O, then, I see you will part but with light gifts:
In
weightier
things you'll say a beggar nay.
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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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O wonder now
unfurled!
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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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But as it was
communicated
with the air of a Secret, it soon found
its way into the world.
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What is't that moues your
Highnesse?
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And certeyn, he is wel bigoon
Among a
thousand
that fyndith oon.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How can I choose but kiss her, whence does come
The storax, spikenard, myrrh, and
laudanum?
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Robert Herrick |
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Thou hast seen the court,
And
splendour
of Ivan.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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Keats |
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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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blake-poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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Milton |
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On the morrow, just as I was busy composing an elegy, and I was biting
my pen as I searched for a rhyme,
Chvabrine
tapped at my window.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Neither; he took this place for sanctuary,
And it shall privilege him from your hands
Till I have brought him to his wits again,
Or lose my labour in
assaying
it.
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Shakespeare |
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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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Reapers are now going home, back from
harvesting
grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My morning coat, my collar
mounting
firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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T.S. Eliot |
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I have a
pleasant
hill
Which I sit upon for hours,
Where she cropt some sprigs of thyme
And other little flowers;
And she muttered as she did it
As does beauty in a dream,
And I loved her when she hid it
On her breast, so like to cream,
Near the brown mole on her neck that to me a diamond shone
Then my eye was like to fire, and my heart was like to stone.
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John Clare |
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Smith, in his
excellent Theory of Moral Sentiments, that remorse is the most painful
sentiment that can
embitter
the human bosom.
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Robert Burns |
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Namque tuo aduentu uigilat custodia semper,
nocte latent fures, quos idem saepe reuertens,
Hespere, mutato
comprendis
nomine eosdem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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whom I now survey,
Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye,
Not in the fabled
landscape
of a lay,
But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky,
In the wild pomp of mountain majesty!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He was born in New York on June 22nd, 1888; was
educated
at the
Horace Mann School; Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York; and Harvard
College.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ere up to you I turn, O lustrous stars,
Or
downwards
in love's labyrinthine wood,
Leaving my fleshly frame in mouldering earth,
Could I but pity find in her, one day
Would many years redeem, and to the dawn
With bliss enrich me from the setting sun!
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Petrarch |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She returned to Hyderabad in September 1898, and in
the
December
of that year, to the scandal of all India, broke
through the bonds of caste, and married Dr.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Antinous hath a tongue accustom'd much
To tauntings, and
promotes
them in the rest.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Somebody
tells the poacher-court
The hale affair.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And now the tops of Hills as Rocks appeer;
With clamor thence the rapid
Currents
drive
Towards the retreating Sea thir furious tyde.
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Milton |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Unless thou fill me with thy light,
I cannot lead thy flock aright;
Nor without thy support can bear
The burden of so great a care,
But am myself a
castaway!
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Longfellow |
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However, this transcription may be
compared
with the edited
version in the main text to get a flavor of the changes made
in these early editions.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yow thanke I, lord, that han me brought to this;
But whether
goddesse
or womman, y-wis, 425
She be, I noot, which that ye do me serve;
But as hir man I wole ay live and sterve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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No more--the
approaching
hours of silent night
First claim refection, then to rest invite;
Beneath our humble cottage let us haste,
And here, unenvied, rural dainties taste.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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He then asked me what were
my
projects
for the future, and my plans for the rest of my life.
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Petrarch |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
No sooner ceas'd the sound, than I beheld
Four mighty spirits toward us bend their steps,
Of
semblance
neither sorrowful nor glad.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
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Sappho |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Through his whole body
something
ran,
A most strange something did I see;
--As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The low December vault in June be lifted high,
And largest clouds be flakes of down in that
enormous
sky.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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The mornynge 'gyns alonge the Easte to sheene;
Darklinge the lyghte doe onne the waters plaie;
The feynte rodde leme slowe creepeth oere the greene,
Toe chase the merkyness of nyghte awaie;
Swifte flies the howers thatte wylle brynge oute the daie; 1130
The softe dewe falleth onne the greeynge grasse;
The shepster mayden, dyghtynge her arraie,
Scante[121] sees her vysage yn the wavie glasse;
Bie the fulle
daylieghte
wee scalle AElla see.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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How
prettily
the young swain seems to wash
The hand was fair before!
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Shakespeare |
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In
that holy but
horrible
cavern, as Petrarch calls it, they remained three
days and three nights, though Petrarch sometimes gave his comrades the
slip, and indulged in rambles among the hills and forests; he composed a
short poem, however, on St.
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Petrarch |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"--Borne aloft
With the bright mists about the
mountains
hoar
These words dissolv'd: Crete's forests heard no more.
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Keats - Lamia |
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That day he wore a riding-coat,
But not a whit the warmer he:
Another was on
Thursday
brought,
And ere the Sabbath he had three.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
exclaimed
the old man,
"Happy are my eyes to see you.
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Longfellow |
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Jonson depicts
a sort of mock
Parliament
of Love in the _New Inn_, Act 4.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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With scorn from off my
clothing
now I shake
The foreign dust, and greedily I drink
New air; it is my native air.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
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Ronsard |
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The old strange
fragrance
filled the air,
A fragrance like the garden pink,
But tinged with vague medicinal stink
Of camphor, soap, new sponges, blent
With chloroform and violet scent.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[Note: This manuscript,
invaluable to all students of Milton, has lately been facsimiled under
the
superintendence
of Dr.
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Milton |
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Her fingers fumbled at her work, --
Her needle would not go;
What ailed so smart a little maid
It puzzled me to know,
Till opposite I spied a cheek
That bore another rose;
Just opposite, another speech
That like the drunkard goes;
A vest that, like the bodice, danced
To the immortal tune, --
Till those two
troubled
little clocks
Ticked softly into one.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And when the sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, "You'll all be
drowned!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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the two
delusive
things
Stamp impatiently it seems,
Yours has heavenward soaring wings,
Mine is of the land of dreams.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy
friendship
fair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"Shall he, grown gray among his peers,
Through the thick curtain of his tears
Catch
glimpses
of his earlier years,
[Picture: Shall Man be Man?
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The boys with
digestions
hope to
write their names large on the Frontier and struggle for dreary places
like Bannu and Kohat.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Proud and erect she drank the music in,
The lively and the warlike call to arms;
Her eyes blinked like an ancient eagle's eyes;
Her
forehead
seemed to await the laurel crown!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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]
* * * * *
1800
Towards the close of December 1799,
Wordsworth
came to live at Dove
Cottage, Town-end, Grasmere.
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William Wordsworth |
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When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With
infinite
affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For every night, and everywhere,
I meet him out at dinner;
And when I've found some
charming
fair,
And vowed to die or win her,
The wretch (he's thin and I am stout)
Is sure to come and cut me out!
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Lewis Carroll |
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the
remembrance
murders me!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Explosion de chaleur
Dans ma noire
Siberie!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Keats - Lamia |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man
abolished
yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you, memories of horizons?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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--
enfolding of field or
forested
mountain
or floor of the flood, let her flee where she will!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Endure and be still:
Thy
lamenting
will not wake her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Far in the hardy north a land there lies,
Buried in thick-ribb'd ice and
constant
snows,
Where scant the days and clouded are the skies,
And seldom the bright sun his glad warmth throws;
There, enemy of peace by nature, springs
A people to whom death no terror brings;
If these, with new devotedness, we see
In Gothic fury baring the keen glaive,
Turk, Arab, and Chaldee!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The hour was morning's prime, and on his way
Aloft the sun
ascended
with those stars,
That with him rose, when Love divine first mov'd
Those its fair works: so that with joyous hope
All things conspir'd to fill me, the gay skin
Of that swift animal, the matin dawn
And the sweet season.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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