"
Then the gauzes removes he which shade her,
At her beauty all wonder intensely;
One moment the Pasha survey'd her,
And,
dropping
his tchebouk, without sense lay.
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
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But what
If I expose
beforehand
thy bold fraud
To all men?
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"The thirst
Of
knowledge
high, whereby thou art inflam'd,
To search the meaning of what here thou seest,
The more it warms thee, pleases me the more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Let us see," said he, "if you will be able to keep your word; poets
have as much need of an
audience
as Ivan Kouzmitch has need of his
'_petit verre_' before dinner.
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Se l'ira sovra 'l mal voler s'aggueffa,
ei ne
verranno
dietro piu crudeli
che 'l cane a quella lievre ch'elli acceffa'.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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260
I saw parch'd
Abyssinia
rouse and sing
To the silver cymbals' ring!
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Keats |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the
Bibliotheque
Nationale of Paris.
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the unbalanced scale, great
Nemesis!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Obey thy Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les
convives
mastiquaient a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In the present instance
the worthy man was so entirely carried away by the
excessive
warmth of
his sympathy, that he seemed to have quite forgotten, when he offered to
go bail for his young friend, that he himself (Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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BRUMES ET PLUIES
O fins d'automne, hivers, printemps trempes de boue,
Endormeuses
saisons!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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hē gefēng
slǣpendne
rinc, 741;
gūðrinc gefēng atolan clommum, 1502; gefēng þā be eaxle .
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Beowulf |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Distressful
beauty melts each stander-by.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Christina Rossetti |
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12 All this
concernes
not you, who passe by mee, 45
O see, and marke if any sorrow bee
Like to my sorrow, which Jehova hath
Done to mee in the day of his fierce wrath?
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John Donne |
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It will be as wonderful as the
personality
of a child.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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She did not
come, but
although
the water began to rise, he trusted so firmly in her
word, that he clung to the pillars of the bridge and waited till he was
drowned.
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Li Po |
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Howe'er, old boy, you presently shall see,
If any belle solicited should be,
To grant indulgencies, with
presents
sweet,
She will not straight capitulation beat;
At least, if they be such as I have viewed:--
Moor, change to dog; immediately ensued
The metamorphose that the fair required,
The black'moor was again a dog admired.
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La Fontaine |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ah
traytoure!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sprenger
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' At the time when this highly
eulogistic
notice of the youthful
unknown poet appeared, the _Athenaeum_ was edited by John Sterling and
Frederick Denison Maurice, its then proprietors.
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" KAU}
Reasoning from the loins in the unreal forms of Ulros night
And when Luvah age after age was quite melted with woe
The fires of Vala faded like a shadow cold & pale
An
evanescent
shadow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The French Text
Un Coup de Des - Page 1
Un Coup de Des - Page 2
Un Coup de Des - Page 3
Un Coup de Des - Page 4
Un Coup de Des - Page 5
Un Coup de Des - Page 6
Un Coup de Des - Page 7
Un Coup de Des - Page 8
Un Coup de Des - Page 9
Un Coup de Des - Page 10
Un Coup de Des - Page 11
The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance retombee d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le
vieillard
vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She first appears in the persons of Fallace
and Saviolina in _Every Man out of his Humor_; then in _Cynthia's
Revels_, where Moria and her friends play the part; then as
Cytheris
in
_Poetaster_, Lady Politick in _The Alchemist_, the collegiate ladies
in _The Silent Woman_, and Fulvia and Sempronia in _Catiline_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Chimene
My
troubled
mind dares hope for nothing there.
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NOTE:
_275 right
editions
1824, 1839; night 1822.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Their
children
cried, "O ma and pa!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_ Hard as thy chains and cold as all these rocks
Is he, Prometheus, who
withholds
his heart
From joining in thy woe.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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I will only notice
that the description of the valley filled with mist, beginning--'In
solemn shapes'--was taken from that
beautiful
region of which the
principal features are Lungarn and Sarnen.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For my part all men must allow
Whatever
I was, I'm classic now.
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Byron |
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The first Satan, by his face, was a creature of
doubtful
sex.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such weapon in God's hand, and wielded so,
A woman's beauty may be now, I pray;
A pestilence suddenly in this foreign blood,
A blight on the vast growth of
Assyrian
weed,
A knife to the stem of its main root, the heart
Of Holofernes.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'Tis to the worship of the solemn Horn,
Grasped in the holy hand of Mystery,
In whose dread name both men and maids are sworn,
And
consecrate
the oath with draught and dance till morn.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'Twas he, indignant at the honor paid
To crime, who with his heel an onslaught made
Upon Duke Lupus' shameful monument,
Tore down, the statue he to fragments rent;
Then column of the
Strasburg
monster bore
To bridge of Wasselonne, and threw it o'er
Into the waters deep.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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, _Personaggi illustri della Venezia
patrizia
gente_, _iv.
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Byron |
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It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some
impartment
did desire
To you alone.
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Shakespeare |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the feathered wings of rest
Seem
flocking
from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Let's live in haste; use
pleasures
while we may, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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The principal distinction between the lay of Horatius and the lay
of the Lake Regillus is that the former is meant to be purely
Roman, while the latter, though
national
in its general spirit,
has a slight tincture of Greek learning and of Greek
superstition.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Kindle the
Christmas
brand, and then
Till sunset let it burn;
Which quench'd, then lay it up again
Till Christmas next return.
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Robert Herrick |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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That day he wore a riding-coat,
But not a whit the warmer he:
Another was on
Thursday
brought,
And ere the Sabbath he had three.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The nations that in fettered
darkness
weep
Crave thee to lead them where great mornings break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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ADELHEID (_after a pause_): Very well, then;
carnival
to-night, and
war to-morrow!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Chinese erred in the opposite direction, regarding their
wives and
concubines
simply as instruments of procreation.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Till others fall where other chieftains lead,
Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng,
And shine in
worthless
lays, the theme of transient song.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Just because
he could only make his gods "good" in this
primitive
style, he was able
to treat their discordant family in that vein of exquisite comedy which
is one of the most precious things in the world.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LONDON
I wander through each
chartered
street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And don't go
choosing
your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Red gleamed the cross, and waned the
crescent
pale,
While Afric's echoes thrilled with Moorish matrons' wail.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I do not think prodigality is, by any means, a necessary concomitant
of a poetic turn, but I believe a careless indolent attention to
economy, is almost inseparable from it; then there must be in the
heart of every bard of Nature's making, a certain modest sensibility,
mixed with a kind of pride, that will ever keep him out of the way of
those
windfalls
of fortune which frequently light on hardy impudence
and foot-licking servility.
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Robert Forst |
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They quitte him out to rathe; 205
O nyce world, lo, thy
discrecioun!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And again I see them flying,
Swarms of
swallows
silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes brisk and bright.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
And one- how call you him, who with his wand
Marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
That they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
Might know their several
seasons?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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CHORUS,
_consisting
of Elders of Pherae_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Perhaps the most
perilous
and the most alluring venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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Sappho |
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Now I have eyes and ears
And just some little wit:
"Almost my lady's child";
I
recollect
she smiled,
Sighed and blushed together;
Then her story of the ring
Sounds not improbable,
She told it me so well
It seemed the actual thing:--
O keep your counsel close,
But I guess under the rose,
In long past summer weather
When the world was blossoming,
And the rose upon its thorn:
I guess not who he was
Flawed honor like a glass
And made my life forlorn;
But my Mother, Mother, Mother,
O, I know her from all other.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O City city, I can
sometimes
hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I was within there, and all I viewed,
the
chambered
treasure, when chance allowed me
(and my path was made in no pleasant wise)
under the earth-wall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with
inconstant
mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The moaning and groaning,
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,
With that horrible throbbing
At heart:--ah, that horrible,
Horrible
throbbing!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Or labour hard the panegyric close,
With all the venal soul of
dedicating
prose?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Spain with cry of shame would ring,
If from honor
faithful
fell.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--
And while its nip-wind blows;
While bloom the
bloodless
lily and warm rose
Of lavish summer.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the
fragrance
hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Petrarch could not
refuse the request, and
composed
fourteen verses, which contain a sketch
of the great actions of Dandolo.
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Petrarch |
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Would that thy breast where so deep thoughts arise,
Breathed forth a
healthful
perfume with thy sighs;
Would that thy Christian blood ran wave by wave
In rhythmic sounds the antique numbers gave,
When Phoebus shared his alternating reign
With mighty Pan, lord of the ripening grain.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Up in a sudden burning flares
The dark tent of nature pitched about our souls;
And light, like a stound of golden din,
A
shadowless
light like weather of infinite plains,
Light not narrowed into place,
Amazes the naked nerves of the soul;
And like the pouring of immortal airs
Out of a flowery season,
Over us blows the inordinate desire.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ergo dies aderat Parcarum conditus albo
uellere, quo Stellae
Violentillaeque
professus
clamaretur hymen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I soon
discovered that I was
acquainted
only with its complexion, and as for
the moon, I had seen her only as it were through a crevice in a
shutter, occasionally.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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being chiefly
argumentative, and
therefore
less picturesque.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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XII
All of those greats: Alexander, Caesar and Henry and Fredrick,
Gladly would share with me half of their hard fought renown,
Could I but grant them my bed for one single night, and its comfort,
But the poor
wretches
are held stark in cold Orkian grip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures
L'eau verte penetra ma coque de sapin
Et des taches de vins bleus et des vomissures
Me lava, dispersant
gouvernail
et grappin.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My counsel sends to execute a deed;
A poet begs me I will hear him read;
'In Palace Yard at nine you'll find me there--'
'At ten for certain, sir, in
Bloomsbury
Square--'
'Before the Lords at twelve my cause comes on--'
'There's a rehearsal, sir, exact at one.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Between two
mountains
far away aloft
From midst the whirl of waters open lies
A gaping exit for the fleet, and yet
They seem conjoined in a single isle.
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Lucretius |
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She was nae get o'
moorland
tips,
Wi' tauted ket, an' hairy hips;
For her forbears were brought in ships,
Frae 'yont the Tweed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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