" With
language
unsainted
The Captain came back to the Bride.
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Even
Epicurus
went, his light of life
Run out, the man in genius who o'er-topped
The human race, extinguishing all others,
As sun, in ether arisen, all the stars.
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Lucretius |
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the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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All other known examples are purely
instrumental
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Troubador Verse |
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Red leaf that art blown upward and out and over The green sheaf of the world,
And through the dim forest and under
The shadowed arches and the aisles,
We, who are older than thou art,
Met and
remembered
when his eyes beheld her In the garden of the peach-trees,
In the day of the blossoming.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My reason, the
physician
to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
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Look, how I clutch it,
Lest it fall,
And I a pauper go;
Unfitted by an instant's grace
For the
contented
beggar's face
I wore an hour ago.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Can we outrun the
heavens?
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At once Aeneas charges and
confounds
the rustic squadrons of the Latins,
and slays Theron for omen of battle.
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, wīgend mine (_awake, my
warriors!
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Beowulf |
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XCVIII
"Thou to the fierce Marphisa may'st apply
To leave his trial (he pursued) to thee,
With promise, her in this to satisfy
And to suspend him from the gallows-tree:
And even should the maid thy prayer deny,
Let her in every wish
contented
be:
And rather than that she desert thy side,
Let her hang him and every thief beside.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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*
Alluding
to the failure of the bankers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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10
Non facilis nobis, aequales, palma paratast,
Adspicite, innuptae secum ut
meditata
requirunt.
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, were not peculiar to the Sufi; nor to Lucretius before
them; nor to Epicurus before him; probably the very original
Irreligion of Thinking men from the first; and very likely to be the
spontaneous growth of a
Philosopher
living in an Age of social and
political barbarism, under shadow of one of the Two and Seventy
Religions supposed to divide the world.
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Cupid sagaciously led past those
palazzos
so fine.
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ten be constreyned to
certeyne
bitydyng.
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Nor was there one but thus to 's
neighbour
spoke:
"Now, ere he die, may we see Rollant, so
Ranged by his side we'll give some goodly blows.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He that for you this journey has decreed
King
Charlemagne
will never hold him dear.
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Chanson de Roland |
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86-88;
4 of ELISHA, his
purifying
a well with salt, 214-225 (2 Kings ii.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I come to my best beloved,
Not actual, from afar,
Fairer than hope or thought,
More
beautiful
than a star.
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Moon 319 Each line of your recent poems is good, 8 you should let this old fellow pass them around.
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Is it not said that many years ago,
In a far Eastern town, some soldiers ran
With torches through the midnight, and began
To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the
garments
of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God's wonder, or His woe?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Song,
Composed
In Spring
Tune--"Jockey's Grey Breeks.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en
souviens
je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"It lost my interest from the first,
My aims therefor
succeeding
ill;
Haply it died of doing as it durst?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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No one else will be
sleeping
by me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Since an immutable
somewhat
still must be,
Lest all things utterly be sped to naught;
For change in anything from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before.
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Lucretius |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
From council
straight
the assenting peerage ceased,
And in the dome prepared the genial feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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The plan of the most
finished
didactic poem in the
Latin tongue was taken from Hesiod.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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At once they gratify their smell and taste, 95
While
frequent
cups prolong the rich repast.
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Alexander Pope |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The lily's perfume pure, fame's crown of light,
The latest murmur of departing day,
Fond friendship's plaint, that melts at piteous sight,
The mystic farewell of each hour at flight,
The kiss which beauty grants with coy delay,--
The sevenfold scarf that parting storms bestow
As trophy to the proud, triumphant sun;
The
thrilling
accent of a voice we know,
The love-enthralled maiden's secret vow,
An infant's dream, ere life's first sands be run,--
The chant of distant choirs, the morning's sigh,
Which erst inspired the fabled Memnon's frame,--
The melodies that, hummed, so trembling die,--
The sweetest gems that 'mid thought's treasures lie,
Have naught of sweetness that can match HER NAME!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Barnum, a great natural
curiosity
recommended to.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The stage how loosely does Astraea tread,
Who fairly puts all
characters
to bed!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Der
Grasaff!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nicolas to show that Omar gave
himself up "avec passion a l'etude de la
philosophie
des Soufis"?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
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obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Stephen Crane |
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at han ende may be mad
co{m}parisou{n}
[but of
thinges that ben w{i}t{h}-owtyn ende to thinges ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome,
And
swallows
in the dusk
Circling a darkened dome!
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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Well, it is finished--past, and he
Has left me to my misery,
And I must take my Cross on me
For
wronging
him awhile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Durft ich wohl diesmal mich
entfernen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Keats - Lamia |
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To be
entirely
alone with them, to find how much one can stand!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Encreaseynge yn the yeares of mortal lyfe,
And hasteynge to hys journie ynto heaven, 110
Hee
thoughte
ytt proper for to cheese a wyfe,
And use the sexes for the purpose gevene.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Into my
courtyard
paved with stones
That keep the names, that keep the bones,
Of none but English men who came
Free of their lives, to guard my fame.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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`I sey not this for no
mistrust
of yow,
Ne for no wys man, but for foles nyce,
And for the harm that in the world is now, 325
As wel for foly ofte as for malyce;
For wel wot I, in wyse folk, that vyce
No womman drat, if she be wel avysed;
For wyse ben by foles harm chastysed.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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--Ease and
relaxation
are profitable to all studies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Ruins of Three of those Towers are yet shown by the
Peasantry; as also the Swamp in which Bahram sunk, like the Master of
Ravenswood, while
pursuing
his Gur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yet the ear, it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet, the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells--
Of the bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
In the clamour and the
clangour
of the bells!
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Poe - 5 |
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He has no
conception
of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Did Bacchus yield to Reason's voice divine,
Bacchus the cause of Lusus' sons would join,
Lusus, the lov'd
companion
of his cares,
His earthly toils, his dangers, and his wars:
But envy still a foe to worth will prove,
To worth, though guarded by the arm of Jove.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Prayest thou haply for thy mother, who
Slept over into long, long pain, on thy
account?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A victim ox beneath the sacred hand
Of great
Alcinous
falls, and stains the sand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now, too: whate'er we see possessing sense
Must yet confessedly be
stablished
all
From elements insensate.
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Lucretius |
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'Tis
grieving
for thy loss that makes me ill;
Did ever I in aught deny thy will?
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La Fontaine |
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She is even thine aunt, Arthur's half
sister;
wherefore
come to thine aunt, for all my household love thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Jove heard his vows, and better'd his desire;
For by some
freakful
chance he made retire
From his companions, and set forth to walk,
Perhaps grown wearied of their Corinth talk:
Over the solitary hills he fared,
Thoughtless at first, but ere eve's star appeared
His phantasy was lost, where reason fades,
In the calm'd twilight of Platonic shades.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My holy
Zouaves!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I turned to thee, to thousands, of whom each
And one as all a ghastly gap did make
In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach
Forgetfulness
were mercy for their sake;
The Archangel's trump, not Glory's, must awake
Those whom they thirst for; though the sound of Fame
May for a moment soothe, it cannot slake
The fever of vain longing, and the name
So honoured, but assumes a stronger, bitterer claim.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Softened by Time's
consummate
plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Arbor ut indpmitos ornet vix una labores,
Tempora nee foliis
praecingat
tota malignis ;
Dum simul implexi, tranquillae ad serta quietis,
Omnigeni coeunt flores, integraque sylva.
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Marvell - Poems |
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That's because he is honest; so the
informers
set upon him and the
women too pluck out his feathers.
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Aristophanes |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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'
Such accents uttered the
daughter
of Saturn; and the [561-594]other
raises her rustling snaky wings and darts away from the high upper air
to Cocytus her home.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So I laughed, and felt quite well
disposed
to the youngster,
And shouted out "the top of the morning" to him,
And wished him "Good sport!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[_The
lightning
again flashes out, and clearly shows the
pale face and closed eyes of the girl.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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[311]
Suetonius
Paulinus and
Licinius Proculus avoided the camp at Bedriacum by diverse routes.
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Tacitus |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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XVII
"Now, as it oft befalls a cavalier
Who seeks and finds adventure, high and low,
It
happened
that my gentle brother near
His comrade's fort was wounded by a foe;
Where often, uninvited by the peer,
He guested, was his host with him or no;
And thither he resorted from the field,
There to repose until his wounds were healed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Certe ego te in medio
versantem
turbine leti
Eripui, et potius germanum amittere crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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25, 1625-6 we find that Mistris
Hodgettes
'assigned
over unto him all her estate,' consisting of the copies of certain
books, for the 'some of forty-five pounds.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Superb o'er slow increase of day on day,
Complete as Pallas she began her way;
Yet not from Jove's
unwrinkled
forehead sprung,
But long-time dreamed, and out of trouble wrung,
Fore-seen, wise-plann'd, pure child of thought and pain,
Leapt our Minerva from a mortal brain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of
darkness
& silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this
behooveth
me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nay, we are dull with joy:
Of thee we thought not, out of the hands of outrage
Coming back,
although
with victory coming.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No friendly shade thy shade shall
company!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Histories superet sed
genitura
fidem.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The birds around me hopp'd and play'd:
Their
thoughts
I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made,
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LFS}
Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery
attended
day & night
Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name
PAGE 4
In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The centered text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four clusters of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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blake-poems |
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Therefore the Gods
Give not endowments
graceful
in each kind,
Of body, mind, and utt'rance, all to one.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Quando mi vidi giunto in quella parte
di mia etade ove ciascun dovrebbe
calar le vele e raccoglier le sarte,
cio che pria mi piacea, allor m'increbbe,
e pentuto e
confesso
mi rendei;
ahi miser lasso!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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* * * * *
THE OLD
CUMBERLAND
BEGGAR [A]
Composed 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He poured
contempt
on those who frittered life away.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O Helen, O
infatuate
soul,
Who bad'st the tides of battle roll,
Overwhelming thousands, life on life,
'Neath Ilion's wall!
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Aeschylus |
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