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Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this
afternoon
for you";
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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45 to traine the youth=
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military
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I've known the fellow for years;
My button I've wrenched from his clutch, man:
I shudder
whenever
he nears!
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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SAS}
The Bands of Heaven flew thro the air singing & shouting to Urizen [the lord ]
Some fix'd the anvil, some the loom erected, some the plow
And harrow formd & framd the harness of silver & ivory
The golden compasses, the quadrant & the rule & balance
They erected the furnaces, they formd the anvils of gold beaten in mills
Where winter beats incessant, fixing them firm on their base
The bellows began to blow & the Lions of Urizen stood round the anvil
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And the leopards coverd with skins of beasts tended the roaring fires
Sublime
distinct
their lineaments divine of human beauty {Erdman notes that there is a pencil line here followed by erased pencil lines in the right margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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LE CREPUSCULE DU SOIR
Voici le soir charmant, ami du criminel;
Il vient comme un complice, a pas de loup; le ciel
Se ferme lentement comme une grande alcove,
Et l'homme
impatient
se change en bete fauve.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek,
And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek;
She neer so much as
mentioned
things to come,
But sighed oer pleasures ere she left her home;
And now and then a mournful smile would raise
At freaks repeated of our younger days,
Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground
Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round,
Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away--
Two games, poor thing, Jane dearly loved to play.
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John Clare |
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What
dignified
attendants,
What service when we pause!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--Oh, if I could ride
With my head held high-serene against the sky
Do you think I'd have a
creature
like you at my side
With your gloom and your doubt that you love me?
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Imagists |
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I had return'd, to break the weary fast
Of seeing her, my sole care in this world,
Kinder to me were Heaven and Love than e'en
If all their other gifts
together
join'd,
When from the right eye--rather the right sun--
Of my dear Lady to my right eye came
The ill which less my pain than pleasure makes;
As if it intellect possess'd and wings
It pass'd, as stars that shoot along the sky:
Nature and pity then pursued their course.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was to Jason, powerful king of the Cretans, she granted
Of her
immortal
self hidden sweet parts to explore.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so wondrous dear,
As for the lost we grapple,
Though all the rest are here, --
In broken mathematics
We
estimate
our prize,
Vast, in its fading ratio,
To our penurious eyes!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Madden
explains
to3t, promptly.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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La porpre fu toute orfroisie;
Si ot portraites a orfrois
Estoires
de dus et de rois.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Cette petite
anecdote
racontee par les historiens du poete est devenue
classique; mais nous n'avons pu resister au plaisir de la repeter ici.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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WATTEAU, the carnival of illustrious hearts,
Fluttering
like moths upon the wings of chance;
Bright lustres light the silk that flames and darts,
And pour down folly on the whirling dance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What time king Arthur filled the British throne,
This fountain Merlin made,
enchanter
sage;
Who things to come upon the marble fair
Made sculpture by a cunning artist's care.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pugatchef
allowed himself to be
moved.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
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John Clare |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms,
provoking
breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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With the increase of his judgment the light
which should make it
apparent
has faded away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Lascivious
grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Tell him it wasn't a practised writer,
You guessed, from the way the
sentence
toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Editions, issued in 1814,
are
identical
with the Fourth.
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Byron |
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some
abominable
statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a ferocious snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a protective poisonous air
Always to be breathed, although we die of her.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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Hugo - Poems |
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5 From the Capital Secretly Making My Way to Fengxiang and Delighting to Reach the Temporary Palace I I think back on the news from Qiyang to the west, that no one
successfully
got back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Aulus with his good broadsword
A bloody passage cleared
To where, amidst the
thickest
foes,
He saw the long white beard.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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2 For a while the
carriage
turned aside to Fenyang,3 at Liao a letter to the Yan general was sent flying.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It was the
misfortune
of Mr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man of Blackheath,
Whose head was adorned with a wreath
Of
lobsters
and spice, pickled onions and mice,
That uncommon old man of Blackheath.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To
engender
soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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O'BRIEN
Boston
(To be
published
by Henry Holt fit Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Frail
luckless
exiles hither brought!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Were it not sinful then,
striving
to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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little marked, how fast they rolled away:
Then rose a mansion proud our woods among,
And cottage after cottage owned its sway,
No joy to see a neighbouring house, or stray
Through pastures not his own, the master took;
My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay;
He loved his old
hereditary
nook,
And ill could I the thought of such sad parting brook.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Vito, a
younger brother of the aged Stefano, and uncle of the
Cardinal
and
Bishop.
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Petrarch |
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LXIV
Peliaco quondam prognatae uertice pinus
dicuntur liquidas Neptuni nasse per undas
Phasidos ad fluctus et fines Aeetaeos,
cum lecti iuuenes, Argiuae robora pubis,
auratam optantes Colchis auertere pellem 5
ausi sunt uada salsa cita
decurrere
puppi,
caerula uerrentes abiegnis aequora palmis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In 1857 The Flowers of Evil was published by Poulet-Malassis, who
afterward went into bankruptcy--a warning to
publishers
with a taste for
fine literature.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thy name, our
charging
hosts along,
Shall be the battle-word!
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Byron |
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Daly,
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
"All the
contents
are interesting.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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For me, my
faculties
are frozen,
My dearest member nearly dozen'd.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hence the
definition
is liable either to be too strict, or to admit work
which does not properly satisfy the criterion of feeling.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Li Po |
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Du, Holle,
musstest
dieses Opfer haben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The grateful reverence to
the hoary (earthly) author of his being--the burning glow when he
clasps the woman of his soul to his bosom--the tender yearnings of
heart for the little angels to whom he has given existence--these
nature has poured in milky streams about the human heart; and the man
who never rouses them to action, by the inspiring influences of their
proper objects, loses by far the most
pleasurable
part of his
existence.
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Robert Burns |
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MAY
I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know: it came to pass
Upon a bright and breezy day
When May was young; ah,
pleasant
May!
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Christina Rossetti |
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For wite thou wel,
withouten
were, 2740
In thank that thing is taken more,
For which a man hath suffred sore.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Some of the
musicians
follow
him, some linger in the doorway.
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Yeats |
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Get thee to the Green Chapel, I charge thee, to fetch such a
dint as thou hast dealt, to be
returned
on New Year's morn.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Or, on
mountain
peak, that rears its head
Where snow-clad Alps around are spread,
By furious gale 'tis thrown.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Such his oath--
His, the bold warrior, yet of
childish
years,
A bud of beauty's foremost flower, the son
Of Zeus and of the mountain maid.
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Aeschylus |
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You flaunted the
fragrance
of your blossoms
Through the wide doors of Custom Houses--
You, and sandal-wood, and tea,
Charging the noses of quill-driving clerks
When a ship was in from China.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Long have I borne thy service, through the stress
Of
rigorous
years, sad days and slumberless nights,
Performing thine inexorable rites.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A lanky fellow, against whom some time ago was
brought a grave law-suit anent the
spurious
child-birth of a lying belly.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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' Truly God has highly
favoured
us in sending us such a noble
guest as Sir Gawayne" (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
supernatural
motion is retarded; the Mariner awakes, and his penance
begins anew.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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As I mused I heard a murmur; it grew deep as it grew longer,
Speakers
using earnest language--"Lady Geraldine, you _would_!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet,
And laid him
kneeling
at thy feet.
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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And wander forth and hear my people weep,
Far from the woods where, when the sun has set,
Fearless
but weary to thy arms I creep;
Far from lush flow'rets and the palm-tree's moan
I could not live.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Think of those ages of gold when Jupiter followed his urges,
Chose
Callisto
one day, turned to Semel the next.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But soon there
breathed
a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Fro that demaunde he so descendeth doun
To asken hir, if that hir
straunge
thoughte 860
The Grekes gyse, and werkes that they wroughte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In the social satires of Pope's great admirer,
Byron, we are at no loss to perceive the ideal of
personal
liberty which
the poet opposes to the conventions he tears to shreds.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
Was it the wind
That rattled the reeds
together?
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Imagists |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From remembrance soon must fade,
As the wash of silver
moonlight
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From a purple-dark ravine.
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Sappho |
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e I-wys
In
pilerynage
at Galys,
To bryngen hym to Rome.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If what one desires and covets is ever obtained unhoped for, this is
specially
grateful
to the soul.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode,
atheling-born, a band of twelve,
lament to make, to mourn their king,
chant their dirge, and their
chieftain
honor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And yet for this want a supply is provided,
To a higher than earth the soul is guided,
We are ready and yearn for revelation:
And where are its light and warmth so blent
As here in the New
Testament?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But of his robe to devyse
I drede
encombred
for to be.
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And sheep, are both thy
sacrifice
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Nor merits he a mortars name,
That bums with an immortal fame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Elvire
No, I portrayed indifference to either
Raising or
lowering
the hopes of neither,
Your eyes neither too gentle nor severe,
Until your father's choice be made clear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Men and women pass in the street
Glad of the shining
sapphire
weather,
But we know more of it than they,
Pain and I together.
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Sara Teasdale |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
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unsolicited
donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But care draws forth the power within,
And
cultured
minds are strong for good:
Let manners fail, the plague of sin
Taints e'en the course of gentle blood.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
previous
translations
of this passage are erroneous.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thou to the hand of love-fierce swain
Deliverest
maiden fair and fain,
From mother's fondling bosom ta'en
Perforce, O Hymen?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The labourer, the half-witted fellow, the farmer and the
two lads mixed with a group of servants who were looking on from an
alcove, and Duallach sat with the pipers on their bench, but Costello
made his way through the dancers to where Dermott of the Sheep stood
with Namara of the Lake pouring Poteen out of a
porcelain
jug into horn
noggins with silver rims.
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Yeats |
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Many a time ere now
The sons have for the sire's
transgression
wail'd;
Nor let him trust the fond belief, that heav'n
Will truck its armour for his lilied shield.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nevertheless, the book is
far more
readable
than that of St.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ay, then the curse his father Cronos spake
As he fell helpless from his agelong throne,
Shall be
fulfilled
unto the utterance!
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Aeschylus |
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In
the first place I must acknowledge my debt to the Carnegie Trust for
the
Universities
of Scotland for allowing me a grant of ?
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John Donne |
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Labours none
Of men or oxen in the land appear'd,
Nor aught beside saw we, but from the earth 120
Smoke rising;
therefore
of my friends I sent
Before me two, adding an herald third,
To learn what race of men that country fed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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AMBROSE
Never, surely, was holier man
Than Ambrose, since the world began;
With diet spare and raiment thin
He
shielded
himself from the father of sin;
With bed of iron and scourgings oft,
His heart to God's hand as wax made soft.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XV
So dreadfully he towards him did pas,
Forelifting up aloft his speckled brest,
And often
bounding
on the brused gras,
As for great joyance of his newcome guest.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
I could not dispute the point with Saveliitch; my money, according to my
solemn promise, was
entirely
at his disposal.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And wines, purple and blue and like gold fire,
Made of the colours of the morning sea
And
fragrance
wild as woman's need of love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Full in the portal the chaste queen appears,
And with her veil conceals the coming tears:
On either side awaits a virgin fair;
While thus the matron, with
majestic
air:
"Say you, when these forbidden walls inclose,
For whom my victims bleed, my vintage flows:
If these neglected, faded charms can move?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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