most learned Dame,
Faire ympe of Phoebus and his aged bride,
The Nourse of time and everlasting fame,
That warlike hands ennoblest with immortall name; 45
VI
O gently come into my feeble brest
Come gently, but not with that mighty rage,
Wherewith the martiall troupes thou doest infest,
And harts of great Heroes doest enrage,
That nought their kindled courage may aswage, 50
Soone as thy
dreadfull
trompe begins to sownd,
The God of warre with his fiers equipage
Thou doest awake, sleepe never he so sownd,
All scared nations doest with horrour sterne astownd.
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(_Deeper than
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tarry with us still,
It is not
quenched
the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds unassailed its argent armoury
From all the gathering gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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But covet not the abode--O do not sigh
As many do, repining while they look;
Intruders who would tear from Nature's book
This
precious
leaf with harsh impiety:
--Think what the home would be if it were thine,
Even thine, though few thy wants!
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But when we find very great revolu-
tions of opinion, at the same time very sudden,
and exquisitely well-timed in relation to private
interest ; — when we find these changes, let them
be what they may, always, like those of the helio-
trope, towards the sun ; — when we find a man
utterly uncharitable even to his own previous
errors, and
maligning
and abusing all who still
retain them, it is impossible to doubt the motives
which have animated him.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a
sterling
lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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And when I answer you, some days
Vaguely and wildly, do not fear
That my love walks forbidden ways,
Breaking
the ties that hold it here.
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"
He said, and placed the goblet at his side;
With joy the venerable king replied:
"Wisely and well, my son, thy words have proved
A senior honour'd, and a friend
beloved!
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Description of the pictures 222
Bacchus appears as Mohammed, to a priest in a dream 238
The king
consults
with the magi and the soothsayers 240
The priest consults his friends 241
How evil counsellors mislead kings 242
The king's defiant speech and base accusation 244
Gama's answer to the king 245-247
Gama detained prisoner in the kotwal's house 250
BOOK IX.
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"[49]
Of Saint and Sage I have long quaffed deep,
What need for me to study spirits and
_hsien_?
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Thou art my love,
And thou art a strorm
That breaks black in the sky,
And, sweeping headlong,
Drenches
and cowers each tree,
And at the panting end
There is no sound
Save the melancholy cry of a single owl--
Woe is me!
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Other "Cossack Tales" rapidly followed, including the famous "Taras
Bulba"; in
recognition
of which, and of his project for writing a
history of Russia in the Middle Ages, he was rewarded with a chair of
history at St.
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The soldyerres
followed
wythe a myghtie crie,
Cryes, yatte welle myghte the stouteste hartes affraie.
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I am the noblest blood in Europe, Madam,
A
Courtenay
of Devon, and her cousin.
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And after hours of
contention
they
parted.
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I had no
thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some persons of rank and
fortune (the authors of "Verses to the
Imitator
of Horace," and of an
"Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court") to
attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my writings (of which,
being public, the public is judge), but my person, morals, and family,
whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite.
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You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the
minarets
of
Mecca!
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If we have fallen,
It is that we have sinned,--we: God is just;
And, since his curse doth
comprehend
us both,
It must be that his balance holds the weights
Of first and last sin on a level.
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: _manentum_ O: _manent
tum_ Schulze
9
_omniaque_
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When Ali prayed and loved
Where Syrian waters roll,
Upward the ninth heaven
thrilled
and moved;
At the tread of the jubilant soul.
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Emerson - Poems |
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ROME: ON THE PALATINE
(_April_, 1887)
WE walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile,
And passed to Livia's rich red mural show,
Whence, thridding cave and Criptoportico,
We gained Caligula's
dissolving
pile.
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But when Aurora,
daughter
of the dawn,
Blush'd in the East, then from his bed arose
The sacred might of the Phaeacian King.
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)
ALLE (singen):
Uns ist ganz
kannibalisch
wohl,
Als wie funfhundert Sauen!
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Young palmer sun, that to these shining sands
Pourest thy pilgrim's tale, discoursing still
Thy silver passages of sacred lands,
With news of Sepulchre and Dolorous Hill,
Canst thou be he that, yester-sunset warm,
Purple with Paynim rage and wrack desire,
Dashed
ravening
out of a dusty lair of Storm,
Harried the west, and set the world on fire?
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THIS ETEXT IS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED
TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Meantime (the care and favourite of the skies
Wrapp'd in
imbowering
shade, Ulysses lies,
His woes forgot!
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While these by Juno's will the strife resign,
The warring gods in fierce contention join:
Rekindling rage each heavenly breast alarms:
With horrid
clangour
shock the ethereal arms:
Heaven in loud thunder bids the trumpet sound;
And wide beneath them groans the rending ground.
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos terribles bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des
groseillers
sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
Oh!
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Wherefore dost thou in
penitential
fasting
Waste and consume the beauty of thy youth.
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet carillon of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no companions else
Than ghostly
kilometer
posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
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"And now beside thee,
bleating
lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
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blake-poems |
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To balls and banquets ALL themselves resigned;
Of dwarf or valet nothing more we find;
Each with his wife contentedly remained:--
'Tis thus alone true
happiness
is gained.
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* * * *
Who flocking eager to fray did rave with infuriate spirit,
"Evoe"
phrensying
loud, with heads at "Evoe" rolling.
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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_sa-bar; sa-sud-da_,
liturgical
note, 182, 31.
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Car c'est vraiment, Seigneur, le meilleur temoignage
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignite
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d'age en age
Et vient mourir au bord de votre
eternite!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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PAN
O what are heroes, prophets, men,
But pipes through which the breath of Pan doth blow
A
momentary
music.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" {32a}
Nor is that worthy speech of Zeno the
philosopher
to be passed over with
the note of ignorance; who being invited to a feast in Athens, where a
great prince's ambassadors were entertained, and was the only person that
said nothing at the table; one of them with courtesy asked him, "What
shall we return from thee, Zeno, to the prince our master, if he asks us
of thee?
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Me, lur'd by hope her sorrows to remove, 45
A heart, that could not much itself approve,
O'er Gallia's wastes of corn dejected led,
[C] Her road elms
rustling
thin above my head,
Or through her truant pathway's native charms,
By secret villages and lonely farms, 50
To where the Alps, ascending white in air,
Toy with the Sun, and glitter from afar.
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Louis, Missouri, where she
attended
a school
that was founded by the grandfather of another great poet from St.
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--
Has flitted from me, like the warmthless flame,
That makes false promise of a place of rest
To the tired Pilgrim's still
believing
mind;--
Or like some Elfin Knight in kingly court,
Who having won all guerdons in his sport,
Glides out of view, and whither none can find!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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--Love himself more tame,
With pity soothes my ills; while that cold heart,
Insensible to the devouring flame
Which wastes my vitals,
triumphs
in my smart.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely
whispered
sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss murmured only in your hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I leave them my
inheritance!
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Byron |
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Come back then,
children!
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Hugo - Poems |
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edition;
unreprieved
1834, 1839, 1st edition.
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Shelley |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And
monarchs
tremble in their capitals.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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1849
TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning--
Of all to whom thine absence is the night--
The
blotting
utterly from out high heaven
The sacred sun--of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope--for life--ah!
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Poe - 5 |
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I've
measured
it from side to side:
'Tis three feet long [i] and two feet wide.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When winds go round and round in bands,
And thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead,
To bear them orchestra,
I crave him grace, of summer boughs,
If such an outcast be,
He never heard that
fleshless
chant
Rise solemn in the tree,
As if some caravan of sound
On deserts, in the sky,
Had broken rank,
Then knit, and passed
In seamless company.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Would thou hadst
something
else to do,
That thus to spoil my joy thou burnest.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For thrice three hundred years the full parade
Files past, a
cavalcade
of fear and wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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This land is ours by right of birth,
This land is ours by right of toil;
We helped to turn its virgin earth,
Our sweat is in its
fruitful
soil.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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neither seemly were the deed
Nor just, to maim or harm
whatever
guest
Whom here arrived Telemachus receives.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Ils sont
familiers
du grand turc!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld
Scotland
wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer
Gie her a haggis!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Pale are their lips, each look in wild amaze
The horror of
detected
guilt betrays.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Cardinal Colonna forced our poet into this pilgrimage to
Baume, famous for its adjacent cavern, where,
according
to the tradition
of the country, Mary Magdalen passed thirty years of repentance.
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Petrarch |
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So will this prophet die, even Oecleus' child,
Sage, just, and brave, and loyal towards Heaven,
Potent in prophecy, but mated here
With men of sin, too
boastful
to be wise!
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Aeschylus |
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wasshyng
of her vessel
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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produced from images
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made available by The
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And often, lounging with friends in the soft grass
Beside a river of water, underneath
A big tree's branches, merrily they'd refresh
Their frames, with no vast outlay--most of all
If the weather were smiling and the times of the year
Were
painting
the green of the grass around with flowers.
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Lucretius |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So long as Death 'twixt dance and dance
Chills best and bravest blood,
And drops the
reckless
rider down
The rotten, rain-soaked khud,
So long as rumours from the North
Make loving wives afraid,
So long as Burma takes the boy
Or typhoid kills the maid,
If you love me as I love you
What knife can cut our love in two?
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Kipling - Poems |
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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L'IDEAL
Ce ne seront jamais ces beautes de vignettes,
Produits
avaries, nes d'un siecle vaurien,
Ces pieds a brodequins, ces doigts a castagnettes,
Qui sauront satisfaire un coeur comme le mien.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thy cruel, woe-delighted train,
The
ministers
of grief and pain,
A sullen welcome, all!
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Robert Forst |
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[Illustration]
I had been to the play
With my pearl of a Peri--
But, for all I could say,
She
declared
she was weary,
That "the place was so crowded and hot, and she couldn't abide that
Dundreary.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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often I dream
For a rest
Like your nest,
Skirting
the stream.
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Hugo - Poems |
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then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,
And these my
exhortations!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Here no man treadeth oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings,
tendered
words of calm.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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but wha{n} it 2696
forleti?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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His nap is
disturbed
by a
little noise at the door, which is softly opened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I'll teach the
villains!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I'm now so very ashamed of myself for having permitted
Gossip of
neighbors
to spoil picture so eloquent.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Since that the truest Issue of thy Throne
By his owne Interdiction stands accust,
And do's
blaspheme
his breed?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Indeed, many other points
both in his
appearance
and demeanor might have very well sustained a
conception of that nature.
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Poe - 5 |
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The
Latin ballads
perished
forever.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_Au_, in such words as
_daughter_
and _slaughter_, he pronounces
_ah_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Must thou heap thy bed
With gold of
murdered
men, to buy to thee
Thy strange man's arms?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk
Along the surges
creeping
up the shore
When tides came in to ease the hungry beach,
And running, running till the night was black,
Would fall forespent upon the chilly sand
And quiver with the winds from off the sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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