The Dutch are then in
proclamation
shent.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a
thousand
dead lovers are buried in shrouds of withered kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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One cannot go on believing in
improbable
knowledge for
ever.
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Yeats |
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Yon laboring low horizon-smoke,
Yon stringent sail, toil not for thee
Nor me; did heaven's stroke
The whole deep with drown'd
commerce
choke,
No pitiless tease of risk or bottomry
Would to thy rainy office close
Thy will, or lock mine eyes from tears,
Part wept for traders'-woes,
Part for that ventures mean as those
In issue bind such sovereign hopes and fears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yet (not to break the car, or lame the horse)
Clear of the stony heap direct the course;
Lest through
incaution
failing, thou mayst be
A joy to others, a reproach to me.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour--well,
I often wonder what the
Vintners
buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani,
because its king and its lord chamberlain had
regained
their reason.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Grace for the damsels tender
Who have fear to hear your laugh,
For seldom
gladness
gilds your lips
But blood you mean to quaff.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Or else as if the world were wholly fair,
But that these eyes of men are dense and dim,
And have not power to see it as it is:
Perchance, because we see not to the close;--
For I, being simple, thought to work His will,
And have but
stricken
with the sword in vain;
And all whereon I leaned in wife and friend
Is traitor to my peace, and all my realm
Reels back into the beast, and is no more.
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Tennyson |
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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc ruthless soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the
impetuous
storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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er kny3t ful comly
comended
his dede3,
& praysed hit as gret prys, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But thou art not such
A lover, my
Beloved!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
hospitable
pall
A "this way" beckons spaciously, --
A miracle for all!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Marius, who pilled his province, 'scapes the laws,
And keeps his money, though he lost his cause:
His fine begged off, contemns his infamy,
Can rise at twelve, and get him drunk ere three--
Enjoys his exile, and, condemned in vain,
Leaves thee,
victorious
province, to complain!
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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CHANDLER ROBBINS
We love the venerable house
Our fathers built to God;--
In heaven are kept their
grateful
vows,
Their dust endears the sod.
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Emerson - Poems |
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THE OFFERING OF THE NEW LAW, THE ONE
OBLATION
ONCE OFFERED
(_Lyra Eucharistica_, 1863.
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Christina Rossetti |
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e same
diuersite
of hire
natures ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Inde pedem sospes multa cum laude reflexit
Errabunda
regens tenui vestigia filo,
Ne labyrintheis e flexibus egredientem
Tecti frustraretur inobservabilis error.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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TO OUR LADY OF
VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT (BALLATA)
i
WHOare you that the whole world's song
Is shaken out beneath feet your
Leaving you comfortless, Who, that, as wheat
Is garnered, gather in The blades of man's sin And bear that sheaf?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
All the
channels
of the city streets they're flooding,
As with voices and with tears.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There's few or none do know me; if they did,
This ship-boy's
semblance
hath disguis'd me quite.
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Shakespeare |
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Behold your Promachus
deprived
of breath,
A victim owed to my brave brother's death.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And
Beatrice
wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" How, then, can the pathway which will lead us into
the heart of God be other than
dangerous?
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Yeats |
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Stephen Crane |
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The sons of Usnoth may
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Keats - Lamia |
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Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Who knows on which hand now the steep
declines?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus you do wander, uncomplaining Stoics,
Through all the chaos of the living town:
Mothers with
bleeding
hearts, saints, courtesans,
Whose names of yore were on the lips of all;
Who were all glory and all grace, and now
None know you; and the brutish drunkard stops,
Insulting you with his derisive love;
And cowardly urchins call behind your back.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
title of Father of his Country, so often offered by the people to
Tiberius, was rejected by him; nor would he permit
swearing
upon his
acts, though the same was voted by the Senate.
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Tacitus |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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There is a gentle Nymph not farr from hence,
That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,
Sabrina is her name, a Virgin pure,
Whilom she was the
daughter
of Locrine,
That had the Scepter from his father Brute.
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Milton |
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at 3e of speken;
To reche to such
reuerence
as 3e reherce here
1244 I am wy3e vn-wor?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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60
So saying, she o'er Ulysses' eyes diffused
Soft slumbers, and when sleep that sooths the mind
And nerves the limbs afresh had seized him once,
To the
Olympian
summit swift return'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For the general subject see Dekker, _Guls
Horne-booke_; Barnaby Riche,
_Honestie
of this Age_, 1613; Harrison,
_Chronology_, 1573; _Every Man in_, etc.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It makes one look old, and it
spoils one's career at
critical
moments.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Above a sombre cliff
Their heads appear'd, and up their stature grew
Till on the level height their steps found ease:
Then Thea spread abroad her trembling arms
Upon the precincts of this nest of pain, 90
And
sidelong
fix'd her eye on Saturn's face:
There saw she direst strife; the supreme God
At war with all the frailty of grief,
Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge,
Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.
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Keats |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Wilde - Poems |
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CCXLIII
Pure white the horse whereon
Malprimes
sate;
Guided his corse amid the press of Franks,
Hour in, hour out, great blows he struck them back,
And, ever, dead one upon others packed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Aldis Wright, and
published
at the Cambridge
University press].
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Milton |
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I was cleared out of
everything on the way by an infantry captain, so that an innkeeper
wanted to put me in prison; when, owing to my Petersburg appearance
and dress, the whole town
suddenly
took me for the governor-general.
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I
remember
once, and once only, hearing something
remotely hinted, by a man of many speculations, concerning the origin
_of the human race;_ and by this individual, the very word _Adam_
(or Red Earth), which you make use of, was employed.
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Poe - 5 |
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College Counsellor, tell us
your
opinion?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Li Po |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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ey knowe hym nought; 284
That voyce sayde on that ylke a daye,
And tolde hym redyly where he laye;
'In
eufamyans
hous,' he sayde, 'is he, 287
That hathe my Serwaunt long I-be.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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_
Finished
is the mystic pain.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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Both of these are obviously devices for
enlarging
the scope
of the action.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Yeats |
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The thighs thus offer'd, and the
entrails
dress'd,
They roast the fragments, and prepare the feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Indian hate an'
deviltry
he braved;
'N' scores an' scores of white men's lives he saved.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The earth, a brittle globe of glass,
Lies in the hollow of thy hand,
And through its heart of crystal pass,
Like shadows through a
twilight
land,
The spears of crimson-suited war,
The long white-crested waves of fight,
And all the deadly fires which are
The torches of the lords of Night.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Paris may change; my
melancholy
is fixed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The pranking bat its nighty circlet makes;
The glow-worm burnishes its lamp anew
Oer meadows dew-besprent; and beetle wakes
Enquiries ever new,
Teazing each passing ear with murmurs vain,
As wanting to pursue
His
homeward
path again.
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John Clare |
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II
And on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore, 10
The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,
For whose sweete sake that
glorious
badge he wore,
And dead as living ever him ador'd:
Upon his shield the like was also scor'd,
For soveraine hope,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It has been conjectured that they allude to the fog banks
that often obscure the low coasts--a
phenomenon
likely to impress
the early navigators and to be reported by them.
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Aeschylus |
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The
long lame gaps in his plays he filled up with hasty words of apology and
description and swept on, seeing all that he intended to do so clearly
that he
esteemed
it already done, and turned to me for applause.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my
notebooks
from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
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We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Not so, the other cried, to you I vow,
Invoking
saints is not my practice now;
But should I lose, thenceforth I'll them address.
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La Fontaine |
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ipse caua solans aegrum
testudine
amorem
te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum,
te ueniente die, te decedente canebat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Now there are certain scioli or smatterers that are busy in the
skirts and outsides of learning, and have scarce
anything
of solid
literature to commend them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is it not bliss to
exchange
tender kisses containing no dangers,
Sucking into our lungs, carefree, our partner's own life?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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omitting
first_ thou _and some with_ Oh _for_ yet)
Lest thou thy love, and hate, and me thou undo,
_O let me live, yet love and hate me too.
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John Donne |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The owlets through the long blue night
Are
shouting
to each other still:
Fond lovers!
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(On their knees,
groaning
and wailing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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To view the glorious leader of the fleet
Increasing thousands swell o'er every street;
High o'er the roofs the
struggling
youths ascend,
The hoary fathers o'er the portals bend,
The windows sparkle with the glowing blaze
Of female eyes, and mingling diamond's rays.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Gather, while 'tis fine,
Your wood; to-morrow shall be gay
With smoking pig and
streaming
wine,
And lord and slave keep holyday.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Don't you remember
how you climbed the new church tower when it was
finished, and hung a great wreath on the weather-cock; and
how I stood with the other white-frocked
schoolgirls
and
screamed, "Hurrah for Mr.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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Whose honours with increase of ages grow,
As streams roll down,
enlarging
as they flow;
Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound,
And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
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Alexander Pope |
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But we, well knowing by our strength of joy
There is no
sundering
more, how far we love
From those sad lives that know a half-love only,
Alone thereby knowing themselves for ever
Sealed in division of love, and therefore made
To pour their strength out always into their love's
Fierceness, as green wood bleeds its hissing sap
Into red heat of a fire!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He of the fight has told which at Belgrade
Erewhile Rogero for the Bulgars won;
How Leo and his sire were overlaid,
And all their army
slaughtered
and undone;
Wherefore the Bulgars him their king had made;
Their royal line excluding from the throne:
Then how Ungiardo took the warrior brave,
And him to cruel Theodora gave.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I see the
children
of affliction
Unaided, through thy cursed restriction
I've seen the oppressor's cruel smile
Amid his hapless victim's spoil:
And for thy potence vainly wished,
To crush the villain in the dust.
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Robert Forst |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White
feathers
in the snow, the Gulf claims,
And an old man driven by the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
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T.S. Eliot |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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He has always been carried by predilection towards the society of
the common people; but is not the less for that open to refined and
artistic impressions--fond of
operatic
and other good music, and discerning
in works of art.
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Whitman |
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Wilde - Poems |
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My head flew to my feet and yet I never
fled,
wherefore
I deserve to be called the better man.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The air was heavy with vivid rumours of life--the life of things
infinitely small--and broken at intervals by the crackling of shots from
a neighbouring shooting-range, that
exploded
with a sound as of
champagne corks to the burden of a hollow symphony.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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Lewis Carroll |
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