(_f_) officium alterius multis narrare memento;
at quaecumque aliis
benefeceris
ipse, sileto.
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"On the contrary, nothing could be more
tranquil
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popular feeling; and as to excitement, the people would as soon be
excited over the 'Rule of Three' as over the Congress.
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And there is no
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15
In the night for Sappho,
Since her lover Phaon
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Enough for half the
greatest
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I had long been well acquainted with them, but I
was
particularly
struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity
and majestic harmony that runs through most of them--in character so
totally different from the Italian, and still more so from Shakespeare's
fine sonnets.
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For in my soul, the women do not dwell
A torch going through darkness, with a troop
Of shadows
gesturing
after; but as the sun
Upon his height of golden blaze at noon,
With all the size of the blue air about him.
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What prevents my dashing
Right in among thy cursed company,
Thyself and all thy monkey spirits
smashing?
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Dripping sleep and languor from his heavy haunches,
He turns from deep disdain and launches
Himself upon the thickening air,
And, with weird cries of
sickening
despair,
Flies at Leviathan.
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coueitise
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Song
breathed
from all the forest,
The total air was fame;
It seemed the world was all torches
That suddenly caught the flame.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Fan
(Of Mery Laurent)
Frigid roses to last
Identically will interrupt
With a calyx, white, abrupt,
Your breath become frost
But freed by my fluttering
By shock profound, the sheaf
Of frigidity melts to relief
Of laughter's
rapturous
flowering.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pallas and I, since Priam's sire
Denied the gods his pledged reward,
Had doom'd them all to sword and fire,
The people and their
perjured
lord.
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But you are
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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There is
something
suggested by it that is a newer
testament,--the gospel according to this moment.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Come, golden bridegroom, break this mortal night,
Five times chained with
darkness
of my senses.
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Footsteps
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ihn treibt die Garung in die Ferne,
Er ist sich seiner Tollheit halb bewusst;
Vom Himmel fordert er die schonsten Sterne
Und von der Erde jede hochste Lust,
Und alle Nah und alle Ferne
Befriedigt nicht die
tiefbewegte
Brust.
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And there are times when travel goes
Along the sheep tracks' beaten ways,
Then
pleasure
many a praise bestows
Upon its blossoms' pointed rays,
When other things are parched beside
And hot day leaves it in its pride.
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* * * * *
And the months went on, as the worst must do,
And the Boh
returned
to the raid anew.
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor
library;
But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of
an Illinois prairie,
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas
uplands, or Florida's glades,
Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
And
murmuring
under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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60
Stay, therefore, till the Hero, Atreus' son,
Spear-practis'd
Menelaus
shall his gifts
Place in the chariot, and with kind farewell
Dismiss thee; for the guest in mem'ry holds
Through life, the host who treats him as a friend.
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my slow heart was only sad, when first
I scanned that face of feeble infancy:
For dimly on my
thoughtful
spirit burst
All I had been, and all my child might be!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Must thou alone in guilt immortal swell,
And make a vast
monopoly
of hell?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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All the people
pour from house and field, and mothers crowd to wonder and gaze at her
as she goes, in rapturous astonishment at the royal lustre of purple
that drapes her smooth shoulders, at the clasp of gold that intertwines
her tresses, at the Lycian quiver she carries, and the
pastoral
myrtle
shaft topped with steel.
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OCTOBER
October woods wherein
The boy's dream comes to pass,
And Nature squanders on the boy her pomp,
And crowns him with a more than royal crown,
And
unimagined
splendor waits his steps.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,
Lulled by the thrush and wakened by the lark,
Without thee were but a
becalmed
bark,
Whose helmsman on an ocean waste and wide
Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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1372 [A] Thenne
comaunded
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The winds grow wearied, warring with the tower,
The noisy North is out of breath, nor power
Has any blast old Corbus to defeat,
It still has strength their
onslaughts
worst to meet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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PART V
By grace of the holy Mother, the ancient Mariner is
refreshed
with rain.
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[Footnote 12: "New Light" is a cant phrase in the west of
Scotland for those religious
opinions
which Dr.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here
unfolded
too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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as it were that Rome,
Collecting the chief trophies of her line,
Would build up all her triumphs in one dome,
Her Coliseum stands; the
moonbeams
shine
As 'twere its natural torches, for divine
Should be the light which streams here, to illume
This long explored but still exhaustless mine
Of contemplation; and the azure gloom
Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume
CXXIX.
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Meredith - Poems |
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They, as a God shall
reverence
the Chief,
And in a bark of theirs shall send him thence
To his own home, much treasure, brass and gold
And raiment giving him, to an amount
Surpassing all that, had he safe return'd,
He should by lot have shared of Ilium's spoil.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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debonaire
force of god disposed[e]
hem so as it was wor?
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_63 Puppets passing]Shadows
shifting
1832; Shadows passing B.
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Shelley |
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I myself see 'tis needful to demolish
The rumour spread abroad by the
unfrocked
monk;
But for this end other and simpler means
Will serve.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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THE FLAME AND THE SMOKE By
Gertrude
Cornwell Hopkins
It is high, it is far~
Unattainably great,
Yet its rapture releases;
Melted are bonds and, unhindered,
I am at last not less than the thing that I am: Free of the universe,
Swept with pure fires,
Aware, unafraid, of the roaring, tumultuous vastness, Knowing my fire to be one with the core of all life; Set free from limits, definements and edges,
Enlarged by my high adoration,
Stilled even by madness of joy — Thus comes always upon me
The sense of the Oneness I worship, The sense of the Beauty I love.
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interdum uouet, interdum, quod langueat illa,
dicit in
aeternos
aspera uerba deos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Therefore
it is good?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--
Well, _I_ say nothing;--but Europa rode
On such a one from Asia into Crete,
And the
enamoured
sea grew calm beneath
His gliding beauty.
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Shelley |
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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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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Lo, this is Love that walketh at my right;
One exile holds us both, and we are bound
To
selfsame
home-joys in the land of light.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The little mothers
Will sing them in the twilight, And when the night
Shrinketh the kiss of the dawn That loves and kills,
What time the swallow fills
Her note, the little rabbit folk
That some call children,
Such as are up and wide
Will laugh your verses to each other, Pulling on their shoes for the day's business, Serious child
business
that the world Laughs at, and grows stale;
Such is the tale
Part of it of thy song-life.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Coin the day-dawn into lines
In which its proper
splendor
shines;
Coin the moonlight into verse
Which all its marvel shall rehearse,
Chasing with words fast-flowing things; nor try
To plant thy shrivelled pedantry
On the shoulders of the sky.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
A silence of full
noontide
heat
Grew on them at their toil:
The farmer's dog woke up from sleep,
The green snake hid her coil.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"]
While, like broad waves of golden grain,
Or sunlit hues on
cloistered
pane,
His colour came and went again.
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Lewis Carroll |
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VIII
Alors l'ame pourrie et l'ame desolee
Sentiront
ruisseler tes maledictions.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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To be brief:--
I have
received
from churlish Fortune nothing
But air, light, water,--Nature's general boon.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Nor be wonder: for
inwardly
toil they with whole of their
minds.
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi
pourquoi
vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Lascivious
grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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God's
residence
is next to mine,
His furniture is love.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Herrick has his CONCETTI also: but they are in him generally
true plays of fancy; he writes throughout far more naturally than these
lyrists, who, on the other hand, in their unfrequent
successes
reach a
more complete and classical form of expression.
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I do not like to
remember
things any more.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Chief comes alone first,
and Carnehan shakes hands with him and whirls his arms about, same as
Dravot used, and very much
surprised
that Chief was, and strokes
my eyebrows.
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Kipling - Poems |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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After driving the Moors from our coast,
Marring their plans,
answering
their boast,
Go, wage war on them in their own country,
Command my army, ravage the enemy.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To the Iliad still greater
obligations are due; and those
obligations
have been contracted
with the less hesitation, because there is reason to believe that
some of the old Latin minstrels really had recourse to that
inexhaustible store of poetical images.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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No more thou
dreamest
of a peace reserved alone for thee,
While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:
The battle that they wage is thine; thou fallest if they fall;
The swollen flood of Prussian pride will sweep unchecked o'er all.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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WITH TEXT AND
GLOSSARY
ON THE
BASIS OF M.
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Beowulf |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd
the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
They shall now also march obediently
eastward
for your sake Libertad.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Describe
his closing hours to me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Apres la huitaine, des
vaisseaux
nombreux amenerent a l'Irlande affamee
d'immenses provisions de grains.
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Yeats |
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You filthy
villainous
fellow!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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IV
Like music heard in dreams,
Like strains of harps unknown,
Of birds forever flown
Audible as the voice of streams
That murmur in some leafy dell,
I hear thy gentlest tone,
And Silence cometh with her spell
Like that which on my tongue doth dwell,
When
tremulous
in dreams I tell
My love to thee alone!
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Poe - 5 |
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' That's all,"
he said,
returning
the paper to be dropped into the fire.
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Kipling - Poems |
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We
remained
for a while in Tongjia Swamp, about to go through Luzi Barrier.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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The visions in this second
book are no less ecstatic though less glowingly colourful; they have
withdrawn inward and have brought a great peace and a great faith as in
the poem of God, whose very manifestation is the quietude and hush of a
silent world:
"By day Thou art the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And court the flower that
cheapens
his array.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Prom
thousand
blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of countless warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yea, worshipping this spirit, he will at last
Grow into high divine imagination,
Wherein the envious wildness of the world
Yieldeth its striving up to him, and takes
His mind,
building
the endless stars like stone
To house his towering joy of self-possessing.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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