Call 'em: let me see 'em
1 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten
Her nine Farrow: Greaze that's sweaten
From the
Murderers
Gibbet, throw
Into the Flame
All.
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Moult est fos haus homs qui est
chiches!
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concerning
the
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Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,
Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
Limitless
out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But he
preferred
to the Cinque Ports,
These ^vq imaginary forts, sm
And, in those half-dry trenches, spanned
Power which the ocean might command.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
orthography of his glossary differs considerably from the
orthography
of
his text.
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Beowulf |
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Over-seas if thou had'st died,
Heavily had stood thy tomb,
Heaped on high; but,
quenched
in pride,
Grief were light unto thy home.
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Aeschylus |
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<
tu vuo' saper>>, mi disse quelli allotta,
<
imperadrice
di molte favelle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'Tis said that bastard-daughters oft retain
A disposition to the parent-train;
And this, the saying, truly ne'er bellied,
Nor was her spouse so weak but he descried,
Things clearer than was
requisite
believed,
And doubted much if he were not deceived.
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La Fontaine |
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It is, perhaps, too exclusively pre-occupied with that
subject, and it is certain it has not shed any new light upon it for
a considerable time, but a subject that inspired Homer and about half
the great
literature
of the world will, one doubts not, be a necessity
to our National Theatre also.
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Yeats |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Among the _characters_, of which the
seventeenth
century writers were
so fond, the projector is a favorite figure.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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co{n}ioigned
2900
{and} ybounde.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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The
replaced
older file is renamed.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How lovely
conflagrations
look when night is utter dark!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild,
declares
that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some adventurous thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some encounter of arms has
occurred to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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John Donne |
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Thou must indeed: words such as thine
Never were
impudent
in men's ears before.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This was a great shock to the b:inkcr> ;
for many of the
nobility
and gentry, who were in the sccrc,
took their money, before tlie design was publicly known, out
of the hands of their bankers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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It was ever the self-same tale,
The first
experience
will not fail;
Only two in the garden walked,
And with snake and seraph talked.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Give me the food that
satisfies
a guest, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For the one ship that struts the shore
Many's the gallant,
overwhelmed
creature
Nodding in navies nevermore.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Boker
BARBARA FRIETCHIE, John
Greenleaf
Whittier
FREDERICKSBURG, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
MUSIC IN CAMP, John R.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet discerning critics have
thought that they could still perceive in the early history of
Rome numerous
fragments
of this lost poetry, as the traveller on
classic ground sometimes finds, built into the heavy wall of a
fort or convent, a pillar rich with acanthus leaves, or a frieze
where the Amazons and Bacchanals seem to live.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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If epic poetry is a
definite
species, the
sagas do not fall within it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was
a maddening jumble, and the worst of it was that Charlie Mears in his
normal
condition
was the last person in the world to clear it up.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Voila le souvenir
enivrant
qui voltige
Dans l'air trouble; les yeux se ferment; le Vertige
Saisit l'ame vaincue et la pousse a deux mains
Vers un gouffre obscurci de miasmes humains;
Il la terrasse au bord d'un gouffre seculaire,
Ou, Lazare odorant dechirant son suaire,
Se meut dans son reveil le cadavre spectral
D'un vieil amour ranci, charmant et sepulcral.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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But
popular
tradition
here seems the best guide, which assigned the site
of Camalot to the ruins of a castle on a hill, near the church of
South Cadbury, in Somersetshire (Sir F.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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an the word was that no one could get through rebel-held
territory
to Qiyang, near which was Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There saw they, besides, the
strangest
being,
loathsome, lying their leader near,
prone on the field.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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s snow 4 I
joyously
meet the heavens over Wugong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that
confiding
prodigal,
The blissful oriole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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blake-poems |
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And having given
ourselves
all to amazement,
We are made like a prophesying song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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e p{re}sence of hys
p{ro}pre
knowynge.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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4 The plans of the seven
ancestral
temples are as they were, 8 once again a new beginning for the ten thousand regions.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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When you have reached the borders of your quest,
Homesick
at last, by many a devious way,
Winding the wonderlands circuitous,
By foot and horse will trace the long way back!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Jewel of all created elephants, lily of the herd,
preserve
your honored
health; be virtuous.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Je vais m'exercer seul a ma
fantasque
escrime,
Flairant dans tous les coins les hasards de la rime.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
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Blake - Zoas |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If yet Telemachus, my son,
survives?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des
aveugles
les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
IN
speaking
of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either
thorough or profound.
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Poe - 5 |
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They blow their golden trumpets
And they shake their
glancing
spears.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To Riddell, much lamented man,
This ivied cot was dear;
Wandr'er, dost value
matchless
worth?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris
Would join the
brabble?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A year ago we walked in the jangling city
Together
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Sara Teasdale |
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[Burns, on other
occasions
than this, recalled both his letters and
verses: it is to be regretted that he did not recall more of both.
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Robert Forst |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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impair the memory of that hour
Of thy
communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Such late was Walsh--the Muse's judge and friend,
Who justly knew to blame or to commend; 730
To
failings
mild, but zealous for desert;
The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
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Alexander Pope |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Here sways Rebekah accompanied by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright
romances
and musk.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Golden Treasury |
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And Camoens, with that look he had,
Compelling India's Genius sad
From the wave through the Lusiad,--
The murmurs of the storm-cape ocean
Indrawn in
vibrative
emotion
Along the verse.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The
ornament
of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates the law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the
agreement shall be interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or
limitation permitted by the applicable state law.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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The
landlord
will not let us have it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Ah, but I had given over to despair
The mind in me, I ground the stubborn tribes,
I
quarried
them like rocks and broke them small
And ground them down to flinders and to sands;
But never gleamed the jewel-stone therein,
Naught but the common flint of earth I found.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CXVIII
Out of Affrike an
Affrican
was come,
'Twas Malquiant, the son of king Malcud;
With beaten gold was all his armour done,
Fore all men's else it shone beneath the sun.
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Chanson de Roland |
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XXXI
"Then where, o'er two bright havens,
The towers of Corinth frown;
Where the gigantic King of Day
On his own Rhodes looks down;
Where oft Orontes murmurs
Beneath the laurel shades;
Where Nile reflects the endless length
Of dark red colonnades;
Where in the still deep water,
Sheltered
from waves and blasts,
Bristles the dusky forest
Of Byrsa's thousand masts;
Where fur-clad hunters wander
Amidst the northern ice;
Where through the sand of morning-land
The camel bears the spice;
Where Atlas flings his shadow
Far o'er the western foam,
Shall be great fear on all who hear
The might name of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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See, the Queen of the Chase
advances!
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Longfellow |
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Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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