LXVIII
You ask how love can keep the mortal soul
Strong to the pitch of joy
throughout
the years.
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Sappho |
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But ancient Cosmographers
placed the first
meridian
at the Canaries.
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So safer, guess, with just my soul
Upon the window-pane
Where other
creatures
put their eyes,
Incautious of the sun.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Was God so
economical?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[93] A
plaintive
love-song, to which Po Chu-i had himself written words.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Eckhardt,
at whose hands the subject has received
exhaustive
treatment.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Some fancied they heard in the air
A weary and
wandering
sigh
That sounded like "--jum!
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Lewis Carroll |
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_The new
successor
drives away old love.
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Robert Herrick |
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II
The Minstrel sings:
I lie beside the princess' tower,
So close she cannot see my face,
And watch her
dreaming
all day long,
And bending with a lily's grace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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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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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand
fighting
men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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to [the] whiche
sentence
none of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Pentagram
disturbs
thee?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For when the soul and frame
together
are sunk
In slumber, no one then demands his self
Or being.
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Lucretius |
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Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
poet seems to have believed, very early in life, that he was none of
the elect of Mammon; that he was too much of a genius ever to acquire
wealth by steady labour, or by, as he loved to call it, gin-horse
prudence, or
grubbing
industry.
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Robert Forst |
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I tell Thee this--When,
starting
from the Goal,
Over the shoulders of the flaming Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestin'd Plot of Dust and Soul
LV.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Give me the food that
satisfies
a guest, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Thenk eek how Paris hath, that is thy brother,
A love; and why shaltow not have
another?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Emerson - Poems |
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I am not yet employed as such, but in
a few years I shall fall into the file of
supervisorship
by seniority.
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Robert Forst |
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Time, which hath wronged thee with ten thousand rents
Of thine
imperial
garment, shall deny,
And hath denied, to every other sky,
Spirits which soar from ruin:--thy decay
Is still impregnate with divinity,
Which gilds it with revivifying ray;
Such as the great of yore, Canova is to-day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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XLIII
"Whence woe, so direful and so strange, ensued
Cannot by me to you be signified:
I saw on earth his sword and armour strewed,
Doffed by that peer, and
scattered
far and wide;
And I a pious knight and courteous viewed
Those arms collecting upon every side,
Who, in the guise of trophy, to a tree
Fastened that fair and pompous panoply.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
Thou most me first
transmuwen
in a stoon,
And reve me my passiounes alle,
Er thou so lightly do my wo to falle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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e
serieauntz
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Peaceful
as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd,
In the calm sunshine slept the glittering main.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Crazy parrots and
canaries
flew west,
Drunk on May-time revelations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to delirious, flower-dressed fairies
Of the lazy forest.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But whether that she children hadde or noon,
I rede it naught;
therfore
I late it goon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[41] In Wapull's _The Tide
tarrieth
for No Man_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It is
possible
that the word _partes_ may belong to this passage as
well as to the end of chap.
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Tacitus |
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So sweetly to these ravish'd ears of mine
Came thy sweet greeting, that if thou
shouldst
fade
Thy memory will waste me to a shade--
For pity do not melt!
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Keats - Lamia |
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{106a} As Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne; and beware of
letting them taste Gower or Chaucer at first, lest, falling too much in
love with antiquity, and not apprehending the weight, they grow rough and
barren in
language
only.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Don't close the
shutters
so soon.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
XLIV
-- "So oft have I had Roland on the hip,
And oft," (exclaimed the
boaster)
"heretofore;
From him it had been easy task to strip
What other arms, beside his helm, he wore;
And if I still have let the occasion slip,
-- We sometimes think of things unwished before:
Such wish I had not; I have now; and hope
To compass easily my present scope.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not thus Ulysses; he decrees to prove
His subjects' faith, and queen's suspected love;
Who mourn'd her lord twice ten
revolving
years,
And wastes the days in grief, the nights in tears.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The wicked magistrate, in defiance
of the clearest proofs, gave
judgment
for the claimant.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Published
(from the Esdaile manuscript) by Dowden,
"Life of Shelley", 1887.
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Shelley |
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I wish there to be in my house:
O lion, miserable image
Don't be fearful and lascivious
There's another cony I remember
With his four dromedaries
Sweet days, the mice of time,
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
Look at this pestilential tribe
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Maybe
God will in very deed
vouchsafe
to me
Belated healing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Methinks
if I should kiss thee, no control
Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat
The subtle spirit.
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Tennyson |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The passage in 'the
Play-bookes' which Jonson
satirizes
is at the close of _3 Henry VI.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It is not
intellect
that is to be their
warrant and welcome.
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Whitman |
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But why this praise to make you blush and stare,
And give a
backache
to your Easy-Chair?
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James Russell Lowell |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(fur sich):
Ich bin des trocknen Tons nun satt,
Muss wieder recht den Teufel spielen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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ilk[e]
rycchesses
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Down Aulus springs to slay him,
With eyes like coals of fire;
But faster Titus hath sprung down,
And hath
bestrode
his sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Defeat
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a
thousand
triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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deathless
flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy strength?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hyde's _An Posadh_ cheered the bag of flour or the ham lent by some
local shopkeepers to
increase
the bridal gifts.
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Yeats |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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God now
commands
the multi-colored bands
Of angels to intrude and slay the beast
That His good sons may have a feast of food.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Ah,
Postumus!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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See, how thence oblique
Brancheth the circle, where the planets roll
To pour their wished
influence
on the world;
Whose path not bending thus, in heav'n above
Much virtue would be lost, and here on earth,
All power well nigh extinct: or, from direct
Were its departure distant more or less,
I' th' universal order, great defect
Must, both in heav'n and here beneath, ensue.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It dawns in Asia,
tombstones
show
And Shropshire names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He said, they, hearing, laugh'd; and thus the son
Of Polybus,
Eurymachus
replied.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
At this moment the "_ouriadnik_," a young and
handsome
Cossack, came in.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What tho', like
commoners
of air,
We wander out, we know not where,
But either house or hal',
Yet nature's charms, the hills and woods,
The sweeping vales, and foaming floods,
Are free alike to all.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Should one of them fall in the conflict, he would shake off the dust,
deny his mishap and begin the
struggle
anew.
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Aristophanes |
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130
_Wut_'ll make ye act like
freemen?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
nightingale
desires his little lass,
And that brings out of his heart a radiant song;
A man desires a woman, and for song
Out of his heart comes beauty, that like flame
Reaches towards her, and covers her limbs with light.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Wild and fleeting as the notes
Blown upon a
woodland
pipe, 30
They must haunt the earth with gladness
And a tinge of old regret.
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Sappho |
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Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titian woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the dews that drip all over;
Mountains
toppling
evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters--lone and dead,--
Their still waters--still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily.
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Poe - 5 |
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Some prepare warm water in
cauldrons
bubbling over the
flames, and wash and anoint the chill body, and make their moan; then,
their weeping done, lay his limbs on the pillow, and spread over it
crimson raiment, the accustomed pall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Now one by one, the pious and the just
Are seated by us,
radiantly
risen
From their dull prison in the dust.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos
terribles
bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His
woodland
pastures left, he sought the stream,
For he was thirsty, and already parch'd
By the sun's heat.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Yet see you not how this that Spirit hath done
Is also
dangerous?
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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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POSTSCRIPT
My memory's no worth a preen:
I had amaist
forgotten
clean,
Ye bade me write you what they mean,
By this New Light,
'Bout which our herds sae aft hae been,
Maist like to fight.
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Small clouds float by in the blue sky, and
occasionally
a swallow
passes.
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What cares have not gnawed at my heart and
how few have been the
pleasures
in my life!
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The fear of me is the
conscience
of the world.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat
together
and thus conversed in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Of
detected
persons--To me, detected persons are not, in any respect, worse
than undetected persons--and are not in any respect worse than I am
myself.
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Whitman |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
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Now is he vanished: the bewildered skies
Flame out a
desperate
and last surmise;
Then yield to Night, their sudden conqueror.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And this
delightful
Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yonder,
gathering
driftwood for her fire.
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speak again,
"Thy soft
response
renewing--
"What makes that ship drive on so fast?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Free us, for we perish
In this ever-flowing
monotony
Of ugly print marks, black Upon white parchment.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Michael then
ascending
a hill with Adam shows him a vision of the
world's history, while Eve sleeps.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Says Chemubles "My sword is in its place,
At Rencesvals scarlat I will it stain;
Find I Rollanz the proud upon my way,
I'll fall on him, or trust me not again,
And
Durendal
I'll conquer with this blade,
Franks shall be slain, and France a desert made.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I
immolate
the victim.
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Aristophanes |
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That giant-glutton,
dreadful
at a feast!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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' And Drayton was not far wrong in affirming that
'Tis
possible
to climb,
To kindle, or to slake,
Although in Skelton's rhyme.
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He wrote to President Van Buren against the wrong done to
the Cherokees, dared speak against the idolized Webster, when he
deserted the cause of Freedom,
constantly
spoke of the iniquity of
slavery, aided with speech and money the Free State cause in Kansas,
was at Phillips's side at the antislavery meeting in 1861 broken up by
the Boston mob, urged emancipation during the war.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
Ah, what
sagacity
perished here!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here in an endless flow,
Sandhills of golden glow,
Where'er the
tempests
blow,
Like a great flood are spread.
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Hugo - Poems |
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