No, but the soul
Void of words, and this heavy body,
Succumb to noon's proud silence slowly:
With no more ado, forgetting blasphemy, I
Must sleep, lying on the thirsty sand, and as I
Love, open my mouth to wine's true
constellation!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I catch at them, and then I miss;
Was ever
darkness
like to this?
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Golden Treasury |
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Caolte, and Conan, and Finn were there,
When we
followed
a deer with our baying hounds,
With Bran, Sgeolan, and Lomair,
And passing the Firbolgs' burial mounds,
Came to the cairn-heaped grassy hill
Where passionate Maeve is stony still;
And found on the dove-gray edge of the sea
A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode
On a horse with bridle of findrinny;
And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships;
A citron colour gloomed in her hair,
But down to her feet white vesture flowed,
And with the glimmering crimson glowed
Of many a figured embroidery;
And it was bound with a pearl-pale shell
That wavered like the summer streams,
As her soft bosom rose and fell.
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Yeats |
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I do not at all
understand how I can be capable of
governing
the people.
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Aristophanes |
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Opening their golden caskets to the sun,
The buttercups make schoolboys eager run,
To see who shall be first to pluck the prize--
Up from their hurry see the Skylark flies,
And oer her half-formed nest, with happy wings,
Winnows the air till in the cloud she sings,
Then hangs a dust spot in the sunny skies,
And drops and drops till in her nest she lies,
Which they unheeded passed--not
dreaming
then
That birds, which flew so high, would drop again
To nests upon the ground, which anything
May come at to destroy.
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John Clare |
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[Illustration:
Armchairia
Comfortabilis.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But he was strong to do and dare:
If a host had
withstood
him there,
He had braved a host with little care
In his lusty youth and his pride,
Tough to grapple though weak to snare.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Again my fancy doth her form portray
Meek among beauty's train, like to some rose
Midst meaner flowers; nor joy nor grief she shows;
Not with
misfortune
prest but with dismay.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Like two drops of dew 350
Exhal'd to Phoebus' lips, away they are gone,
Far from the earth away--unseen, alone,
Among cool clouds and winds, but that the free,
The buoyant life of song can
floating
be
Above their heads, and follow them untir'd.
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Keats |
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Samuel Ripley, and passed the winter in Florida with benefit,
working
northward
in the spring, preaching in the cities, and resumed
his studies at Cambridge.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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Wherfore
we pray you alle, beausire,
That ye forgive him now your ire,
And that he may dwelle, as your man, 6055
With Abstinence, his dere lemman;
This our accord and our wil now.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
They told him, and he spurred
straight
for the site!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They slay'd them first, then busily their task 70
Administ'ring,
prepared
the joyous feast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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[[Pope eras't]]
Anon to
Eufemians
in,--
er ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I prefer deeper patience,
Monotony
of stalled beasts.
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Imagists |
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Imperfect traces of the state of mind in which I then was may be found
in my tract on the
Convention
of Cintra, as well as in these
Sonnets.
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William Wordsworth |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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Ethereal
Minstrel!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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sat_), 356; so, 1191, 2895; hē
gewērgad
sæt .
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Beowulf |
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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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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It will haue blood they say:
Blood will haue Blood:
Stones haue beene knowne to moue, & Trees to speake:
Augures, and
vnderstood
Relations, haue
By Maggot Pyes, & Choughes, & Rookes brought forth
The secret'st man of Blood.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-Daws,
And a lovely Monkey with
lollipop
paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Perhaps; but it is more
legitimate
to suppose that he himself does
not know why.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"[92]
[92]
Confucius
said that it was not till _sixty_ that "his ears obeyed
him.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Amusements do not matter, because
you must repeat them as soon as you have
accomplished
them once, and
most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
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Kipling - Poems |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled
my imagination many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A subtle chain of
countless
rings
The next into the farthest brings,
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Our loving arms towards the mossy bark extended,
We bid
farewell
unto the final tree,
Then down through flowers towards our lovely goal
descended:
And earth and ether swam in a golden sea.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How the latter managed to escape a more serious
implication
in
the trial it is difficult to conceive.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_First Pocket Edition June_ 1907
_Reprinted
January_ 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919
* * * * *
CONTENTS
PAGE
V.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898,
studying
first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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33
THE RETURN By Scudder Middleton
Hold me, O hold me,
love—your
lips are life!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Quanti si tegnon or la su gran regi
che qui staranno come porci in brago,
di se lasciando orribili
dispregi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
"Gross from his acorns, tusky boar
Does
memorable
acts like his;
So for her snared offended young
Bleeds the swart lioness.
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Christina Rossetti |
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* * * But now these gifts, which
of yore, in manner ancestral handed down, are the sad gifts to the grave,
accept thou,
drenched
with a brother's tears, and for ever, brother, hail!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Iesu heuene kyng,-- 116
On
Wedenysday
in clene leinte
A voice me bede I ne shulde nou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A stately
frontispiece
of poor,.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Ashamed,--to find that I have not a sage's heart:
I cannot resist vulgar
thoughts
and feelings.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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enne gedere3 he to
Gryngolet
with ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's
changing
course, untrimm'd.
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Golden Treasury |
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, which I
take to be Ramsay's original, as he has borrowed the chorus--"O my
bonie
Highland
lad," &c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Do let me know how Cleghorn is, and
remember
me to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Sylla was first of victors; but our own,
The sagest of usurpers,
Cromwell!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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His favourite companion, Edward Ellerker
Williams, of the 8th Light Dragoons, had begun his life in the navy,
and had afterwards entered the army; he had spent several years in
India, and his love for
adventure
and manly exercises accorded with
Shelley's taste.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell
The
luckless
Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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je ne veux pas que tu sortes
L'automne est plein de mains coupees
Non non ce sont des feuilles mortes
Ce sont les mains des cheres mortes
Ce sont tes mains coupees
Nous avons tant pleure aujourd'hui
Avec ces morts leurs enfants et les vieilles femmes
Sous le ciel sans soleil
Au cimetiere plein de flammes
Puis dans le vent nous nous en retournames
A nos pieds roulaient des chataignes
Dont les bogues etaient
Comme le coeur blesse de la madone
Dont on doute si elle eut la peau
Couleur des chataignes d'automne
Les sapins
Les sapins en bonnets pointus
De longues robes revetu
Comme des astrologues
Saluent leurs freres abattus
Les bateaux qui sur le Rhin voguent
Dans les sept arts endoctrines
Par les vieux sapins leurs aines
Qui sont de grands poetes
Ils se savent predestines
A briller plus que des planetes
A briller doucement changes
En etoiles et enneiges
Aux Noels bienheureuses
Fetes des sapins ensonges
Aux longues branches langoureuses
Les sapins beaux musiciens
Chantent des noels anciens
Au vent des soirs d'automne
Ou bien graves magiciens
Incantent le ciel quand il tonne
Des rangees de blancs cherubins
Remplacent l'hiver les sapins
Et balancent leurs ailes
L'ete ce sont de grands rabbins
Ou bien de vieilles demoiselles
Sapins medecins divagants
Ils vont offrant leurs bons onguents
Quand la montagne accouche
De temps en temps sous l'ouragan
Un vieux sapin geint et se couche
Les femmes
Dans la maison du vigneron les femmes cousent
Lenchen remplis le poele et mets l'eau du cafe
Dessus -- Le chat s'etire apres s'etre chauffe
- Gertrude et son voisin Martin enfin s'epousent
Le rossignol aveugle essaya de chanter
Mais l'effraie ululant il trembla dans sa cage
Ce cypres la-bas a l'air du pape en voyage
Sous la neige -- Le facteur vient de s'arreter
Pour causer avec le nouveau maitre d'ecole
- Cet hiver est tres froid le vin sera tres bon
- Le sacristain sourd et boiteux est moribond
- La fille du vieux bourgmestre brode une etole
Pour la fete du cure La foret la-bas
Grace au vent chantait a voix grave de grand orgue
Le songe Herr Traum survint avec sa soeur Frau Sorge
Kaethi tu n'as pas bien raccommode ces bas
- Apporte le cafe le beurre et les tartines
La marmelade le saindoux un pot de lait
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- On dirait que le vent dit des phrases latines
- Encore un peu de cafe Lenchen s'il te plait
- Lotte es-tu triste O petit coeur -- Je crois qu'elle aime
- Dieu garde -- Pour ma part je n'aime que moi-meme
- Chut A present grand-mere dit son chapelet
- Il me faut du sucre candi Leni je tousse
- Pierre mene son furet chasser les lapins
Le vent faisait danser en rond tous les sapins
Lotte l'amour rend triste -- Ilse la vie est douce
La nuit tombait Les vignobles aux ceps tordus
Devenaient dans l'obscurite des ossuaires
En neige et replies gisaient la des suaires
Et des chiens aboyaient aux passants morfondus
Il est mort ecoutez La cloche de l'eglise
Sonnait tout doucement la mort du sacristain
Lise il faut attiser le poele qui s'eteint
Les femmes se signaient dans la nuit indecise
Septembre 1901 -- mai 1902
SIGNE
Je suis soumis au Chef du Signe de l'Automne
Partant j'aime les fruits je deteste les fleurs
Je regrette chacun des baisers que je donne
Tel un noyer gaule dit au vent ses douleurs
Mon Automne eternelle o ma saison mentale
Les mains des amantes d'antan jonchent ton sol
Une epouse me suit c'est mon ombre fatale
Les colombes ce soir prennent leur dernier vol
UN SOIR
Un aigle descendit de ce ciel blanc d'archanges
Et vous soutenez-moi
Laisserez-vous trembler longtemps toutes ces lampes
Priez priez pour moi
La ville est metallique et c'est la seule etoile
Noyee dans tes yeux bleus
Quand les tramways roulaient jaillissaient des feux pales
Sur des oiseaux galeux
Et tout ce qui tremblait dans tes yeux de mes songes
Qu'un seul homme buvait
Sous les feux de gaz roux comme la fausse oronge
O vetue ton bras se lovait
Vois l'histrion tire la langue aux attentives
Un fantome s'est suicide
L'apotre au figuier pend et lentement salive
Jouons donc cet amour aux des
Des cloches aux sons clairs annoncaient ta naissance
Vois
Les chemins sont fleuris et les palmes s'avancent
Vers toi
LA DAME
Toc toc Il a ferme sa porte
Les lys du jardin sont fletris
Quel est donc ce mort qu'on emporte
Tu viens de toquer a sa porte
Et trotte trotte
Trotte la petite souris
LES FIANCAILLES
A Picasso
Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures
Et laisse feuilloler longtemps les plumes bleues
Que secoue le cypres ou niche l'oiseau bleu
Une Madone a l'aube a pris les eglantines
Elle viendra demain cueillir les giroflees
Pour mettre aux nids des colombes qu'elle destine
Au pigeon qui ce soir semblait le Paraclet
Au petit bois de citronniers s'enamourerent
D'amour que nous aimons les
dernieres
venues
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupieres
Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris
Je buvais a pleins verres les etoiles
Un ange a extermine pendant que je dormais
Les agneaux les pasteurs des tristes bergeries
De faux centurions emportaient le vinaigre
Et les gueux mal blesses par l'epurge dansaient
Etoiles de l'eveil je n'en connais aucune
Les becs de gaz pissaient leur flamme au clair de lune
Des croque-morts avec des bocks tintaient des glas
A la clarte des bougies tombaient vaille que vaille
Des faux cols sur les flots de jupes mal brossees
Des accouchees masquees fetaient leurs relevailles
La ville cette nuit semblait un archipel
Des femmes demandaient l'amour et la dulie
Et sombre sombre fleuve je me rappelle
Les ombres qui passaient n'etaient jamais jolies
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi
Et ne puis exprimer mon tourment de silence
Tous les mots que j'avais a dire se sont changes en etoiles
Un Icare tente de s'elever jusqu'a chacun de mes yeux
Et porteur de soleils je brule au centre de deux nebuleuses
Qu'ai-je fait aux betes theologales de l'intelligence
Jadis les morts sont revenus pour m'adorer
Et j'esperais la fin du monde
Mais la mienne arrive en sifflant comme un ouragan
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arriere
Les cadavres de mes jours
Marquent ma route et je les pleure
Les uns pourrissent dans les eglises italiennes
Ou bien dans de petits bois de citronniers
Qui fleurissent et fructifient
En meme temps et en toute saison
D'autres jours ont pleure avant de mourir dans des tavernes
Ou d'ardents bouquets rouaient
Aux yeux d'une mulatresse qui inventait la poesie
Et les roses de l'electricite s'ouvrent encore
Dans le jardin de ma memoire
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance
Pardonnez-moi de ne plus connaitre l'ancien jeu des vers
Je ne sais plus rien et j'aime uniquement
Les fleurs a mes yeux redeviennent des flammes
Je medite divinement
Et je souris des etres que je n'ai pas crees
Mais si le temps venait ou l'ombre enfin solide
Se multipliait en realisant la diversite formelle de mon amour
J'admirerais mon ouvrage
J'observe le repos du dimanche
J'observe le repos du dimanche
Et je loue la paresse
Comment comment reduire
L'infiniment petite science
Que m'imposent mes sens
L'un est pareil aux montagnes au ciel
Aux villes a mon amour
Il ressemble aux saisons
Il vit decapite sa tete est le soleil
Et la lune son cou tranche
Je voudrais eprouver une ardeur infinie
Monstre de mon ouie tu rugis et tu pleures
Le tonnerre te sert de chevelure
Et tes griffes repetent le chant des oiseaux
Le toucher monstrueux m'a penetre m'empoisonne
Mes yeux nagent loin de moi
Et les astres intacts sont mes maitres sans epreuve
La bete des fumees a la tete fleurie
Et le monstre le plus beau
Ayant la saveur du laurier se desole
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur
C'est la lune qui cuit comme un oeuf sur le plat
Ce collier de gouttes d'eau va parer la noyee
Voici mon bouquet de fleurs de la Passion
Qui offrent tendrement deux couronnes d'epines
Les rues sont mouillees de la pluie de naguere
Des anges diligents travaillent pour moi a la maison
La lune et la tristesse disparaitront pendant
Toute la sainte journee
Toute la sainte journee j'ai marche en chantant
Une dame penchee a sa fenetre m'a regarde longtemps
M'eloigner en chantant
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Au tournant d'une rue je vis des matelots
Qui dansaient le cou nu au son d'un accordeon
J'ai tout donne au soleil
Tout sauf mon ombre
Les dragues les ballots les sirenes mi-mortes
A l'horizon brumeux s'enfoncaient les trois-mats
Les vents ont expire couronnes d'anemones
O Vierge signe pur du troisieme mois
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Templiers flamboyants je brule parmi vous
Prophetisons ensemble o grand maitre je suis
Le desirable feu qui pour vous se devoue
Et la girande tourne o belle o belle nuit
Liens delies par une libre flamme Ardeur
Que mon souffle eteindra O Morts a quarantaine
Je mire de ma mort la gloire et le malheur
Comme si je visais l'oiseau de la quintaine
Incertitude oiseau feint peint quand vous tombiez
Le soleil et l'amour dansaient dans le village
Et tes enfants galants bien ou mal habilles
Ont bati ce bucher le nid de mon courage
CLAIR DE LUNE
Lune mellifluente aux levres des dements
Les vergers et les bourgs cette nuit sont gourmands
Les astres assez bien figurent les abeilles
De ce miel lumineux qui degoutte des treilles
Car voici que tout doux et leur tombant du ciel
Chaque rayon de lune est un rayon de miel
Or cache je concois la tres douce aventure
J'ai peur du dard de feu de cette abeille Arcture
Qui posa dans mes mains des rayons decevants
Et prit son miel lunaire a la rose des vents
1909
La dame avait une robe
En ottoman violine
Et sa tunique brodee d'or
Etait composee de deux panneaux
S'attachant sur l'epaule
Les yeux dansants comme des anges
Elle riait elle riait
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Les yeux bleus les dents blanches et les levres tres rouges
Elle avait un visage aux couleurs de France
Elle etait decolletee en rond
Et coiffee a la Recamier
Avec de beaux bras nus
N'entendra-t-on jamais sonner minuit
La dame en robe d'ottoman violine
Et en tunique brodee d'or
Decolletee en rond
Promenait ses boucles
Son bandeau d'or
Et trainait ses petits souliers a boucles
Elle etait si belle
Que tu n'aurais pas ose l'aimer
J'aimais les femmes atroces dans les quartiers enormes
Ou naissaient chaque jour quelques etres nouveaux
Le fer etait leur sang la flamme leur cerveau
J'aimais j'aimais le peuple habile des machines
Le luxe et la beaute ne sont que son ecume
Cette femme etait si belle
Qu'elle me faisait peur
A LA SANTE
I
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu
Et quelle voix sinistre ulule
Guillaume qu'es-tu devenu
Le Lazare entrant dans la tombe
Au lieu d'en sortir comme il fit
Adieu adieu chantante ronde
O mes annees o jeunes filles
II
Non je ne me sens plus la
Moi-meme
Je suis le quinze de la
Onzieme
Le soleil filtre a travers
Les vitres
Ses rayons font sur mes vers
Les pitres
Et dansent sur le papier
J'ecoute
Quelqu'un qui frappe du pied
La voute
III
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Tournons tournons tournons toujours
Le ciel est bleu comme une chaine
Dans une fosse comme un ours
Chaque matin je me promene
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
Avec les clefs qu'il fait tinter
Que le geolier aille et revienne
Dans la cellule d'a cote
On y fait couler la fontaine
IV
Que je m'ennuie entre ces murs tout nus
Et peints de couleurs pales
Une mouche sur le papier a pas menus
Parcourt mes lignes inegales
Que deviendrai-je o Dieu qui connais ma douleur
Toi qui me l'as donnee
Prends en pitie mes yeux sans larmes ma paleur
Le bruit de ma chaise enchainee
Et tous ces pauvres coeurs battant dans la prison
L'Amour qui m'accompagne
Prends en pitie surtout ma debile raison
Et ce desespoir qui me gagne
V
Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures
VI
J'ecoute les bruits de la ville
Et prisonnier sans horizon
Je ne vois rien qu'un ciel hostile
Et les murs nus de ma prison
Le jour s'en va voici que brule
Une lampe dans la prison
Nous sommes seuls dans ma cellule
Belle clarte Chere raison
Septembre 1911.
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ATOMIC MOTIONS
Now come: I will untangle for thy steps
Now by what motions the begetting bodies
Of the world-stuff beget the varied world,
And then forever resolve it when begot,
And by what force they are constrained to this,
And what the speed appointed unto them
Wherewith to travel down the vast inane:
Do thou
remember
to yield thee to my words.
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that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of
Darkness
through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
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Here for those busy crews
Green leaves and pale-stemmed clusters of green strong flowers
Build heavy-perfumed, cool, green-twilight bowers
Whence, load by load, through the long summer days
They fill their glassy cells
With dark green honey, clear as chrysoprase,
Which housewives shun; but the bee-master tells
This brand is more
delicious
than all else.
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"
must at least have
suspected
it, for in a letter dated 5th
September, 1884, she wrote:--
MY DEAR FRIEND,-- What portfolios full of verses
you must have!
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Thus, fairly, all things perish, when with ebbing
They're made less dense and when from blows without
They are laid low; since food at last will fail
Extremest
eld, and bodies from outside
Cease not with thumping to undo a thing
And overmaster by infesting blows.
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Queen Gulnaar laughed like a
tremulous
rose:
"Here is my rival, O King Feroz.
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"Why should the strong--
"The beautiful strong--
"Why should they not have the
flowers?
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Note
Not meaningless flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans
Whistler
there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
She laughed a feminine low laugh,
Yet did not stay her
dexterous
hand:
"Now tell me of those days," she said,
"When time ran golden sand.
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some
confusion
of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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ut foret exemplum ueri Phoceus amoris,
fecerunt
furiae, tristis Oresta, tuae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Its stem will stretch to the length of
three or four feet--thus
preserving
its head above water
in the swellings of the river.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then
Humility
takes its root
Underneath his foot.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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As to Spenser's specific indebtedness, though he owed much in
incident and diction to Chaucer's version of the
_Romance
of the Rose_ and
to Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, the great epic poets, Tasso and Ariosto,
should be given first place.
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To them
Aeneas grants leave in kind and courteous wise,
spurning
not their
prayer, and goes on in these words: 'What spite of fortune, O Latins,
hath entangled you in the toils of war, and made you fly our friendship?
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Hast thou not seen, sweeping so far and high,
The meteors,
midnight
flambeaus of the sky,
How after them they draw long trails of flame
Wherever Nature gives a thoroughfare?
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Lucretius |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Farewell
then, lang hale then,
An' plenty be your fa;
May losses and crosses
Ne'er at your hallan ca'!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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On the
contrary
they feel themselves irresistibly drawn
towards all that is feeble, ruined, sorrowing, and bereft.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a
beautiful
pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And I have seen the moon
Slip his silver penny into your pocket
As you
straightened
your hair;
And the white mist curling and hesitating
Like a bashful lover about your knees.
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Imagists |
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ere moo,
And thankyd god In trinite,
That theye myght his
seruaunte
see.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Even here, amid the sweep of endless woods,
Blue pomp of lakes, high cliffs and falling floods,
Not
undelightful
are the simplest charms, 145
Found by the grassy [34] door of mountain-farms.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Here might somebody ask:--"How, Door, hast
mastered
such matter?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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10
puella nam mei, quae meo sinu fugit,
amata tantum quantum
amabitur
nulla,
pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
consedit istic.
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(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Not first time this
it was
destined
to do a daring task.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_The Cellar Door_
By the old tavern door on the causey there lay
A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,
And there stood the
blacksmith
awaiting a drop
As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop;
And there stood the cobbler as dry as a bun,
Almost crackt like a bucket when left in the sun.
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John Clare |
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You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd
thousands
and thousands of years,
As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her
eldest son to you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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additional
contact information:
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Still am I doomed to rue the fate
That such
unfriendly
neighbors made?
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Hugo - Poems |
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How many a holy and
obsequious
tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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