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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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A holy,
heavenly
chime
Rings fulness in of time,
And on His Mother's breast
Our Lord God ever-Blest
Is laid a Babe at rest.
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Believe I knew thy thought,
And that the zephyrs brought
Thy kindest wishes through,
As mine they bear to you;
That some
attentive
cloud
Did pause amid the crowd
Over my head,
While gentle things were said.
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Face unto face, then, say,
Eyes mine own meeting,
Is your heart far away,
Or with mine
beating?
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In one of his letters it is
recorded that no less than six Pushkins signed the Charta declaratory
of the
election
of the Romanoff family to the throne of Russia, and
that two more affixed their marks from inability to write.
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His figure such as might his soul proclaim;
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame:
His
mountain
shoulders half his breast o'erspread,
Thin hairs bestrew'd his long misshapen head.
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O'er India's seas the young Almeyda pours,
Scorching the wither'd air, his iron show'rs;
Torn masts and rudders, hulks and canvas riv'n,
Month after month before his prows are driv'n;
But Heav'n's dread will, where clouds of
darkness
rest,
That awful will, which knows alone the best,
Now blunts his spear: Cambaya's squadrons join'd
With Egypt's fleets, in pagan rage combin'd,
Engrasp him round; red boils the stagg'ring flood,
Purpled with volleying flames and hot with blood:
Whirl'd by the cannon's rage, in shivers torn,
His thigh, far scattered, o'er the wave is borne.
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XII
Be well aware, quoth then that Ladie milde, 100
Least suddaine mischiefe ye too rash provoke:
The danger hid, the place
unknowne
and wilde,
Breedes dreadfull doubts: Oft fire is without smoke,
And perill without show: therefore your stroke,
Sir Knight, with-hold, till further triall made.
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Roses--pavement--
I will take all this city away with me--
People--uproar--the pavement jostling and flickering--
Women with incredible eyelids:
Dandies in spats:
Hard-faced throng
discussing
me--I know them all.
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"
She, thereon, with a voice so wond'rous sweet
And earnest look replied,
By turns with hope and fear it made my quick heart beat:--
"Rarely has man, in this full crowd below,
E'en partial knowledge of my worth possess'd
Who felt not in his breast
At least awhile some spark of spirit glow:
But soon my foe, each germ of good abhorr'd,
Quenches that light, and every virtue dies,
While reigns some other lord
Who
promises
a calmer life shall rise:
Love, of your mind, to him that naked lies,
So shows the great desire with which you burn,
That safely I divine
It yet shall win for you an honour'd urn;
Already one of my few friends you are,
And now shall see in sign
A lady who shall make your fond eyes happier far.
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Petrarch |
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He represents the abuses, the
chicanery, and mercenary practices of the law, as
inconsistent
with
every principle of candour and honesty.
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quis tantum capiet nefas,
fratrum quis
superans
locus
pontum Tartara sidera
regna unus capiet tria?
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A more legitimate curb arrests my boldness:
I cede to you, rather I return a title no less,
A sceptre your
ancestors
long ago received 495
From that famous mortal whom the earth conceived.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Still might she taste, and still must choke to taste,
The
fragrance
of sweet oils and gums aflame
Capturing the cool night with spicy riches;
Still after her through the hollow moveless air
The sounded ceremonies came, the cry
Of dainty lust in winding tune of fifes,
The silver fury of cymbals clamouring
Like frenzy in a woman-madden'd brain;
And drumming underneath the whole wild noise,
Like monstrous hatred underneath desire,
The thunder of the beaten serpent-skins.
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The great Italian poet, when he made
His dreadful journey to the realms of shade,
Met there the old instructor of his youth,
And cried in tones of pity and of ruth:
"O, never from the memory of my heart
Your dear, paternal image shall depart,
Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,
Taught me how mortals are immortalized;
How
grateful
am I for that patient care
All my life long my language shall declare.
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that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to
discover
we must travel too.
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no
connivance
none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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is pouert 729
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CHORUS
What cure couldst thou
discover
for this curse?
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Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My
expectation
wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.
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, and was a
Divining
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The next, of visage so benign and bright,
Is lord of Guasto and
Alphonso
hight;
XLVIII
"This is that goodly knight, whose praise you heard
When rugged Ischia's island I displayed,
Of whom sage Merlin, with prophetic word,
To Pharamond such mighty matters said;
Whose birth should to that season be deferred,
When more than ever such a champion's aid,
Against the barbarous enemy's attack,
Vext Italy, and Church, and Empire lack.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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Where is the
prisoner?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O may we soon again renew that Song,
And keep in tune with Heav'n, till God ere long
To his
celestial
consort us unite,
To live with him, and sing in endles morn of light.
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Milton |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les
Antiquites
de Rome.
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of
squeezing
it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
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Imagists |
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Our humbler province is to tend the Fair,
Not a less pleasing, tho' less glorious care;
To save the powder from too rude a gale,
Nor let th' imprison'd-essences exhale;
To draw fresh colours from the vernal flow'rs; 95
To steal from rainbows e'er they drop in show'rs
A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs,
Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs;
Nay oft, in dreams,
invention
we bestow,
To change a Flounce, or add a Furbelow.
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Why--what a brainsick
vagabond
art thou!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the
rhythmic
beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt southwest And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
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He faced the problem just as Aeschylus
did, and as
Sophocles
did not.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"But I," he replied, "have
promised
another, when love was free,
To love her alone, alone, who alone and afar loves me.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
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Stephen Crane |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold
suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Pugatchef looked sharply at me, winking from time to time his left eye
with an
indefinable
expression of slyness and mockery.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Turn those dear eyes,
Once so benignant to me, upon mine,
That open to their tears such uncontrolled
And such
continual
issue.
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Longfellow |
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Yes, makin' mock o'
uniforms
that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" This
introduction
begins:
"O leave the lily on its stem;
O leave the rose upon the spray;
O leave the elder-bloom, fair maids!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Still, where rosy Pleasure leads,
See a kindred Grief pursue;
Behind the steps that Misery treads
Approaching Comfort view:
The hues of bliss more brightly glow
Chastised
by sabler tints of woe,
And blended form, with artful strife,
The strength and harmony of life.
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Golden Treasury |
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Cunningly
weave sunlight,
Breezes, and flowers.
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--I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, not of
the arts and sciences, but of itself; yet relating to those it is a
pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,
and common
confounder
of truth, with which a man goes groping in the
dark, no otherwise than if he were blind.
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
She from her
beauteous
breast
A branch of laurel and of palm displays,
And, answering, thus she says.
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Petrarch |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Zuletzt bringt sie ein grosses Buch, stellt die
Meerkatzen
in den Kreis, die ihr zum Pult dienen und die Fackel halten
mussen.
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(Nachdem die Locher alle gebohrt und
verstopft
sind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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" the Hermit said--
"And they
answered
not our cheer!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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In order to understand and appreciate Pope's reception of these attacks,
we must recall to ourselves the
position
in which he lived.
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Alexander Pope |
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The chief
objection
to it is that there
never has been and never can be anything in actuality corresponding to
the "folk-spirit" which this notion supposes.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile upstairs in the bedroom
And thought I heard him
downstairs
in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Warum ein unerklarter Schmerz
Dir alle
Lebensregung
hemmt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And thou, who never yet of human wrong
Left the unbalanced scale, great
Nemesis!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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These hands have helped it go and even race;
Not all the motion, though, they ever lent,
Not all the miles it may have thought it went,
Have got it one step from the
starting
place.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Dawn now breaks;
sunlight
rakes the swollen seas;
Ah, alas!
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Troubador Verse |
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In
those lines he tells us in the
plainest
terms that _the ship left the
stream of the river Oceanus, and arrived in the open sea_.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It
grew darker and darker, and there I still sat, loath as ever to leave
the good fire, and after a while two men came in,
carrying
between them
a corpse.
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Yeats |
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Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor
With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle
To the young fig-seller with her basket 15
And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic,
And I hear it in the
rustling
tree-tops.
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Sappho |
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I will give my son to eat
Best of Pan's immortal meat,
Bread to eat, and juice to drain;
So the coinage of his brain
Shall not be forms of stars, but stars,
Nor
pictures
pale, but Jove and Mars,
He comes, but not of that race bred
Who daily climb my specular head.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Nicolas
considers
it "un signe de liberalite, et en meme temps
un avertissement que le buveur doit vider sa coupe jusqu'a la derniere
goutte.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A
healthy man, indeed, is the
complement
of the seasons, and in winter,
summer is in his heart.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But I could then have look'd on him
without the help of admiration, though the
catalogue
of his
endowments had been tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by
items.
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No one who reads
much of Li's poetry in the
original
can fail to notice the two defects
which are emphasized by the Sung critics.
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Li Po |
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The mood of _Das
Stunden-Buch_ is this mood of being face to face with God; it elevates
these poems to prayer,
profound
prayer of doubt and despair, exalted
prayer of reconciliation and triumph.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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oute
disco{ur}s
4804
or collac{i}ou{n} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_ O Saviour Christ,
Thou
standest
mute in glory, like the sun!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ardent eyes
Of young men see the
prophecy
arise
Of what their lives shall be when all is told;
And, in the far-off glow of years called old,
Those other eyes look back to catch a trace
Of what was once their own unshadowed grace.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head,
And the
caterpillar
and fly
Feed on the Mystery.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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;
Jonson's
treatment
of, xxiii f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Backwards up the mossy glen
Turned and trooped the goblin men,
With their shrill
repeated
cry,
"Come buy, come buy.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XX
But north looked the Dictator;
North looked he long and hard,
And spake to Caius Cossus,
The Captain of his Guard;
"Caius, of all the Romans
Thou hast the keenest sight,
Say, what through yonder storm of dust
Comes from the Latian right;"
XXI
Then
answered
Caius Cossus:
"I see an evil sight;
The banner of proud Tusculum
Comes from the Latian right;
I see the plumed horsemen;
And far before the rest
I see the dark-gray charger,
I see the purple vest;
I see the golden helmet
That shines far off like flame;
So ever rides Mamilius,
Prince of the Latian name.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You may copy it, give it away
or re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License
included with this eBook or online at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplght gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight
gloating
o'er,
_She_ shall press, ah, nevermore!
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Poe - 5 |
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(Sie
eroffnet
den Schrein, ihre Kleider einzuraumen, und erblickt das
Schmuckkastchen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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HILMAR
TONNESEN
(_coming in with a cigar in his
mouth_): I have only looked in in passing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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copies of
individual
Poems have come under my notice; and
that every important variation of text in them is incorporated in this
edition.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The
wanderer
halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the glimmering weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Old Tunes
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like
fragrance
borne on the hush of the wind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the bystanders started--
His mouth foams, his face
blackens
horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Were I a man among you, I would not stay
Behind the walls to weep this insolence;
I'ld take a sword in my hand and God in my mind,
And seek under the friendship of the night
That tent where Holofernes' crimes and hate
Sleep in his
devilish
brain.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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