Whensoe'er
Our
wanderer
comes again!
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"It came out in a 'Monthly,' or
At least my agent said it did:
Some
literary
swell, who saw
It, thought it seemed adapted for
The Magazine he edited.
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be duly lowered at sunset;
Burn high your fires, foundry
chimneys!
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Whitman |
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Which to
abrupter
greatness thrust.
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Let us bathe in this
crystalline
light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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e endes (exitus)
uoluntarie
of
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The humble
petition
of John Donne, Clercke.
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John Donne |
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Jacob Bryant's
_Observations
upon the Poems of T.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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On his departure Otho
entrusted
the peace of the city and the
interests of the empire to his brother Salvius Titianus.
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Tacitus |
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Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, and then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his holy
innocent
head*
{innocent replaces holy LFS} And stretching out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The people, with
accumulated
heats
And faces turned one way, as if one fire
Both drew and flushed them, left their ancient beats
And went up toward the palace-Pitti wall
To thank their Grand-duke who, not quite of course,
Had graciously permitted, at their call,
The citizens to use their civic force
To guard their civic homes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He passed them by with hurried tread
Silently, nor raised his head,
He who looked up
Drinking
all beauty from his birth
Out of the heaven and the earth
As from a cup.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Come, I'll
instruct
thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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is not
_object_
to 'can draw'.
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John Donne |
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Glamys, and Thane of Cawdor:
The
greatest
is behinde.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Di
parecchi
anni mi menti lo scritto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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As Donne is addressing the lady throughout it is
difficult to distinguish what he says to her now from what he said on
the
occasion
imagined.
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John Donne |
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Women's Voices
Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest,
Sweet and
omnipotent
mother, O Earth!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Deep the hoofs of their
neighing
roans
sink into the fallen leaves;
The riders see, for a moment pause,
and are gone with a pang at heart.
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Li Po |
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Ruler, against one fain to snatch the rule,
Brother with brother matched, and foe with foe,
Will I
confront
the issue.
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Aeschylus |
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"
Pleas'd with his people's fame, the monarch hears,
And thus benevolent accosts the peers:
"Since wisdom's sacred
guidance
he pursues,
Give to the stranger-guest a stranger's dues:
Twelve princes in our realm dominion share,
O'er whom supreme, imperial power I bear;
Bring gold, a pledge of love: a talent bring,
A vest, a robe, and imitate your king.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sad Souvenaunce 53
ECHOES 58
A SEA DIRGE 59
Y{E} CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING 66
MELANCHOLETTA 78
A VALENTINE 84
THE THREE VOICES:--
The First Voice 87
The Second Voice 98
The Third Voice 109
TEMA CON
VARIAZIONI
118
A GAME OF FIVES 120
POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, an Agony in Eight Fits:--
I.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Whan that Anelida this woful quene
Hath of hir hande writen in this wyse,
With face deed, betwixe pale and grene,
She fel a-swowe; and sith she gan to ryse,
And unto Mars avoweth sacrifyse 355
With-in the temple, with a
sorowful
chere,
That shapen was as ye shal after here.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Synge has
practically
finished a longer and more
elaborate comedy than his last.
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Yeats |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das ist noch lange nicht voruber,
Ich kenn es wohl, so klingt das ganze Buch;
Ich habe manche Zeit damit verloren,
Denn ein
vollkommner
Widerspruch
Bleibt gleich geheimnisvoll fur Kluge wie fur Toren.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For why those kinds should drop and part from things,
Rather than others tenuous and thin,
No power has man to open mouth to tell;
Especially, since on
outsides
of things
Are bodies many and minute which could,
In the same order which they had before,
And with the figure of their form preserved,
Be thrown abroad, and much more swiftly too,
Being less subject to impediments,
As few in number and placed along the front.
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Lucretius |
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An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the
orchestra
breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Black, with pale naked
bleeding
wings, Light
Through the glass, burnished with gold and spice,
Through panes, still dismal, alas, and cold as ice,
Hurled itself, daybreak, against the angelic lamp.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What is his latest
character?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Wang An-shih (1021-1086), the great reformer of the
eleventh
century,
observes: "Li Po's style is swift, yet never careless; lively, yet
never informal.
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Li Po |
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So those passionate letters, that
audacious
pursuit were
not the result of tenderness and love.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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pouere Men, & begged his mete,
His fadres
sergeaunt?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Who can say where the
fleshly impulse ceases or the
psychical
impulse begins?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Poetry is reality's essence
visioned
and made manifest by one endowed
with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and
gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the
reaction to Life's phenomena.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Let the great world bustle on
With war and trade, with camp and town;
A thousand men shall dig and eat;
At forge and furnace
thousands
sweat;
And thousands sail the purple sea,
And give or take the stroke of war,
Or crowd the market and bazaar;
Oft shall war end, and peace return,
And cities rise where cities burn,
Ere one man my hill shall climb,
Who can turn the golden rhyme.
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Emerson - Poems |
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4 the
traveler
has come back across a thousand leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a
thousand
errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It is sufficient, also, to warrant our
regarding the picturesque but scarcely dignified story of her vain pursuit
of Phaon and her frenzied leap from the Cliff of Leucas as nothing more
than a poetic myth, reminiscent, perhaps, of the myth of
Aphrodite
and
Adonis--who is, indeed, called Phaon in some versions.
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Sappho |
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Greeks were the ones who began it, and only to Greeks they
proclaimed
it
Even within Roman walls: "Come to the sanctified night.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Why did you not constrain my lady
Before desire took me
completely?
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Troubador Verse |
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(14)
The years of a
lifetime
do not reach a hundred.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The hours slid fast, as hours will,
Clutched tight by greedy hands;
So faces on two decks look back,
Bound to
opposing
lands.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But Beowulf, on general principles and from his observation
of the
particular
case, foretells trouble.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Talk Of Him That's Far Awa
Musing on the roaring ocean,
Which divides my love and me;
Wearying
heav'n in warm devotion,
For his weal where'er he be.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Unto the hero whose
countenance
was turned away,
unto Gilgamish like a god
he became for him a fellow.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'
She got up, and said, turning round with an air of
changing
the
subject, 'Have you written to your friends about our engagement?
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Yeats |
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The
circumstances
of the sending bear a strong resemblance to the
instructions given to Pug:
Thou shalt be subject unto human chance,
So far as common wit cannot relieve thee.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Yet should he see but that, O chiefly then,
Leaving all else, he'd study to divine
The nature of things, since here is in debate
Eternal time and not the single hour,
Mortal's estate in
whatsoever
remains
After great death.
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Lucretius |
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) At the Close of the Fasting Month, Ramazan (which makes the
Mussulman unhealthy and unamiable), the first Glimpse of the New Moon
(who rules their
division
of the Year) is looked for with the utmost
Anxiety, and hailed with Acclamation.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Is my own son
In
complicity
with my enemies then?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" Here ceas'd the
lamentable
sound;
And I continu'd thus: "Still would I learn
More from thee, farther parley still entreat.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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bards of the peaceful
inventions!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Even so in youth
We greedily desire the joys of love,
But only quell the hunger of the heart
With
momentary
possession.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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to my
comrades
true
Rich cups, rare bronzes, gladly would I send:
Choice tripods from Olympia on each friend
Would I confer, choicer on none than you,
Had but my fate such gems of art bestow'd
As cunning Scopas or Parrhasius wrought,
This with the brush, that with the chisel taught
To image now a mortal, now a god.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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Duperron de
Castera, who has given a French prose translation, or rather paraphrase,
of the Lusiad, has a long note on this passage, which, he tells us, must
not be
understood
literally.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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sage
chastity
denies
To raise the blush, or pain the modest eyes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Yet, to be just to these poor men of pelf,
Each does but hate his
neighbour
as himself:
Damned to the mines, an equal fate betides
The slave that digs it, and the slave that hides.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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HARMAR,
PHYSICIAN
TO THE COLLEGE OF
WESTMINSTER.
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Robert Herrick |
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HIS LOOSER MAKE, his too
dissolute
companion.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of
murmuring
sound
Shall pass into her face.
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Golden Treasury |
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Now all thy forces try;
Now all thy charms apply;
Revenge upon her ear the
conquests
of her eye.
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Golden Treasury |
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To save them from the wrath of Gaul's
unsparing
lord.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thruster
holding me tight and that I hold tight!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical
restrictions
on automated querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A slight wind shakes the seed-pods--
my
thoughts
are spent
as the black seeds.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"I am Manfredi, grandson to the Queen
Costanza: whence I pray thee, when return'd,
To my fair
daughter
go, the parent glad
Of Aragonia and Sicilia's pride;
And of the truth inform her, if of me
Aught else be told.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And, for her soules savetee,
At lord and lady, and hir meynee, 6870
I axe, whan they hem to me shryve,
The propretee of al hir lyve,
And make hem trowe, bothe meest and leest,
Hir paroch-prest nis but a beest
Ayens me and my company, 6875
That shrewis been as greet as I;
For whiche I wol not hyde in hold
No
privetee
that me is told,
That I by word or signe, y-wis,
[Nil] make hem knowe what it is, 6880
And they wolen also tellen me;
They hele fro me no privitee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Do you
understand
what he says?
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Aristophanes |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I know the trusty almanac
Of the
punctual
coming-back,
On their due days, of the birds.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" "I have the
intensest
delight
in music," he says there, "and can detect good from bad"; a rare thing
among poets.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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To you, gone emblem of our
happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The road there was narrower; a stream barred their
way, and the bridge was broken; its depth was
uncertain
and the steep
banks checked their flight.
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Tacitus |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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We have washed our swords in the surf of Indian seas;
We have
pastured
our horses among the snows of T'ien Shan.
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Li Po |
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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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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The work is a hasty
and unrevised
production
of its author's earlier days of literary labor;
and, beyond the scenes already known, scarcely calculated to enhance
his reputation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In this piece Parker
had displayed his usual zeal against the Non-
conformists with more than usual acrimony, and
pushed to the
uttermost
extravagance his fa-
vourite maxims of ecclesiastical tyranny.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And when I sing my songs my
neighbours
come not to listen.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And who, with any active sympathy for poetry, can say that
Milton felt his theme with less
intensity
than Homer?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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IV
The diver at Sorrento from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the lustrous sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer,
gleameth
Yet presseth back the aether where it streameth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"What a cold-blooded
barbarian
it is!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Nay,
wherefore
hold we back?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Since the
lecturer
has raised the question whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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On the morrow, just as I was busy
composing
an elegy, and I was biting
my pen as I searched for a rhyme, Chvabrine tapped at my window.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates,
mingling
their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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