er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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One of a
thousand
were not known to me,
Yet might those few make a large history.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our teachers teach that one and one make two:
Later, Love rules that one and one make one:
Abstruse
the problems!
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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When Herbert
returned to England after the siege of Julyers (whither Donne had sent
him a verse epistle), 'Richard, Earl of Dorset, to whom otherwise I
was a stranger, one day invited me to Dorset House, where bringing me
into his gallery, and showing me many pictures, he at last brought me
to a frame covered with green taffeta, and asked me who I thought was
there; and
therewithal
presently drawing the curtain showed me my
own picture; whereupon demanding how his Lordship came to have it, he
answered, that he had heard so many brave things of me, that he got a
copy of a picture which one Larkin a painter drew for me, the original
whereof I intended before my departure to the Low Countries for Sir
Thomas Lucy.
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John Donne |
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In full fresh cheeks I take the
greatest
satisfaction.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Now, Amaryllis, ply in triple knots
The
threefold
colours; ply them fast, and say
This is the chain of Venus that I ply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Dal volto rimovea quell' aere grasso,
menando la sinistra innanzi spesso;
e sol di quell'
angoscia
parea lasso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His
observation
omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forced fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the
mellowing
year.
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Golden Treasury |
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Yet not too far to come at call,
And do the little toils
That make the circuit of the rest,
And deal occasional smiles
To lives that stoop to notice mine
And kindly ask it in, --
Whose invitation, knew you not
For whom I must
decline?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thirty days
He went, and thirty nights, nor looked behind;
Pale, silent, watchful, shaking at each sound;
No rest, no sleep, till he
attained
the strand
Where the sea washes that which since was Asshur.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_
THE
PLAINTIVE
SONG OF A BIRD RECALLS TO HIM HIS OWN KEENER SORROW.
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Petrarch - 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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[[And]] Enion blind & age bent wept upon the
desolate
wind
Why does the Raven cry aloud and no eye pities her?
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
punctuation of the later
editions
(_1635-69_) is the work of
the printer.
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John Donne |
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40
Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
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Sappho |
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Never had I felt so well, so
overladen
with vitality and mere animal
spirits, as I did on the afternoon of the 30th of April.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The person or entity that provided you
with the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in
lieu of a refund.
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Yeats |
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) the
gentlest
youth,
Whose love had made my sorrows dear to him,
Even as my sorrow made his love to me!
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Shelley |
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Another so timid that he must cast down his eyes before the gaze of any
man, and summon all his poor will before he dare enter a cafe or pass
the pay-box of a theatre, where the ticket-seller seems, in his eyes,
invested with all the majesty of Minos, AEcus, and Rhadamanthus, will at
times throw himself upon the neck of some old man whom he sees in the
street, and embrace him with enthusiasm in sight of an
astonished
crowd.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose 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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This bird, observing others,
When frosts too sharp became,
Retire to other latitudes,
Quietly did the same,
But differed in returning;
Since Yorkshire hills are green,
Yet not in all the nests I meet
Can
nightingale
be seen.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A week ago the sparrow was divine;
The bluebird,
shifting
his light load of song 10
From post to post along the cheerless fence,
Was as a rhymer ere the poet come;
But now, oh rapture!
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James Russell Lowell |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But
Eviradnus
was of all aware,
And turned upon the murderous weapon there,
And twisted it away; then in a trice
His strong colossal hand grasped like a vice
The neck of Ladislaus, who the blade
Now dropped; over his eyes a misty shade
Showed that the royal dwarf was near to death.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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1575
`And also
thenketh
on myn honestee,
That floureth yet, how foule I sholde it shende,
And with what filthe it spotted sholde be,
If in this forme I sholde with yow wende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nothing on earth will induce me to go near that
devilish spot again, or to reveal its
whereabouts
more clearly than I
have done.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters
and slays with his enchanted Sword.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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My niece shall take note of it; and assure
thyself there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in
man's
commendation
with woman than report of valour.
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Shakespeare |
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_--The innumerable superstitions performed on the banks
of the river Ganges, afford a
pitiable
picture of the weakness of
humanity.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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]
'Sweet water
smelling
of muske and Orenge-leaves.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The night had gathered round him: o'er the plain
The city sparkled with its thousand lights,
And sounds of revel fell upon his ear
Harshly and like a curse; above, the sky,
With all its bright sublimity of stars,
Deepened, and on his
forehead
smote the breeze:
Beauty was all around him and delight,
But from that eve he was alone on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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In small proportions we just
beauties
see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Golden Treasury |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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BRANDER:
Marktschreier
sind's gewiss, ich wette!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now the blue fog creeps along,
And the bird's forgot his song:
Flowers now sleep within their hoods;
Daisies button into buds;
From soiling dew the butter-cup
Shuts his golden jewels up;
And the rose and
woodbine
they
Wait again the smiles of day.
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John Clare |
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Ist's nicht genug, dass mein gesprochnes Wort
Auf ewig soll mit meinen Tagen
schalten?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For as they receive a
stipend, and are
maintained
by their works, if they can act with such
duplicity for a few drachms, they confess themselves guilty of the most
sordid avarice.
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Tacitus |
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Never a thorn besets the corn
Scentless
in its strength complete.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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passer mortuus est meae puellae,
passer,
deliciae
meae puellae.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Beg the
General and all your superiors to send us help as soon as possible, and
come
yourself
if you can.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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La mente, che qui luce, in terra fumma;
onde
riguarda
come puo la giue
quel che non pote perche 'l ciel l'assumma>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Mackenzie
has been called the Addison of the
Scots, and in my opinion, Addison would not be hurt at the comparison.
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Robert Burns |
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Aricia's finally
mistress
of her fate,
And you'll soon see all Greece is at your feet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_"
Castera adds a very loose
translation
of these Spanish lines in French
verse.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Few get enough, -- enough is one;
To that
ethereal
throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The heart, to jet the all-alike and
innocent
blood!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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La seve est du
champagne
et vous monte a la tete.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e
entre of
recoueryng
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom
Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae
Maidenkirk
to Johnie Groat's;--
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it:
If in your bounds ye chance to light
Upon a fine, fat fodgel wight,
O' stature short, but genius bright,
That's he, mark weel;
And wow!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Into my
courtyard
paved with stones
That keep the names, that keep the bones,
Of none but English men who came
Free of their lives, to guard my fame.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His mules was goin'
powerful
slow,
Fur he had tied the lines onto
The staple of the scraper.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Lucretius |
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At the harbour mouth a sail 5
Glimmers in the morning sun,
And the ripples at her prow
Whiten into
crumbling
foam,
As she forges outward bound
For the teeming foreign ports.
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Sappho |
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Et
Banville
ajoute: <<
Baudelaire faisait parfois asseoir Jeanne devant lui dans un grand
fauteuil; il la regardait avec amour et l'admirait longuement; il lui
disait des vers dans une langue qu'elle ne savait pas.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That this poetry should have been suffered to perish will not
appear strange when we consider how
complete
was the triumph of
the Greek genius over the public mind of Italy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Ay, there some
dropples
moistened on my face,
And pattered on my hat--tis coming nigh!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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),
referring
to sword-sports.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Those great hands might so come
In course of ghastly fumble through the gloom,
Upon a sword--a
_sword_!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Behold the rising sun
Strikes on the golden letters of my banner,
Be Elohim
Yehovah!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
precious
hours she watched above His sleep
Were worth the fearful anguish of the end.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But belief is utterly
distinct
from and
unconnected with volition: it is the apprehension of the agreement or
disagreement of the ideas that compose any preposition.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la
montagne
a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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The child
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Where are these
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We'll see,
rejoined
the priest, that naught you lose;
But other secrets oftentimes we use.
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So thought Ivan,
sagacious
autocrat
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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They that were once like
substance
and shadow
Are now as far as Hu from Ch'in.
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"Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thou
shudderest
yet
before pain, and the song of the abyss terrifies thee.
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For we are growing blind and cannot see,
Beyond the clouds that stand like prison bars,
EN PASSANT By Marx Sabel
Out of the sultry night she came, With tired lips aflame;
Deep in her
mutineering
eyes The nervous anger of emprise
Wakened and fought the black, Ice-cold oppression back;
Fought in the hope of hopelessness, And fought for Artemis;
Fought in the.
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Lightning, when wilt thou
glitter?
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" Then the wind ran out and the
billiards
stopped,
and I felt that I had ruined my one genuine, hall-marked ghost story.
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For oak and elm have
pleasant
leaves
That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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'Tis right well conceived for you women, for every wench's hole
will be occupied; but as regards us poor men, you will leave those who
are ugly to run after the
handsome
fellows.
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A
thousand
fingers pointed.
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Pope begins by complaining of the
misfortunes
which his
reputation as a successful man of letters has brought upon him.
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Now Harry he had long suspected
This trespass of old Goody Blake,
And vow'd that she should be detected,
And he on her would
vengeance
take.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Were I from
Dunsinane
away, and cleere,
Profit againe should hardly draw me heere.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Then down he sat,
And as he milk'd his ewes and bleating goats
All in their turns, her
yeanling
gave to each;
Coagulating, then, with brisk dispatch,
The half of his new milk, he thrust the curd
Into his wicker sieves, but stored the rest
In pans and bowls--his customary drink.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Safe in their
alabaster
chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Gently yet
strangely
uttered words!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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