How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
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But the complete type was refined away during the fifth century; and one
stage in the process
produced
a play with a normal chorus but with one
figure of the Satyric or "revelling" type.
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Who would see
Cleopatra
on her bed?
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LFS}
Sometimes I think thou art fruit breaking from its bud
In dreadful dolor & pain & I am like an atom
A Nothing left in darkness yet I am an identity
I wish & feel & weep & groan Ah
terrible
terrible
PAGE 5 In Beulah Eden,Females sleep the winter in soft silken veils*
{First 8 lines inserted over a deleted strata LFS} Woven by their own hands to hide them in the darksom grave
But Males immortal live renewd by female deaths.
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"
Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
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That is the way our long nights of
enjoyment
are passed.
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Withered pine-trees hang leaning over
precipitous
walls.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down--
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the
brambles
were always catching the hem of my gown.
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First would come letters--big, crossed, seven sheet letters--from
his wife, telling him how she longed to see him, and what a Heaven upon
earth would be their
property
when they met.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Such be our gifts, and such be our expense,
As for
ourselves
to leave some frankincense.
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"
That
globular
Person of Hurst.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Leary
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands
beseeching
thrown.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Et il les amusa si bien par ce regal inattendu et par sa conversation
qu'elles
seraient
restees la jusqu'a la fin du monde.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Such
confutation was surely not needed; for the
narrative
is on the
face of it a romance.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The other souls of men by death dismiss'd
Stood
mournful
by, sad uttering each his woes;
The soul alone I saw standing remote
Of Telamonian Ajax, still incensed
That in our public contest for the arms
Worn by Achilles, and by Thetis thrown
Into dispute, my claim had strongest proved,
Troy and Minerva judges of the cause.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Tutor had been
appointed
by Vitellius to watch the bank of
the Rhine.
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Tacitus |
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Thorough a
thousand
voices
Spoke the universal dame;
"Who telleth one of my meanings
Is master of all I am.
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Emerson - Poems |
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pain_, expressing all the exquisite
beauty and pathos of the music; and
moreover
seeming to give it
conscious life.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Ivan
Kouzmitch
read it in a low voice, and tore it into bits.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[200]
Your
observation
as to the aptitude of Dr.
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Robert Burns |
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Lovely Chance
O lovely chance, what can I do
To give my
gratefulness
to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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James, _Conversations on
Religion
with Lord Byron_, _iii.
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Byron |
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What is song's
eternity?
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John Clare |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--And afterwards,
Non cui
profundum
Caecitas lumen dedit
Dircaeus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, &c.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_10
NOTE:
_9
cold]told
cj.
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Shelley |
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On the eve of their
betrothal, Archimago
suddenly
appears as Duessa's messenger and claims the
Knight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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4470
But what avayleth hir good wille,
Whan she ne may
staunche
my stounde ille?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Abash'd, the suitor train his voice attends;
Till from his throne Amphinomus ascends,
Who o'er
Dulichium
stretch'd his spacious reign,
A land of plenty, bless'd with every grain:
Chief of the numbers who the queen address'd,
And though displeasing, yet displeasing least.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"From what far clime (said she) remote from fame
Arrivest thou here, a
stranger
to our name?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A melancholy choir attend around,
With plaintive sighs, and music's solemn sound:
Alternately they sing, alternate flow
The
obedient
tears, melodious in their woe.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically
accelerate
or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Here's what the
hypocrite
said: "Trust me just once more, this time.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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By persistently remaining single a man
converts
himself into a permanent
public temptation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pausanias relates a wonderful story of
a
monstrously
large one, which often came ashore on the meadows of
Boeotia.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri
C'est sur eux que pleurent les saules
Le grand Pan l'amour Jesus-Christ
Sont bien morts et les chats miaulent
Dans la cour je pleure a Paris
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
L'amour est mort j'en suis tremblant
J'adore de belles idoles
Les souvenirs lui ressemblant
Comme la femme de Mausole
Je reste fidele et dolent
Je suis fidele comme un dogue
Au maitre le lierre au tronc
Et les Cosaques Zaporogues
Ivrognes pieux et larrons
Aux steppes et au decalogue
Portez comme un joug le Croissant
Qu'interrogent les astrologues
Je suis le Sultan tout-puissant
O mes Cosaques Zaporogues
Votre Seigneur eblouissant
Devenez mes sujets fideles
Leur avait ecrit le Sultan
Ils rirent a cette nouvelle
Et repondirent a l'instant
A la lueur d'une chandelle
Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Plus criminel que Barrabas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzebuth es-tu la-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas a tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arraches a coup de pique
Ta mere fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulceres des croutes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes richesses garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes medicaments
Voie lactee {1}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Regret des yeux de la putain
Et belle comme une panthere
Amour vos baisers florentins
Avaient une saveur amere
Qui a rebute nos destins
Ses regards laissaient une traine
D'etoiles dans les soirs tremblants
Dans ses yeux nageaient les sirenes
Et nos baisers mordus sanglants
Faisaient pleurer nos fees marraines
Mais en verite je l'attends
Avec mon coeur avec mon ame
Et sur le pont des Reviens-t'en
Si jamais reviens cette femme
Je lui dirai Je suis content
Mon coeur et ma tete se vident
Tout le ciel s'ecoule par eux
O mes tonneaux des Danaides
Comment faire pour etre heureux
Comme un petit enfant candide
Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
Ma colombe ma blanche rade
O marguerite exfoliee
Mon ile au loin ma Desirade
Ma rose mon giroflier
Les satyres et les pyraustes
Les egypans les feux follets
Et les destins damnes ou faustes
La corde au cou comme a Calais
Sur ma douleur quel holocauste
Douleur qui doubles les destins
La licorne et le capricorne
Mon ame et mon corps incertains
Te fuient o bucher divin qu'ornent
Des astres des fleurs du matin
Malheur dieu pale aux yeux d'ivoire
Tes pretres fous t'ont-ils pare
Tes victimes en robe noire
Ont-elles vainement pleure
Malheur dieu qu'il ne faut pas croire
Et toi qui me suis en rampant
Dieu de mes dieux morts en automne
Tu mesures combien d'empans
J'ai droit que la terre me donne
O mon ombre o mon vieux serpent
Au soleil parce que tu l'aimes
Je t'ai menee souviens-t'en bien
Tenebreuse epouse que j'aime
Tu es a moi en n'etant rien
O mon ombre en deuil de moi-meme
L'hiver est mort tout enneige
On a brule les ruches blanches
Dans les jardins et les vergers
Les oiseaux chantent sur les branches
Le printemps clair l'Avril leger
Mort d'immortels argyraspides
La neige aux boucliers d'argent
Fuit les dendrophores livides
Du printemps cher aux pauvres gens
Qui resourient les yeux humides
Et moi j'ai le coeur aussi gros
Qu'un cul de dame damascene
O mon amour je t'aimais trop
Et maintenant j'ai trop de peine
Les sept epees hors du fourreau
Sept epees de melancolie
Sans morfil o claires douleurs
Sont dans mon coeur et la folie
Veut raisonner pour mon malheur
Comment voulez-vous que j'oublie
Les sept epees
La premiere est toute d'argent
Et son nom tremblant c'est Paline
Sa lame un ciel d'hiver neigeant
Son destin sanglant gibeline
Vulcain mourut en la forgeant
La seconde nommee Noubosse
Est un bel arc-en-ciel joyeux
Les dieux s'en servent a leurs noces
Elle a tue trente Be-Rieux
Et fut douee par Carabosse
La troisieme bleu feminin
N'en est pas moins un chibriape
Appele Lul de Faltenin
Et que porte sur une nappe
L'Hermes Ernest devenu nain
La
quatrieme
Malourene
Est un fleuve vert et dore
C'est le soir quand les riveraines
Y baignent leurs corps adores
Et des chants de rameurs s'y trainent
La cinquieme Sainte-Fabeau
C'est la plus belle des quenouilles
C'est un cypres sur un tombeau
Ou les quatre vents s'agenouillent
Et chaque nuit c'est un flambeau
La Sixieme metal de gloire
C'est l'ami aux si douces mains
Dont chaque matin nous separe
Adieu voila votre chemin
Les coqs s'epuisaient en fanfares
Et la septieme s'extenue
Une femme une rose morte
Merci que le dernier venu
Sur mon amour ferme la porte
Je ne vous ai jamais connue
Voie lactee {2}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Les demons du hasard selon
Le chant du firmament nous menent
A sons perdus leurs violons
Font danser notre race humaine
Sur la descente a reculons
Destins destins impenetrables
Rois secoues par la folie
Et ces grelottantes etoiles
De fausses femmes dans vos lits
Aux deserts que l'histoire accable
Luitpold le vieux prince regent
Tuteur de deux royautes folles
Sanglote-t-il en y songeant
Quand vacillent les lucioles
Mouches dorees de la Saint-Jean
Pres d'un chateau sans chatelaine
La barque aux barcarols chantants
Sur un lac blanc et sous l'haleine
Des vents qui tremblent au printemps
Voguait cygne mourant sirene
Un jour le roi dans l'eau d'argent
Se noya puis la bouche ouverte
Il s'en revint en surnageant
Sur la rive dormir inerte
Face tournee au ciel changeant
Juin ton soleil ardente lyre
Brule mes doigts endoloris
Triste et melodieux delire
J'erre a travers mon beau Paris
Sans avoir le coeur d'y mourir
Les dimanches s'y eternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise
Soirs de Paris ivres du gin
Flambant de l'electricite
Les tramways feux verts sur l'echine
Musiquent au long des portees
De rails leur folie de machines
Les cafes gonfles de fumee
Crient tout l'amour de leurs tziganes
De tous leurs siphons enrhumes
De leurs garcons vetus d'un pagne
Vers toi toi que j'ai tant aimee
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
LES COLCHIQUES
Le pre est veneneux mais joli en automne
Les vaches y paissant
Lentement s'empoisonnent
Le colchique couleur de cerne et de lilas
Y fleurit tes yeux sont comme cette fleur-la
Violatres comme leur cerne et comme cet automne
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
Les enfants de l'ecole viennent avec fracas
Vetus de hoquetons et jouant de l'harmonica
Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des meres
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupieres
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dement
Le gardien du troupeau chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pre mal fleuri par l'automne
PALAIS
A Max Jacob
Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Reve
Mes reveuses pensees pieds nus vont en soiree
Le palais don du roi comme un roi nu s'eleve
Des chairs fouettees des roses de la roseraie
On voit venir au fond du jardin mes pensees
Qui sourient du concert joue par les grenouilles
Elles ont envie des cypres grandes quenouilles
Et le soleil miroir des roses s'est brise
Le stigmate sanglant des mains contre les vitres
Quel archet mal blesse du couchant le troua
La resine qui rend amer le vin de Chypre
Ma bouche aux agapes d'agneau blanc l'eprouva
Sur les genoux pointus du monarque adultere
Sur le mai de son age et sur son trente et un
Madame Rosemonde roule avec mystere
Ses petits yeux tout ronds pareils aux yeux des Huns
Dame de mes pensees au cul de perle fine
Dont ni perle ni cul n'egale l'orient
Qui donc attendez-vous
De reveuses pensees en marche a l'Orient
Mes plus belles voisines
Toc toc Entrez dans l'antichambre le jour baisse
La veilleuse dans l'ombre est un bijou d'or cuit
Pendez vos tetes aux pateres par les tresses
Le ciel presque nocturne a des lueurs d'aiguilles
On entra dans la salle a manger les narines
Reniflaient une odeur de graisse et de graillon
On eut vingt potages dont trois couleurs d'urine
Et le roi prit deux oeufs poches dans du bouillon
Puis les marmitons apporterent les viandes
Des rotis de pensees mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux reves mort-nes en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandes en godiveaux
Or ces pensees mortes depuis des millenaires
Avaient le fade gout des grands mammouths geles
Les os ou songe-creux venaient des ossuaires
En danse macabre aux plis de mon cervelet
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles
Mais nom de Dieu!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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They stood together in the blessed noon,
They sang together through the length of days;
Each loving face bent
Sunwards
like a moon
New-lit with love and praise.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look
bewildered
at lovely things,
Striving to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Now, then, without a jest or slur,
I tell you, once for all, such speed
With the fair
creature
won't succeed.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A wee
Torquatus
fain I'd see
Encradled on his mother's breast
Put forth his tender puds while he
Smiles to his sire with sweetest gest 215
And liplets half apart.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Gloomy Orion and the Dog
Are veiled; and hushed the
shrunken
seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
Tries to sit on Sweeney's knees
Slips and pulls the table cloth
Overturns a coffee-cup,
Reorganized upon the floor
She yawns and draws a stocking up;
The silent man in mocha brown
Sprawls at the window-sill and gapes;
The waiter brings in oranges
Bananas figs and hothouse grapes;
The silent vertebrate in brown
Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
Rachel nee Rabinovitch
Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;
She and the lady in the cape
Are suspect, thought to be in league;
Therefore the man with heavy eyes
Declines the gambit, shows fatigue,
Leaves the room and reappears
Outside the window, leaning in,
Branches of wisteria
Circumscribe a golden grin;
The host with someone indistinct
Converses at the door apart,
The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid droppings fall
To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Yet his
copious memory was well stored with many a sonnet of Petrarch, which he
could repeat by heart; and with all his Danteism, he infused the deepest
tones of admiration into his
recitation
of the Petrarchan sonnets.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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'E rushes at the smoke when we let drive,
An', before we know, 'e's 'ackin' at our 'ead;
'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive,
An' 'e's
generally
shammin' when 'e's dead.
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Renown'd
Ulysses!
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"
inquired
a chorus of voices.
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And to me, the
pleasure
is doubled by the reflection that it is extremely
probable that we have the actual terms, the _ipsissima verba_, used by
Christ.
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ing be more
p{re}ciouse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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, it would be impossible
to give the work a beginning, a middle, and an end, which the critics
insist to be absolutely
necessary
in a work.
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[267] After a long
training in the German wars, they still further
increased
their
reputation in Britain, where their troops had been sent, commanded
according to an ancient custom by some of the noblest chiefs.
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Tacitus |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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[380] Terms used in
regulating
a dance.
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{66a}
And such are they that only relish the obscene and foul things in poets,
which makes the
profession
taxed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Still by the water's edge doth silent stand
The Infanta with the rose-flower in her hand,
Caresses
it with eyes as blue as heaven;
Sudden a breeze, such breeze as panting even
From her full heart flings out to field and brake,
Ruffles the waters, bids the rushes shake,
And makes through all their green recesses swell
The massive myrtle and the asphodel.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda,
la qual per me ha 'l titol de la fame,
e che conviene ancor ch'altrui si chiuda,
m'avea
mostrato
per lo suo forame
piu lune gia, quand' io feci 'l mal sonno
che del futuro mi squarcio 'l velame.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Each
answering
all--each sharing the earth with all.
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Whitman |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United
States without permission and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Your
treatment
of guests allows a certain laxness, our offices allow us to have contact.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And lat hym techen his corage that he hath
enclosed
{and} hyd / in his tresors / al ?
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skich,
Biblioteka
Narodowa, 1975, Wikimedia Commons
Annie
On the coast of Texas
Twixt Mobile and Galveston there was a
Great garden full of roses
That also contained a villa
Like a giant rose.
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And all to pattern his example, boast ;
Their former
trophies
they recall to mind,
And now, to edge their anger, courage grind.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The poem tells of the troubles of two lovers: Blancheflour, or
Blancheflor
('white flower') being a Christian princess abducted by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores or Floris or Floire ('belonging to the flower') The Muslim/Christian tale is often set in Andalusia where there is a famous Granadan variant.
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Troubador Verse |
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Is this th'
Athenian
minion whom the world
Voic'd so regardfully?
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Shakespeare |
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And after a thousand years I climbed the holy
mountain
and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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ai
schullen
also; whan ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The hand of God sows not in vain,
Long sleeps the
darkling
seed below,
The seasons come, and change, and go,
And all the fields are deep with grain.
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The Hermit stepped forth from the boat,
And
scarcely
he could stand.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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These monsters blazoned what they were,
According to the
coarseness
of their kind,
For thus I hear; and known at last (my work)
And full of cowardice and guilty shame,
I grant in her some sense of shame, she flies;
And I remain on whom to wreak your rage,
I, that have lent my life to build up yours,
I that have wasted here health, wealth, and time,
And talent, I--you know it--I will not boast:
Dismiss me, and I prophesy your plan,
Divorced from my experience, will be chaff
For every gust of chance, and men will say
We did not know the real light, but chased
The wisp that flickers where no foot can tread.
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men trauailden or weren bysy to
enqueren
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Phaedra was
honoured
by Theseus' breath in vain, 445
For myself, I'm prouder, and flee the glory gained
From homage offered to hundreds, and so easily,
From entering a heart thrown open to so many.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Where hardly given the
hopeless
waste to cheer,
Denied the bread of life the foodful ear, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily
keep eBooks
in compliance with any particular paper edition.
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Stephen Crane |
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at,
And
hardiliche
held hir gate
Al ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XLIII
Not so (quoth she) but sith that heavens king
From hope of heaven hath thee excluded quight, 380
Why fearest thou, that canst not hope for thing;
And fearest not, that more thee hurten might,
Now in the powre of
everlasting
Night?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Because such is not as their outward mien
The heart, the spirit, that those
sovereigns
bear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Po |
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Ah,
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Through
primrose
tufts, in that green [1] bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; 10
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He who wore out
pleasure
and mastered all lore,
Solomon, wrote "Vanity of vanities:"
Down to death, of all that went before
In his mighty long life, the record is this.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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blake-poems |
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So those passionate letters, that
audacious
pursuit were
not the result of tenderness and love.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
"But," cried romantic I, "is there no sphere
Where virtue is
rewarded
when we die?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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distribution
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Rilke - Poems |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le
souverain
d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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