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All
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Vigorously
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here the forest ledge slopes--
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
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For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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I pity her pain, her lover enchants me;
Peace vanishes, and desire
inflames
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Is Heaven a
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Their
habiliments
belonged to that
order which is pointedly termed the decent.
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And then a
Princess
I became
To whom men bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis monstrous fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most gracious Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by
cropping
them at once;
And now henceforth full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
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Strangely
you murmur below me,
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The Bonapartes, we know their bees
That wade in honey red to the knees;
Their patent reaper, its sheaves sleep sound
In dreamless garners underground:
We know false glory's
spendthrift
race
Pawning nations for feathers and lace;
It may be short, it may be long,
''Tis reckoning-day!
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It may safely, however, be averred that
no
considerations
would have tempted him to visit the Arctic regions.
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"The Pot calls a
bystander
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This is the Month, and this the happy morn
Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King,
Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,
Our great redemption from above did bring;
For so the holy sages once did sing,
That he our deadly forfeit should release,
And with his Father work us a
perpetual
peace.
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80
What word hath pass'd thy lips,
Daughter
belov'd?
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That I can't say; but this
shoulder
is broken, anyhow.
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To the Iliad still greater
obligations are due; and those
obligations
have been contracted
with the less hesitation, because there is reason to believe that
some of the old Latin minstrels really had recourse to that
inexhaustible store of poetical images.
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But the tinker he
grumbled
and cried Fiddle-dee!
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--how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the
swinging
and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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When I
received
your ladyship's letter, I was just in the act of
transcribing for you some verses I have lately composed; and meant to
have sent them my first leisure hour, and acquainted you with my late
change of life.
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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By Zeus, she'll take good care she does not, and you will see
her inventing a
thousand
excuses.
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
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pace mihi liceat, caelestes, dicere uestra:
mortalis uisust
pulcrior
esse deo.
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At which the
universal
host up-sent
A shout that tore Hell's conclave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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ou
remembrest
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Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome:
It is a
peerelesse
Kinsman.
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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When they are come to the
mountain
heights and pathless
coverts, lo, wild goats driven from the cliff-tops run down the ridge;
in another quarter stags speed over the open plain and gather their
flying column in a cloud of dust as they leave the hills.
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TO EVA
O fair and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies
At the same torch that lighted mine;
For so I must interpret still
Thy sweet
dominion
o'er my will,
A sympathy divine.
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Don't talk such
sentimental
nonsense--
_Katrina_.
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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REMEMBRANCE
Expectant and waiting you muse
On the great rare thing which alone
To enhance your life you would choose:
The awakening of the stone,
The deeps where
yourself
you would lose.
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--O forgive me
That all these days
questioning
I have been,
Struggled with doubts.
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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'And yit of Daunger cometh no blame,
In reward of my
doughter
Shame,
Which hath the roses in hir warde, 3255
As she that may be no musarde.
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LIABILITY, BREACH OF
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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As
everyone
is crying,
We also, brother, will begin to cry.
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During this
interval, victory
abandons
the army, which for nine years has been
occupied in a great enterprise, upon the successful termination of
which the honour of their country depends.
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As I had
promised
I would, long I awaited you there.
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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punishment {Erdman does not provide this line of
inserted
and struck text, but it appears to be the same text as Blake inserts below.
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THE MANDRAKE
FLORENTINE we now design to show;--
A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;
It seems a prudent woman he had wed,
With beauty that might grace a monarch's bed;
Young, brisk, good-humoured, with
engaging
mien;
None in the town, or round, the like was seen:
Her praises every voice inclined to sing,
And judged her worthy of a mighty king;
At least a better husband she deserved:
An arrant fool he looked, and quite unnerved.
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I struck thee dead, then stood above,
With tears that none but
dreamers
weep;'
`Dreams,' quoth Love;
"`In dreams, again, I plucked a flower
That clung with pain and stung with power,
Yea, nettled me, body and mind.
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by
succession
thine!
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3 The
persuader
Li Yiji told Liu Bang that he could take the seventy cities of Qi without effort.
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The Duke of
Tarentum
swam
across the river.
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Byron |
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We verily,
that Turnus [371-406]may have his royal bride, must lie scattered on
the plains,
worthless
lives, a crowd unburied and unwept.
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"We would see a sign":
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled
with darkness.
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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6970
I
entremete
me of brocages,
I make pees and mariages,
I am gladly executour,
And many tymes procuratour;
I am somtyme messager; 6975
That falleth not to my mister.
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'"
VIII
Now the
wilderness
is passed;
Now the first hut reached, at last.
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--A minute's pause, a moment's thought;
And
happiness?
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John Clare |
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"
Not long that music lingers:
Like the breath of
forgotten
singers
It flies,--or like the March-cloud's shadow
That sweeps with its wing the faded meadow
Not long!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Where shall I hide my
forehead
and my eyes?
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Tennyson |
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Odherr Partes bie
_Knyghtes
Mynstrelles_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But now its sighs
proclaim
that dwelling cold:
Sweet source!
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Your Life shall go to battle with his bow,
A soldier
fighting
in defence of grief.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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Yeats |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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And
in the more
graceful
and fanciful, the less heated _Songs and Sonets_,
the same wit, gay and insolent, disports itself in a philosophy of
love which must not be taken altogether seriously.
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John Donne |
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Natheless, we all thus go astray,
nor is there any man in whom thou canst not see a
Suffenus
in some one
point.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[48] Meaning, "Will it only remain for us to throw
ourselves
into the
water?
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Aristophanes |
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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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* * * * * * * * *
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"The Raven" was first
published
on the 29th January, 1845, in the New
York "Evening Mirror"-a paper its author was then assistant editor of.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Be not
disturbed!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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associated
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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
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He views new
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And thinks it blasphemy to be so wise.
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Unwitting
I fell into the Web of the World's dust
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And then if it hits
And every thing fits,
We've
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A
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Dulce linguae
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And where the light fully
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