Thus shines the wretched butterfly,
With iridescent wing doth flap
When captured in a schoolboy's cap;
Thus shakes the hare when suddenly
She from the winter corn espies
A
sportsman
who in covert lies.
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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But from there
Portions began to fly asunder, and like
With like to join, and to block out a world,
And to divide its members and dispose
Its mightier parts--that is, to set secure
The lofty heavens from the lands, and cause
The sea to spread with waters separate,
And fires of ether separate and pure
Likewise
to congregate apart.
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Lucretius |
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Let the great world there rave and riot,
We here will house
ourselves
in quiet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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_Der
Gefangene
v.
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Byron |
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"Non tifidar" it is the sword that speaks
1
Thou trusted'st in thyself and met the blade Thout mask or gauntlet, and art laid
As
memorable
broken blades that be
Kept as bold trophies of old pageantry.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with
pervading
brilliance and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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Keats - Lamia |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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]
[Footnote E: The word 'intake' is local, and
signifies
a
mountain-inclosure.
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THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA
I muse among these silent fanes
Whose spacious
darkness
guards your dust;
Around me sleep the hoary plains
That hold your ancient wars in trust.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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LFS}
Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth
Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night
Days & nights of
revolving
joy, Urthona was his name
PAGE 4
In Eden; in the Auricular Nerves of Human life* {The centered text block of this page appears to be written over erased text, with four clusters of added lines in various orientations in the margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'
And still they led him onwards, and he still
Looked back towards her
standing
there; and they, content,
Cheered him and praised him that he did their will.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Aye, so delicious is the unsating food,
That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Of all the congregated world, to fan
And winnow from the coming step of time 820
All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime
Left by men-slugs and human serpentry,
Have been content to let
occasion
die,
Whilst they did sleep in love's elysium.
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Keats |
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The iron tears their flinty cheeks bedew;
See how unfurled the parchment ensigns fly,
And Principal and
Interest
all the cry!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And he our passing guest,
Shy nature, too, and stung with life's unrest,
Whom we too briefly had but could not hold,
Who brought ripe Oxford's culture to our board,
The Past's incalculable hoard, 280
Mellowed by scutcheoned panes in cloisters old,
Seclusions ivy-hushed, and pavements sweet
With immemorial lisp of musing feet;
Young head time-tonsured smoother than a friar's,
Boy face, but grave with answerless desires,
Poet in all that poets have of best,
But foiled with riddles dark and cloudy aims,
Who now hath found sure rest,
Not by still Isis or
historic
Thames,
Nor by the Charles he tried to love with me, 290
But, not misplaced, by Arno's hallowed brim,
Nor scorned by Santa Croce's neighboring fames,
Haply not mindless, wheresoe'er he be,
Of violets that to-day I scattered over him,
He, too, is there,
After the good centurion fitly named,
Whom learning dulled not, nor convention tamed,
Shaking with burly mirth his hyacinthine hair,
Our hearty Grecian of Homeric ways,
Still found the surer friend where least he hoped the praise.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the
supposition
of
that lascivious young boy the Count, have I run into this danger.
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Shakespeare |
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And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead
fish and
tenderly
putting them back into the water.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[1]
_Selected
Poems_: Little Classic Edition.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Meantime the Cicons, to their holds retired,
Call on the Cicons, with new fury fired;
With early morn the gather'd country swarms,
And all the continent is bright with arms;
Thick as the budding leaves or rising flowers
O'erspread the land, when spring
descends
in showers:
All expert soldiers, skill'd on foot to dare,
Or from the bounding courser urge the war.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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ways
including
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Poe - 5 |
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Yet if a fear,
Or shadow of a fear, lest the strange Saints
By whom thou swarest, should have power to balk
Thy
puissance
in this fight with him, who made
And heard thee swear--brother--_I_ have not sworn--
If the king fall, may not the kingdom fall?
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Tennyson |
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I pray you humbly in the name of God,
Not to say of these tears, which are impure--
Grant me such pardoning grace as can go forth
From clean
volitions
toward a spotted will,
From the wronged to the wronger, this and no more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Throwe the merke[56] shade of twistynde trees hee rydes; 55
The flemed[57] owlett[58] flapps herr eve-speckte[59] wynge;
The lordynge[60] toade ynn all hys passes bides;
The berten[61] neders[62] att hymm darte the stynge;
Styll, stylle, hee passes onn, hys stede astrodde,
Nee hedes the daungerous waie gyff
leadynge
untoe bloodde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the tranquil pool and pondered,
And listened to the silent
secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
"It is a
firstling
of the flock," said Abel-Phittim, "I know him by the
bleating of his lips, and the innocent folding of his limbs.
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Poe - 5 |
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300
After the first fierce peal as they pulled nigher,
They heard the voice of
Christian
shout, "Now, fire!
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Byron |
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{133a} "Where the
discussion
of faults is general, no one is injured.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom
That old divine insistence of the sea,
When music flows along the sculptured stone
In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom
Like
faithful
sunset, warm immortally!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A patch of
flowering
grass,
low, trailing--
you brushed this:
the green stems show yellow-green
where you lifted--turned the earth-side
to the light:
this and a dead leaf-spine,
split across,
show where you passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In such a wise
Course these
primordials
'mongst one another
With inter-motions that no one can be
From other sundered, nor its agency
Perform, if once divided by a space;
Like many powers in one body they work.
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Lucretius |
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A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER In "Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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When they left the moon was high, and they walked along the road
singing and
shouting
together.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--dimming
All the stars except one star
With their brighter kinder faces,
And using heaven's own tune in hymning,
While deep
response
from earth's own mountains ran,
"Peace upon earth, goodwill to man.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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T.S. Eliot |
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You should have come to the cuckoo's calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe
swallows
muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wright
1918
TO THE MEMORY OF
AUGUSTE RODIN
THROUGH WHOM I CAME TO KNOW
RAINER MARIA RILKE
POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry--A magazine of Verse, and Poet Lore, the
translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this
book--also to the compilers of the following anthologies--Amphora II
edited by Thomas Bird Mosher--The
Catholic
Anthology of World Poetry
selected by Carl van Doren.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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Many small donations ($1 to
$5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt status with
the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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_The Book of Poverty and Death_
Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss,
But that had once from Life
received
all this
Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must
From fullness of past knowledge dwell alone,
A thing apart, a parable in stone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Thus
heralded
the tale began,
And thus in sober measure ran.
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Longfellow |
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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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Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by
weltschmerz
.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Visions of cloud-hidden glory
Breaking
from sources of light
Mimic the mist of life's story.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What, up and down, carv'd like an
appletart?
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Shakespeare |
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),
in which many thousands of Athenian
citizens
perished.
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Aristophanes |
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CHORUS
Woe for each
desperate
deed!
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Aeschylus |
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You know, my lord, your
Highness
is betroth'd
Unto another lady of esteem.
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Shakespeare |
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Readers will be able to make for
themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and
last phases of Oscar Wilde's
literary
activity.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
Cain, sleeping not, dreamed at the
mountain
foot.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He thanks and lauds his God, who him that night
Blest with so high a fortune and so rare;
Hoping to win the horse without a peer,
Baiardo, from the
Christian
cavalier.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The children of the citadel
conquered
all
Their conquerors, smiting them with the pure light
That shone in that strong city fortified.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pins,
pricking
with, li, 208.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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E io, quando 'l suo braccio a me distese,
ficcai li occhi per lo cotto aspetto,
si che 'l viso abbrusciato non difese
la conoscenza sua al mio 'ntelletto;
e chinando la mano a la sua faccia,
rispuosi: <
Brunetto?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The digital images and OCR of this work were
produced
by Google, Inc.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Her most
uxorious
mate she ruled of old,
Why not with easy youngsters make as bold ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Can vows and perfumes, kisses infinite,
Be reborn from the gulf we cannot sound;
As rise to heaven suns once again made bright
After being plunged in deep seas and
profound?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"What may the
Persians
say unto your kings,
When they shall see that volume, in the which
All their dispraise is written, spread to view?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Truth is mine, and Genius mine;
The rich man comes, and knocks at my low door:
Favour'd thus, I ne'er repine,
Nor weary out indulgent Heaven for more:
In my Sabine
homestead
blest,
Why should I further tax a generous friend?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
Give me to bathe the
memories
of all dead soldiers,
Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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So grand the hurly and roar,
So fiercely their broadsides blazed,
The regiments
fighting
ashore
Forgot to fire as they gazed.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The royal
chambers
to a cell of prayer
He turned, wherein the heavy cares of state
Vexed not his holy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--Cease moan,
Cytherea!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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at,
And
hardeliche
a-doun stap,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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An adverse star, a fate here only wrong,
Entrusts to one who
worships
her dear name,
Yet haply injures by his praise her fame.
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Petrarch |
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Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts,
situated
in a valley on the
north side of the river Lea.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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God be thanked, I have been
preserved
from the grosser forms
of sin; and I counsel YOU, Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the
strongly
heathen character of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos terribles bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes
kilometres
longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
Oh!
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infelix, properas ultima nosse mala,
et miser ignotos
uestigia
ferre per ignis,
et bibere e tota toxica Thessalia.
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I am about
to write to him a few words on the subject; and I shall refer him to
this letter, to save my
repeating
to him those miserable little details
with which I should not detain you, unless it seemed to be necessary.
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ne moe the syghte
Of guilden merke shall mete mie joieous eyne,
Ne moe the sylver noble
sheenynge
bryghte
Schall fyll mie honde with weight to speke ytt fyne;
Ne moe, ne moe, alass!
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"If care with freezing years should come
And wandering seem but folly,--
Should we be loth to stir from home,
And yet be melancholy;
Should life be dull, and spirits low,
'Twill soothe us in our sorrow
That earth has
something
yet to show,
The bonny Holms of Yarrow!
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This withered root of knots of hair
Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth:
The sickle motion from the thighs
Jackknifes upward at the knees
Then straightens out from heel to hip
Pushing the
framework
of the bed
And clawing at the pillow slip.
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' This may or may not have
been true, but it is certain that Fell was not the only newspaper
proprietor who was ready to exchange a little cheap
flattery
for
articles by Chatterton that would never be paid for.
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His black matted head on his shoulder is bent,
And deep is the sigh of his breath,
And with
stedfast
dejection his eyes are intent
On the fetters that link him to death.
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Run home and dress yourself in the boy's clothes
Prepared
for you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I would be
Known as the woman whom his strength had chosen
To ruin the
Assyrians!
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Fortuna saeuo laeta negotio et
ludum insolentem ludere pertinax
transmutat
incertos honores,
nunc mihi nunc alii benigna.
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1148)
The Castellan of Blaye, he
flourished
early to mid 12th century and probably died during the Second Crusade, 1147-9.
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And under scent and song of flowers and birds,
Far inland out of the golden bays the air
Is charged with briny savour, and whispered news
Gentle as
whitening
oats the breezes stroke.
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discordant
vestments through the trees,
And the red banner fluctuates in the breeze; 1827.
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s sense here,
particularly
in the context of the more tightly woven ?
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly
illegible
in the manuscript and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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