poems |
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So we retired aside, and left the throng,
When thus he spake: "I have
expected
long
To see you here with us; your face did seem
To threaten you no less.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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Thinke of this good Peeres
But as a thing of Custome: 'Tis no other,
Onely it spoyles the
pleasure
of the time
Macb.
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I am the pool of blue
That worships the vivid sky;
My hopes were heaven-high,
They are all
fulfilled
in you.
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That the perfection of Virtue and
Happiness consists in a conformity to the Order of
Providence
here, and a
Resignation to it here and hereafter, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Therefore
despair not.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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By the same Author
THE SHADOWS OF SILENCE AND
THE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
THE GRAVE OF EROS AND THE
BOOK OF
MOURNFUL
MELODIES
WITH DREAMS FROM THE EAST
BAUDELAIRE--THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
In preparation
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which
husbandry
in honour might uphold,
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Give us a drama in this
fashion!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A singing lark rose toward the sky,
Circling
he sang amain;
He sang, a speck scarce visible sky-high,
And then he sank again.
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"His name," said Imam
Din, as though the name were part of the crime, "is
Muhammad
Din, and he
is a budmash.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of
darkened
crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Take this purse of gold,
And let me buy your
friendly
help thus far,
Which I will over-pay and pay again
When I have found it.
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Shakespeare |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hast thou not tried us enough,
Jehovah?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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The English 'translation' is offered as an
equivalent
text to, or interpretation of, the original.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I thought within my family to find
Solace; I thought to make my
daughter
happy
By wedlock.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
She came to the town of the
nameless
name,
To the marching troops in the street she came,
And she held high her boy like a taper flame
Burning for France.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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' I have gone through so many
yesterdays
when I
strove with Death that I have realised to its full the wisdom of that
sentence; and it is to me not merely a figure of speech, but a
literal fact.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But he that gets their love after the fashion
Loves in brief longing and
deceiving
hope
And bodily tenderness, and finds that even
The bed of love, that in the imagination
Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
And as soon finished.
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Yeats |
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The shepherds on the lawn
Or ere the point of dawn
Sate simply chatting in a rustic row;
Full little thought they then
That the mighty Pan
Was kindly come to live with them below;
Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep
Was all that did their silly
thoughts
so busy keep.
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Golden Treasury |
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For so the glutted earth
Swarms even now with savage beasts, even now
Is filled with anxious terrors through the woods
And mighty mountains and the forest deeps--
Quarters
'tis ours in general to avoid.
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Lucretius |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Clymene has had much the same experience
as Oceanus, though she does not
philosophize
upon it.
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Keats |
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_"
[When Burns
transcribed
the following song for Thomson, on the 20th of
November, 1794, he added, "Well!
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_ O thankless
beldames
and untrue!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And when the pungent stench of the night-lamp,
Extinguished
but a moment since, assails
The nostrils, then and there it puts to sleep
A man afflicted with the falling sickness
And foamings at the mouth.
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Lucretius |
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And they were
all going to
carpenters
and joiners getting bits of their feet cut off
to try could they wear the shoe, but it was no use, not one of them
could get it on.
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Yeats |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Rational men's words pledges are of peace ;
Perverted, serve
dissension
to increase.
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Marvell - Poems |
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From rail to ravine--to the peak from the vale--
Up, up through the night goes the
Overland
Mail.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Hand alitur pariles ciliorum
contrahit
arcus,
Acribus ast oculis tela subesse putes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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