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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He was for drede in such affray,
That not a word durste he say,
But quaking stood ful stille aloon,
Til
Ielousye
his wey was goon,
Save Shame, that him not forsook; 3965
Bothe Drede and she ful sore quook;
[Til] that at laste Drede abreyde,
And to his cosin Shame seyde:
Shame,' he seide, 'in sothfastnesse,
To me it is gret hevinesse, 3970
That the noyse so fer is go,
And the sclaundre of us two.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not
satisfied
I see
Until I languish in distress.
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Villon |
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O fates,
Grant that the envious blade slaying artists shall
make them
undying!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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APOLLO
O
monsters
loathed of all, O scorn of gods,
He that hath bound may loose: a cure there is,
Yea, many a plan that can unbind the chain.
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Aeschylus |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Or had your soul since dim creation burned,
A star in some still region of the sky,
That leaping earthward, left its place on high
And to your little new-born body
yearned?
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Sara Teasdale |
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I shall never forget the fine
family-piece I saw at Blair; the amiable, the truly noble duchess,
with her smiling little seraph in her lap, at the head of the table;
the lovely "olive plants," as the Hebrew bard finely says, round the
happy mother: the
beautiful
Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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Grosart
from the
monument
in Dean Prior Church.
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Robert Herrick |
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So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though Republics Time might consume,
Time could not so
diminish
Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Once when the
grindstone
almost jumped its bearing
It looked as if he might be badly thrown
And wounded on his blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To muse some favourite
Scottish
theme,
Or sing some favourite Scottish maid?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
reality of the central subject is, of course, to be
understood
broadly.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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God shall this day the right shew, us
between!
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Chanson de Roland |
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With the partial
exception
of Tasso and Camoens, all epic poetry before
Milton is some symbolism of man's sense of his own will.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Is thy Master
stirring?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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CV
But stirred and aye rekindled it, the more
That he to quench the ill
suspicion
wrought,
Like the incautious bird, by fowler's lore,
Hampered in net or line; which, in the thought
To free its tangled pinions and to soar,
By struggling, is but more securely caught.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Von dorther sendet er, fliehend, nur
Ohnmachtige Schauer kornigen Eises
In Streifen uber die
grunende
Flur;
Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weisses,
Uberall regt sich Bildung und Streben,
Alles will sie mit Farben beleben;
Doch an Blumen fehlt's im Revier
Sie nimmt geputzte Menschen dafur.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
So even now, too,
Come and release me
From mordant love pain,
And all my heart's will 35
Help me
accomplish!
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Sappho |
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It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth
by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and
with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will
still be the
healthiest
and friendliest man, and possess a more
perfect Indian wisdom.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To
comprehend
a nectar
Requires sorest need.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor
Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's
unopening
Door,
You gaze TO-DAY, while You are You--how then
TO-MORROW, when You shall be You no more?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To
those who knew her in England, all the life of the tiny figure
seemed to concentrate itself in the eyes; they turned towards
beauty as the
sunflower
turns towards the sun, opening wider and
wider until one saw nothing but the eyes.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O
grievous
the fate
That attends upon wrong!
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Aeschylus |
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"
THE BOY
I wish I might become like one of these
Who, in the night on horses wild astride,
With torches flaming out like
loosened
hair
On to the chase through the great swift wind ride.
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Rilke - Poems |
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because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Milton |
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He cared not for our sighs; and though 't be true
That he divided us, his worth I knew:
He must be blind that cannot see the sun,
But by strict justice Love is quite undone:
Counsel from such a friend gave such a stroke
To love, it almost split, as on a rock:
For as my father I his wrath did fear,
And as a son he in my love was dear;
Brothers in age we were, him I obey'd,
But with a troubled soul and look dismay'd:
Thus my dear half had an untimely death,
She prized her freedom far above her breath;
And I th' unhappy instrument was made;
Such force th' intreaty and
intreater
had!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Here are only the rich, the happy; here is nothing that does not
inspire or exhale the pleasure of being alive, except the aspect of the
mob that presses against the outer barrier yonder,
catching
gratis, at
the will of the wind, a tatter of music, and watching the glittering
furnace within.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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The
Princeton
University Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A
Book of Princeton Verse_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When kind, they're ev'ry blessing found below:
When
otherwise
a curse we often know.
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La Fontaine |
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Was it wrong
That in an hour like that I did not weigh
Too nicely this or that, but granted him
A boon that pleased him, and that
flattered
me?
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Longfellow |
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Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is
quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from
the casual indifference or
ingratitude
of the people, or from the sharp
show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or
any penal statutes.
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Whitman |
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Baudelaire divined the work of the artist and set it
down
scrupulously
in a prose of exceeding rectitude.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Their
wholesome
counsel rashly I declined,
Curious to view the man of monstrous kind,
And try what social rites a savage lends:
Dire rites, alas!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Let not
abhorrence
spring within my heart!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[That Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath is in the Midrash Yalqut (a legendary
Commentary
on the Old Testament, called Yalqut) to the book Jonah, quoted from the Talmud of Jerusalem.
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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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THE sage replied, your conduct's truly wise;
Such wond'rous kindness fills me with surprise;
But since 'tis said that every trade must live,
The sum just mention:--I'll the ransom give;
No compliment I wish, my purse behold
You know the money presently is told;
Consider
me a stranger now I pray;
With you I'd equal probity display,
And so will act, I swear, as you shall see;
There 's not a doubt the fair will go with me;
My word for this I would not have you take:--
You'll see how happy 'twill the lady make
To find me here; to my embrace she'll fly;
My only fears--that she of joy will die.
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La Fontaine |
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Art
footless
and art handless evermore?
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Sidney Lanier |
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CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have
frequent
been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchas'd right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And when the summer's breezes beat,
Methought
I saw the sunny street
Where stood my Kate.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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sat_), 356; so, 1191, 2895; hē
gewērgad
sæt .
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Beowulf |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Riley said that
he might have had more
consideration
than to entertain his "doubtful
friends" at such a time.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Answerde of this ech worse of hem than other,
And
Poliphete
they gonnen thus to warien,
`An-honged be swich oon, were he my brother; 1620
And so he shal, for it ne may not varien.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Whom with due honours both Atrides grace:
Ye guides and
guardians
of our Argive race!
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Iliad - Pope |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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"Of whom are you
speaking?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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Aeschylus |
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"
"I wish you
strength
to bring you pride,
And a love to keep you clean,
And I wish you luck, come Lammastide,
At racing on the green.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
mountains
have reared him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Across black valleys
Rise blue-white aloft
Jagged,
unwrinkled
mountains, ranges of death.
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Imagists |
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Gift of tongues,
distressing
case of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Bathe and relax its worn and weary shrouds
(Which ignorance with error intertwines),
Torrents
of tears, of scorn and anger clouds;
Hidden the twin dear lights which were my signs;
Reason and Art amid the waves lie dead,
And hope of gaining port is almost fled.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But all at last,
Subdued, becomes self-knowing ecstasy,
The whole world
brightens
into Spirit's desire.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O sweet
content!
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Golden Treasury |
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Methinks
thy voice is alter'd, and thou speak'st
In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
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Shakespeare |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For whatso'er
Streams up in dust or vapour off of things,
The same is all and always borne along
Into the mighty ocean of the air;
And did not air in turn restore to things
Bodies, and thus recruit them as they stream,
All things by this time had
resolved
been
And changed into air.
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Lucretius |
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" the Spaniard said; -- the maid replied,
"Rogero"; and
pronounced
the word with pain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Nū is sē dæg cumen,
"þæt ūre man-dryhten
mægenes
behōfað
"gōdra gūð-rinca: wutun gangan tō,
2650 "helpan hild-fruman, þenden hyt sȳ,
"glēd-egesa grim!
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Beowulf |
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If anyone
mentioned
the names of Wagner or Manet, he smiled.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_ 'Right here anoon thou shalt be shriven,
And sey thy sinne withoute more;
Of this shall thou repente sore;
For I am preest, and have poustee
To shryve folk of most
dignitee
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That been, as wyde as world may dure.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The _shamir_, made by God on the sixth morn,
No longer than a grain of barley corn
But
stronger
than the bull of Bashan and so hard
It cuts through diamonds.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So hoping to see you again--"
Torture was then so rooted in the
practice
of justice that the
beneficial ukase[51] ordaining its abolition remained a long time of
none effect.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Address To A Haggis
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great
chieftain
o' the pudding-race!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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She answers not:
Her spirit
apprehends
the sense of pain,
But not its cause; suffering has dried away _35
The source from which it sprung.
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Shelley |
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Firm on his heart relied,
What lot soe'er betide,
Work of his hand
He nor repents nor grieves,
Pleads for itself the fact,
As
unrepenting
Nature leaves
Her every act.
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Emerson - Poems |
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On the threshold
(Hush,
flurried
heart in me!
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Sappho |
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So was it--_would_, at least, have been
But through
untowardness
of fate;
For Polity was then too strong--
He came an age too late;
Or shall we say an age too soon?
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William Wordsworth |
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--Is it not a fact that this report
Is artfully
concocted?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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These lines formed the commencement of an ode
commemorating the
achievement
of liberty for America under the
directing genius of Washington and Franklin.
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Robert Burns |
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Nor could this stark and stunted stone display
Vibrance beneath the
shoulders
heavy bar,
Nor shine like fur upon a beast of prey,
Nor break forth from its lines like a great star--
There is no spot that does not bind you fast
And transport you back, back to a far past.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Come--let us hither drive 400
And sacrifice to the
Immortal
Pow'rs
The best of all the oxen of the Sun,
Resolving thus--that soon as we shall reach
Our native Ithaca, we will erect
To bright Hyperion an illustrious fane,
Which with magnificent and num'rous gifts
We will enrich.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[_He makes an
indecent
gesture.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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None of my
ladyfriends
dare I confide in, for they would but chide me;
Nor any gentleman friend, lest he be rival to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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e
fissches
weie in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thou art my friend, Admetus;
therefore
bold
And plain I tell my story, and withhold
No secret hurt.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He was
patronized
by a Bishop Boulter.
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Alexander Pope |
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Rather stout blows with Durendal I'll lay,
With my good sword that by my side doth sway;
Till
bloodied
o'er you shall behold the blade.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Its long-drawn out
bellowing
shook the shore.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour
savourer
en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses silences gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Light was my sleep; my days in transport roll'd:
With
thoughtless
joy I stretch'd along the shore
My father's nets, or watched, when from the fold
High o'er the cliffs I led my fleecy store,
A dizzy depth below!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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