The ship
suddenly
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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And where the light fully
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And yet the fate of all
extremes
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And thus, when of the tidesway he was clear,
And in the deepest sea his bark descried,
So that no longer distant signs appear
Of either shore on this or the other side,
He seized the tube, and said: "That cavalier
May never vail through thee his
knightly
pride,
Nor base be rated with a better foe,
Down with thee to the darkest deep below!
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In this narrow world, narrow and yet full of disgust, a single familiar
object smiles at me: the phial of laudanum: old and
terrible
love; like
all loves, alas!
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Now will I seek again to bring to mind
How porous a body all things have--a fact
Made
manifest
in my first canto, too.
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FRAGMENT
B.
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So far it is from both the sky and land,
It cannot rise, it dare not fall, so lives apart
From fear of
conquest
and from hope of rest.
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The Rais, or captain, knew Gama's ship by the admiral's ensign, and made
up to her, saluting her with loud huzzas and
instruments
of music.
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HILDA: Don't you
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In haste there came the Queen forth, Bramimound;
"I love you well, sir," said she to the count,
"For prize you dear my lord and all around;
Here for your wife I have two brooches found,
Amethysts and jacynths in golden mount;
More worth are they than all the wealth of Roum;
Your
Emperour
has none such, I'll be bound.
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His first
considerable
work was the _Leaves of
Grass_.
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High on the seat the cabinet they bind:
The new-made car with solid beauty shined;
Box was the yoke, emboss'd with costly pains,
And hung with
ringlets
to receive the reins;
Nine cubits long, the traces swept the ground:
These to the chariot's polish'd pole they bound.
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Towards the close of the First French Revolution, Joseph Leopold Sigisbert
Hugo, son of a joiner at Nancy, and an officer risen from the ranks in the
Republican army, married Sophie Trebuchet, daughter of a Nantes fitter-out
of privateers, a Vendean
royalist
and devotee.
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"
The pope's wife did me honour with
everything
she had at hand, without
ceasing a moment to talk.
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O Queens, in vain old Fate decreed
Your flower-like bodies to the tomb;
Death is in truth the vital seed
Of your
imperishable
bloom
Each new-born year the bulbuls sing
Their songs of your renascent loves;
Your beauty wakens with the spring
To kindle these pomegranate groves.
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'99-112'
In this famous passage Pope shows how the belief in immortality is found
even among the most
ignorant
tribes.
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I marked a blossom shiver to and fro
With dainty inward storm; and there within
A down-drawn trump of yellow jessamine
A bee
Thrust up its sad-gold body lustily,
All in a honey madness hotly bound
On
blissful
burglary.
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How oft high service is performed within,
When all the
external
man is rude in show,--
Not like a temple rich with pomp and gold,
But a mere mountain chapel, that protects 230
Its simple worshippers from sun and shower.
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Nor may I be brought near to any husband among those from heaven,
For I fear, seeing the virginhood of Io,
Not content with man, through
marriage
vexed
With these distressful wanderings by Here.
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In blushing clouds
conceals
his head.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Bitter constraint, and sad
occasion
dear
Compels me to disturb your season due:
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer:
Who would not sing for Lycidas?
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Golden Treasury |
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I kept on hearing a voice calling:
Out of Nowhere, Nothing
answered
"yes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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I think it is
Linnaeus
who says
that while the swine is rooting for acorns he is planting acorns.
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XV _AD
AVRELIVM_
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Antinous
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Through ancient forests--where like flowing tide
The rising sap shoots vigor far and wide,
Mounting the column of the alder dark
And silv'ring o'er the birch's shining bark--
Hast thou not often, Albert Durer, strayed
Pond'ring, awe-stricken--through the half-lit glade,
Pallid and trembling--glancing not behind
From mystic fear that did thy senses bind,
Yet made thee hasten with
unsteady
pace?
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240
De Aubignee rod fercely thro' the fyghte,
To where the boddie of
Salnarville
laie;
Quod he; And art thou ded, thou manne of myghte?
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Hir
thoughte
hir sorwful herte brast a-two.
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quel beau matin, que ce matin des
etrennes!
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In the 1140s he was a
propagandist
for the Reconquista, of Spain from the Moors.
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It also tells you how
you can
distribute
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Que l'espace est
profond!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To my loyal heart do no injury;
Let me be noble without perjury;
My bonds are far too strong to be broken;
Even without hope my faith's unshaken;
Unable to leave or possess Chimene,
The death I seek is my
sweetest
pain.
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"
DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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When Dunbar and you meet, tell him that I left
Edinburgh
with the idea
of him hanging somewhere about my heart.
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Their
chilling
touch is over everything.
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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It is
discernible
in the most
tedious and in the most superficial modern works on the early
times of Rome.
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The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his
dishonoured
grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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His
swearing was so
dreadful
that the others stood up, and my friend said,
'All is not right here; there is a spirit in him.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to conceive the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With
thousands
upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Now always in the assaults there's one great beast,
With yellow eyes and hackles like a mane,
That plays the captain, first to reach the dyke;
And I have heard that when he stands upright
To ramp against the bulwarks, in his throat
Are
chattering
yelps half tongued to grisly words.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_ A lord's man; an
attendant
on a lord.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE
CREPUSCULAR
SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the lethargy of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Who knows where
repentance
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I have gone for rhyme and aimed for
accuracy
of meaning.
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But the palace within is decked with
splendour
of royal
state, and a banquet made ready amid the halls.
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Behold Beatrice with Dante; Selvaggia, she
Brought her
Pistoian
Cino; Guitton may be
Offended that he is the latter named:
Behold both Guidos for their learning famed:
Th' honest Bolognian: the Sicilians first
Wrote love in rhymes, but wrote their rhymes the worst.
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He'll
certainly
take her for his wife.
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Hast du noch keinen Mann, nicht Manneswort
gekannt?
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(Among pigeon corners of the Congressional Library--they
file documents quietly, casually, all in a day's work--
this human document, the buck private nobody knows the
name of--they file away in granite and steel--with music
and roses, salutes,
proclamations
of the honorable
orators.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When you
announced
your departure so soon, 16 a hundred cares again beset me.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Here is Satan's picture,
Like a bizzard gled,
Pouncing
poor Redcastle,[133]
Sprawlin' as a taed.
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Robert Forst |
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"By the
time that the cock had crowed and cackled thrice" the lord was up, and
after "meat and mass" were over the hunters make for the woods, where
they give chase to a wild boar who had grown old and
mischievous
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ A means of
conveying
secret intelligence:
used vaguely.
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And forthe went the sextayne, 203
And fownde
alexknelyng
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ou haddest for
most
p{re}cious
in alle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And thus the soul,
By that sweet taste of
pleasure
unpursued
Doth find herself [13] insensibly disposed
To virtue and true goodness.
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Un soir fait de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous
echangerons
un eclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout charge d'adieux;
Et plus tard un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidele et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You have an
excellent
armour; but let my horse have his
due.
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Shakespeare |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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his nunc
ademptis
maesta coniunx maceror,
felix, maritum si superstitem mihi
diui dedissent, sed tamen felix, tua
quia sum fuique postque mortem mox ero.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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SOLNESS: Tell me, doctor, did you notice
anything
odd
about Aline?
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At all events, it is not presented as poetry, and it is in no
way connected with the Author's judgment
concerning
poetic diction.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Aeschylus |
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With eyes up-raised, as one inspired,
Pale
Melancholy
sat retired;
And from her wild sequester'd seat,
In notes by distance made more sweet,
Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul:
And dashing soft from rocks around
Bubbling runnels join'd the sound;
Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole,
Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay,
Round an holy calm diffusing,
Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thy wife, and with a tainted memory-
MY seared and
blighted
name, how would it tally
With the ancestral honors of thy house,
And with thy glory?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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130
Aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna
Lux mea se nostrum
contulit
in gremium,
Quam circumcursans hinc illinc saepe Cupido
Fulgebat crocina candidus in tunica.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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' He is also the
author of some astronomical tables, entitled 'Ziji-Malikshahi,' and
the French have lately republished and
translated
an Arabic Treatise
of his on Algebra.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre
fruitier
se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now would you see this aged thorn,
This pond and
beauteous
hill of moss,
You must take care and chuse your time
The mountain when to cross.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Great in the council,
glorious
in the field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Elvire
How can you find the audacity and pride
To show
yourself
here, where a light has died?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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res est forma fugax: quis sapiens bono
confidat
fragili?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Christina Rossetti |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some
folks
declared
that he had taken the money to America.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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