And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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tolian train;
The god, who slew him, leaves his
prostrate
prize
Stretch'd where he fell, and at Tydides flies.
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mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and
regulate
the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
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Crofts for
assaulting whom George, Lord Digby, was
imprisoned
a month and more, in
1634.
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thou
brilliant
lustrous one!
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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There she sees a damsel bright,
Drest in a silken robe of white,
That shadowy in the moonlight shone:
The neck that made that white robe wan,
Her stately neck, and arms were bare;
Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were,
And wildly glittered here and there
The gems
entangled
in her hair.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" 80
"But yff wythe bloode and
slaughter
thou
Beginne thy infante reigne,
Thy crowne uponne thy childrennes brows
Wylle never long remayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet,
Gin she had recover'd her hearin',
And how her new shoon fit her auld schachl't feet,
But
heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He scampered to the bushes far away;
The
shepherd
called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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John Clare |
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The rest if I should tell, I fear my friend,
My closest friend, would deem the facts untrue;
And
therefore
it were wisely left untold;
Yet if you will, why, hear it to the end.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'My blossom,' it said, 'I hate them for making you weave
these dingy feathers into your
beautiful
hair, and all that the bird
of prey upon the throne may sleep easy o' nights'; and then the low,
musical voice he loved answered: 'My hair is not beautiful like yours;
and now that I have plucked the feathers out of your hair I will put
my hands through it, thus, and thus, and thus; for it casts no shadow
of terror and darkness upon my heart.
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My heart Love prostrates, Fortune more unkind
No comfort grants, until its sorrow vast
Impotent
frets, then melts to tears at last:
Thus I to painful warfare am consign'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He was the last of the
Romanticists; Sainte-Beuve called him the
Kamchatka
of Romanticism; its
remotest hyperborean peak.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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First falls Iphytion, at his army's head;
Brave was the chief, and brave the host he led;
From great
Otrynteus
he derived his blood,
His mother was a Nais, of the flood;
Beneath the shades of Tmolus, crown'd with snow,
From Hyde's walls he ruled the lands below.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Meredith - Poems |
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If live the fair desire, Apollo, yet
Which fired thy spirit once on Peneus' shore,
And if the bright hair loved so well of yore
In lapse of years thou dost not now forget,
From the long frost, from seasons rude and keen,
Which last while hides itself thy kindling brow,
Defend this
consecrate
and honour'd bough,
Which snared thee erst, whose slave I since have been.
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Petrarch |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The prince walked on,
wise in his thought, to the wall of rock;
then sat, and stared at the structure of giants,
where arch of stone and
steadfast
column
upheld forever that hall in earth.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I was
confined
to my room by severe illness,
and could not move; it was agreed that Shelley and Williams should go
to Leghorn in the boat.
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Shelley |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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Come, come, Idonea,
We must not part,--I have
measured
many a league
When these old limbs had need of rest,--and now
I will not play the sluggard.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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ORESTES, _son of
Agamemnon
and Clytemnestra, now in banishment_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering
a watch whose little ticks
Are like horrible hammer-blows.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Men and gods are too extense;
Could you slacken and
condense?
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Emerson - Poems |
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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After a while
he gave way to his natural cowardice and the fears of his
subordinates, who were distressed by the thought that the loyalty of
the auxiliaries was
doubtful
and that the legions had been recruited
by a hurried levy.
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Tacitus |
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nec pecudes, uelut ante, petit: fixisse puellas
gestit et audacis
perdomuisse
uiros.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce,
In man they join to some
mysterious
use;
Though each by turns the other's bound invade,
As, in some well-wrought picture, light and shade,
And oft so mix, the difference is too nice
Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A Song o/Only a little while,
**f V,ir8in Sith
sleepeth
this child here
Stay ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Cosi 'l maestro; e quella gente degna
<>, disse, <>,
coi dossi de le man
faccendo
insegna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I went with more, and kissed her for the last,
And thought with tears on pleasures that were past;
And, the last kindness left me then to do,
I went, at milking, where the
blossoms
grew,
And handfuls got of rose and lambtoe sweet,
And put them with her in her winding-sheet.
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John Clare |
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So hidden in her leaflets,
Lest anybody find;
So
breathless
till I passed her,
So helpless when I turned
And bore her, struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"The
workmanship
of the transla tions is excellent.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Wiser, I esteem it, to give chance
the credit of the
successful
ones.
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James Russell Lowell |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Stephen Crane |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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Imagists |
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The star about the Pole
conceals
its bright rays.
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Troubador Verse |
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>
measured
and yet majestic progressions of chords.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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At last they slowed their
impetuous
flight.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--a figure veiled,
Uplooming
there--afar, like sunrise, coming!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Les
phenomenes
s'emurent.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Few indeed are the historians
of this period, but enough remains to prove, that though the writers of
the old romance seized upon it, and added the
inexhaustible
machinery of
magic to the adventures of their heroes, yet the origin of their
fictions was founded on historical facts.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Point me out the way
To any one particular beauteous star, 100
And I will flit into it with my lyre,
And make its silvery
splendour
pant with bliss.
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Keats |
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Why did you not
constrain
my lady
Before desire took me completely?
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Troubador Verse |
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All over the corn's dim motion, against the blue
Dark sky of night, the wandering glitter, the swarm
Of questing brilliant things:--you joy, you true
Spirit of
careless
joy: ah, how I warm
My poor and perished soul at the joy of you!
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Imagists |
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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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")_
[XXII, April, 1837]
Children, come back--come back, I say--
You whom my folly chased away
A moment since, from this my room,
With
bristling
wrath and words of doom!
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Hugo - Poems |
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They all along the earth
extended
lay
Save one, that sudden rais'd himself to sit,
Soon as that way he saw us pass.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The rest in imitation to like Armes
Betook them, and the neighbouring Hills uptore;
So Hills amid the Air encounterd Hills
Hurl'd to and fro with jaculation dire,
That under ground they fought in dismal shade;
Infernal
noise; Warr seem'd a civil Game
To this uproar; horrid confusion heapt
Upon confusion rose: and now all Heav'n
Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspred, 670
Had not th' Almightie Father where he sits
Shrin'd in his Sanctuarie of Heav'n secure,
Consulting on the sum of things, foreseen
This tumult, and permitted all, advis'd:
That his great purpose he might so fulfill,
To honour his Anointed Son aveng'd
Upon his enemies, and to declare
All power on him transferr'd: whence to his Son
Th' Assessor of his Throne he thus began.
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Milton |
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Like his friend Flaubert, he had a horror of
democracy, of the
democratisation
of the arts, of all the sentimental
fuss and fuddle of a pseudo-humanitarianism.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth creeping imagery of
slighter
trees, 140
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats |
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and now, by Pan, 280
I care not for this old
mysterious
man!
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Keats |
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What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to discry the crafty cunning traine,
By which deceipt doth maske in visour faire,
And cast her colours dyed deepe in graine,
To seeme like Truth, whose shape she well can faine, 5
And fitting
gestures
to her purpose frame;
The guiltlesse man with guile to entertaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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God bless your honours a' your days,
Wi' sowps o' kail and brats o' claise,
In spite o' a' the
thievish
kaes,
That haunt St.
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Robert Forst |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
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Sappho |
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Pray Rome put up her
poniard!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Vashti can remedy this; for here thy beauty
More
spacious
is for my senses to be in,
Than his own golden kingdom for the sun.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Crime of sorts ever
precedes
some greater crime.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'
And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:
'The old order changeth,
yielding
place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
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Tennyson |
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Shivering they sit on
leafless
bush, or frozen stone
Wearied with seeking food across the snowy waste; the little
Heart, cold; and the little tongue consum'd, that once in thoughtless joy
Gave songs of gratitude to [[the]]waving corn fields round their nest.
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Blake - Zoas |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a replacement was written in the right margin, then the
deleting
lines and the replacement were thoroughly erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin
magically
grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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Mark yet sees his lion where he stood
Stand, but in mockery of his withered power,
Over the proud place where an Emperor sued,
And
monarchs
gazed and envied in the hour
When Venice was a queen with an unequalled dower.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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degorgez
dans les gares!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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False Notions of Happiness, Philosophical and Popular,
answered
from
v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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what enraged heates
Here heaped up with termes of love unkind, 265
My
conscience
cleare with guilty bands would bind?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"Ful-oft ic for lǣssan lēan teohhode
"hord-weorðunge
hnāhran
rince,
"sǣmran æt sæcce.
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Beowulf |
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Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie,
And okes with okes
entremed
disponed lie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And I
followed
her
and looked for her, but I never could see her again from that day to
this, never again.
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Yeats |
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illic demersas
conplorat
nauita puppis,
hic pastor miti perluit amne pecus.
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THE SALVATION ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Go, so all is
prepared
now for us to leave.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Great Nature spoke; observant men obeyed;
Cities were built,
societies
were made:
Here rose one little state: another near
Grew by like means, and joined, through love or fear.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[Note 22: Refers to two of the most
interesting
productions of
the poet.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Thy life is waning now, and silence tries
To mourn, but meets no
sympathy
in sounds.
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John Clare |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
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Stephen Crane |
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How will posterity the deed
proclaim!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Has this obscure line any reference to
prophecy?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[Picture: He sat and watched the coming tide]
He
wondered
at the waters clear,
The breeze that whispered in his ear,
The billows heaving far and near,
And why he had so long preferred
To hang upon her every word:
"In truth," he said, "it was absurd.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And this delightful Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I am one, my Liege,
Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World
Hath so incens'd, that I am
recklesse
what I doe,
To spight the World
1.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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This edition of Milton's Poetry is a reprint, as careful as Editor and
Printers have been able to make it, from the
earliest
printed copies of
the several poems.
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Milton |
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Soil of flint if steadfast tilled
Will reward the hand;
Seed of palm by Lybian sun
Fructified
in sand.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your countenance fill'd up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that
enfeebled
mine.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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) A
thousand
years to each Planet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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where
pleasure
smiled;
What now remains?
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Shelley |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a
precious
tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rodrigue
I go not to a duel, but punishment;
My faithful ardour
deprives
me of desire
To defend myself, since you light the pyre.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Crouching behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted
roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and phoenixes and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The frequent mention in the course of this
poem of romances once
enjoying
a European celebrity but now
consigned to oblivion, will impress the reader with the
transitory nature of merely mediocre literary reputation.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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