That we perceived
ourselves
erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For ther ben grete clerkes many oon,
That
destinee
thorugh argumentes preve;
And som men seyn that nedely ther is noon; 970
But that free chois is yeven us everichoon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years,
Reeking wet with mistakes,--
Bloody mistakes;
Slimed with
victories
over the lesser,
A figure thankful on the shore of money.
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Shall she see her spousal
and her home, her parents and children, attended by a crowd of Trojan
women and
Phrygians
to serve her?
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Les houles, en roulant les images des cieux,
Melaient d'une facon solennelle et mystique
Les tout-puissants accords de leur riche musique
Aux
couleurs
du couchant reflete par mes yeux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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FOOTNOTES:
[32] So the Scholium
interprets
in this place, the word ?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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It fell, as he ordered,
in rapid
achievement
that ready it stood there,
of halls the noblest: Heorot {1a} he named it
whose message had might in many a land.
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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[521] Before this Cerialis had five legions, I, IV, XVI, XXI,
and XXII, but of these only XXI was in full force, so these
new
reinforcements
may have doubled his army.
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If it doesn't merit any change of course,
We'll leave: and
whatever
the cost to us may be, 735
We'll yet place the sceptre in hands more worthy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"The sound appeared to come from without,"
observed
one of the
courtiers.
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Poe - 5 |
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= Pricking with pins and needles was
one of the devil's regular ways of tormenting
bewitched
persons.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Si com' io fui, com' io dovea, seco,
dissemi: <
a
domandarmi
omai venendo meco?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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La porpre fu toute orfroisie;
Si ot portraites a orfrois
Estoires
de dus et de rois.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Quod the
Beadsman
of Nithside.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Great black ravens I saw flutt'ring,
Caddows black and sombre gray,
In the
enchanted
coppice strutting
'Mid the adders on the way.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I am a son of Mars,
Who have been in many wars,
And show my cuts and scars
Wherever
I come;
This here was for a wench,
And that other in a trench,
When welcoming the French
At the sound of the drum.
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Robert Burns |
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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
ah!
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FOOTNOTES:
[M] English poetry of the last eighty years is fine in quality
and great in volume, but it would be difficult to maintain that it
is the finest and
greatest
poetry of the period.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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{21a} Hrothgar is
probably
meant.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_The
Vanities
of Life_
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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TONE PICTURE
(Malipiero:
_Impressioni
Dal Vero_)
Across the hot square, where the barbaric sun
Pours coarse laughter on the crowds,
Trumpets throw their loud nooses
From corner to corner.
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Were I now as I was, I had sung
What
Lawrence
has painted so well;[607]
But the strain would expire on my tongue,
And the theme is too soft for my shell.
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Byron |
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a sound,
Far and slight,
Breathes
around
On the night
High and higher,
Nigh and nigher,
Like a fire,
Roaring, bright.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Quyte throwe hys boddie, & hys harte ytte tare,
He groned, & sonke uponne the gorie greene,
And wythe hys corse encreased the pyles of
Dacyannes
sleene.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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5 From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to
Fengxiang
and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one successfully got back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl,
How
charmingly
sweet you sing!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the
delightful
"Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive generations of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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APRIL BYEWAY
Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend,
Be with me travelling on the byeway now
In April's month and mood: our steps shall bend
By the shut smithy with its penthouse brow
Armed round with many a felly and crackt plough:
And we will mark in his white smock the mill
Standing
aloof, long numbed to any wind,
That in his crannies mourns, and craves him still;
But now there is not any grain to grind,
And even the master lies too deep for winds to find.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take
possession
of earth
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I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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The Word
Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For whoso
uncompelled
doth follow what is just,
He ne'er shall be unblest;
Yea, never to the gulf of doom
That man shall come.
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Aeschylus |
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where dark in quest of prey
Dauntless we roved;
Achilles
led the way;
What toils by land!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O for a withering curse to blast the
germins of their wicked
machinations!
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Robert Burns |
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis
monstrous
fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most gracious Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by cropping them at once;
And now henceforth full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
And .
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Sidney Lanier |
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HE ATTRIBUTES THE
WICKEDNESS
OF THE COURT OF ROME TO ITS GREAT WEALTH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Many small donations ($1 to
$5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt status with
the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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Behold, the body
includes
and is the meaning, the main concern and
includes and is the soul;
Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part
of it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Youre loverde from the
battelle
wylle appere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Busily plied the freighted boats; and in the confusion
Wives were torn from their husbands, and mothers, too late, saw their children
Left on the land,
extending
their arms, with wildest entreaties.
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Longfellow |
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Under the shady roof
Of
branching
Elm Star-proof,
Follow me, 90
I will bring you where she sits
Clad in splendor as befits
Her deity.
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Milton |
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First let me note that the maid to us
committed
(assert they)
Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had, 20
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* * * *
But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his firstborn,
Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray;
Or that his impious mind was blunt with fiery passion 25
Or that his impotent son sprang from incapable seed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In vain may heroes fight, and
patriots
rave;
If secret gold sap on from knave to knave.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Wherever
it is, it is a prison which keeps him from
her.
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Keats |
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The Emperor
bestowed
food upon him and stirred
the soup with his own hand.
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Li Po |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Please check the Project
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Little and less he says to them,
So dances his heart in his breast;
Their
tranquil
mien bereaveth him
Of wit, of words, of rest.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
"Yes, lady, I came to present a
petition
to the Tzarina.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So
remarkable
a sight of course impressed the four children very
deeply; and they returned immediately to their boat with a strong sense of
undeveloped asthma and a great appetite.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Vizier was
generous
and
kept his word.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Others aspire to truth so much as they are rather
lovers of
likeness
than beauty.
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"And hear the sounds he knew of yore,
Old shufflings on the sanded floor,
Old
knuckles
tapping at the door?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Ulysses,
husband of Penelope,
borrows money, (for full
particulars
of, see Homer and Dante)
_rex_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Good Susan tell me, and I'll stay;
"I fear you're in a
dreadful
way,
"But I shall soon be back again.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Only one
alteration
has been made in this poem, in line 41, where in
1842 "one' was altered to" twelve ".
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Tennyson |
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--
"I have seen
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground,
applying
to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell,
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
Listened intently," etc.
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Byron |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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Charles Maurras:
<>, or il n'y avait pas alors, de _diner du Bon
Bock_ ou nous allassions, Valade, Merat, Silvestre, quelques autres
Parnassiens [et] moi, ni par consequent Rimbaud avec nous, mais bien un
diner mensuel des _Vilains
Bonshommes_
[note illisible], fonde avant la
guerre et qu'avaient honore quelquefois Theodore de Banville et, de la
part de Sainte-Beuve, le secretaire de celui-ci, M.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In two years' time 't had thus
Reached the level of the rocks,
Admired the
stretching
world,
Nor feared the wandering flocks.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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e
resou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Take my leaves,
America!
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Whitman |
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n'est
la brume qu'exhale
ce
nocturne
effet.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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' So he took out the sword he had got from the giant, and he
put it in at the back of the serpent's neck, the way blood and water
came
spouting
out that went for fifty miles inland, and made an end of
him.
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Yeats |
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(This
file was
produced
from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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Imagists |
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XV
Then when with meates and drinkes of every kinde
Their fervent appetites they quenched had,
That auncient Lord gan fit occasion finde,
Of straunge adventures, and of perils sad, 130
Which in his travell him
befallen
had,
For to demaund of his renowmed guest:
Who then with utt'rance grave, and count'nance sad,
From point to point, as is before exprest,
Discourst his voyage long, according his request.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Transform thyself as thou wilt, and
collect what strength of courage or skill is thine; pray that thou
mayest wing thy flight to the stars on high, or that
sheltering
earth
may shut thee in.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'She
unwilling
to take much aye doth heed'; 'which is nonsense'
says Prof.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Were all thy num'rous gifts; yet hadst thou found
Him living here in Ithaca, with gifts
Reciprocated he had sent thee hence,
Requiting
honourably
in his turn
Thy hospitality.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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t haue a
triumphall
egre?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Leconte de Lisle
'Leconte de Lisle'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p579, 1896)
Internet
Book Archive Images
The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the brilliant parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The bitter mingled cup of ancient woes,
Hard to be borne, that here in Atreus' house
Befel, was
grievous
to mine inmost heart,
But never yet did I endure such pain.
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Aeschylus |
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Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes; 10
Carve it in doves, and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves, and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the
birthday
of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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dēofles
cræftum, _by devil's
art_ (sorcery), 2089.
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Beowulf |
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"
_Behemot,
sweating
blood,
Uses for his daily food
All the fodder, flesh and juice
That twelve tall mountains can produce.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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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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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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With mystic lilies in our hands,
From the atmospheric bands
Breaking with a sudden grace,
We took you
unaware!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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SAS}
First he beheld the body of Man pale, cold, the horrors of death
Beneath his feet shot thro' him as he stood in the Human Brain
And all its golden porches grew pale with his
sickening
light
No more Exulting for he saw Eternal Death beneath
Pale he beheld futurity; pale he beheld the Abyss
Where Enion blind & age bent wept in direful hunger craving
All rav'ning like the hungry worm, & like the silent grave
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Mighty was the draught of Voidness to draw Existence in
Terrific Urizen strode above, in fear & pale dismay
He saw the indefinite space beneath & his soul shrunk with horror
His feet upon the verge of Non Existence; his voice went forth {According to Erdman, this line was at one time followed by a line that has been erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But our idea
of causation is alone derivable from the constant conjunction of objects
and the
consequent
inference of one from the other; and, reasoning
experimentally, we can only infer from effects causes exactly adequate
to those effects.
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Shelley |
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fforto
disputen
a?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Struggling
in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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blake-poems |
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Hē þæt sōna onfand,
2715 þæt him on
brēostum
bealo-nīð wēoll,
attor on innan.
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Beowulf |
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Cosins, I hope the dayes are neere at hand
That
Chambers
will be safe
Ment.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XXX
She was a woman in her
freshest
age,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'Tis much he dares,
And to that
dauntlesse
temper of his Minde,
He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour,
To act in safetie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Run to your shrouds, within these Brakes and Trees,
Our number may affright: Som Virgin sure
(For so I can
distinguish
by mine Art)
Benighted in these Woods.
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Milton |
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