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Par ces deux grands yeux noirs,
soupiraux
de ton ame,
O demon sans pitie, verse-moi moins de flamme;
Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois,
Helas!
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Meteors flash forth and expire,
Northern
lights kindle and pale;
These are the days of desire,
Of eyes looking upward that fail;
Vanishing days as a finishing tale.
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Et quand vous serez bas, geignant sur vos entrailles
Les flancs morts,
reclamant
votre argent, eperdus,
La rouge courtisane aux seins gros des batailles,
Loin de votre stupeur tordra ses poings ardus!
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Land of the
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
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as like you as the era of deltas.
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By the hour of dawn he was proud and stark,
Kissed the Indian babes with a sigh,
Went forth to live on roots and bark,
Sleep in the trees, while the years howled by--
Calling the catamounts by name,
And buffalo bulls no hand could tame,
Slaying never a living creature,
Joining the birds in every game,
With the gorgeous turkey gobblers mocking,
With the lean-necked eagles boxing and shouting;
Sticking their
feathers
in his hair,--
Turkey feathers,
Eagle feathers,--
Trading hearts with all beasts and weathers
He swept on, winged and wonder-crested,
Bare-armed, barefooted, and bare-breasted.
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TOOKS COURT,
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Would thou hadst heark'nd to my words, & stai'd
With me, as I
besought
thee, when that strange
Desire of wandring this unhappie Morn,
I know not whence possessd thee; we had then
Remaind still happie, not as now, despoild
Of all our good, sham'd, naked, miserable.
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But Colin slept a
careless
sleep
Beneath an apple tree.
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Tampius Flavianus and Pompeius
Silvanus, the two ex-consuls who
governed
respectively Pannonia and
Dalmatia,[420] were wealthy old gentlemen who had no thought of
rising.
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I love on mossy couch to sing
A Spanish roundelay,
And see my sweet companions
Around commingling gay,--
A roving band, light-hearted,
In frolicsome array,--
Who 'neath the
screening
parasols
Dance down the merry day.
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"
The
following
is the "account" written in her Journal on Tuesday, May
23, 1800:
"A very tall woman, tall much beyond the measure of tall women, called
at the door.
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Those
creatures
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I have the best of intentions toward you who have now dedicated--
I recognize it with thanks--life and
writings
to me.
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260)
solicited
subscriptions for it in
the palace, they were driven from the court.
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
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Yet we do not in
practice
accept the judgment of other nations upon
their own literature.
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Li Po |
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Ulysses, since beneath my brazen dome
Sublime thou hast arrived, like woes, I trust,
Thou shalt not in thy voyage hence sustain
By
tempests
tost, though much to woe inured.
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Du willst uns gar noch grob
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Mount with me, and ride away,
By the winding
moonlight
stream,
Through the shining gates of day!
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Dean Milles' edition of the Rowley poems--a
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this
vindicating
grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
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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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sentence
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Here no man treadeth oft nor loud,
Through
casement
comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
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of, the "pure Simonides.
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The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
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symphony
of variations on the two great symbolic themes in
the work of Rilke.
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'Tis a morn for a bridal; the merry bride-bell
Rings clear through the green-wood that skirts the chapelle,
And the priest at the altar
awaiteth
the bride,
And the sacristans slyly are jesting aside
At the work shall be doing;
II.
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Lie close until she pass; then
question
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Oh, to awake with the wise old stars --
The cultured, the careful, the Chesterfield stars,
That wink at the work-a-day fact of crime
And shine so rich through the ruins of time
That Baalbec is finer than London; oh,
To sit on the bough that zigzags low
By the woodland pool,
And loudly laugh at man, the fool
That vows to the vulgar sun; oh, rare,
To wheel from the wood to the window where
A day-worn sleeper is dreaming of care,
And perch on the sill and
straightly
stare
Through his visions; rare, to sail
Aslant with the hill and a-curve with the vale, --
To flit down the shadow-shot-with-gleam,
Betwixt hanging leaves and starlit stream,
Hither, thither, to and fro,
Silent, aimless, dayless, slow
(`Aimless?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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Yet, wheresoe'er amid the savage scene
Peeps out a little spot of smiling green,
Man with his babes
undaunted
thither creeps,
And hangs his small wood-hut upon the steeps.
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[_They lead_
ALCESTIS
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Her joy can make the sick man well,
And through her anger too he dies,
And fools she
fashions
of the wise,
And handsome men age at her spell,
And status, wealth she can dispel
And raise the beggar to the skies.
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Troubador Verse |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Shouldst
have kept one to thyself, for I mean to give
thee none.
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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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[_Exit, driving
Clytemnestra
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Sir Leoline, a moment's space,
Stood gazing on the damsel's face:
And the
youthful
Lord of Tryermaine
Came back upon his heart again.
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And it is significant that we are nowhere told that
Cicero
declaimed
to his friends the speeches of the second action
against Verres.
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Whan that hir tale al brought was to an ende,
Of hire estat and of hir governaunce,
Quod Pandarus, `Now is it tyme I wende; 220
But yet, I seye, aryseth, lat us daunce,
And cast your widwes habit to mischaunce:
What list yow thus your-self to disfigure,
Sith yow is tid thus fair an
aventure?
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now, on April 22,
resigning
the helm to his skilful and honest pilot,
Gama hoisted sail and steered to the north.
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
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The flames of the Dog Days keep
Far from your green steep,
Because your shade around
Is always close and deep,
For the shepherds
changing
ground,
The weary oxen, the sheep,
And the cattle that wander round.
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But thyself at early dawn 320
Our mansion seek, that thou may'st mingle there
With that imperious throng; me in due time
Eumaeus to the city shall conduct,
In form a
miserable
beggar old.
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[49] On the verb _naku_ see the
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But the evil one ambushed old and young
death-shadow dark, and dogged them still,
lured, or lurked in the
livelong
night
of misty moorlands: men may say not
where the haunts of these Hell-Runes {2c} be.
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[9] The fragments which have been
assigned
to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets, probably III or IV.
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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His virtues had soon a larger field for their display, from the appointment of Petilius Cerealis, 31 a man of
consular
dignity, to the government.
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Tacitus |
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His
dwindled
body half awry,
Rests upon ancles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
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: the
adjectives
blīð-, grom-, rūm-,
stearc-heort.
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Beowulf |
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Surprised
at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled moustache hoarfrost clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend
its mystery!
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Longfellow |
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Graces, adorning
Sons of the morning--
Shadowy wavings--
Float along over;
Yearnings
and cravings
After them hover.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Bēo þū suna mīnum
"dǣdum gedēfe drēam
healdende!
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Beowulf |
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"
He spoke--the
warriors
at his fierce command
Pour a new deluge on the Grecian band.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Erwarte nicht
Das dreimal
gluhende
Licht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And know, lady, that the more my tears well,
The more love grows for you and my goodwill,
A sweet pleasant thought's born in my heart thus
Who, night and day, love's
thoughts
cannot disperse.
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Troubador Verse |
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POEMS
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RANIER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Jessie Lamont
With an Introduction by H.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Come give me thy
loveliest
lay.
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Was God so
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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till the marks
Of fire and
belching
thunder fill the dark
And, almost torn asunder, one falls stark,
Hammering upon the other!
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sauuaciou{n}
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Now rides our knight through the realms of England with no companion
but his foal, and no one to hold
converse
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HEPHAESTUS
Kinship and
friendship
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Aeschylus |
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Je me
souviens!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Ma tu che sol per
cancellare
scrivi,
pensa che Pietro e Paulo, che moriro
per la vigna che guasti, ancor son vivi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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derknesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Is there another room in the
cottage?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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`But certes, I am not so nyce a wight 1625
That I ne can
imaginen
a wey
To come ayein that day that I have hight.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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Or soft Adonis, so
perfumed
and fine,
Drive to St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Without
important exception, her friends have
generously
placed at the
disposal of the Editors any poems they had received from her; and
these have given the obvious advantage of comparison among several
renderings of the same verse.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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: _Cycnea_
Zanchius
de Orig.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Toward the piano they both shyly glanced
For she would sing to him on many a night,
And the child seated in the fading light
Would listen
strangely
as if half entranced,
His large eyes fastened with a quiet glow
Upon the hand which by her ring seemed bent
And slowly wandering o'er the white keys went
Moving as though against a drift of snow.
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Rilke - Poems |
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