Macneile
Dixon_
"WHEN THERE IS PEACE"
"_When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It is all a blood-feud between chieftains, in which Orestes,
after seven years,
succeeds
in slaying his foe Aegisthus, who had killed
his father.
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Euripides - Electra |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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be it thine long holydays to give
To thy
Hesperia!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Long did he prove
All that were his, and all that owed him love,
But never a soul he found would yield up life
And leave the
sunlight
for him, save his wife:
Who, even now, down the long galleries
Is borne, death-wounded; for this day it is
She needs must pass out of the light and die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that
nurtured
our corn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And she watches them with
amusement as they flutter about her, petting her as if she were a
nice child, a child or a toy, not
dreaming
that she is saying to
herself sorrowfully: "How utterly empty their lives must be of
all spiritual beauty IF they are nothing more than they appear to be.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad
thoughts
to the mind.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What tender vows our last sad kiss
delayed!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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Chanson de Roland |
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But, O pigtails of Rome, still I'm
entrammled
in you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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where under the spear of
Aeacides
lies fierce Hector, lies mighty
Sarpedon; where Simois so often bore beneath his whirling wave shields
and helmets and brave bodies of men.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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that
sometimes
it brought
Faint fare-thee-wells, and sigh-shrilled adieus!
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Keats |
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Slow he woke with a drowsy pang,
Shook himself without much debate,
Turned where he saw green
branches
hang,
Started though late.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But before he touched the shore,--
The shore of the Bristol Channel,
A sea-green
Porpoise
carried away
His wrapper of scarlet flannel.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Let's in ; for the dark
hemisphere
Does now like one of them appear.
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Marvell - Poems |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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Why do you look at me so
fixedly?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each
padlocked
door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And wondered why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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HILDA: Then you will never build
anything
more?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We are the first who such a name
In pages of a love narration
With such a
perversity
proclaim.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The wind upon our quarter lies,
And on before the
freshening
gale,
That fills the snow-white lateen sail,
Swiftly our light felucca flies,
Around the billows burst and foam;
They lift her o'er the sunken rock,
They beat her sides with many a shock,
And then upon their flowing dome
They poise her, like a weathercock!
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Longfellow |
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He stalked along the Forum like King Tarquin in his pride:
Twelve axes waited on him, six marching on a side;
The townsmen shrank to right and left, and eyed askance with fear
His lowering brow, his curling mouth which always seemed to
sneer;
That brow of hate, that mouth of scorn, marks all the kindred
still;
For never was there Claudius yet but wished the Commons ill;
Nor lacks he fit attendance; for close behind his heels,
With outstretched chin and crouching pace, the client Marcus
steals,
His loins girt up to run with speed, be the errand what it may,
And the smile
flickering
on his cheek, for aught his lord may
say.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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My safety from such doom
Heaven's
gracious
pity, not this tyrant, deigns,
Who feeds upon my grief, and profits in my pains!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They say that He can heal;
But
medicine
posthumous
Is unavailable.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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These
ministers
in that same cedar sweet
Where thou art laid will lay me, feet to feet,
And head to head, oh, not in death from thee
Divided, who alone art true to me!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Milton |
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211: 'Oh golden
world, the
suspicious
Venecian carued not his meate with a siluer
pitch-forke.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I fancy that the Second-in-Command must have represented the
scare as the work of some trooper whom it would be
hopeless
to detect;
and I know that he dwelt upon the sin and the shame of making a public
laughingstock of the scare.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Of Montefeltro I; Buonconte I:
Giovanna nor none else have care for me,
Sorrowing with these I
therefore
go.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I heare a
knocking
at the South entry:
Retyre we to our Chamber:
A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Rilke - Poems |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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Poe - 5 |
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HE GIVES
PRESENTS
TO HYGELAC.
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Beowulf |
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Beyond the uttermost
Of aught the night may hear on any seas
From tempest-known wild water's cry, and roar
Of iron shadows looming from the shore,
It shall be heard--and when the Orcades
Sleep in a hushed Atlantic's starry folds
As smoothly as, far down below the tides,
Sleep on the
windless
broad sea-wolds
Where this night's shipwreck hides.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Paused, and the Spirit of that mighty singing
To its abyss was suddenly withdrawn;
Then, as a wild swan, when sublimely winging
Its path athwart the thunder-smoke of dawn,
Sinks headlong through the aereal golden light _275
On the heavy-sounding plain,
When the bolt has pierced its brain;
As summer clouds dissolve, unburthened of their rain;
As a far taper fades with fading night,
As a brief insect dies with dying day,-- _280
My song, its pinions disarrayed of might,
Drooped; o'er it closed the echoes far away
Of the great voice which did its flight sustain,
As waves which lately paved his watery way
Hiss round a drowner's head in their
tempestuous
play.
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Shelley |
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"Where shall I be sent," thought I, "if not to
Petersburg?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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SYLVAN _and_ KATRINA _talking to
each other and
betweenwhiles
thinking to themselves_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Poor, sad Humanity
Through all the dust and heat
Turns back with bleeding feet,
By the weary road it came,
Unto the simple thought
By the great Master taught,
And that
remaineth
still:
Not he that repeateth the name,
But he that doeth the will!
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Longfellow |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The crafty Moor by
vengeful
Bacchus taught
Employ'd on deadly guile his baneful thought;
In his dark mind he plann'd, on GAMA'S head
Full to revenge Mozambique and the dead.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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The eyes, the face, the limbs of heavenly mould,
So long the theme of my impassion'd lay,
Charms which so stole me from myself away,
That strange to other men the course I hold;
The crisped locks of pure and lucid gold,
The
lightning
of the angelic smile, whose ray
To earth could all of paradise convey,
A little dust are now!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Whereto thus Adam
fatherly
displeas'd.
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Milton |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the
twittering
birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Appoloinaire |
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[Illustration]
The Excellent Double-extra XX
imbibing
King Xerxes, who lived a
long while ago.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CASSANDRA
Friends, there is no
avoidance
in delay.
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Once before I die
I will leave the town behind,
The loud town, the dark town
That cramps and chills the mind,
And I'll stand again
bareheaded
there
In the sunlight and the wind.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Moi je ne peux plus croire,
Quand j'ai deux bonnes mains, mon front et mon marteau
Qu'un homme vienne la, dague sur le manteau,
Et me dise: Mon gars,
ensemence
ma terre;
Que l'on arrive encor, quand ce serait la guerre,
De prendre mon garcon comme cela, chez moi!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They
accordingly
rushed the position at dawn, and cut
down many of the men without their weapons.
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Tacitus |
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White as smoke,
As jetted steam, dead clouds awoke
And
quivered
on the Western rim.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It touches
the willow leaves and
scatters
the fragrant herbs.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Re-translation of two poems previously
mistranslated
by Pfizmaier.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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confirmed
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Robert Forst |
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And the First Angel went
And poured his vial on the earth; and straight
There fell a noisome and a grievous sore
On them which had the birth-mark of the Beast,
And them which
worshipped
and adored his image.
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Longfellow |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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saeuus Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem
commaculare manus;
crudelis
tu quoque, mater:
crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Unknowingly, her son she wed--
The
children
of that marriage-bed,
Each in the self-same womb, were bred--
Each by a brother's hand lies dead!
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Aeschylus |
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591
In A schort tyme hit was diht,
ful
richeliche
and Al ari?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She has vassals to attend her;
She will bring, in spite of frost,
Beauties that the earth hath lost;
She will bring thee, all together,
All
delights
of summer weather;
All the buds and bells of May,
From dewy sward or thorny spray;
All the heaped Autumn's wealth,
With a still, mysterious stealth:
She will mix these pleasures up
Like three fit wines in a cup,
And thou shalt quaff it;--thou shalt hear
Distant harvest-carols clear;
Rustle of the reaped corn;
Sweet birds antheming the morn:
And in the same moment--hark!
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Golden Treasury |
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Know I was on earth
Count Ugolino, and th'
Archbishop
he
Ruggieri.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Cart ruts and horses'
footings
scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
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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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The great God
Smiling
condemns
the lost: be mirthful: He
Bids youth be merry and old age be wise.
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For more than six months, desperate, ashamed,
Bearing
throughout
the wound with which I'm maimed, 540
I steeled myself towards you, and myself, in vain:
Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again:
Your image follows me in the forest's night:
The shadows of darkness, and broad daylight,
Both bring to my eyes the charms that I avoid, 545
Both snare the rebel Hippolytus on every side.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly
There's naught in this life sweet
If men were wise to see't,
But only melancholy,
O sweetest
Melancholy!
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Golden Treasury |
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en sche
entendyng
to
me warde wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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On the other hand, as there is far more historical
certainty of his being a Philosopher, of scientific Insight and
Ability far beyond that of the Age and Country he lived in; of such
moderate worldly Ambition as becomes a Philosopher, and such moderate
wants as rarely satisfy a Debauchee; other readers may be content to
believe with me that, while the Wine Omar celebrates is simply the
Juice of the Grape, he bragg'd more than he drank of it, in very
defiance perhaps of that
Spiritual
Wine which left its Votaries sunk
in Hypocrisy or Disgust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With
banquetings
to be,
So spices stimulate the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When gods and goddesses in days of heroes made love, then
Lust
followed
look and desire, with no delay, was indulged.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Well knows the fair and
friendly
moon
The band that Marion leads--
The glitter of their rifles,
The scampering of their steeds.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I have gone for rhyme and aimed for
accuracy
of meaning.
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Troubador Verse |
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And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep;
And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, _450
And dart their arrowy odour through the brain
Till you might faint with that
delicious
pain.
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`Nece, al thing hath tyme, I dar avowe; 855
For whan a chaumber a-fyr is, or an halle,
Wel more nede is, it
sodeynly
rescowe
Than to dispute, and axe amonges alle
How is this candele in the straw y-falle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Quid vetat et nosmet
_Lucili_
scripta legentes
Quaerere, num illius, num rerum dura negarit
Versiculos natura magis factos, et euntes
Mollius?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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All this
passionate
bright tender body
Quivers like a leaf the wind has shaken,
Now love wanders through the aisles of springtime.
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Sappho |
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Would you treat me so ill I too
Die of
longing?
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Troubador Verse |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The door--as if it must, yet
scarcely
dare--
Had opened widely to the night's fresh air.
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Hugo - 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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Curwen introduced a
little fleet of these birds, but of the
inferior
species, to the lake
of Windermere.
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William Wordsworth |
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THE
CHILDREN
OF THE POOR.
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Hugo - Poems |
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring
NATURE, still divinely bright, 70
One clear, unchang'd, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
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Alexander Pope |
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The worth and sum of all his centuries
Suffused
his mighty shadow on the grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Such themes are always felt by the
Chinese to be in part allegorical, the deserted lady
symbolizing
the
minister whose counsels a wicked monarch will not heed.
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Li Po |
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She'd no recourse to that nobility,
Who by their exploits won
themselves
glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Once more, if Nature
Should of a sudden send a voice abroad,
And her own self inveigh against us so:
"Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou
indulgest
in too sickly plaints?
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Lucretius |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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In a swelling surf of fire,
Crawling higher--higher--higher--
Till they
crumpled
up and died
Like a sudden wasted tide,
And the thunder in their faces beat them down and flung them wide!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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All humble souls he calls and sanctifies;
All holy souls He calls to make them wise;
Accepting
all, His free-will sacrifice.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
inscription
says PO LO-T'IEN.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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