Oh, had I faith, as in the days gone by,
That knew no doubt, and feared no
mystery!
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III
Naples
Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the light,
Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sight,
Posilipo
kneels and looks in the burnished sea,
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be;
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung--
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young!
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because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--The evening
darkness
gathers round
By virtue's holiest powers attended.
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the
fanciful
self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The old dames, jealous of their whispered praise,
Throw in their hints of man's deluding ways;
And one, to give her counsels more effect,
And by example illustrate the fact
Of
innocence
oercome by flattering man,
Thrice tapped her box, and pinched, and thus began.
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John Clare |
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Now at thy soft
recalling
voice I rise
Where thought is lord o'er Time's complete estate,
Like as a dove from out the gray sedge flies
To tree-tops green where cooes his heavenly mate.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Above a thousand Neapolitan
horsemen
were assembled near
the shore to assist, as it were, at the obsequies of their countrymen.
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In her embrace--it's by no means unusual--I've
composed
poems
And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back,
Fingertips counting in time with the sweet rhythmic breath of her slumber.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Perhaps the most perilous and the most
alluring
venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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John Donne |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thus at full ease in heaps of riches roll'd,
What grieves the
monarch?
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Iliad - Pope |
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]--says that the sources of the Alexius legend are the 'Vita metrica, auctore Marbodo, primum archidiacono Andegavensi, deinde
Redonensi
episcopo (?
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Oh, Phales,[193]
companion
of
the orgies of Bacchus, night reveller, god of adultery, friend of young
men, these past six[194] years I have not been able to invoke thee.
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Aristophanes |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have snatched at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your
necklace
snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Other flowering isles must be _335
In the sea of Life and Agony:
Other spirits float and flee
O'er that gulf: even now, perhaps,
On some rock the wild wave wraps,
With folded wings they waiting sit _340
For my bark, to pilot it
To some calm and blooming cove,
Where for me, and those I love,
May a
windless
bower be built,
Far from passion, pain, and guilt, _345
In a dell mid lawny hills,
Which the wild sea-murmur fills,
And soft sunshine, and the sound
Of old forests echoing round,
And the light and smell divine _350
Of all flowers that breathe and shine:
We may live so happy there,
That the Spirits of the Air,
Envying us, may even entice
To our healing Paradise _355
The polluting multitude;
But their rage would be subdued
By that clime divine and calm,
And the winds whose wings rain balm
On the uplifted soul, and leaves _360
Under which the bright sea heaves;
While each breathless interval
In their whisperings musical
The inspired soul supplies
With its own deep melodies; _365
And the love which heals all strife
Circling, like the breath of life,
All things in that sweet abode
With its own mild brotherhood,
They, not it, would change; and soon _370
Every sprite beneath the moon
Would repent its envy vain,
And the earth grow young again.
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Shelley |
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what conqueror hath
committed
this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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more suitors still
Assembling
in thy courts would banquet here 300
From morn to eve; for thou surpassest far
In beauty, stature, worth, all womankind.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I greet thee, rarest phial,
precious
potion!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'Tis here he slept, his coffee took,
Into
accounts
would sometimes look,
A book at early morn perused.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Was it the wind
That rattled the reeds
together?
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Imagists |
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May men finde
religioun
6225
In worldly habitacioun?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What wizard, what
Thessalian
spell,
What god can save you, hamper'd thus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In the real countenance
there are no tears or grievances, but a quizzical, humorous expression
which shows, when one has torn the
subterfuge
away, that here is a
spirit whom life may menace with its contradictions and fatalities, but
never dupe with its circumstance and mystery.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wilde - Poems |
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91), on the grounds that the
mutiny was the result of a sudden determination on the part of
Christian, and that liberty, and not the delights of Tahiti, was the
object which the
mutineers
had in view.
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Byron |
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I blush my
rudeness
to confess,
And answer all he says with yes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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You did-and yet 'tis
strange!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then Garlon, reeling slowly backward, fell,
And Balin by the
banneret
of his helm
Dragged him, and struck, but from the castle a cry
Sounded across the court, and--men-at-arms,
A score with pointed lances, making at him--
He dashed the pummel at the foremost face,
Beneath a low door dipt, and made his feet
Wings through a glimmering gallery, till he marked
The portal of King Pellam's chapel wide
And inward to the wall; he stept behind;
Thence in a moment heard them pass like wolves
Howling; but while he stared about the shrine,
In which he scarce could spy the Christ for Saints,
Beheld before a golden altar lie
The longest lance his eyes had ever seen,
Point-painted red; and seizing thereupon
Pushed through an open casement down, leaned on it,
Leapt in a semicircle, and lit on earth;
Then hand at ear, and harkening from what side
The blindfold rummage buried in the walls
Might echo, ran the counter path, and found
His charger, mounted on him and away.
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Tennyson |
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Thou
innocent
young heart!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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His images are for the
most part derived from water, sky, the changes of weather, shadows of
things rather than things themselves, and usually mental
reflections
of
them.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
The sun had now, with radiant brow, climb'd his meridian throne,
Yet still mine eye
untiringly
gazed on that lovely one.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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the
rational
soul), 'whether it be
fire, as Zeno held; harmony, as Aristoxenus; number, as Xenocrates,'
&c.
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John Donne |
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But now
nothing is good that is natural; right and natural language seems to have
least of the wit in it; that which is writhed and
tortured
is counted the
more exquisite.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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303),
scrīfan
(for- ge-), segn (l.
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Beowulf |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of
unalterable
law.
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T.S. Eliot |
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There also saw I Chloris, loveliest fair,
Whom Neleus woo'd and won with spousal gifts
Inestimable, by her beauty charm'd
She youngest daughter was of Iasus' son,
Amphion, in old time a sov'reign prince 340
In
Minueian
Orchomenus,
And King of Pylus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sinfull Macduff,
They were all strooke for thee: Naught that I am,
Not for their owne demerits, but for mine
Fell
slaughter
on their soules: Heauen rest them now
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" And Lord Raoul,
Calm with a changing mood, sat still and called:
"Here, huntsmen, 'tis my will ye seize the hind
That broke my dagger, bind him to this tree
And slice both ears to hair-breadth of his head,
To be his bloody token of regret
That he hath put them to so foul employ
As catching villainous breath of
strolling
priests
That mouth at knighthood and defile the Church.
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Sidney Lanier |
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8 Such as these have come, touched by
imperial
grace, how can those feeble slaves grapple with them?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I know him well; there needs no other motive
Than that most strange
incontinence
in crime
Which haunts this Oswald.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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L
_ Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford
and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ile Deuill-Porter it no further:
I had thought to haue let in some of all Professions, that
goe the
Primrose
way to th' euerlasting Bonfire.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'Tis time to quit this weary shore
So uncongenial to my mind,
To dream upon the sunny strand
Of Africa,
ancestral
land,(21)
Of dreary Russia left behind,
Wherein I felt love's fatal dart,
Wherein I buried left my heart.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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with whom I traverse earth,
Invisible
but gazing, as I glow
Mixed with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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nam tibi de summa caeli ratione deumque
disserere incipiam et rerum primordia pandam,
unde omnis natura creet res auctet alatque,
quoue eadem rursum natura perempta resoluat,
quae nos
materiem
et genitalia corpora rebus
reddunda in ratione uocare et semina rerum
appellare suemus et haec eadem usurpare
corpora prima, quod ex illis sunt omnia primis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
threshold
they destroyed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It
crumbled
the dusk of the deep
That folds the worlds in sleep,
And shot through night with noiseless stir.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Fear no more the
lightning
flash
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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THE maid at this proposal felt surprise;
Her
mistress
truly!
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La Fontaine |
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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your unrivalled scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the
fountain
jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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Appoloinaire |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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, and was a
Divining
Cup.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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uidete, cuncti, tuque, caelestum sator,
iace, obsecro, in me uim
coruscam
fulminis!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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She was
then dragged from his presence, and brutally murdered by the hands of
his three counsellors, who immediately returned to the king with their
daggers reeking with the
innocent
blood of his daughter-in-law.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then Love rode round and
searched
the ground,
The caves below, the hills above;
`But I cannot find where thou hast found
Hell,' quoth Love.
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Sidney Lanier |
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stos, Christina, sacrobis,
Unica nee virgo
Yolsiniensis
erit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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His
imagination
needed little opium to produce the
famous Confessions.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_--Most of the Han poems in this book were
intended
to
be sung.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So send I
beckoning
hands from here to there,
And kiss your black once, now white thin-grown hair
And your stooped small shoulder and pinched brow.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
As in large troops
And multitudinous, when winter reigns,
The
starlings
on their wings are borne abroad;
So bears the tyrannous gust those evil souls.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that
persists
in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_The Thrush's Nest_
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush,
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush
Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound
With joy; and, often an intruding guest,
I watched her secret toils from day to day--
How true she warped the moss, to form a nest,
And modelled it within with wood and clay;
And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew,
There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,
Ink-spotted-over shells of greeny blue;
And there I witnessed in the sunny hours
A brood of nature's
minstrels
chirp and fly,
Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.
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Together we twain on the tides abode
five nights full till the flood divided us,
churning waves and
chillest
weather,
darkling night, and the northern wind
ruthless rushed on us: rough was the surge.
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And town and friends
forgotten
quite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With all the self-acquired culture and learning that raised
him above his class (his father and
grandfathers
before him for
more than a hundred years had been sextons to the church of St.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Siris,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I thank you, sir; and pray you tell me this:
Which of the two was daughter of the Duke
That here was at the
wrestling?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There Heav'n's stern justice lays chastising hand
On Attila, who was the scourge of earth,
On Sextus, and on Pyrrhus, and extracts
Tears ever by the
seething
flood unlock'd
From the Rinieri, of Corneto this,
Pazzo the other nam'd, who fill'd the ways
With violence and war.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have
squeezed
the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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My brain must furnish various features new:
What's
delicate
and smart produce to view;
By this expressed, and not by t'other said:
And all so clear, most easy to be read,
By ev'ry fool, without the aid of notes,
That idiot's bad indeed who never quotes.
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La Fontaine |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Its technique was exact, complex, extremely elaborate,
minutely regulated; yet the essential fires of sincerity, spontaneity,
imagination and passion were flaming with
undiminished
heat behind the
fixed forms and restricted measures.
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Sappho |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;
But he opened out the hinges,
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges,
Till it looked all squares and oblongs,
Like a
complicated
figure
In the Second Book of Euclid.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Mussulmans
and Giaours
Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Dawn court done, the scented smoke you carry filling your sleeves, the poem finished, pearls and jade are right on your
flourished
brush.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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The warlike
clarions
ceast.
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Blake - Zoas |
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How sweetly doth the heart of man begin
Desiring us, how like music and the green
First
happiness
of the year!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Past hath crusted
cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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