The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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But while I see that there is
nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is
something
wrong in
what one becomes.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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when
rendered
to Rome:[mh]
'Twas thy last sun went down, and the flames of thy fall
Flashed back on the last glance I gave to thy wall.
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Byron |
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Or art,
impossible!
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Keats |
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With the
lessening
smoke and thunder,
Our glasses around we aim--
What is that burning yonder?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thy
sensitive
beauty
Is become part of the fleeting
Loveliness, merged in the pathos
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours,
victories
vast;
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Ah, if we so have striven,
And mutually the grasp have given
Of brotherhood,
To work each other and the whole race good;
What matter if the dream
Come only partly true,
And all the things
accomplished
seem
Feeble and few?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If, at any time, any very long poem
_were
_popular
in reality, which I doubt, it is at least clear that no
very long poem will ever be popular again.
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Poe - 5 |
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425
But for to tell her
lamentable
cace,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THOUGH NOT SECURE AGAINST THE WILES OF LOVE, HE FEELS
STRENGTH
ENOUGH TO
RESIST THEM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Such tortuous
expression
of emotion did not
lead to good poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the
material
to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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now tell me, sweet,
That I may grieve," my sister said;
And stayed a white embroidering hand
And raised a golden head:
Her tresses showed a richer mass,
Her eyes looked softer than my own,
Her figure had a
statelier
height,
Her voice a tenderer tone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Very well; but something very strange has
happened
to him.
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Aristophanes |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I'm not altered by time and place though
Or what fate, advice, good or bad, may yield;
And if I give you the lie in anything
Never let her look on me night or morn,
She's in my heart, day-long and night-long,
Whom I'd not wish to lack (for false is the call)
On those shores where
Alexander
once proved ruthless.
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Troubador Verse |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The furrowed field, the
ploughman
grim, The sons of God that work His will.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They were altogether alive like him that made them in
his image, like people in that
unfallen
country.
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Yeats |
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OFFICER: I am sorry what this
stoutness
will produce.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He passes the fountain, the blasted pine-tree--
The
footstep
is lagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes, through the broad belt of light,
Toward the shades of the forest so dreary.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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On the other hand, does the master
value himself for the delicacy of his taste, for the foppery of
glittering conceits and tinsel ornament; the youth who has been
educated under him, sets out with the same
artificial
prettiness, the
same foppery of style and manner.
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Tacitus |
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Non est qui
requirat
animam meam.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
'207 Cato':
an unmistakable
allusion
to Addison's tragedy in which the famous Roman
appears laying down the law to the remnants of the Senate.
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Alexander Pope |
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]
[Sidenote F: A servant is
assigned
to him,]
[Sidenote G: and then he takes leave of the ladies,]
[Footnote 1: selly (?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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No
more do the unfinished towers rise, no more do the people
exercise
in
arms, nor work for safety in war on harbour or bastion; the works hang
broken off, vast looming walls and engines towering into the sky.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Glories of long-held desire, Ideas
Were all exalted in me, to see
The Iris family appear
Rising to this new duty,
But the sister sensible and fond
Carried her look no further
Than a smile, and as if to understand
I
continue
my ancient labour.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For ne'er, O
Liberty!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O Natio[n]
miserable!
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Ever some tale of awe and woe
Thro' all thy windings manifold
Do we
unriddle
and unfold!
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Aeschylus |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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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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upsprang
the aboriginal name.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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She wrought this wonder to
bereave you of your wits, hoping to have grieved
Guenever
and
affrighted her to death by means of the man that spoke with his head in
his hand before the high table.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ei
destroien
vnite.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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+------------------------------------------------------------+
SEA GARDEN
The editors and
publishers
concerned have kindly given me permission to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Your
shoulders
are level--
they have melted rare silver
for their breadth.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And canst thou not contend with agony,
That thus at
midnight
thou dost quit thine home?
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Shelley |
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Even from his own paternal roof expell'd,
Some stranger ploughs his
patrimonial
field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That race which, strong from Ilion's fires,
Its gods, on Tuscan waters tost,
Its sons, its
venerable
sires,
Bore to Ausonia's citied coast;
That race, like oak by axes shorn
On Algidus with dark leaves rife,
Laughs carnage, havoc, all to scorn,
And draws new spirit from the knife.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground;
No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,
But one vast realm of wonder spreads around,
And all the Muse's tales seem truly told,
Till the sense aches with gazing to behold
The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon:
Each hill and dale, each
deepening
glen and wold,
Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone:
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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, _wolf-slope, wolf's retreat, slope
whereunder
wolves
house_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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_Auld-shoon_, old shoes literally, a
discarded
lover metaphorically.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
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Villon |
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He stood like a shadow
transfixed
by a stream,
And I couldn't forget him for hours.
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John Clare |
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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere
la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il ecoutait grouiller les galeux espaliers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then let a choice of every kind be made,
And, labelled, set upon your storehouse racks--
Of Hawthorn-honey that of almond smacks:
The luscious Lime-tree-honey, green as jade:
Pale Willow-honey, hived by the first rover:
That delicate honey culled
From Apple-blosson, that of
sunlight
tastes:
And sunlight-coloured honey of the Clover.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Tu en es encore
Solde
[Notes sur la transcription:
On a effectue les
corrections
suivantes:
ombrage ombre (On paie au Pretre un toit ombrage d'une charmille)
retire <> (De s'entendre appeler garces par les petits garcons)
retire <> (Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou s'exalte et s'abaisse)
Boete Poete (Le Boete prendra le sanglot des Infames)
gravements gravement (Et parfois en hoquets fort gravements bouffons)
ajoute <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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