[48] Meaning, "Will it only remain for us to throw
ourselves
into the
water?
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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
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It is a land of
poverty!
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Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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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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"Be not
disturbed!
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He views new
knowledge
with suspicious eyes
And thinks it blasphemy to be so wise.
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John Clare |
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Unwitting
I fell into the Web of the World's dust
And was not free until my thirtieth year.
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And then if it hits
And every thing fits,
We've
thoughts
for our winning.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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A
greeting
and a kiss!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Dulce linguae
vinculum!
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Longfellow |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Lurcanio's heart with vengeful hatred glows
Against Geneura; while that other knight
As well
maintains
the quarrel for her right.
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us Johnny, do,
"Where all this long night you have been,
"What you have heard, what you have seen,
"And Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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We shall send to fetch you in fifteen years
And give you a place in the
Courtyard
of Immortality.
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) ME-AND-THEE: some
dividual
Existence or Personality distinct
from the Whole.
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic
heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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In a note to
'The Horn of Egremont Castle' (edition 1815)
Wordsworth
speaks of it as
"referring to the imagination," rather than as being "produced by it";
and says that he would not have placed it amongst his "Poems of the
Imagination," "but to avoid a needless multiplication of classes"; and
in the editions of 1827 and 1832 he actually included the great 'Ode' on
Immortality among his "Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems"!
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Parker, with his cus-
tomary malignity, had insinuated that the poet,
who was then living in
cautious
retirement, might
have been the author of the Rehearsal — appa-
rently with the view of turning the indignation
of government upon the illustrious recluse.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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John Donne |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit appellation for this
dazzling
frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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For we've nothing in the house,
Save a tiny slice of lemon and a
teaspoonful
of honey,
And what to do for dinner--since we haven't any money?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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With her the Virtues came--an heavenly guard,
A sky-descended legion, clad in light
Of glorious panoply,
contemning
mortal might;
All weaponless they came; but hand in hand
Defied the fury of the adverse band:
Honour and maiden Shame were in the ban,
Elysian twins, beloved by God and man.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of
circling
centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Fashion is there immutable,
Who tyrannizes us with ease,
Of modern
Russians
the disease.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--All honest hearts
Must sorrow for a
brightness
that departs,
A good life worn away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Stephen Crane |
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I went bed agen and did nothing but dream
Of Robin and
moonlight
and flowers.
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John Clare |
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Then he said
something
about servants generally and
tried to get a peg.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I bring an
unaccustomed
wine
To lips long parching, next to mine,
And summon them to drink.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Drive them homeward,
Herdsman
Time,
From the meadows of the Prime:
I will feast my house, and rest.
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Still dwells Thy spirit in our hearts and lips,
Honour and life we hold from none but Thee,
And if we live Thy
pensioners
no more
But seek a nation's might of men and ships,
'T is but that when the world is black with war
Thy sons may stand beside Thee strong and free.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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PYLADES:
Delicious
music!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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dost thou pace
Our woods at night in ghostly chase
"Of some fair Dryad of old tales
Who chants between the nightingales
And over sleep by song
prevails?
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that dwellest where,
In the deep sky,
The
terrible
and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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In a letter to
Theophile
Thore, the art critic (Letters, p.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Back from the
battlefield
elate
His banner brings each peer;
Come, let us see, at the ancient gate,
The martial triumph pass in state--
With the princes my cymbaleer.
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Welcome this
hallowed
still retreat!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O'er plains the rivers wind,
And reach the sea; the bee, by
instinct
driven,
Finds out the honeyed flowers; the eagle flies
To seek the sun; the vulture where death lies;
The swallow to the spring; the prayer to Heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad
shallows
shine,
Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine
In the bag below thy beak -- yet thine, not less?
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Sidney Lanier |
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They still do yield, such is their
precious
mould.
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Marvell - Poems |
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) Dry up and get
dressed!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some bitter salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Lemons and wine for sauce: to these, a coney
Is not to be
despaired
of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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Simon,
somewhat
have I to say to thee.
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Longfellow |
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There, Phyllis mourns Demophoon's broken vows,
And fell Medea there pursues her spouse;
With impious boast, and shrill
upbraiding
cries,
She tells him how she broke the holy ties
Of kindred for his sake; the guilty shore
That from her poignard drank a brother's gore;
The deep affliction of her royal sire.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Uplift the lids of inward deity,
Flashing
abroad
Thy burning Infinite!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I forget what part of Scotland had the honour of giving him birth; but
he was the son of
obscurity
and misfortune.
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Hyde on a
scenario
by
Lady Gregory.
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Yeats |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Lewis Carroll |
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I, standing here between the glory and dark,--
The glory of thy wrath
projected
forth
From Eden's wall, the dark of our distress
Which settles a step off in that drear world--
Lift up to thee the hands from whence hath fallen
Only creation's sceptre,--thanking thee
That rather thou hast cast me out with _her_
Than left me lorn of her in Paradise,
With angel looks and angel songs around
To show the absence of her eyes and voice,
And make society full desertness
Without her use in comfort!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thanks to his care, at twelve years old
I could read and write, and was
considered
a good judge of the points of
a greyhound.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I see their soft plumage
And catch their windy song, 20
Like the rise of a high tide
Sweeping full and strong;
I mark the outskirts
Of their
reverend
throng.
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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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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I would my lover kneeling at my feet
In humble
manliness
should cry, `O sweet!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Round the pond the martins flirt,
Their snowy breasts
bedaubed
with dirt,
While the mason, neath the slates,
Each mortar-bearing bird awaits:
By art untaught, each labouring spouse
Curious daubs his hanging house.
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John Clare |
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What is't,
Catullus?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The extent to which
this is true can of course only be realized by one
thoroughly
familiar
with the earlier poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Et si, l'ayant surpris a des pities immondes,
Sa mere s'effrayait; les
tendresses
profondes
De l'enfant se jetaient sur cet etonnement.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Danes are heathens, as one is told
presently; but this lay of
beginnings
is taken from Genesis.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I come to touch thy lance with mine;
Not as a knight, who on the listed field
Of tourney touched his adversary's shield
In token of defiance, but in sign
Of homage to the mastery, which is thine,
In English song; nor will I keep concealed,
And
voiceless
as a rivulet frost-congealed,
My admiration for thy verse divine.
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Longfellow |
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They are of use--they
dissolve
poverty from
its need, and riches from its conceit.
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Whitman |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Up from the South at break of day,
Bringing
to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Did he say
anything?
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Yeats |
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The
printers
and editors have
been misled by Donne's phrase, 'In Natures, and in Fortunes gifts'.
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John Donne |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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First the
Miscellany!
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Byron |
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The admitted poems are much below the
standard
of Rowley.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We have
mistaken
Judith.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What weight, and what
authority
in thy speech!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Now is your turn, my dearest, to be set
A gem in this eternal coronet:
'Twas rich before, but since your name is down
It
sparkles
now like Ariadne's crown.
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Robert Herrick |
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Resplendent, fleet and flowing
It hastens with the clouds; behold
An offering's-billet glowing:
It tells what it
bestowed
when cold.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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