Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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golde glent vpon ende3,
2040 [E] Bot forto sauen hym-self, when suffer hym by-houed,
To byde bale with-oute dabate, of bronde hym to were,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Aufilena, bonae semper laudantur amicae:
Accipiunt
pretium, quae facere instituunt.
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the
invisible
need
of every seed?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A
youthful
lady 'neath a laurel green
Was seated, fairer, colder than the snow
On which no sun has shone for many years:
Her sweet speech, her bright face, and flowing hair
So pleased, she yet is present to my eyes,
And aye must be, whatever fate prevail.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All else beneath the sun,
Thou know'st if best
bestowed
or not;
And let Thy will be done.
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What use of
shortening
the way!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and drinking milk, but the
beautiful
barbarian understands not.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[He opens the door and enters, loaded with
evergreens
in
berry, etc.
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Nay--for thou
smellest
of the kitchen still.
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The Project
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Upon the love, and truth, and vows, which I
Have made to thy
command?
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Shakespeare |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Stephen Crane |
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Why not endure,
expecting
more?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Alfred Prufrock
S'io
credesse
che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ite,
concinite
in modum
'O Hymen Hymenaee io, 120
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We
afterwards
saw them doing
various other kinds of work; indeed, I thought that we saw more women
at work out of doors than men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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However, Decumus Pacarius,
the procurator,[246] nearly ruined Corsica by an act of indiscretion,
which in a war of such dimensions could not
possibly
have affected the
issue, and only ended in his own destruction.
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Tacitus |
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And only inwardly inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A
stranger
on his final round.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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th,
For Iesu cristes swete loue; to
susteyne
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ten bulls, ten kine, your debt discharge:
A calf new-wean'd from parent cow,
Battening
on pastures rich and large,
Shall quit my vow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Les
phenomenes
s'emurent.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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`For of fortunes sharpe
adversitee
1625
The worst kinde of infortune is this,
A man to have ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Hercules, hanging on rumours of those labours,
Was already resting from his, in
favouring
yours.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Past and Present
The Audit
The Apple Tree
Her New-Year Posy
Counting
Sheep
The Trees at Night
The Dead
D.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I was not witness to all that I have still to tell my readers, but I
have heard the whole thing related so often that the least little
details have
remained
graven in my memory, and it seems to me I was
present myself.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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While you, great patron of
mankind!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Mother, O Mother,
wherefore
dost thou sleep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He loues vs not,
He wants the
naturall
touch.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Quite to the ground they were a
deep, brilliant purple, with a bloom
contrasting
with the still clear
green leaves.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Herbert' is written beside the poem, and that in such
cases is meant to
indicate
the author of the poem.
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John Donne |
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A thing
incredible
I tell, tho' true:
The gateway, named from those of Pera, led
Into the narrow circuit of your walls.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where she is exalted more for being good,
Then for her
interest
of Mother-hood.
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John Donne |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Li Po |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Why, noble as thou art, should'st thou invent
Palpable
falsehoods?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But, one all-fired sweatin' day,
It
happened
I was hoein'
My lower corn-field, which it lay
'Longside the road that runs my way
Whar I can see what's goin'.
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Sidney Lanier |
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L'enfant se doit surtout a la maison, famille
Des soins naifs, des bons travaux abrutissants,
Ils sortent,
oubliant
que la peau leur fourmille
Ou le Pretre du Christ a mis ses doigts puissants.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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This omen eyed
Amphinomus, who thus
presaging
cried:
"The gods from force and fraud the prince defend;
O peers!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There are some secrets
which do not permit
themselves
to be told.
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Poe - 5 |
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But the
real subject is behind these
splendid
voyagings, just as the real
subject of Tasso is behind the battles of Christian and Saracen; and in
both poets the inmost theme is broadly the same.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Byron |
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The Tower of Porcelain, strange and old,
Uplifting to the
astonished
skies
Its ninefold painted balconies,
With balustrades of twining leaves,
And roofs of tile, beneath whose eaves
Hang porcelain bells that all the time
Ring with a soft, melodious chime;
While the whole fabric is ablaze
With varied tints, all fused in one
Great mass of color, like a maze
Of flowers illumined by the sun.
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Longfellow |
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I cried,
And ran to plunge my
cracking
flesh into That blessed lake, to quaff it undenied.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui tremblait dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le
printemps
laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les dernieres venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux centurions emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns pourrissent dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la tristesse disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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Was ever couch
magnificent
as mine?
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Antony
ordered the head to be _fixed upon the rostra, between the two
hands_; a sad
spectacle
to the people, who beheld those mangled
members, which used to exert themselves, from that place, in defence
of the lives, the fortunes, and the liberties of Rome.
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Tacitus |
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Could I have
resisted
the seductive charm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A silent fire now wafts those limbs of wax,
And him within his
tortured
image racks.
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Marvell - Poems |
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To think how eager we are in
building
our houses!
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Whitman |
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She did so, but 'tis
doubtful
how and whence
Came, and who were her subtle servitors.
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CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's
successive
heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now I can truly see how little and
transitory
is life.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pipit sate upright in her chair
Some
distance
from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.
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Dit a l'autre: Vie et
splendeur!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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on flet tēon, _gave command to bring eight horses into
the hall_, 1036; þonne ǣnne heht golde forgyldan, _commanded to make good
that one with gold_, 1054; heht þā þæt heaðo-weorc tō hagan bīodan,
_ordered the combat to be
announced
at the hedge_(?
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Beowulf |
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He was a capital draughtsman with a strong nervous line
and made many pen-and-ink
drawings
of her.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And there's the
windflower
chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Trojans shall sink
mingling
into their blood; I will add their
sacred law and ritual, and make all Latins and of a single speech.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire,
In
lightnings
own'd his secret stings;
In one rude clash he struck the lyre
And swept with hurried hand the strings.
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Golden Treasury |
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an is still
occupied
by rebels.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Is it not
beautiful?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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provided
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His younger brother John
succeeded
him as king.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sanche
That a spirit accustomed to great action
Cannot bow readily in submission:
It cannot see what
justifies
such shame:
The word alone the Count resists, I say.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A CHILL
What can lambkins do
All the keen night
through?
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sic forsan tener ausus est Catullus
magno mittere
passerem
Maroni.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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VI chp 12 v (King James version)]*
VALA
Night the First
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath* {This page is a very thicket of revisions, erasures, and
inconsistent
directions for rearranging the order of the lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The wooden dagger, a
relic of the Roman stage,[49] is the most frequently
mentioned
article
of equipment.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I will: so thou shalt know the reverent heart
I have for thee, although its worship thou
So
bitterly
despisest; but thy will
Shall be a sacred thing for me to serve.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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550
My cries alone make the
woodlands
ring,
And the idle horses all forget my calling.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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On your hand as it waved adieu
There were veins of blue;
In your voice as it said good-bye
Was a
petulant
cry,
'You have only wasted your life.
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Wilde - Poems |
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and let Jove encrust
Swords, pikes, and guns, with
everlasting
rust!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To suffer
hardness
with good cheer,
In sternest school of warfare bred,
Our youth should learn; let steed and spear
Make him one day the Parthian's dread;
Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But why, why longer do I gaze upon
Thee with the eye of
admiration?
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Robert Herrick |
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at is
suffisau{n}t
my?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--But 'twill not be so;
And youths and maidens most poetical
Who lose the deep'ning twilights of the spring
In ball-rooms and hot theatres, they still
Full of meek
sympathy
must heave their sighs
O'er Philomela's pity-pleading strains.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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