'T is
Christison!
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Get hence, you
loathsome
mystery!
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There is a
blessing
in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
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[104] This is an
allusion
to some extortion of Cleon's.
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eBook,
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with the rules is very easy.
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Now I begin to feel thine orby power
Is coming fresh upon me: O be kind,
Keep back thine influence, and do not blind
My
sovereign
vision.
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[124]
When downward to his winter hut he goes,
Dear and more dear the
lessening
circle grows;
That hut which on the hills so oft employs 480
His thoughts, the central point of all his joys.
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy
presence
is expected in the hall
Below.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Des projets pour la Russie, une anicroche a Vienne (Autriche),
quelques mois en France, d'Arras et Douai a Marseille, et le Senegal
vers lequel berce par un naufrage[;] puis la Hollande, 1879-80; vu
decharger des voitures de moisson dans une ferme a sa mere, entre
Attigny et Vouziers, et
arpenter
ces routes maigres de ses <
RIVALES>>.
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O, beware, my lord, of
jealousy!
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Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
And frequent turn to linger as you go,
From loftier rocks new loveliness survey,
And rest ye at 'Our Lady's House of Woe;'
Where frugal monks their little relics show,
And sundry legends to the stranger tell:
Here impious men have
punished
been; and lo,
Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell,
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
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And with tears of blood he
cleansed
the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal.
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Wilde - Poems |
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No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the
desolate
market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the shatterd bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
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Blake - Zoas |
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God keep thee frae thy mother's faes,
Or turn their hearts to thee:
And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend
Remember
him for me!
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Driven behind the stove by my spells,
Like an
elephant
he swells;
He fills the whole room, so huge he's grown,
He waxes shadowy faster and faster.
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful
Athenian
courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Only thine eyes remained;
They would not go--they never yet have gone;
Lighting
my lonely pathway home that night,
They have not left me (as my hopes have) since;
They follow me--they lead me through the years.
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Ils revent que, penches sur leur petit bras rond,
Doux geste du reveil, ils
avancent
le front,
Et leur vague regard tout autour d'eux repose.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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uestis
odoratae
studium; laus maxima risum
per uanos mouisse sales minimeque uiriles
munditiae; compti uultus; onerique uel ipsa
serica.
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And Gobbo to quack-salver sunk,
To leech vile
murrained
beasts;
And lazy Andre, blown off shore,
Was picked up by the Turk,
And in some harem, you be sure,
Is forced at last to work.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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encourage
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Keats - Lamia |
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And when at length the sun rose bright, we saw
Th' Aegaean sea-field flecked with flowers of death,
Corpses of Grecian men and
shattered
hulls.
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Aeschylus |
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Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,
Were there all harmony, all virtue here;
That never air or ocean felt the wind;
That never passion
discomposed
the mind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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She's gane, like Alexander,
To spread her
conquests
farther.
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Golden Treasury |
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Hence he had recourse to Livia, and warned her, "never to
divulge the secrets of the palace, never to expose to public examination
the ministers who advised, nor the soldiers who executed: Tiberius
should beware of relaxing the authority of the Prince, by referring all
things to that of the Senate; since it was the
indispensable
prerogative
of sovereignty for all men to be accountable only to one.
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Tacitus |
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With
laughing
face Alcina mounts behind,
Leaving the other two beside the bay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Time, force, and death,
Do to this body what
extremes
you can,
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.
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Shakespeare |
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The wind as a changed thing
Whispereth
overhead
Of one that of old lay dead
In the water lapping long:
My King, O my King!
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Euripides - Electra |
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_Hodge_
He plays with other boys when work is done,
But feels too clumsy and too stiff to run,
Yet where there's
mischief
he can find a way
The first to join and last [to run] away.
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John Clare |
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Ch'u P'ing's[30] prose and verse
Hang like the sun and moon;[31]
The king of Ch'u's arbours and towers
Are only
hummocks
in the ground.
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Li Po |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid
buttercups
that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting all save beauty.
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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And, with the third, drink of the
precious
herb
Which purges every thought that would disturb,
Sweet in the end though sour at first in taste:
But me enshrine where your best joys are placed,
So that I fear not the grim bark of Styx,
If with such prayer of mine pride do not mix.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You
persuaded
the housewife that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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I would have had my Florence great and free;[290]
Oh
Florence!
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Byron |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But never will my sorrows cease,
Successive days their sum increase,
Though just ten annual suns have mark'd my pain;
Say, to this bosom's poignant grief
Who shall
administer
relief?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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This too I know--and wise it were
If each could know the same--
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their
brothers
maim.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet
Athenian
lady is in love
With a disdainful youth; anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady.
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Shakespeare |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
In actions, and in words, in humble guise
I speak my thanks, and ask, "How may it be
That thou
shouldst
know my wretched state?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Already I have vowed it, to do nought
Save after counsel with my people ta'en,
King though I be; that ne'er in after time,
If ill fate chance, my people then may say--
_In aid of
strangers
thou the state hast slain_.
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Aeschylus |
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She's past the bridge that's in the dale,
And now the thought
torments
her sore,
Johnny perhaps his horse forsook,
To hunt the moon that's in the brook,
And never will be heard of more.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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" "Have at
thee, then," said the other, and heaves the axe aloft, and looks as
savagely
as if he were mad.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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as
wretched
as I?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Holy Father,
If all the labors that I have endured,
And shall endure,
advantage
not my soul,
I am but losing time.
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Longfellow |
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ou art peisible to
debonaire
folke.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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But, cursed man, what harm have my
Sthenoboeas
done to Athens?
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Aristophanes |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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[_Fyve Knyghtes tylteth wythe the
straunge
Knyghte, and bee
everichone[114] overthrowne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Dēað bið sēlla
"eorla
gehwylcum
þonne edwīt-līf!
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Beowulf |
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Mother, O Mother,
wherefore
dost thou sleep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The wind howls, hisses, and but stops
To howl more loud, while the snow volley keeps
Incessant batter at the window pane,
Making our comfort feel as sweet again;
And in the morning, when the tempest drops,
At every cottage door
mountainous
heaps
Of snow lie drifted, that all entrance stops
Untill the beesom and the shovel gain
The path, and leave a wall on either side.
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John Clare |
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But the sum was honestly earned by hard and
wearisome
work.
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Alexander Pope |
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Petrarch, heartily as he despised the false
science,
immediately
stopped his discourse.
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Petrarch |
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'351 the pictur'd shape':
Pope was especially hurt by the caricatures which
exaggerated
his
personal deformity.
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Alexander Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" Sung Yu said: "Of all the women in the world,
the most
beautiful
are the women of the land of Ch'u.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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begone
Thither, whence came ye, brought by
luckless
feet,
Pests of the Century, ye pernicious Poets.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Other italics are shown
conventionally
with _lines_.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Horrible filth
festered
in the dammed-up gutters.
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Poe - 5 |
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" This speech uttered, while I wept and would have said
many a thing, she left me and
retreated
into thin air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thou dost;--but all thy foster-babes are dead--
The men of iron; and the world hath reared
Cities from out their sepulchres: men bled
In
imitation
of the things they feared,
And fought and conquered, and the same course steered,
At apish distance; but as yet none have,
Nor could, the same supremacy have neared,
Save one vain man, who is not in the grave,
But, vanquished by himself, to his own slaves a slave,
XC.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With the
relative
þē often separated from its
case: þē ic hēr on starie (_that I here look on, at_), 2797; þē gē þǣr on
standað (_that ye there stand in_), 2867.
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Beowulf |
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"]
[33] [Lord Thurlow
affected
an archaic style in his Sonnets and other
verses.
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Byron |
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Since Ts'an Ts'ung and Yu Fu ruled the land, forty-eight thousand
years had gone by; and still no human foot had passed from Shu to
the
frontiers
of Ch'in.
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Li Po |
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" Hence it
has been
inferred
that "the hours of darkness are as necessary to the
inorganic creation as we know night and sleep are to the organic
kingdom.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Therewithal came Camilla the Volscian, leading a train of cavalry,
squadrons
splendid
with brass: a warrior maiden who had never used her
woman's hands to Minerva's distaff or wool-baskets, but hardened to
endure the battle shock and outstrip the winds with racing feet.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ich komme mit allem guten Mut,
Leidlichem
Geld und frischem Blut;
Meine Mutter wollte mich kaum entfernen;
Mochte gern was Rechts hieraussen lernen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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No help, nor hope, nor view had I,
Nor person to
befriend
me, O;
So I must toil, and sweat and broil,
And labour to sustain me, O:
To plough and sow, to reap and mow,
My father bred me early, O;
For one, he said, to labour bred,
Was a match for fortune fairly, O.
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Robert Burns |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one
tortured
by frost and ice,
Whom the cold torments and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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Troubador Verse |
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In his finest verse
Coleridge
has the finest style perhaps in
English; but his prose is never quite reduced to order from its tumultuous
amplitude or its snake-like involution.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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On the
dedication
to Mr.
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Robert Herrick |
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s
instinct
is to leap forward, a serious gentleman?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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1560
Saying: 'From me, Heaven claims an
innocent
life.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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My readers, for a time, could they obtain
A dozen nuns like these, where
beauties
reign,
Would doubtless not be seen without their dress!
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La Fontaine |
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He proceeded to France in
that capacity, fought in the battle of Loos, served at Ypres during the
winter of 1915-16, and
thereafter
took part in the battle of the Somme.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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My name, perchance, wouldst have me
mention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Five score
thousand
weep, who that sight regard.
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Chanson de Roland |
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When he
returned
to Goa, he enjoyed a tranquility which enabled him to
bestow his attention on his epic poem.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And
sodeynly
he wax ther-with astoned,
And gan hire bet biholde in thrifty wyse: 275
`O mercy, god!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear respose for limbs with travel tir'd;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's
imaginary
sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel (hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not one
name of word or deed--not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rum-drinkers--
not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder--no serpentine poison of
those that seduce women--not the foolish yielding of women--not of the
attainment of gain by
discreditable
means--not any nastiness of appetite--
not any harshness of officers to men, or judges to prisoners, or fathers to
sons, or sons to fathers, or of husbands to wives, or bosses to their
boys--not of greedy looks or malignant wishes--nor any of the wiles
practised by people upon themselves--ever is or ever can be stamped on the
programme, but it is duly realised and returned, and that returned in
further performances, and they returned again.
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Whitman |
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WILLOUGHBY-MEADE: One or two
observations
occur to me in
connection with the translation of this poetry into English.
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Li Po |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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--I ne'er should see
Hellas again, I leave her here, to be
An
handmaid
in thy house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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No it is bought with the price
Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
And in the witherd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summers sun
And in the vintage & to sing on the waggon loaded with corn
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer
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To listen to the hungry ravens cry in wintry season
When the red blood is filld with wine & with the marrow of lambs
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan
To see a god on every wind & a
blessing
on every blast
To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm that destroys our enemies house
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, & the sickness that cuts off his children
While our olive & vine sing & laugh round our door & our children bring fruits & flowers
Then the groan & the dolor are quite forgotten & the slave grinding at the mill
And the captive in chains & the poor in the prison, & the soldier in the field
When the shatterd bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity
Thus could I sing & thus rejoice, but it is not so with me!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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