For active sports, for
pleasing
rest,
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The best is but in season best.
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His speech thus ended short, he frowning rose,
And twenty chiefs renowned for valour chose;
Down to the strand he speeds with haughty strides,
Where anchor'd in the bay the vessel rides,
Replete with mail and
military
store,
In all her tackle trim to quit the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Do you see
nothing?
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Below, 'twas still all a-roar,
As the ships went by the shore,
But the fire of the fort had slacked,
(So fierce their volleys had been)--
And now, with a mighty din,
The whole fleet came grandly in,
Though sorely
battered
and wracked.
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That the English-
speaking public may gain at any rate some faint idea
of his genius, it has been my joyous task to translate
the following small
selection
of his works.
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Marya rose, and
respectfully
saluted her.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If, as has been
said with a degree of verity, Nietzsche was primarily a musician whose
philosophy had for its basis and took its ultimate aspects from the
musical quality of his artistic endowment, it may be maintained with an
equal amount of truth that Rilke is primarily a painter and sculptor
whose poetry rests upon the fundaments of the
pictorial
and plastic
arts.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
The moon, nor shines of
starlight
aught
For seaman's guiding:
For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
Can purple buy it, Grosphus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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--A prince should exercise his cruelty not by
himself but by his ministers; so he may save himself and his dignity with
his people by
sacrificing
those when he list, saith the great doctor of
state, Machiavell.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or
seedling
there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on Sicilian hills a
thousand
lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Valley birds droned here and there, 8 we saw no
travelers
going back the way we came.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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5
Nobis o lucem
candidiore
nota!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And my thoughts
Are like the many forests of a vale
Through which the might of
whirlwind
and of rain
Had passed--they rest rest through the evening light
As mine do now in thy beloved smile.
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Shelley |
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But since the terms be such--
No wage, or labour stained with the disgrace
Of
wrecking
what our age cannot replace
To save its tasteless soul--
I'll do without your dole.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES
ALBEIT nurtured in democracy,
And liking best that state republican
Where every man is Kinglike and no man
Is crowned above his fellows, yet I see,
Spite of this modern fret for Liberty,
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous
demagogues
betray
Our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Saveliitch greeted me with his usual remonstrances--
"What
pleasure
can you find, sir, in fighting with these drunken
robbers?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Blest distillation rare
Of o'er-rank brightness filtered waterwise
Through all the earths in heaven -- thou always fair,
Still virgin bride of e'er-creating thought --
Dream-worker, in whose dream the Future's wrought --
Healer of hurts, free balm for bitter wrongs --
Most silent mother of all
sounding
songs --
Thou that dissolvest hells to make thy heaven --
Thou tempest's heir, that keep'st no tempest leaven --
But after winds' and thunders' wide mischance
Dost brood, and better thine inheritance --
Thou privacy of space, where each grave Star
As in his own still chamber sits afar
To meditate, yet, by thy walls unpent,
Shines to his fellows o'er the firmament --
Oh!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine
principle
of the
creative impulse in man.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Both Tasso and Camoens clearly join on
to the main epic tradition: Tasso derives chiefly from the
_Aeneid_
and
the _Iliad_, Camoens from the _Aeneid_ and the _Odyssey_.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From the
wildness
of my wasted passion I had
struck a better, clearer song,
Lit some lighter light of freer freedom, battled
with some Hydra-headed wrong.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LXXXIV
They would not wait to seek the dungeon-key,
But breaking-down the gate, their
entrance
made;
Bireno to the count with courtesy
And grateful thanks the service done repaid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He quarreled with General
Aupick, and
disdained
his mother.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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" Is it
necessary to add that Baudelaire, notorious in Paris for his love of
cats, dedicating poems to cats, would never have
perpetrated
such
revolting cruelty?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
wondrous
night the pensive King revolves.
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Marvell - Poems |
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LXXV
"I will not henceforth
stranger
shall complain,
So long as the world lasts, of this repair.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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John Clare |
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"
"He has
reformed
you, too, by what appears.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_Toutes vos autres
volentes
Ferai_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
So Enid now followed the wild paths of the gloomy forest with two sets
of three horses, each horse laden with his master's
jingling
weapons and
coat of mail.
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Tennyson |
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Glum-mong in the Saxon signifies twilight, a dark or
dubious light; and the modern word
_gloomy_
is derived from the Saxon
_glum_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Most
strength
the moving principle requires;
Active its task, it prompts, impels, inspires.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_Recogita
quid fueris antequam
esses.
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John Donne |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
He said; his words the listening chief inspire
With equal warmth, and rouse the warrior's fire;
The troops pursue their leaders with delight,
Rush to the foe, and claim the
promised
fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The restless rumble of the train,
The drowsy people in the car,
Steel blue
twilight
in the world,
And in my heart a timid star.
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Sara Teasdale |
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295
Goe notte, AElla; wythe thie Birtha staie;
For wyth thie
femmlykeed
mie spryte wyll goe awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Isn't it--isn't it
wonderful?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing
to return me hate for hate.
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Aeschylus |
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Not public
gravings
on a marble base,
Whence comes a second life to men of might
E'en in the tomb: not Hannibal's swift flight,
Nor those fierce threats flung back into his face,
Not impious Carthage in its last red blaze,
In clearer light sets forth his spotless fame,
Who from crush'd Afric took away--a name,
Than rude Calabria's tributary lays.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Had but the light which dazzled them afar
Drawn but a little nearer to mine eyes,
Methinks I would have wholly changed my form,
Even as in Thessaly her form she changed:
But if I cannot lose myself in her
More than I have--small mercy though it won--
I would to-day in aspect thoughtful be,
Of harder stone than chisel ever wrought,
Of adamant, or marble cold and white,
Perchance through terror, or of jasper rare
And
therefore
prized by the blind greedy crowd.
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Petrarch |
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qui tum alacres passim
lymphata
mente furebant
euhoe bacchantes, euhoe capita inflectentes.
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Latin - Catullus |
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My second rank, too small the first,
Crowned, crowing on my father's breast,
A half
unconscious
queen;
But this time, adequate, erect,
With will to choose or to reject.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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in every clime a flying ray 500
Is all we have to cheer our wintry way;
[131]
And here the unwilling mind [132] may more than trace
The general sorrows of the human race:
The
churlish
gales of penury, that blow
Cold as the north-wind o'er a waste of snow, [133] 505
To them [134] the gentle groups of bliss deny
That on the noon-day bank of leisure lie.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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All hastily, then,
o'er fair-paved floor the fiend trod on,
ireful he strode; there
streamed
from his eyes
fearful flashes, like flame to see.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Robortellus
1548 || _nec te_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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from its
wondrous
centre, lo!
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Hugo - Poems |
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HILDA: It seems to have a
tremendously
high tower.
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It was the act for which Admetus was
specially and
marvellously
rewarded; therefore, obviously, it was an act
of exceptional merit and piety.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thou hast told that Silvius' sire,
Yet cloth'd in
corruptible
flesh, among
Th' immortal tribes had entrance, and was there
Sensible present.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Each eBook is in a
subdirectory
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eBook number, often in several formats including plain vanilla ASCII,
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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uos, quod milia multa basiorum
legistis, male me marem
putatis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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3 The
persuader
Li Yiji told Liu Bang that he could take the seventy cities of Qi without effort.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They are not made
Frailly by earth or hands, but
immortal
in our dream.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Better life the Scythians lead,
Trailing
on waggon wheels their wandering home,
Or the hardy Getan breed,
As o'er their vast unmeasured steppes they roam;
Free the crops that bless their soil;
Their tillage wearies after one year's space;
Each in turn fulfils his toil;
His period o'er, another takes his place.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For Hell and the foul Fiend that rules
The everlasting fiery goals,
Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools,
With his grim grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are
senseless
stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimsies and no more.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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No, no whip, Cuchulain,
But every day my
children
come and say:
'This man is growing harder to endure.
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Yeats |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The apple was early so important, and generally distributed, that its
name traced to its root in many
languages
signifies fruit in general.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Oh, come you home of Sunday
When Ludlow streets are still
And Ludlow bells are calling
To farm and lane and mill,
Or come you home of Monday
When Ludlow market hums
And Ludlow chimes are playing
"The
conquering
hero comes,"
Come you home a hero,
Or come not home at all,
The lads you leave will mind you
Till Ludlow tower shall fall.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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crede Pollioni
fratri, qui tua furta uel talento
mutari uelit: est enim leporum
disertus
puer ac facetiarum.
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Latin - Catullus |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
XXXIX
Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
To look through and behind this mask of me,
(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly,
With their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,
The dim and weary witness of life's race,--
Because thou hast the faith and love to see,
Through that same soul's
distracting
lethargy,
The patient angel waiting for a place
In the new Heavens,--because nor sin nor woe,
Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,
Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,
Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,--
Nothing repels thee, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en
soulevant
leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les implorait et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
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_The Crow Sat on the Willow_
The crow sat on the willow tree
A-lifting up his wings,
And glossy was his coat to see,
And loud the ploughman sings,
"I love my love because I know
The
milkmaid
she loves me";
And hoarsely croaked the glossy crow
Upon the willow tree.
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Therfore, for
stelinge
of the rose,
I rede hir nought the yate unclose.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_("Nous
partirons
demain.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Tout a coup, un
vieillard
dont les guenilles jaunes
Imitaient la couleur de ce ciel pluvieux,
Et dont l'aspect aurait fait pleuvoir les aumones,
Sans la mechancete qui luisait dans ses yeux,
M'apparut.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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at ich take god to
witnesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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(_Deeper than
drowning!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He is, as was shown
by his later history, a man subject to
overpowering
impulses and to fits
of will-less brooding.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet in the soul of earth,
Deep in the primal ground,
Its
searching
roots are wound,
And centuries have struggled toward its birth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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That dark,
mysterious
name of horrid sound?
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John Clare |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And he wove him a
wondrous
Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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LXV Vnius uersus spatium in O _AD
ORTALEM_
GRVenC Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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But how shall finished creatures
A
function
fresh obtain?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So
satisfied
to go
Where none of us should be,
Immediately, that anguish stooped
Almost to jealousy.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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fēo
þingian
(_would not compound the
life-bale for money_), 156; so, pret.
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Beowulf |
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How long does she spend in gadding and
storming?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But while there were times when I
rejoiced
in the idea that my sufferings
were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Or (the least
comfort)
have I company?
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John Donne |
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is the voice of my
suffering
sped
To the realm of the shades?
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He passed the sacred harem's silent tower,
And underneath the wide o'erarching gate
Surveyed the dwelling of this chief of power
Where all around
proclaimed
his high estate.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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quine fugit lentos
incuruans
gurgite remos?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And back slid I
Along the galleries by which I came,
And
tediously
the day returned, and sky,
And life--the same.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Now with pallor,
I see the scarlet flag already waving;
It means the harvest-hirelings' dance with Death;
With
unpicked
fruitage tempest-toused and torn.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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