Lines Written in Sickness_
HAEC mea, si casu miraris,
epistula
quare
alterius digitis scripta sit: aeger eram.
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Tacitus |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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AUTUMN VIOLETS
(_Macmillan's Magazine_,
November
1868.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No, I cannot endure a
happiness
that galls me,
Oenone.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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As when his eye one fixes on a bard
From heav'n instructed in such themes as charm
The ear of mortals, ever as he sings
The people press, insatiable, to hear,
So, in my cottage, seated at my side,
That stranger with his tale
enchanted
me.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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MEMORIES
OF A CHILDHOOD
The darkness hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
124
syluener
ylueren, i.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Before, on pinions light,
Fair Pleasure flits, and lures him childlike on,
While home and kin make moan
Beneath the
grinding
burden of his crime;
Till, in the end of time,
Cast down of heaven, he pours forth fruitless prayer
To powers that will not hear.
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the Clarions of War blew loud
The Feast redounds & Crownd with roses & the circling vine
The Enormous Bride & Bridegroom sat, beside them Urizen
With faded radiance sighd, forgetful of the flowing wine
And of Ahania his Pure Bride but She was distant far
But Los & Enitharmon sat in
discontent
& scorn
Craving the more the more enjoying, drawing out sweet bliss
From all the turning wheels of heaven & the chariots of the Slain
At distance Far in Night repelld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Toi dont l'oeil clair connait les
profonds
arsenaux
Ou dort enseveli le peuple des metaux,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Elle rigavan lor di sangue il volto,
che,
mischiato
di lagrime, a' lor piedi
da fastidiosi vermi era ricolto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Note 84: On Palm Sunday the
Russians
carry branches, or used to
do so.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Imagists |
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What peace,
unravished
of our ken,
Annihilate from the world of men?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yet I the vengeance of his shame will wreak--
That do the gods
command!
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Aeschylus |
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Rodrigue
To possess Chimene, and do you service,
What will my weapons not
accomplish?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Et male
tentanti
querulam respondet avena :
Quin et Rogerio dissiluere fides.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But then recollecting how the harper
Aniphion
Made Thebes dance aloft while he fiddled and
sung.
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van (Johannes
Christiaan
Neuman), iv.
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Byron |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I would not
put it in the power of
ignorance
to surmise, or malice to insinuate,
that I clubbed a share in the work from mercenary motives.
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Robert Forst |
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Sweet is the swallow
twittering
on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching their huge and dripping mouths across the farmyard gate.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Dost deem me capable of
speaking
ill of my life, she who is dearer to me
than are both mine eyes?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your
Babylonish
seers.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CXI cum CX
continuant
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Latin - Catullus |
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Brave lordly king, what's to be done
With our vast armies, great tournaments,
Bright courts, and fine gifts and handsome,
If you're gone, that had their
captaining?
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Troubador Verse |
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Christ, through
some divine
instinct
in him, seems to have always loved the sinner as
being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of man.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For this reason,
many musical compositions,
particularly
where much of the merit lies
in counterpoint, however they may transport and ravish the ears of
your connoisseurs, affect my simple lug no otherwise than merely as
melodious din.
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Robert Burns |
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Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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At length, by wholesome dread of
statutes
bound,
The poets learned to please, and not to wound:
Most warped to flatt'ry's side; but some more nice,
Preserved the freedom, and forebore the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Beowulf, by Anonymous
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEOWULF ***
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt
invention
quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And all the man was broken with remorse;
And all his love came back a hundredfold;
And for three hours he sobb'd o'er William's child,
Thinking
of William.
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Tennyson |
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Can't I divine yet the paths through which over and over
To her and from her I'll go, squandering
valuable
time?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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nec enim dominos de plebe tulisti,
sed quibus occasus pariter
famulantur
et ortus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts,
murmuring
with the bees:
And our blood, enamoured of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Her eyes were open, but she still beheld,
Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep:
There was a painful change, that nigh expell'd 300
The blisses of her dream so pure and deep
At which fair Madeline began to weep,
And moan forth witless words with many a sigh;
While still her gaze on
Porphyro
would keep;
Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye,
Fearing to move or speak, she look'd so dreamingly.
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Therefore
will of his
Cannot to thee be dark.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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) (To
GREGORY)
Why don't you join
in the song?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Each contained either twelve or thirteen, the twelve or thirteen being
made up
sometimes
by the inclusion of the Funeral Elegy, 'Sorrow who
to this house,' afterwards called _Elegie on the L.
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John Donne |
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" During the classical period
these
consonant
endings were gradually weakening, and to-day, except in
the south, they are wholly lost.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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Song _'I' the
gloaming
light'_
v.
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Tennyson |
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New
children
play upon the green,
New weary sleep below;
And still the pensive spring returns,
And still the punctual snow!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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All Nations they shall teach; for from that day
Not onely to the Sons of
Abrahams
Loines
Salvation shall be Preacht, but to the Sons
Of Abrahams Faith wherever through the world;
So in his seed all Nations shall be blest.
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Milton |
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: _saluis_ GOha Laurentiani: _salius_ CABD: _salius_ an
_saluis_ sit in R non dispexi: _saltus_ Auantius, quo scripto
_Mentula_
uocatiuus
erit || _mensula_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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and 3824
to
discoueren
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Prophetic
joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife,
the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Stephen Crane |
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O'er Indus' banks, o'er Ganges' smiling vales,
No more the hind his plunder'd field bewails:
O'er ev'ry field, O Peace, thy
blossoms
glow,
The golden blossoms of thy olive bough;
Firm bas'd on wisest laws great Castro crowns,
And the wide East the Lusian empire owns.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Of course, authority and
compulsion
are out of the question.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Que l'aspect
permanent
de vos pales tenebres,
--Si ce n'est par un soir sans lune, deux a deux,
D'endormir la douleur sur un lit hasardeux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wherefore
again, again, there's naught for wonder
*****
In those which render from the mirror's plane
A vision back, since each thing comes to pass
By means of the two airs.
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Lucretius |
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Though Earth
received
them in her bed,
And o'er the spot the crowd may tread
In carelessness or mirth,
There is an eye which could not brook
A moment on that grave to look.
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Golden Treasury |
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291 _flamati_ O: _flam_(_mm_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Notes: Arnaut here invents the sestina, with its fixed set of words ending the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a
different
order each time; numbering the first stanza's lines 123456, then the words ending the following stanzas appear in the order 615243, then 364125, then 532614, then 451362, and 246531.
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Troubador Verse |
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I spoke of our gigantic
mechanical
forces.
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Poe - 5 |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In this act of
creation
he serves eternity.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ring, for the scant
salvation!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
tsarevich
a boyar hath sent to us.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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These were Edmunds of the _Middlesex Journal_; Fell of the
_Freeholders Magazine_;
Hamilton
of the _Town and Country Magazine_;
and Dodsley--the same to whom he had sent a portion of _AElla_--of the
_Annual Register_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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net/
The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University
of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications of the Babylonian Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I stood
Amid a self-ruled multitude
That by nor sound nor word
Betrayed how
mightily
its heart was stirred,
A memory Time never could efface--
A memory of Grief--
Like a great Silence brooded o'er the place;
And men breathed hard, as seeking for relief
From an emotion strong
That would not cry, though held in check too long.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Denn freilich mag ich gern die Menge sehen,
Wenn sich der Strom nach unsrer Bude drangt,
Und mit
gewaltig
wiederholten Wehen
Sich durch die enge Gnadenpforte zwangt;
Bei hellem Tage, schon vor vieren,
Mit Stossen sich bis an die Kasse ficht
Und, wie in Hungersnot um Brot an Backerturen,
Um ein Billet sich fast die Halse bricht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Not higher than a two-years' child,
It stands erect this aged thorn;
No leaves it has, no thorny points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A
wretched
thing forlorn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LXII
Never, I ween, did swimmer,
In such an evil case,
Struggle
through such a raging flood
Safe to the landing place:
But his limbs were borne up bravely
By the brave heart within,
And our good father Tiber
Bare bravely up his chin.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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La Fontaine |
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Breezes blow into the night, and the white moonshine speeds them
on; the sea
glitters
in her quivering radiance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But
everything
that touches you and me
Welds us as played strings sound one melody.
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Rilke - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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We passed
through ten
thousand
valleys, and in each we heard the voice of wind
among the pines.
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'Hence to thy
fellows!
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Of all the ills unhappy mortals know,
A life of wanderings is the
greatest
woe;
On all their weary ways wait care and pain,
And pine and penury, a meagre train.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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nisi quod O
habet _leuiterque sonant_: _lenique sonant_ Lennep: _leni
resonant_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Now silent, now singing and swaying and swinging,
like blossoms that bend to the breezes or showers,
Now wantonly winding, they flash, now they
falter, and, lingering,
languish
in radiant
choir;
Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering, lily-long
fingers enchant through melodious hours,
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And they collected the seven
feathers
of the seven
young Parrots, and the seven bills of the seven young Storks, and the
lettuce, and the cherry; and having placed the latter on the lettuce, and
the other objects in a circular arrangement at their base, they danced a
hornpipe round all these memorials until they were quite tired; after which
they gave a tea-party, and a garden-party, and a ball, and a concert, and
then returned to their respective homes full of joy and respect, sympathy,
satisfaction, and disgust.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"O star," said the tremulous ray,
"Grief and
struggle
I found.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And him she saw, where thickest carnage spread,
But gathered breathing from the happier dead; 880
Far from his band, and battling with a host
That deem right dearly won the field he lost,
Felled--bleeding--baffled of the death he sought,
And
snatched
to expiate all the ills he wrought;
Preserved to linger and to live in vain,
While Vengeance pondered o'er new plans of pain,
And stanched the blood she saves to shed again--
But drop by drop, for Seyd's unglutted eye
Would doom him ever dying--ne'er to die!
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Byron |
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1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace
compound
of Chang?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Leave all thy winsome ways
And the faint
fragrance
of thy scattered flowers:
In holy silence wait the appointed days,
And weep away the leaden-footed hours.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For the eldest of these, by unmeet chance,
by kinsman's deed, was the death-bed strewn,
when
Haethcyn
killed him with horny bow,
his own dear liege laid low with an arrow,
missed the mark and his mate shot down,
one brother the other, with bloody shaft.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou hast not
understood
the cure we meant.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad
coloured
flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And Death, from my eyes,
stealing
the clarity,
Gives back to the day, defiled, all his purity.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Mompesson was connected by
marriage
with James
I.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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