Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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As for Telemachus, let Mentor him
And Halytherses furnish forth, the friends
Long valued of his Sire, with all dispatch;
Though him I judge far
likelier
to remain
Long-time contented an enquirer here,
Than to perform the voyage now proposed.
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So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy 990
Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr
Divine
displeasure
for her sake, or Death.
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LXXVIII
Loves of unhappy end in imagery
Of gold or
jewelled
bands he saw exprest;
Then eagles' talons, the authority
With which great lords their delegates invest:
Bellows filled every nook, the fume and fee
Wherein the favourites of kings are blest:
Given to those Ganymedes that have their hour,
And reft, when faded is their vernal flower.
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XXIX
At once a formidable larum rose;
Horns, drums, and shrilling
clarions
filled the skies;
And the wind ruffles, as it comes and goes,
Banner and gonfalon of various dyes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lines To A Gentleman,
Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered
to
continue
it free of Expense.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But not thy galley,
Tarchon; for she dashes on a shoal, and swings long swaying on the cruel
bank, pitching and
slapping
the flood, then breaks up, and lands her
crew among the waves.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of girls'
laughter
at the stern,
The only sounds:--when 'gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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DREAM-LAND
BY a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an
ultimate
dim Thule--
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE--out of TIME.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Tell her, that sport of tempests, fit no more
To stem the
troublous
ocean,--here at last
Her votary treads the solitary shore;
His only pleasure to recall the past.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"But forasmuch as holy church, herein
Dispensing, seems to contradict the truth
I have discover'd to thee, yet behooves
Thou rest a little longer at the board,
Ere the crude aliment, which thou hast taken,
Digested fitly to
nutrition
turn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Till the great dower of
Provence
had remov'd
The stains, that yet obscur'd our lowly blood,
Its sway indeed was narrow, but howe'er
It wrought no evil: there, with force and lies,
Began its rapine; after, for amends,
Poitou it seiz'd, Navarre and Gascony.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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They
abjectly
entreat pardon.
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"From restorations of Thy fane,
From
smoothings
of Thy sward,
From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane
Deliver us O Lord!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and
wriggling
on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Orribil furon li peccati miei;
ma la bonta
infinita
ha si gran braccia,
che prende cio che si rivolge a lei.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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All three are calls |
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desperate
years for the South just after the Civil War.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Presently
Thou'lt come to a distant land, a dusky tribe
Of
dwellers
at the fountain of the Sun,
Whence flows the river AEthiops; wind along
Its banks and turn off at the cataracts,
Just as the Nile pours from the Bybline hills
His holy and sweet wave; his course shall guide
Thine own to that triangular Nile-ground
Where, Io, is ordained for thee and thine
A lengthened exile.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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<
salir di notte, fora elli impedito
d'altrui, o non sarria che non
potesse?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Each rules a half of earth with
different
sway,
Exchanging kingdoms, East and West, alway.
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Sidney Lanier |
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443
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PROFUNDIS
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Qu'elle pleure a present sous les remparts: l'haleine
Des
peupliers
d'en haut est pour la seule brise.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This banquet hall
Of Titans is so high, that he who shall
With
wandering
eye look up from beam to beam
Of the confused wild roof will haply seem
To wonder that the stars he sees not there.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
And all they foul that thy
complexion
lack.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_ This is one of the most
difficult
of
Donne's poems.
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with whom my road begun,
When Life rear'd laughing up her morning sun;
When Transport kiss'd away my april tear,
"Rocking as in a dream the tedious year";
When link'd with
thoughtless
Mirth I cours'd the plain, 1793.
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William Wordsworth |
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-- The blade of his lord
-- its edge was iron -- had injured deep
one that guarded the golden hoard
many a year and its murder-fire
spread hot round the barrow in horror-billows
at
midnight
hour, till it met its doom.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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The prescient poet
projects
himself centuries ahead, and judges
performer or performance after the changes of time.
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Whitman |
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Fit
retribution!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore
Of all who blindly creep, or
sightless
soar;
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Yet can you tell me one writer
on the subject of government who has ever thought this
particular
branch
of the subject worthy of discussion at all?
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Poe - 5 |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And
listened
to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Let us go forth and taste the
fragrant
air
Of the garden.
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Poe - 5 |
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Ed elli a me: <
contrario
ho io brama.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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OSWALD I hid my head within a Convent, there
Lay passive as a
dormouse
in mid winter.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No friendly shade thy shade shall
company!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He backe returning by the Yvorie dore,
Remounted up as light as
chearefull
Larke,
And on his litle winges the dreame he bore 395
In hast unto his Lord, where he him left afore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Wharton, Marquis of,
translation
of Novella of _Belfagor_, xxxi.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Honestly
He looked me in the eyes; he questioned me
Closely, and I
repeated
to his face
The foolish tale himself had whispered to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[Picture:
Unerringly
she pinned it down]
"To dine!
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Lewis Carroll |
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The
punctuation
of the 1633 edition is supported by almost every
MS.
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John Donne |
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"Is she more
delicate
than me?
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La Fontaine |
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HILDA: _My_ Master
Builder!
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Like Hippocrene it
scatters
light,
Its ebullition foaming white
(Like other things I could relate)
My heart of old would captivate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The silver slim lilies hang the head low;
Their stream is scanty, their
sunshine
rare:
Let the sun blaze out, and let the stream flow,
They will blossom and wax fair.
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Christina Rossetti |
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what profit me the
flowering
vales?
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Petrarch |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
circling
harbour-lights flash green and red;
And, out beyond, a steady travelling boat,
Breaking the swell with slow industrious oars,
At each stroke pours
Pale lighted water from the lifted blade.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de
Gonzague
Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos terribles bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
Oh!
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ilk
griselich
fere,
Whan vche seint schal aferde be; oure lord crist to see ?
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Inspecting
Ghosts is something new!
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CXCVII
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Marsilies
the king: "Now let that be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Sometimes
the sacred spot
Hears human sounds profane, when
As from Ophir or from Memphre
Stretches the caravan.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Zourine
received
orders to cross the River Volga.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because -- because if he should die
While I was gone, and I -- too late --
Should reach the heart that wanted me;
If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted, hunted so, to see,
And could not bear to shut until
They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I 'd come -- so sure I 'd come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name, --
My heart would wish it broke before,
Since
breaking
then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning's sun,
Where midnight frosts had lain!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Over his left ear, he carried, after the
fashion of a modern clerk, an
instrument
resembling the stylus of the
ancients.
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Poe - 5 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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5
ecquidnam
in tabulis patet lucelli
expensum, ut mihi, qui meum secutus
praetorem refero datum lucello.
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Latin - Catullus |
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This
Highland
Queen, music and poetry, was composed by Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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The people in the
assembly
shouted 'No'.
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Tacitus |
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144 _tuis_ GDVen
145
_deneges_
Owen
146 _ni_ GORDah: _ne_ marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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This translation or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases
fragments
of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A light
returned
to my gaunt wife?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have
forgotten
her
We are here in a wood of little beeches
We challenged Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_The Old Cottagers_
The little cottage stood alone, the pride
Of solitude
surrounded
every side.
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John Clare |
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To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale:
'Thou hast betrayed thy nature and thy name,
Not
rendering
true answer, as beseemed
Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight:
For surer sign had followed, either hand,
Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.
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Tennyson |
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And as the light divides the dark
Through with living swords,
So shall thou pierce the distant age
With
adamantine
words.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thou bearest to the youngster's arms that flower-like damsel, taken from
her mother's bosom, O
Hymenaeus
Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ch'u P'ing's[30] prose and verse
Hang like the sun and moon;[31]
The king of Ch'u's arbours and towers
Are only
hummocks
in the ground.
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Li Po |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It is a fitting place for the man in green to
'deal here his
devotions
after the devil's manner.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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is gomen is your awen,
1636 Bi fyn for-warde & faste,
faythely
3e knowe.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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e slak[e]
skyn
tremble?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Long, long endear'd by fellowship in woe,
O'er their cold dust we give the tears to flow;
And, in their hapless lot forbode our own,
A foreign burial, and a grave
unknown!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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So that many characters which passed as heroic,
or at least presentable, in the kindly remoteness of legend, reveal some
strange weakness when brought
suddenly
into the light.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'Tis an old lesson: Time approves it true,
And those who know it best deplore it most;
When all is won that all desire to woo,
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost:
Youth wasted, minds degraded, honour lost,
These are thy fruits,
successful
Passion!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"Thus I, and thus the parent-shade returns:
'Thee, ever thee, thy faithful consort mourns:
Whether the night
descends
or day prevails,
Thee she by night, and thee by day bewails.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so interesting as to justify the
publication
of that number of the magazine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She had a rustic,
woodland
air,
And she was wildly clad;
Her eyes were fair, and very fair,
--Her beauty made me glad.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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