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Indeed, where one from o'er-abundant bile
Is stricken with fever, or in other wise
Feels the roused violence of some malady,
There the whole frame is now upset, and there
All the
positions
of the seeds are changed,--
So that the bodies which before were fit
To cause the savour, now are fit no more,
And now more apt are others which be able
To get within the pores and gender sour.
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Lucretius |
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The last of the crew needs especial remark,
Though he looked an
incredible
dunce:
He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
The good Bellman engaged him at once.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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Think how they sport with these beloved forms;
And how the clarion-blowing wind unties
Above their heads the tresses of the storms:
Perchance
even now the child, the husband, dies.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I defy thee, Hell, to show
On beds of fire that burn below,
A humbler heart--a deeper wo--
Father, I firmly do believe--
I _know_--for Death, who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath left his iron gate ajar,
And rays of truth you cannot see
Are flashing thro' Eternity--
I do believe that Eblis hath
A snare in ev'ry human path--
Else how, when in the holy grove
I wandered of the idol, Love,
Who daily scents his snowy wings
With incense of burnt offerings
From the most unpolluted things,
Whose pleasant bowers are yet so riven
Above with
trelliced
rays from Heaven
No mote may shun--no tiniest fly
The light'ning of his eagle eye--
How was it that Ambition crept,
Unseen, amid the revels there,
Till growing bold, he laughed and leapt
In the tangles of Love's very hair?
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Poe - 5 |
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e greue3 grene ar her wede3,
[F] Brydde3 busken to bylde, &
bremlych
syngen,
[G] For solace of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--Therefore, unwilling to forget that day,
My Friend, Myself, and She who then received 75
The same admonishment, have called the place
By a
memorial
name, uncouth indeed
As e'er by mariner was given to bay
Or foreland, on a new-discovered coast;
And POINT RASH-JUDGMENT is the name it bears.
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William Wordsworth |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Lo, through hot
waverings
of the August morn,
Thou givest from thy vasty sides forlorn
Visions of golden treasuries of corn --
Ripe largesse lingering for some bolder heart
That manfully shall take thy part,
And tend thee,
And defend thee,
With antique sinew and with modern art.
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Sidney Lanier |
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy
fluttering
footfall 5
Through the twilight.
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Sappho |
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Old-fashioned eyes,
Not easy to
surprise!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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blake-poems |
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Ich fuhle Mut, mich in die Welt zu wagen,
Der Erde Weh, der Erde Gluck zu tragen,
Mit Sturmen mich herumzuschlagen
Und in des Schiffbruchs
Knirschen
nicht zu zagen.
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but let not pride nor ire
'Gainst my
humility
the lovely pass
By which I enter'd bar.
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Petrarch |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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' --
`Steersman,' I said, `hold
straight
into the West.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Have our soldiers got faint-hearted, and in
noiseless
haste
departed?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Moore, the accomplished author of Zeluco and father of Sir John
Moore,
interested
himself in the fame and fortune of Burns, as soon as
the publication of his Poems made his name known to the world.
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Robert Burns |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We have none of
the wild
unearthliness
of the masque.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A man should
study other things, not to covet, not to fear, not to repent him; to make
his base such as no tempest shall shake him; to be secure of all opinion,
and pleasing to himself, even for that wherein he
displeaseth
others; for
the worst opinion gotten for doing well, should delight us.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Going home--I shed a few tears,
Grieving
about things,--not sorry for you.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What a
beautiful
Pussy you are!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Warble for Lilac-Time
Warble me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,)
Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)
Put in April and May, the hylas
croaking
in the ponds, the elastic air,
Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes,
Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his
golden wings,
The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,
Shimmer of waters with fish in them, the cerulean above,
All that is jocund and sparkling, the brooks running,
The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,
The robin where he hops, bright-eyed, brown-breasted,
With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at sunset,
Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest
of his mate,
The melted snow of March, the willow sending forth its yellow-green sprouts,
For spring-time is here!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lenski the stroke could not sustain,
At
womankind
he growled a curse,
Departed, ordered out his horse
And galloped home.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O Chryste, it is a grief for me to telle,
How manie a nobil erle and valrous knyghte
In
fyghtynge
for Kynge Harrold noblie fell,
Al sleyne in Hastyngs feeld in bloudie fyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Rien n'egale en
longueur
les boiteuses journees,
Quand sous les lourds flocons des neigeuses annees
L'ennui, fruit de la morne incuriosite,
Prend les proportions de l'immortalite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed
Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head
*On the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang
So eagerly around about to hang
Upon the flying
footsteps
of--deep pride--
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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in yon
brilliant
window-niche
How statue-like I me thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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blake-poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is
derived from texts not
protected
by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The grey-green woods impassive
Had watched the
threshing
of his limbs.
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Stephen Crane |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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unfǣlo =
_uncanny_
(R.
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Beowulf |
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"
They cursed her deep, they smote her low,
They cleft her golden
ringlets
through;
The Loving is the Dying.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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CHANCE
How many times we must have met
Here on the street as
strangers
do,
Children of chance we were, who passed
The door of heaven and never knew.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Divide ye bands influence by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is
distinctly
different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But Enid ever kept the faded silk,
Remembering
how first he came on her,
Drest in that dress, and how he loved her in it,
And all her foolish fears about the dress,
And all his journey toward her, as himself
Had told her, and their coming to the court.
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Tennyson |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven,
opposing
such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Pallas
attending
gives his frame to shine
With awful port, and majesty divine;
His gazing son admires the godlike grace,
And air celestial dawning o'er his face.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Now Media dreads our Alban steel,
Our
victories
land and ocean o'er;
Scythia and Ind in suppliance kneel,
So proud before.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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Ich take to
witnesse
god of heuene,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The incautious herald with impatience burns,
And cries aloud, "Thy son, O queen, returns;"
Eumaeus sage approach'd the
imperial
throne,
And breathed his mandate to her ear alone,
Then measured back the way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle
In an
Imperiall
charge.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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Who with might of spear
Shall our home
deliver?
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Aeschylus |
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered
upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Sie
scheinen
mir aus einem edlen Haus,
Sie sehen stolz und unzufrieden aus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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X
So growen great through arrogant delight
Of th' high descent, whereof he was yborne,
And through presumption of his matchlesse might,
All other powres and
knighthood
he did scorne.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But never
To worker
summoned
when his day was done
Did mounting tide bring in such freight of friends
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle
That night while they that watched you thought you slept.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_ A
manuscript
in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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John Donne |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It is pretty clear that the Mars, Marmar, or Marmor, invoked in such
iteration is not the war-god, but Mars in his more ancient
character
of
a god of agriculture.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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haec me
fortunae
larga indulgentia suasit
numine adorato uitae obitum petere,
ne fortunatae spatium inuiolabile uitae
fatali morsu stringeret ulla dies.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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' The
change is
unnecessary
if we consider the conditional clause
as an after-thought on the part of Fitzdottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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' clung to him and hugged him close;
And called him dear protector in her fright,
Nor yet forgot her
practice
in her fright,
But wrought upon his mood and hugged him close.
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Tennyson |
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Poor Matthew, all his frolics o'er,
Is silent as a
standing
pool;
Far from the chimney's merry roar,
And murmur of the village school.
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William Wordsworth |
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'You
promised
me a thing that is not possible; that you would give me
gloves of the skin of a fish; that you would give me shoes of the skin
of a bird, and a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland.
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Yeats |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a
whirlwind
*
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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O, then, I see you will part but with light gifts:
In
weightier
things you'll say a beggar nay.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Stroke the cool forehead, hot so often,
Lift, if you can, the
listless
hair;
Handle the adamantine fingers
Never a thimble more shall wear.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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LIX
The count Rollanz hath heard himself decreed;
Speaks then to Guenes by rule of courtesy:
"Good-father, Sir, I ought to hold you dear,
Since the
rereward
you have for me decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I am nought
religious!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Long ago ended the struggle, in union of
brotherhood
happily stilled;
Yet from that field of Antietam, in warning and
token of love's command,
See!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But as it was
communicated
with the air of a Secret, it soon found
its way into the world.
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Alexander Pope |
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What is't that moues your
Highnesse?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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AUTOMNE MALADE
Automne malade et adore
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neige
Dans les vergers
Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits murs
Au fond du ciel
Des eperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aime
Aux lisieres lointaines
Les cerfs ont brame
Et que j'aime o saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la foret qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille a feuille
Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'ecoule
HOTELS
La chambre est veuve
Chacun pour soi
Presence neuve
On paye au mois
Le patron doute
Payera-t-on
Je tourne en route
Comme un toton
Le bruit des fiacres
Mon voisin laid
Qui fume un acre
Tabac anglais
O La Valliere
Qui boite et rit
De mes prieres
Table de nuit
Et tous ensemble
Dans cet hotel
Savons la langue
Comme a Babel
Fermons nos Portes
A double tour
Chacun apporte
Son seul amour
CORS DE CHASSE
Notre histoire est noble et tragique
Comme le masque d'un tyran
Nul drame hasardeux ou magique
Aucun detail indifferent
Ne rend notre amour pathetique
Et Thomas de Quincey buvant
L'opium poison doux et chaste
A sa pauvre Anne allait revant
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les
souvenirs
sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
VENDEMIAIRE
Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais a l'epoque ou finissaient les rois
Tour a tour ils mouraient silencieux et tristes
Et trois fois courageux devenaient trismegistes
Que Paris etait beau a la fin de septembre
Chaque nuit devenait une vigne ou les pampres
Repandaient leur clarte sur la ville et la-haut
Astres murs becquetes par les ivres oiseaux
De ma gloire attendaient la vendange de l'aube
Un soir passant le long des quais deserts et sombres
En rentrant a Auteuil j'entendis une voix
Qui chantait gravement se taisant quelquefois
Pour que parvint aussi sur les bords de la Seine
La plainte d'autres voix limpides et lointaines
Et j'ecoutai longtemps tous ces chants et ces cris
Qu'eveillait dans la nuit la chanson de Paris
J'ai soif villes de France et d'Europe et du monde
Venez toutes couler dans ma gorge profonde
Je vis alors que deja ivre dans la vigne Paris
Vendangeait le raisin le plus doux de la terre
Ces grains miraculeux qui aux treilles chanterent
Et Rennes repondit avec Quimper et Vannes
Nous voici o Paris Nos maisons nos habitants
Ces grappes de nos sens qu'enfanta le soleil
Se sacrifient pour te desalterer trop avide merveille
Nous t'apportons tous les cerveaux les cimetieres les murailles
Ces berceaux pleins de cris que tu n'entendras pas
Et d'amont en aval nos pensees o rivieres
Les oreilles des ecoles et nos mains rapprochees
Aux doigts allonges nos mains les clochers
Et nous t'apportons aussi cette souple raison
Que le mystere clot comme une porte la maison
Ce mystere courtois de la galanterie
Ce mystere fatal fatal d'une autre vie
Double raison qui est au-dela de la beaute
Et que la Grece n'a pas connue ni l'Orient
Double raison de la Bretagne ou lame a lame
L'ocean chatre peu a peu l'ancien continent
Et les villes du Nord repondirent gaiement
O Paris nous voici boissons vivantes
Les viriles cites ou degoisent et chantent
Les metalliques saints de nos saintes usines
Nos cheminees a ciel ouvert engrossent les nuees
Comme fit autrefois l'Ixion mecanique
Et nos mains innombrables
Usines manufactures fabriques mains
Ou les ouvriers nus semblables a nos doigts
Fabriquent du reel a tant par heure
Nous te donnons tout cela
Et Lyon repondit tandis que les anges de Fourvieres
Tissaient un ciel nouveau avec la soie des prieres
Desaltere-toi Paris avec les divines paroles
Que mes levres le Rhone et la Saone murmurent
Toujours le meme culte de sa mort renaissant
Divise ici les saints et fait pleuvoir le sang
Heureuse pluie o gouttes tiedes o douleur
Un enfant regarde les fenetres s'ouvrir
Et des grappes de tetes a d'ivres oiseaux s'offrit
Les villes du Midi repondirent alors
Noble Paris seule raison qui vis encore
Qui fixes notre humeur selon ta destinee
Et toi qui te retires Mediterranee
Partagez-vous nos corps comme on rompt des hosties
Ces tres hautes amours et leur danse orpheline
Deviendront o Paris le vin pur que tu aimes
Et un rale infini qui venait de Sicile
Signifiait en battement d'ailes ces paroles
Les raisins de nos vignes on les a vendanges
Et ces grappes de morts dont les grains allonges
Ont la saveur du sang de la terre et du sel
Les voici pour ta soif o Paris sous le ciel
Obscurci de nuees fameliques
Que caresse Ixion le createur oblique
Et ou naissent sur la mer tous les corbeaux d'Afrique
O raisins Et ces yeux ternes et en famille
L'avenir et la vie dans ces treilles s'ennuyent
Mais ou est le regard lumineux des sirenes
Il trompa les marins qu'aimaient ces oiseaux-la
Il ne tournera plus sur l'ecueil de Scylla
Ou chantaient les trois voix suaves et sereines
Le detroit tout a coup avait change de face
Visages de la chair de l'onde de tout
Ce que l'on peut imaginer
Vous n'etes que des masques sur des faces masquees
Il souriait jeune nageur entre les rives
Et les noyes flottant sur son onde nouvelle
Fuyaient en le suivant les chanteuses plaintives
Elles dirent adieu au gouffre et a l'ecueil
A leurs pales epoux couches sur les terrasses
Puis ayant pris leur vol vers le brulant soleil
Les suivirent dans l'onde ou s'enfoncent les astres
Lorsque la nuit revint couverte d'yeux ouverts
Errer au site ou l'hydre a siffle cet hiver
Et j'entendis soudain ta voix imperieuse
O Rome
Maudire d'un seul coup mes anciennes pensees
Et le ciel ou l'amour guide les destinees
Les feuillards repousses sur l'arbre de la croix
Et meme la fleur de lys qui meurt au Vatican
Macerent dans le vin que je t'offre et qui a
La saveur du sang pur de celui qui connait
Une autre liberte vegetale dont tu
Ne sais pas que c'est elle la supreme vertu
Une couronne du triregne est tombee sur les dalles
Les hierarques la foulent sous leurs sandales
O splendeur democratique qui palit
Vienne le nuit royale ou l'on tuera les betes
La louve avec l'agneau l'aigle avec la colombe
Une foule de rois ennemis et cruels
Ayant soif comme toi dans la vigne eternelle
Sortiront de la terre et viendront dans les airs
Pour boire de mon vin par deux fois millenaire
La Moselle et le Rhin se joignent en silence
C'est l'Europe qui prie nuit et jour a Coblence
Et moi qui m'attardais sur le quai a Auteuil
Quand les heures tombaient parfois comme les feuilles
Du cep lorsqu'il est temps j'entendis la priere
Qui joignait la limpidite de ces rivieres
O Paris le vin de ton pays est meilleur que celui
Qui pousse sur nos bords mais aux pampres du nord
Tous les grains ont muri pour cette soif terrible
Mes grappes d'hommes forts saignent dans le pressoir
Tu boiras a longs traits tout le sang de l'Europe
Parce que tu es beau et que seul tu es noble
Parce que c'est dans toi que Dieu peut devenir
Et tous mes vignerons dans ces belles maisons
Qui refletent le soir leurs feux dans nos deux eaux
Dans ces belles maisons nettement blanches et noires
Sans savoir que tu es la realite chantent ta gloire
Mais nous liquides mains jointes pour la priere
Nous menons vers le sel les eaux aventurieres
Et la ville entre nous comme entre des ciseaux
Ne reflete en dormant nul feu dans ses deux eaux
Dont quelque sifflement lointain parfois s'elance
Troublant dans leur sommeil les filles de Coblence
Les villes repondaient maintenant par centaines
Je ne distinguais plus leurs paroles lointaines
Et Treves la ville ancienne
A leur voix melait la sienne
L'univers tout entier concentre dans ce vin
Qui contenait les mers les animaux les plantes
Les cites les destins et les astres qui chantent
Les hommes a genoux sur la rive du ciel
Et le docile fer notre bon compagnon
Le feu qu'il faut aimer comme on s'aime soi-meme
Tous les fiers trepasses qui sont un sous mon front
L'eclair qui luit ainsi qu'une pensee naissante
Tous les noms six par six les nombres un a un
Des kilos de papier tordus comme des flammes
Et ceux-la qui sauront blanchir nos ossements
Les bons vers immortels qui s'ennuient patiemment
Des armees rangees en bataille
Des forets de crucifix et mes demeures lacustres
Au bord des yeux de celle que j'aime tant
Les fleurs qui s'ecrient hors de bouches
Et tout ce que je ne sais pas dire
Tout ce que je ne connaitrai jamais
Tout cela tout cela change en ce vin pur
Dont Paris avait soif
Me fut alors presente
Actions belles journees sommeils terribles
Vegetation Accouplements musiques eternelles
Mouvements Adorations douleur divine
Mondes qui vous rassemblez et qui nous ressemblez
Je vous ai bus et ne fut pas desaltere
Mais je connus des lors quelle saveur a l'univers
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers
Sur le quai d'ou je voyais l'onde couler et dormir les belandres
Ecoutez-moi je suis le gosier de Paris
Et je boirai encore s'il me plait l'univers
Ecoutez mes chants d'universelle ivrognerie
Et la nuit de septembre s'achevait lentement
Les feux rouges des ponts s'eteignaient dans la Seine
Les etoiles mouraient le jour naissait a peine
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And certeyn, he is wel bigoon
Among a
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How can I choose but kiss her, whence does come
The storax, spikenard, myrrh, and
laudanum?
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Thou hast seen the court,
And
splendour
of Ivan.
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore
desire, of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--
'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.
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I soar up into the
coldness
as the air-hounds wheel on high,
And slip away in the dimness as they hunt where I circled by.
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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The ancient harps have said,
Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord:
If Love impersonate was ever dead,
Pale
Isabella
kiss'd it, and low moan'd.
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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disclaimers
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warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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And before the holiness
Of the shadow of thy
handmaid
Have I hidden mine eyes, O God of waters.
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If your back
Cannot
vouchsafe
this burden, 'tis too weak
Ever to get a boy.
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Shakespeare |
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Perhaps, by its own ruins saved from flame,
Some buried marble half preserves a name;
That name the learned with fierce
disputes
pursue,
And give to Titus old Vespasian's due.
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'His name follows that of Lowin in the dedication to the folio
of
Beaumont
and Fletcher's works, published at that time.
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nor mention I
Meats by the Law unclean, or offer'd first
To Idols, those young Daniel could refuse;
Nor proffer'd by an Enemy, though who 330
Would scruple that, with want
opprest?
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