Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les convives
mastiquaient
a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The waters boiling and the burning plain;
While clang the giant
steeples
as they reel,
Unprompted, their own tocsin peal.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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for all the gold upon ground I would not go with thee nor bear thee
fellowship
through this wood 'on foot farther.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O Helen, O infatuate soul,
Who bad'st the tides of battle roll,
Overwhelming
thousands, life on life,
'Neath Ilion's wall!
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Aeschylus |
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1 That is, an old embroidery with a coherent
sequence
of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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with the
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The flooding of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring
mightily
dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The nations that in fettered darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great
mornings
break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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þā wæs hāten Heort
innanweard
folmum gefrætwod,
993.
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Beowulf |
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men
revealed
visibly?
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Euripides - Electra |
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--I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, not of
the arts and sciences, but of itself; yet relating to those it is a
pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,
and common confounder of truth, with which a man goes groping in the
dark, no
otherwise
than if he were blind.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My pride, my hope, my shelter, my resource,
When green hoped not to gray to run its course;
She was enthroned Virtue under heaven's dome,
My idol in the shrine of
curtained
home.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But natheles, he gladded him in this;
He thoughte he
misacounted
hadde his day, 1185
And seyde, `I understonde have al a-mis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Morphean fount
Of that fine element that visions, dreams,
And fitful whims of sleep are made of, streams 750
Into its airy channels with so subtle,
So thin a breathing, not the spider's shuttle,
Circled a million times within the space
Of a swallow's nest-door, could delay a trace,
A tinting of its quality: how light
Must dreams
themselves
be; seeing they're more slight
Than the mere nothing that engenders them!
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Keats |
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That this
fine romance, the details of which are so full of poetical truth,
and so utterly destitute of all show of historical truth, came
originally from some lay which had often been sung with great
applause at
banquets
is in the highest degree probable.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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' he cryde; 205
And in his throwes
frenetyk
and madde
He cursed Iove, Appollo, and eek Cupyde,
He cursed Ceres, Bacus, and Cipryde,
His burthe, him-self, his fate, and eek nature,
And, save his lady, every creature.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O weary air of dumb despair,
From marble won, to marble
turning!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Some guttural exclamation of surprise
The Red Man gave in poking about the mill
Over the great big
thumping
shuffling mill-stone
Disgusted the Miller physically as coming
From one who had no right to be heard from.
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Robert Forst |
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4
THE SALVATION ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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CCXLIII
Pure white the horse whereon
Malprimes
sate;
Guided his corse amid the press of Franks,
Hour in, hour out, great blows he struck them back,
And, ever, dead one upon others packed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He made this
somewhat
ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the troubadour era.
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Troubador Verse |
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1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How with an
undivided
heart I loved you
I fear that you will never know or guess.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The past--the
infinite
greatness of the past!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What wizard, what
Thessalian
spell,
What god can save you, hamper'd thus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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quis huic deo
compararier
ausit?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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* * * * *
But thou, false
Infidel!
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Byron |
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Ye, lastly, bonie
blossoms
a',
Ye royal lasses dainty,
Heav'n mak you guid as well as braw,
An' gie you lads a-plenty!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[Picture: I stood and watched them in the hall] "One day, some
Spectres
chanced to call,
Dressed in the usual white:
I stood and watched them in the hall,
And couldn't make them out at all,
They seemed so strange a sight.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Basmanov
in the council of the tsar
Now sits.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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]
The edition of about a
thousand
copies sold off in less than a year.
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Whitman |
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--
Pure shrubs, with tender verdure newly dress'd,--
Pale amorous violets,--leafy woods, whose reign
Thy sun's bright rays transpierce, and thus sustain
Your lofty stature, and umbrageous crest;--
O thou, fair country, and thou, crystal stream,
Which bathes her
countenance
and sparkling eyes,
Stealing fresh lustre from their living beam;
How do I envy thee these precious ties!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am
scattered
in its whirl.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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With the trees round, not so distant but you heard their vernal murmur,
And beheld in light and shadow the leaves in and outward move,
And the little
fountain
leaping toward the sun-heart to be warmer,
Then recoiling in a tremble from the too much light above.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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If to accord this tribute you disdain,
Taken by force and bound in iron chain
You will be brought before his throne at Aix;
Judged and
condemned
you'll be, and shortly slain,
Yes, you will die in misery and shame.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Since his Maiesty went into the Field, I haue
seene her rise from her bed, throw her Night-Gown vppon
her, vnlocke her Closset, take foorth paper, folde it,
write vpon't, read it,
afterwards
Seale it, and againe returne
to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleepe
Doct.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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(A million faces a thousand miles from Pennsylvania Avenue
stay frozen with a look, a clocktick, a moment--
skeleton riders on skeleton horses--the
nickering
high horse
laugh,
the whinny and the howl up Pennsylvania Avenue:
who?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose
thoughts
are full of indices and surds?
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And of this thing ful sone his nedes leyde 135
On hem that sholden for the tretis go,
And hem for Antenor ful ofte preyde
To bringen hoom king Toas and Criseyde;
And whan Pryam his save-garde sente,
Thembassadours
to Troye streyght they wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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e
ensaumple
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So by mine inner contemplation long,
By
thoughts
that need no speech nor oath nor song,
My spirit soars above the motley throng
Of days and nights, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then they repealed the law,
although
they knew
It would not call the dead to life again;
As school-boys, finding their mistake too late,
Draw a wet sponge across the accusing slate.
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Longfellow |
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Too high spirited to submit tamely to
these attacks, too
irritable
to laugh at them, he struck back, and his
weapon was personal satire which cut like a whip and left a brand like a
hot iron.
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Alexander Pope |
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In 1862, after the
breaking-out of the great Civil War, in which his enthusiastic unionism and
also his anti-slavery
feelings
attached him inseparably though not
rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing of the
sick and wounded in the field, writing also a correspondence in the _New
York Times_.
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Whitman |
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With his
melodious
tears, he gave himself to Fame.
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Byron |
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Then it gets aloft and flies away with his rider, whither
before it was
doubtful
to ascend.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him
of
wandering
death-sprite.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Rilke - Poems |
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LII
"Some THE LOST ISLE, some Iceland call the reign
Whereof a royal lady fills the throne;
Whose charms (before those charms all
beauties
wane)
Are such as Heaven had dealt to her alone.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Men loved
unkindness
then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And when wild and rough,
The north wind blows, the tower
exultant
cries
"Behold me!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient
quelquefois
les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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To skies that knit their
heartstrings
right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The saviours come not home to-night:
Themselves they could not save.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Pus vezem de novelh florir
Since we see, fresh flowers blowing
Field and meadow greenly glowing,
Stream and
fountain
crystal flowing
Fair wind and breeze,
It's right each man should live bestowing
Joy as he please.
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Troubador Verse |
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His
presence
stirs my blood, I own.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I must exert my
authority
in the house.
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Shelley |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But O, Fortune, executrice of wierdes,
O
influences
of thise hevenes hye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdu'd
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renew'd;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink,
Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;
No
bitterness
that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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what a torment wouldst thou prove,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,
To entertain the time with thoughts of love,
Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,
And that thou
teachest
how to make one twain,
By praising him here who doth hence remain.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And the clear constellations, that infinite throng,
While
thousand
rich harmonies swelled in their song,
Replying, bowed meekly their diamond-blaze--
And the blue waves, which nothing may bind or arrest,
Chorus'd forth, as they stooped the white foam of their crest
"Creator!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The hillsides must not know it,
Where I have rambled so,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go,
Nor lisp it at the table,
Nor
heedless
by the way
Hint that within the riddle
One will walk to-day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou art my friend, Baldazzar,
And I have not forgotten it--thou'lt do me
A piece of service; wilt thou go back and say
Unto this man, that I, the Earl of Leicester,
Hold him a
villain?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I too will pick
Quinces all silvered-o'er with hoary down,
Chestnuts, which
Amaryllis
wont to love,
And waxen plums withal: this fruit no less
Shall have its meed of honour; and I will pluck
You too, ye laurels, and you, ye myrtles, near,
For so your sweets ye mingle.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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As when high Jove denouncing future woe,
O'er the dark clouds extends his purple bow,
(In sign of tempests from the
troubled
air,
Or from the rage of man, destructive war,)
The drooping cattle dread the impending skies,
And from his half-till'd field the labourer flies:
In such a form the goddess round her drew
A livid cloud, and to the battle flew.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Hit nas no
countrefeted
thing,
It was hir owne pure loking, 870
That the goddesse, dame Nature,
Had made hem opene by mesure,
And close; for, were she never so glad,
Hir loking was not foly sprad,
Ne wildely, thogh that she pleyde; 875
But ever, me thoghte, hir eyen seyde,
"By god, my wrathe is al for-yive!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The hours that feed on war go heavy-hearted,
Death is no fare
wherewith
to make hearts fain.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Aghast returns; the
messenger
of woe,
And bitter fate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now, of what body, what
components
formed
Is this same mind I will go on to tell.
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Lucretius |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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For gem-stoned rings, on hand,
They've
Egyptian
scarabs,
In well-cut buttonholes,
Dandelions from the wasteland.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It must have been conceived and coddled first
By some old shopkeeper in Nuremberg,
His
slippers
warm, his children amply nursed,
Who, with his lighted meerschaum in his hand,
His nightcap on his head, one summer night
Sat drowsing at his door.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There he spoke aloud for freedom, and the
Borderstrife
grew
warmer,
Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the
night;
And Old Brown
Osawatomie Brown,
Came homeward in the morning--to find his house burned
down.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And
gathering
flowers I listened to the song
Of every bird in bower.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Oh be it night--be it--"
Here he fell over a little camel-colt that was
sleeping
in the Serai
where the horse-traders and the best of the blackguards from Central
Asia live; and, because he was very drunk indeed and the night was dark,
he could not rise again till I helped him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The meadow grass could be
cemented
down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To know just how he suffered would be dear;
To know if any human eyes were near
To whom he could intrust his
wavering
gaze,
Until it settled firm on Paradise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now god and goddess give you grame
Disgrace
of Romulus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Prague,
Who was
suddenly
seized with the plague;
But they gave him some butter, which caused him to mutter,
And cured that Old Person of Prague.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Nor made, nor marr'd,
By help or
hindrance
of slow Time was she:
O'er this fair growth Time had no mastery:
So quick she bloomed, she seemed to bloom at birth,
As Eve from Adam, or as he from earth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"I can't understand why my
grandmother
never gambles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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For in the world, familiar now, appears
No snare to tempt; so rare a light and true
Shines e'en from heaven my secret
conscience
through,
Of lost time and loved sin the glass it rears.
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Petrarch |
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Executive
Director:
Michael S.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Per montar su
dirittamente
vai>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thou hast the
knowledge
clear, but lo, I bring
More also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Here I haue a Pilots Thumbe,
Wrackt, as
homeward
he did come.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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