Last let us turn to where
Chamouny
[Dd] shields, 680
Bosom'd in gloomy woods, her golden fields,
Five streams of ice amid her cots descend,
And with wild flowers and blooming orchards blend,
A scene more fair than what the Grecian feigns
Of purple lights and ever vernal plains.
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The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her
mistress
lived.
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haec etiam
queritur
secum: 'quonam usque uerendus
cunctatur mea uota socer?
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Oh that I had but
strength
to reach the place!
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Rilke - Poems |
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_To the handsome
Mistress
Grace Potter.
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Robert Herrick |
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I must say that I, for one, never wholly believed in the
Mysticism
of
Hafiz.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Redondo, when he entered on office,
pretended to be the friend of Camoens; yet, with the most unfeeling
indifference, he
suffered
the innocent man to be thrown into the common
prison.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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But, at last, light showed us our advantage;
The Moors faced defeat, and so lost courage:
And seeing our reinforcements on the way,
Fear of death
destroyed
their hopes with day.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The youthful
brothers
thus for fame contend,
Nor knew the fortune of Achilles' friend;
In thought they view'd him still, with martial joy,
Glorious in arms, and dealing death to Troy.
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Contents
A Toast
Futile Petition
A Negress
Distress
Summer Sadness
The Clown Chastised
The Poem's Gift
L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
Tomb (Of Verlaine)
Prose
A Fan
Another Fan
Album Leaf
Note
Little Air
Sonnet: 'Quand l'ombre menaca.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LXII
Much that not
lawfully
could here be shown,
Taking him by the hand, to him he read.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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His
strength
he trusted,
hand-gripe of might.
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On her Ulysses then she fix'd her soul;
Down her fair cheek the tears
abundant
roll,
Till gentle Pallas, piteous of her cries,
In slumber closed her silver-streaming eyes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
"The Government of Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India, in which, if
the Congress
promoters
are to be believed, the people have an implicit
trust; for the Congress circular, specially prepared for rustic
comprehension, says the movement is 'for the remission of tax,
the advancement of Hindustan, and the strengthening of the British
Government.
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Kipling - Poems |
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ou art holden good & hende,
Alesed of gret
Almesse!
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His litter of smooth semilucent mist,
Diversely
ting'd with rose and amethyst,
Puzzled those eyes that for the centre sought;
And scarcely for one moment could be caught 390
His sluggish form reposing motionless.
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Observant of the prince's high behest,
His menial train attend the stranger-guest;
Whom Pallas with unpardoning fury fired,
By lordly pride and keen
reproach
inspired.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
question, the inevitable question, arises--What was, what is, the secret
of Byron's
Continental
vogue?
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and what if she should die some afternoon,
Afternoon
grey and smoky, evening yellow and rose;
Should die and leave me sitting pen in hand
With the smoke coming down above the housetops;
Doubtful, for quite a while
Not knowing what to feel or if I understand
Or whether wise or foolish, tardy or too soon .
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XIX
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood
cheering
by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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There, soon, the portico, the court, the hall
Were fill'd with
multitudes
of young and old,
For whose regale the mighty monarch slew
Two beeves, twelve sheep, and twice four fatted brawns.
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he from heav'ns highth 190
All these our motions vain, sees and derides;
Not more
Almighty
to resist our might
Then wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.
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'"]
"The world is but a Thought," said he:
"The vast
unfathomable
sea
Is but a Notion--unto me.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Eternity points in its amaranth bower,
Where no clouds of fate o'er the sweet
prospect
lower,
Unspeakable pleasure, of goodness the dower, _15
When woe fades away like the mist of the heath.
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Shelley |
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any statements
concerning
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Yeats |
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For men say
She
dwelleth
in these hills, no more a maid
But wedded.
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Euripides - Electra |
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He has almost supt: why haue you left the
chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Says the tinker, I've brawled till no breath I have got
And not met with twopence to
purchase
a pot.
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John Clare |
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1630
She has
punished
herself, and escaped my anger,
By seeking in the waves a far gentler torture.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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does any of you
recognize
him?
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Aristophanes |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Like rocks which fire lifts out of the flat deep, _125
Arose in sacred Italy,
Frowning o'er the
tempestuous
sea
Of kings, and priests, and slaves, in tower-crowned majesty;
That multitudinous anarchy did sweep
And burst around their walls, like idle foam, _130
Whilst from the human spirit's deepest deep
Strange melody with love and awe struck dumb
Dissonant arms; and Art, which cannot die,
With divine wand traced on our earthly home
Fit imagery to pave Heaven's everlasting dome.
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Shelley |
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Now virgins came bearing
Caskets
securely
locked, richly wreathed with grain.
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It is certain, however, that he wrote single-handed fifteen
plays, of which the best known is the
masterly
and satirical comedy,
"A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
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_--Alludes to the discovery and
conquest
of the
Brazils by the Portuguese.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Are our brows
Wrinkled?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
And--
"Ah, what a
redoubtable
god!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There is a great trade of
smuggling
carried on
along our coasts, which, however destructive to the interests of the
kingdom at large, certainly enriches this corner of it, but too often
at the expense of our morals.
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Robert Forst |
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]
[Footnote 67: a
minstrel
is a musician.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CCLXVIII
That Emperour,
returning
out of Spain,
Arrived in France, in his chief seat, at Aix,
Clomb to th' Palace, into the hall he came.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He seems to have settled
permanently
at Ch'ang-an in 801.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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6165
And if I dwelle, I feyne me
I may wel in her abit go;
But me were lever my nekke atwo,
Than lete a purpose that I take,
What
covenaunt
that ever I make.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The develles engins wolde me take,
If I my [lorde] wolde forsake, 4550
Or
Bialacoil
falsly bitraye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Here
blooming
youth adore Priapus' shrine,
And priests pronounce him sacred and divine.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Les plus riches cites, les plus grands paysages,
Jamais ne
contenaient
l'attrait mysterieux
De ceux que le hasard fait avec les nuages,
Et toujours le desir nous rendait soucieux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Unnatural
vices
Are fathered by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a necklace
wreathed
with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But a three months'
joyaunce
lay 'twixt that moment and to-day--
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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) Alluding to Sultan Mahmud's
Conquest
of India and its dark
people.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He admired Omar's Genius so much, that he would gladly
have adopted any such
Interpretation
of his meaning as Mons.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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was one of the military
classics
and refers to Guo Ziyi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It
would, on the contrary, have been strange if these things had not
come to pass; and we should be justified in
pronouncing
them
highly probable even if we had no direct evidence on the subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Dearly bought the hidden treasure
Finer
feelings
can bestow:
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now I am curious what sight can ever be more stately and admirable to me
than my mast-hemmed Manhatta,
My river and sunset, and my scallop-edged waves of flood-tide;
The sea-gulls
oscillating
their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and
the belated lighter;
Curious what Gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with
voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I
approach;
Curious what is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man
that looks in my face,
Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you.
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Whitman |
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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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Roar now above my decaying flesh, you winds,
Whirl out your earth-scents over this body, tell me
Of ferns and stagnant pools, wild roses,
hillsides!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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GD}
He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Here was
the
machinery
he was looking for made to his hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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XII
As once we saw the
children
of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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the tender arms
In which I trust are open to me still,
Though fears my bosom fill
Of others' fate, and my own heart alarms,
Which worldly
feelings
spur, haply, to utmost ill.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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ergo, cum silices, cum dens
patientis
aratri
depereant aeuo, carmina morte carent:
cedant carminibus reges regumque triumphi,
cedat et auriferi ripa benigna Tagi!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Au temps de Baudelaire, c'est-a-dire vers le milieu du dix-neuvieme
siecle, l'ile Saint-Louis ressemblait par la paix
silencieuse
qui
regnait a travers ses rues et ses quais a certaines villes de province
ou l'on va nu-tete chez le voisin, ou l'on s'attarde a bavarder au
seuil des maisons et a y prendre le frais par les beaux soirs d'ete a
l'heure ou la nuit tombe.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ere up to you I turn, O
lustrous
stars,
Or downwards in love's labyrinthine wood,
Leaving my fleshly frame in mouldering earth,
Could I but pity find in her, one day
Would many years redeem, and to the dawn
With bliss enrich me from the setting sun!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If
he do not recognize you as Tzar, he needs not to ask justice of you; if,
on the other hand, he do recognize you, wherefore, then, has he stayed
in
Orenburg
until now, in the midst of your enemies.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I see the
inundation
sweet,
I hear the spending of the stream
Through years, through men, through Nature fleet,
Through love and thought, through power and dream.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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CXXVIII
The count Rollant great loss of his men sees,
His companion Olivier calls, and speaks:
"Sir and comrade, in God's Name, That you keeps,
Such good vassals you see lie here in heaps;
For France the Douce, fair country, may we weep,
Of such barons long
desolate
she'll be.
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Chanson de Roland |
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LES
PLAINTES
D'UN ICARE
Les amants des prostituees
Sont heureux, dispos et repus;
Quant a moi, mes bras sont rompus
Pour avoir etreint des nuees.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Along the lichened pathway of the leaf-crowned alley,
With faltering
footsteps
tardily we passed,
And then through ever lighter-glimmering twigs, the
valley
With distant dome re-opened forth at last.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through branches bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms
it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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E avvegna ch'io fossi al dubbiar mio
li quasi vetro a lo color ch'el veste,
tempo
aspettar
tacendo non patio,
ma de la bocca, <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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