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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And yet the fate of all
extremes
is such,
Men may be read as well as books, too much.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The process
scarcely
hurts at all--
Not more than when _you_ 're what you call
'Cut up' by a Review.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XVIII
The
courtyard
of her house is wide
And cool and still when day departs.
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Sappho |
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To the stile
She came o'er violet carpets soft, attired,
To meet the harvest bridegroom, as erewhile,
To be his
truelove
till the feast expired.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchas'd right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should
transport
me farthest from your sight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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An awe came on the
trinket!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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blake-poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Four
terraces
of polished marble shine;
On the green grass count Rollant swoons thereby.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Look at the owl, scarce seen, scarce heard,
O irritant, iterant,
maddening
bird!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Viler than grandsires, sires beget
Ourselves, yet baser, soon to curse
The world with
offspring
baser yet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Here ceased the kindly mother out of breath;
And Enid listened
brightening
as she lay;
Then, as the white and glittering star of morn
Parts from a bank of snow, and by and by
Slips into golden cloud, the maiden rose,
And left her maiden couch, and robed herself,
Helped by the mother's careful hand and eye,
Without a mirror, in the gorgeous gown;
Who, after, turned her daughter round, and said,
She never yet had seen her half so fair;
And called her like that maiden in the tale,
Whom Gwydion made by glamour out of flowers
And sweeter than the bride of Cassivelaun,
Flur, for whose love the Roman Caesar first
Invaded Britain, 'But we beat him back,
As this great Prince invaded us, and we,
Not beat him back, but welcomed him with joy
And I can scarcely ride with you to court,
For old am I, and rough the ways and wild;
But Yniol goes, and I full oft shall dream
I see my princess as I see her now,
Clothed with my gift, and gay among the gay.
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Tennyson |
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"
LXXII
I heard the gods reply:
"Trust not the future with its perilous chance;
The
fortunate
hour is on the dial now.
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Sappho |
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Still louder the
breakwater
sounds,
And hissing it beats the surf
Up to the sand-dune heights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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His bones are consumed, and his life-blood is dried,
With wishes the past to undo;
And his crime, through the pains that o'erwhelm him, descried,
Still
blackens
and grows on his view.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But the heedless youth, flying
away, beats the waves with his oars, leaving his
perjured
vows to the gusty
gales.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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)
Alluding
to Sultan Mahmud's Conquest of India and its dark
people.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Experienced
age
May timely intercept the ruffian rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Mallarme considers a
characteristic
of our
times; and only write it now because I have grown to believe that there
is no dangerous idea which does not become less dangerous when written
out in sincere and careful English.
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Yeats |
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The Cretan monster would have
perished
there,
At your hand, despite the toils of his vast lair.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Go, burning sighs, to her cold bosom go,
Its
circling
ice which hinders pity rend,
And if to mortal prayer Heaven e'er attend,
Let death or mercy finish soon my woe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Envious day
Shall not give out that I have made thee stay,
And
foundered
thy hot team, to tune my lay.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a
diagonal
line which may indicate 1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza beginning "I die not Enitharmon.
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Blake - Zoas |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as
Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but
Euripides
all through is kinder to
his victim than Meredith is.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat
(Hail, Goddess; he who is about to die salutes you)
To Judith Gautier
Death and beauty are two things profound,
So of dark and azure, that one might say that
They were two sisters
terrible
and fecund
Possessing the one enigma, the one secret.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
The Catos, the wise
patriots
of Rome,
Shall flock to you and tarry by your side,
And comfort you with their high company.
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Emerson - 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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XXX
As the sown field its fresh
greenness
shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
complete
Satyr-play had a hero of this type and a Chorus of Satyrs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And I watch his spears through the dark clash And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might 'gainst all
darkness
opposing.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Ark no more now flotes, but seems on ground
Fast on the top of som high
mountain
fixt.
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Milton |
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[Sidenote: Or doth the _chain of destiny_
constrain
the motions of
the human mind?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Girt with many a baron bold,
Sublime their starry fronts they rear;
And
gorgeous
dames, and statesmen old
In bearded majesty, appear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Beneath, as if in mockery of their woe,
The
tumbling
flood, with murmurs deep and low,
Return'd their wailings; while the birds above
With sweet aerial descant fill'd the grove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ah me, though never an ear for song, thou hast
A
tireless
tooth for songsters: thus of late
Thou camest, Death, thou Cat!
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Sidney Lanier |
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There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With
poisoned
meat and poisoned drink.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Mark its scarred and
shattered
walls,
(Hark!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A
long train of senators
followed
him, many moved by their ambition, but
most by their fears.
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Tacitus |
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Listen,
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The desire seems
not other than the desire of the bird for its mate in the heart of the
wood, and we listen to that joyous praise as though a bird
watching
its
plumage in still water had begun to sing in its joy, or as if we heard
hawk praising hawk in the middle air, and because it is the praise of
one made for all noble life and not for pleasure only, it seems, though
it is the praise of the body, that it is the noblest praise.
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Yeats |
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Moonlight there
Caressingly
enhanced her beauty rare,
Making it shine and tremble, as if she
So soft and gentle were of things that be
Of air created, and are brought and ta'en
By heavenly flashes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We see only a
little part in which are many details that have
purposes
beyond our ken.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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E se le
fantasie
nostre son basse
a tanta altezza, non e maraviglia;
che sopra 'l sol non fu occhio ch'andasse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Your hands have no
innocent
blood on them, no stain?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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XI
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
To his offspring who, with mortal frailty,
Engorged with pride in Rome's bravery,
Looked to
infringe
on Heaven's grandeur,
Cooling again from his initial ardour,
With which Roman hearts he'd filled completely,
Blew new fires, with ardent breath, and fiercely,
Warmed the chilly Goths with his hot valour.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And when we walked together, my Sorrow and I, people gazed at us
with gentle eyes and whispered in words of
exceeding
sweetness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There is no wind but soweth seeds
Of a more true and open life,
Which burst,
unlooked
for, into high-souled deeds,
With wayside beauty rife.
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James Russell Lowell |
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VESPERS
Last night, at sunset,
The
foxgloves
were like tall altar candles.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
custom was said to have a
threefold
significance; by it the Athenians
wanted to show that they were musicians, autochthons (i.
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Aristophanes |
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Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Voie lactee {1}
Les sept epees
Voie lactee {2}
Les colchiques
Palais
Chantre
Crepuscule
Annie
La maison des morts
Clotilde
Cortege
Marizibill
Le voyageur
Marie
La blanche neige
Poeme lu au mariage d'Andre Salmon
L'Adieu
Salome
La porte
Merlin et la vieille femme
Saltimbanques
Le larron
Le vent nocturne
Lul de Faltenin
La tzigane
L'ermite
Automne
L'Emigrant de Landor Road
Rosemonde
Le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier
Descendant des hauteurs
Rhenanes
Nuit rhenane
Mai
La synagogue
Les cloches
La Loreley
Schinderhannes
Rhenane d'automne
Les sapins
Les femmes
Signe
Un soir
La dame
Les fiancailles
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
J'observe le repos du dimanche
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Clair de lune
1909
A la Sante
Automne malade
Hotels
Cors de chasse
Vendemiaire
ZONE
A la fin tu es las de ce monde ancien
Bergere o tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bele ce matin
Tu en as assez de vivre dans l'antiquite grecque et romaine
Ici meme les automobiles ont l'air d'etre anciennes
La religion seule est restee toute neuve la religion
Est restee simple comme les hangars de Port-Aviation
Seul en Europe tu n'es pas antique o Christianisme
L'Europeen le plus moderne c'est vous Pape Pie X
Et toi que les fenetres observent la honte te retient
D'entrer dans une eglise et de t'y confesser ce matin
Tu lis les prospectus les catalogues les affiches qui chantent
tout haut
Voila la poesie ce matin et pour la prose il y a les journaux
Il y a les livraisons a 25 centimes pleines d'aventures policieres
Portraits des grands hommes et mille titres divers
J'ai vu ce matin une jolie rue dont j'ai oublie le nom
Neuve et propre du soleil elle etait le clairon
Les directeurs les ouvriers et les belles steno-dactylographes
Du lundi matin au samedi soir quatre fois par jour y passent
Le matin par trois fois la sirene y gemit
Une cloche rageuse y aboie vers midi
Les inscriptions des enseignes et des murailles
Les plaques les avis a la facon des perroquets criaillent
J'aime la grace de cette rue industrielle
Situee a Paris entre la rue Aumont-Thieville et l'avenue des
Ternes
Voila la jeune rue et tu n'es encore qu'un petit enfant
Ta mere ne t'habille que de bleu et de blanc
Tu es tres pieux et avec le plus ancien de tes camarades Rene
Dalize
Vous n'aimez rien tant que les pompes de l'Eglise
Il est neuf heures le gaz est baisse tout bleu vous sortez du
dortoir en cachette
Vous priez toute la nuit dans la
chapelle
du college
Tandis qu'eternelle et adorable profondeur amethyste
Tourne a jamais la flamboyante gloire du Christ
C'est le beau lys que tous nous cultivons
C'est la torche aux cheveux roux que n'eteint pas le vent
C'est le fils pale et vermeil de la douloureuse mere
C'est l'arbre toujours touffu de toutes les prieres
C'est la double potence de l'honneur et de l'eternite
C'est l'etoile a six branches
C'est Dieu qui meurt le vendredi et ressuscite le dimanche
C'est le Christ qui monte au ciel mieux que les aviateurs
Il detient le record du monde pour la hauteur
Pupille Christ de l'oeil
Vingtieme pupille des siecles il sait y faire
Et change en oiseau ce siecle comme Jesus monte dans l'air
Les diables dans les abimes levent la tete pour le regarder
Ils disent qu'il imite Simon Mage en Judee
Ils crient s'il sait voler qu'on l'appelle voleur
Les anges voltigent autour du joli voltigeur
Icare Enoch Elie Apollonius de Thyane
Flottent autour du premier aeroplane
Ils s'ecartent parfois pour laisser passer ceux que transporte la
Sainte-Eucharistie
Ces pretres qui montent eternellement elevant l'hostie
L'avion se pose enfin sans refermer les ailes
Le ciel s'emplit alors de millions d'hirondelles
A tire-d'aile viennent les corbeaux les faucons les hiboux
D'Afrique arrivent les ibis les flamants les marabouts
L'oiseau Roc celebre par les conteurs et les poetes
Plane tenant dans les serres le crane d'Adam la premiere tete
L'aigle fond de l'horizon en poussant un grand cri
Et d'Amerique vient le petit colibri
De Chine sont venus les pihis longs et souples
Qui n'ont qu'une seule aile et qui volent par couples
Puis voici la colombe esprit immacule
Qu'escortent l'oiseau-lyre et le paon ocelle
Le phenix ce bucher qui soi-meme s'engendre
Un instant voile tout de son ardente cendre
Les sirenes laissant les perilleux detroits
Arrivent en chantant bellement toutes trois
Et tous aigle phenix et pihis de la Chine
Fraternisent avec la volante machine
Maintenant tu marches dans Paris tout seul parmi la foule
Des troupeaux d'autobus mugissants pres de toi roulent
L'angoisse de l'amour te serre le gosier
Comme si tu ne devais jamais plus etre aime
Si tu vivais dans l'ancien temps tu entrerais dans un monastere
Vous avez honte quand vous vous surprenez a dire une priere
Tu te moques de toi et comme le feu de l'Enfer ton rire petille
Les etincelles de ton rire dorent le fond de ta vie
C'est un tableau pendu dans un sombre musee
Et quelquefois tu vas le regarder de pres
Aujourd'hui tu marches dans Paris les femmes sont ensanglantees
C'etait et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'etait au declin de
la beaute
Entouree de flammes ferventes Notre-Dame m'a regarde a Chartres
Le sang de votre Sacre-Coeur m'a inonde a Montmartre
Je suis malade d'ouir les paroles bienheureuses
L'amour dont je souffre est une maladie honteuse
Et l'image qui te possede te fait survivre dans l'insomnie et dans
l'angoisse
C'est toujours pres de toi cette image qui passe
Maintenant tu es au bord de la Mediterranee
Sous les citronniers qui sont en fleur toute l'annee
Avec tes amis tu te promenes en barque
L'un est Nissard il y a un Mentonasque et deux Turbiasques
Nous regardons avec effroi les poulpes des profondeurs
Et parmi les algues nagent les poissons images du Sauveur
Tu es dans le jardin d'une auberge aux environs de Prague
Tu te sens tout heureux une rose est sur la table
Et tu observes au lieu d'ecrire ton conte en prose
La cetoine qui dort dans le coeur de la rose
Epouvante tu te vois dessine dans les agates de Saint-Vit
Tu etais triste a mourir le jour ou tu t'y vis
Tu ressembles au Lazare affole par le jour
Les aiguilles de l'horloge du quartier juif vont a rebours
Et tu recules aussi dans ta vie lentement
En montant au Hradchin et le soir en ecoutant
Dans les tavernes chanter des chansons tcheques
Te voici a Marseille au milieu des pasteques
Te voici a Coblence a l'hotel du Geant
Te voici a Rome assis sous un neflier du Japon
Te voici a Amsterdam avec une jeune fille que tu trouves belle et
qui est laide
Elle doit se marier avec un etudiant de Leyde
On y loue des chambres en latin Cubicula locanda
Je m'en souviens j'y ai passe trois jours et autant a Gouda
Tu es a Paris chez le juge d'instruction
Comme un criminel on te met en etat d'arrestation
Tu as fait de douloureux et de joyeux voyages
Avant de t'apercevoir du mensonge et de l'age
Tu as souffert de l'amour a vingt et a trente ans
J'ai vecu comme un fou et j'ai perdu mon temps
Tu n'oses plus regarder tes mains et a tous moments je voudrais
sangloter
Sur toi sur celle que j'aime sur tout ce qui t'a epouvante
Tu regardes les yeux pleins de larmes ces pauvres emigrants
Ils croient en Dieu ils prient les femmes allaitent des enfants
Ils emplissent de leur odeur le hall de la gare Saint-Lazare
Ils ont foi dans leur etoile comme les rois-mages
Ils esperent gagner de l'argent dans l'Argentine
Et revenir dans leur pays apres avoir fait fortune
Une famille transporte un edredon rouge comme vous transportez
votre coeur
Cet edredon et nos reves sont aussi irreels
Quelques-uns de ces emigrants restent ici et se logent
Rue des Rosiers ou rue des Ecouffes dans des bouges
Je les ai vus souvent le soir ils prennent l'air dans la rue
Et se deplacent rarement comme les pieces aux echecs
Il y a surtout des Juifs leurs femmes portent perruque
Elles restent assises exsangues au fond des boutiques
Tu es debout devant le zinc d'un bar crapuleux
Tu prends un cafe a deux sous parmi les malheureux
Tu es la nuit dans un grand restaurant
Ces femmes ne sont pas mechantes elles ont des soucis cependant
Toutes meme la plus laide a fait souffrir son amant
Elle est la fille d'un sergent de ville de Jersey
Ses mains que je n'avais pas vues sont dures et gercees
J'ai une pitie immense pour les coutures de son ventre
J'humilie maintenant a une pauvre fille au rire horrible ma bouche
Tu es seul le matin va venir
Les laitiers font tinter leurs bidons dans les rues
La nuit s'eloigne ainsi qu'une belle Metive
C'est Ferdine la fausse ou Lea l'attentive
Et tu bois cet alcool brulant comme ta vie
Ta vie que tu bois comme une eau-de-vie
Tu marches vers Auteuil tu veux aller chez toi a pied
Dormir parmi tes fetiches d'Oceanie et de Guinee
Ils sont des Christ d'une autre forme et d'une autre croyance
Ce sont les Christ inferieurs des obscures esperances
Adieu Adieu
Soleil cou coupe
LE PONT MIRABEAU
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours apres la peine.
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Instruct
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Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw,
And ever nigher still their faces came,
And nigher ever did their young mouths draw
Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame,
And longing arms around her neck he cast,
And felt her throbbing bosom, and his breath came hot and fast,
And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss,
And all her maidenhood was his to slay,
And limb to limb in long and
rapturous
bliss
Their passion waxed and waned,--O why essay
To pipe again of love, too venturous reed!
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Now this is very
strange!
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Poe - 5 |
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Forbye, he'll shape you aff, fu' gleg,
The cut of Adam's philibeg:
The knife that nicket Abel's craig
He'll prove you fully,
It was a
faulding
jocteleg,
Or lang-kail gully.
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Winter Stars
I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have
drenched
my spirit's wings--
I bore my sorrow heavily.
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Then were, in mystery,
preparations
made,
And they departed--for till night none stayed.
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Hugo - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
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"
MENALCAS
"As moisture to the corn, to ewes with young
Lithe willow, as arbute to the
yeanling
kids,
So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Who like Ares bend until it quiver,
Bend the
northern
bow?
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Aeschylus |
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Near Jerusalem, once
the city where God displayed His grace, the Divine
Redeemer
withdrew
from the multitude and sought retirement.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I shall
send it by a careful hand, as I would not for
anything
it should be
mislaid or lost.
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Robert Forst |
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He sees
eternity less like a play with a
prologue
and denouement: he sees eternity
in men and women,--he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
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Whitman |
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There shalt thou stand
arraigned
of this blood;
And of those judges half shall lay on thee
Death, and half pardon; so shalt thou go free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Indeed, I cannot follow with your Grace:
Rather would say--the
shepherd
doth not kill
The sheep that wander from his flock, but sends
His careful dog to bring them to the fold.
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Tennyson |
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I ran to the place, drained of
strength
and colour,
And found him lifeless.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Therefore
like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my song.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Happier the son, whose hoary sire is bless'd
With humble affluence, and
domestic
rest!
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We love the hearth, the quiet hills, the song,
The friendly gossip come from every land;
And very peace were now a
nameless
wrong--
You thrust this bitter quarrel to our hand.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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56 The nights are bright, and, at the extremity of the island, so short, that the close and return of day is scarcely distinguished by a
perceptible
interval.
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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ilence,
(Which euer is
interpreted
con?
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Meredith - Poems |
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er by hide ne by hew;
Al
chaunged
was his lijf.
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CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a
thousand
errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Teach us, sprite or bird,
What sweet
thoughts
are thine:
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
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Golden Treasury |
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Children each morn your souls ope out
Like windows to the shining day,
Oh, miracle that comes about,
The miracle that children gay
Have happiness and goodness too,
Caressed by destiny are you,
Charming
you are, if you but play.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Hence still in her sweet frame we view decay
All that to earth can joy and
radiance
lend,
Or serve as mirror to this laggard age;
And Death's dread purpose should not Pity stay,
Too well I see where all those hopes must end,
With which I fondly soothed my lingering pilgrimage.
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Petrarch |
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Hear how
Homer has described the same: "The
snowflakes
fall thick and fast on a
winter's day.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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MDCLXXI
SAMSON AGONISTES
Of that sort of
Dramatic
Poem which is call'd Tragedy.
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Milton |
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--Hebetes comme des yeux de vache,
Nos yeux ne
pleuraient
plus; nous allions, nous allions
Et quand nous avions mis le pays en sillons,
Quand nous avions laissee dans cette terre noire
Un peu de notre chair.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead,
Could we live it all over again,
Were it worth the pain!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Fair flower-de-luce within an azure field,
Her left hand bears the ancient Gallic shield,
By her usurped ; her right a bloody sword,
Inscribed Leviathan, our sovereign Lord ;
Her towery front a fiery meteor bears,
An
exhalation
bred of blood and tears ;
Around her Jove's lewd ravenous curs com-
plain.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"All indistinctly
apprehend
a bliss
On which the soul may rest, the hearts of all
Yearn after it, and to that wished bourn
All therefore strive to tend.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the
mean time, the Reader may see several
particulars
relating to him in
_Cambden's Britannia_, Somerset.
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{and} beynge i{n} heuene
reioise?
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That's your
proportion!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He was a clever agitator, whose mad
rhetoric
made him
popular with the crowd.
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Tacitus |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my
enraptured
head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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