With equal justice
one might advise students who wish to catch the spirit of our so-called
Augustan age, and to realize at once the limitations and possibilities
of its poetry, to devote
themselves
to the study of 'The Rape of the
Lock'.
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"[167]
Your
lordship
touches the darling chord of my heart when you advise me
to fire my muse at Scottish story and Scotch scenes.
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o saeclum insapiens et
infacetum!
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Latin - Catullus |
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XIX
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With
thunderous
blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
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Stephen Crane |
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It spurned him from its
lowliest
lot,
The meanest station owned him not;
An outcast thrown in sorrow's way,
A fugitive that knew no sin,
Yet in lone places forced to stray--
Men would not take the stranger in.
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John Clare |
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Monarch of floods,
magnificent
and strong,
That meet'st the sun as he leads on the day,
But in the west dost quit a fairer light;
Thy curved course this body wafts along;
My spirit on Love's pinions speeds its way,
And to its darling home directs its flight!
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Petrarch |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the wrackful siege of
battering
days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For I have heard the drums beat,
I have seen the drummer
striding
from street to street,
Crying, "Be strong!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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William Wordsworth |
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Germs
Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants,
whatever they may be,
Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless
combinations
and effects,
Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand
provided for a handful of space, which I extend my arm and
half enclose with my hand,
That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lors m'en alai tout droit a destre,
Par une petitete sente
Plaine de fenoil et de mente; 720
Mes auques pres trove Deduit,
Car
maintenant
en ung reduit
M'en entre ou Deduit estoit.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[Of the Translations that follow a few were
published
by Shelley
himself, others by Mrs.
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Shelley |
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My days of life
approach
their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each stubbornly proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Now they begin to roar their terror: now
They wave and beckon wordless
desperate
things
One to another.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all books
yet produced is the _Book of Nonsense_, with its corollary
carols,
inimitable
and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries,
querulous
criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_ cernis ut adtrito diffusus
caespite
pagus
annua uota ferat sollemnisque imbuat aras?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I wake, and fall asleep again,
The same
delights
in visions rise;
There's nothing can appear more plain
Than those rose cheeks and those bright eyes.
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John Clare |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Sark,
Who made an
unpleasant
remark;
But they said, "Don't you see what a brute you must be,
You obnoxious old person of Sark!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Hatt had
discussed
so lightly once upon a time.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Troubador Verse |
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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
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Ronsard |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_insert_
alas _after_
him.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Besides, he was a husband, which is worse
With these each sin
receives
a double curse.
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La Fontaine |
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She sits in an
armchair
under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
The sun just shines on her old white head.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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or is this
A
preparation
in the wond'rous depth
Of thy sage counsel made, for some good end,
Entirely from our reach of thought cut off?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And with a mighty Crown thou shalt be crowned
Wrought of the gold of my smooth Verse, set round
With starry crystal rhymes; and I will make,
O mortal maid, a Mantle for thy sake,
And weave it of my jealousy, a gown
Heavy, barbaric, stiff, and
weighted
down
With my distrust, and broider round the hem
Not pearls, but all my tears in place of them.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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INDIAN:
And, if my grief should still be dearer to me
Than all the
pleasures
in the world beside,
Why would you lighten it?
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Shelley |
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Thine is the bounty that
prospered
our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that nurtured our corn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and
replaced
them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Is not thy mind
A hot
revolter
from the service due
To my divinity, passion in men's hearts?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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STRENGTH
Lo, the earth's bound and limitary land,
The
Scythian
steppe, the waste untrod of men!
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Aeschylus |
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This wage from Justice' hand do
sufferers
earn,
The future to discern:
And yet--farewell, O secret of To-morrow!
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Aeschylus |
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Lucius Sextius was the first
Plebeian Consul, Caius
Licinius
the third.
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"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate bird,
We shall need all our
strength
for the job!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"This sacrifice in essence of two things
Consisteth; one is that, whereof 't is made,
The
covenant
the other.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Probably
he is killed
in feud; but his clansmen, Guthlaf and Oslaf, gather at their home a
force of sturdy Danes, come back to Frisia, storm Finn's stronghold,
kill him, and carry back their kinswoman Hildeburh.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It is a stormy
afternoon
and growing
dark_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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) will,
_no doubt, have to
struggle
with feelings of awkwardness; (ha!
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Poe - 5 |
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And stole from death thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Infinite is the fall,--the
Atonement
infinite likewise.
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Longfellow |
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He deck'd her over with long planks, upborne
On massy beams; He made the mast, to which
He added
suitable
the yard;--he framed
Rudder and helm to regulate her course,
With wicker-work he border'd all her length
For safety, and much ballast stow'd within.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about
To have men think he's troubled with the gout;
But 'tis no gout, believe it, but hard beer,
Whose
acrimonious
humour bites him here.
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Robert Herrick |
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'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son--
Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his
imperial
throne;
His valiant peers were placed around;
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crown'd).
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Golden Treasury |
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Coleridge, August 20, 1833); and Landor's
testimony
was welcome and
consolatory.
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Byron |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Aeneas--for a father's affection denied his spirit rest--sends Achates
speeding to his ships, to carry this news to Ascanius, and lead him to
the town: in
Ascanius
is fixed all the parent's loving care.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O ill-starred maid, what frenzy caught thy soul
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields
With their feigned lowings, yet no one of them
Of such unhallowed union e'er was fain
As with a beast to mate, though many a time
On her smooth
forehead
she had sought for horns,
And for her neck had feared the galling plough.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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LA VOIX
Mon berceau s'adossait a la bibliotheque,
Babel sombre, ou roman, science, fabliau,
Tout, la cendre latine et la
poussiere
grecque,
Se melaient.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Will you be good enough to stop talking
nonsense?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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see what sweetness showers upon that face,
Heaven's
brightness
to this earth those eyes unfold!
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Petrarch |
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Then Una gan to aske, if ought he knew,
Or heard abroad of that her
champion
trew, 315
That in his armour bare a croslet red.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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When she dashed by me I seized her,
mistaking
her not.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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We are like you, ye
victorious
Romans, in this: for we offer
Gods of all peoples and tribes, over the whole world, a home--
May the Egyptian, black and austere out of primeval basalt,
Or from the marble a Greek, form them charming and white--
Yet the eternal ones do not object to particularism
(Incense of most precious sort, strewn for just one of their host).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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CXIII
"Argia somewhat coy at first appears;
Partly that she her faith will not forego;
Partly that she
believes
not all she hears
That beldam of the dog and pilgrim show.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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For, verily, the mortal to conjoin
With the eternal, and to feign they feel
Together, and can function each with each,
Is but to dote: for what can be conceived
Of more unlike, discrepant, ill-assorted,
Than something mortal in a union joined
With an immortal and a secular
To bear the outrageous
tempests?
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Lucretius |
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont contents depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans
ridicule
et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This brilliant and versatile author has
written many essays on phases of the war, including weekly contributions
to _The
Illustrated
London News_.
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Ease was his chief disease, and to judge right,
He di'd for heavines that his Cart went light,
His leasure told him that his time was com,
And lack of load, made his life burdensom
That even to his last breath (ther be that say't)
As he were prest to death, he cry'd more waight;
But had his doings lasted as they were,
He had bin an
immortall
Carrier.
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Milton |
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In return he was
respected
and loved by them.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the
bisected
fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Onward the bridal procession now moved to their new habitation,
Happy husband and wife, and friends
conversing
together.
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First Titus gave tall Caeso
A death wound in the face;
Tall Caeso was the bravest man
Of the brave Fabian race:
Aulus slew Rex of Gabii,
The priest of Juno's shrine;
Valerius smote down Julius,
Of Rome's great Julian line;
Julius, who left his mansion,
High on the Velian hill,
And through all turns of weal and woe
Followed
proud Tarquin still.
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Sed magis, o nuptae, semper
concordia
vostras
Semper amor sedes incolat adsiduos.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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absence for an unknown period —
probably
about
two years — ^in Holland.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault,
And each exalted stanza teems with
thought!
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But I have found no
instance
of the phrase in this
sense.
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John Donne |
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His
prospects
on leaving Edinburgh 341
LIII.
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Robert Forst |
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With
baronage
and joy they bring him in.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Musicians wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air,
I hear the silver strife;
And -- waking long before the dawn --
Such
transport
breaks upon the town
I think it that "new life!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Farewell
dear mate, dear love!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With stern-resolv'd,
despairing
eye,
I see each aimed dart;
For one has cut my dearest tie,
And quivers in my heart.
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Robert Burns |
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If Saturn's rings were two or three,
And what bump in Phrenology
They truly
represented?
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James Russell Lowell |
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XIX
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the
centuries
might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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uvre_ by weavers wrought,
Where a thousand threads one treadle plies,
Backward and forward the shuttles keep going,
Invisibly the threads keep flowing,
One stroke a thousand
fastenings
ties:
Comes the philosopher and cries:
I'll show you, it could not be otherwise:
The first being so, the second so,
The third and fourth must of course be so;
And were not the first and second, you see,
The third and fourth could never be.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Divide ye bands influence by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the
surrounding
text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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dead even
then;
Months, years, an echoing,
garnished
house-but dead, dead, dead!
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Whitman |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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Without doubt
I saw, and yet it seems to pass before me,
A
headless
trunk, that even as the rest
Of the sad flock pac'd onward.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Two forms are slowly shadowed on my sight--
Two
insulated
phantoms of the brain:
It is not so: I see them full and plain--
An old man, and a female young and fair,
Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein
The blood is nectar:--but what doth she there,
With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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bencþelu
beredon, _cleared the
bench-boards_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection
of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It is a perfect world, a world of
consummate
excellence, a world of
supreme wonders, the ripest fruit in God's garden, the master-thought
of the universe.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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FATE
Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
Unknown to
Cromwell
as to me
Was Cromwell's measure or degree;
Unknown to him as to his horse,
If he than his groom be better or worse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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