Lift up your heads ye
everlasting
gates!
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This Troilus, with al the affeccioun 1590
Of frendes love that herte may devyse,
To
Pandarus
on knees fil adoun,
And er that he wolde of the place aryse,
He gan him thonken in his beste wyse;
An hondred sythe he gan the tyme blesse, 1595
That he was born, to bringe him fro distresse.
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for by thy state
And
presence
I might guess thee chief of those,
After the King, who eat in Arthur's halls.
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You
shall be the Queen of men with green eyes, whose breasts also I have
wounded in my nocturnal caress: men that love the sea, the immense green
ungovernable sea; the unformed and multitudinous waters; the place where
they are not; the woman they will never know; sinister flowers that seem
to bear the incense of some unknown religion; perfumes that trouble the
will; and all savage and
voluptuous
animals, images of their own folly.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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ee it:
I was
prouiding
of a banquet for 'hem.
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Pay we our vows and go; yet when we part,
Then, even then, I will
bequeath
my heart
Into thy loving hands; for I'll keep none
To warm my breast when thou, my pulse, art gone.
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Leave me, where
pleasure
me impels, to tread:
Not now my song complains
Of you, sweet eyes, serene beyond belief,
Nor yet of him who binds me in such chains:
Right well may you observe the varying hues
Which o'er my visage oft the tyrant strews,
And thence may guess what war within he makes,
Where night and day he reigns,
Strong in the power which from your light he takes:
Blessed ye were as bright,
Save that from you is barr'd your own dear sight:
Yet often as to me those orbs you turn,
What they to others are you well may learn.
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"In my young days,"
He said, "I lost my sight, and
thenceforth
knew not
Nor day, nor night, till my old age; in vain
I plied myself with herbs and secret spells;
In vain did I resort in adoration
To the great wonder-workers in the cloister;
Bathed my dark eyes in vain with healing water
From out the holy wells.
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I knew that thou would'st come, for when at first
The dry wood burgeoned, and the sap of spring
Swelled in my green and tender bark or burst
To myriad multitudinous blossoming
Which mocked the midnight with its mimic moons
That did not dread the dawn, and first the thrushes'
rapturous
tunes
Startled the squirrel from its granary,
And cuckoo flowers fringed the narrow lane,
Through my young leaves a sensuous ecstasy
Crept like new wine, and every mossy vein
Throbbed with the fitful pulse of amorous blood,
And the wild winds of passion shook my slim stem's maidenhood.
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CASSIOPEIAS
CHAIRE, a circumpolar constellation having a fancied
resemblance to a chair.
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les grands pres,
La grande campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Better a serpent than a
stepmother!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Daddy Long-legs,
"I can never sing again;
And, if you wish, I'll tell you why,
Although
it gives me pain.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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E s'io non fossi impedito dal sasso
che la cervice mia superba doma,
onde portar
convienmi
il viso basso,
cotesti, ch'ancor vive e non si noma,
guardere' io, per veder s'i' 'l conosco,
e per farlo pietoso a questa soma.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I
remember
your hair--did I tie it?
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Wilde - Poems |
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But they are only pretending to go their rounds; but
give them wine and bread, and Heaven knows what--
May
perdition
take them, the accursed ones!
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quante fiate Amor m' assale 103
L' aura celeste che 'n quel verde Lauro 178
L' aura, che 'l verde Lauro e l' aureo crine 215
L' aura e l' odore e 'l refrigerio e l' ombra 284
L' aura gentil che
rasserena
i poggi 175
L' aura mia sacra al mio stanco riposo 304
L' aura serena che fra verdi fronde 177
L' aura soave ch' al sol spiega e vibra 178
L' avara Babilonia ha colmo 'l sacco 136
La ver l' aurora, che si dolce l' aura 210
La vita fugge, e non s' arresta un' ora 239
Le stelle e 'l cielo e gli elementi a prova 149
Levommi il mio pensier in parte ov' era 261
Liete e pensose, accompagnate e sole 199
Lieti fiori e felici, e ben nate erbe 154
L' oro e le perle, e i fior vermigli, e i bianchi 47
L' ultimo, lasso!
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Petrarch |
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Soon all was settled and arranged the day,
When marriage they no longer would delay,
You'll fully notice this:--I think I view
The
thoughts
which move around and you pursue;
'Twas doubtless clear, whatever bliss in store,
The lady was betrothed, and nothing more.
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La Fontaine |
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Howe'er you'll smile to hear my lenient voice;
Observe, three
punishments
await your choice;
Take which you will.
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La Fontaine |
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Hear the iron and brass
Ringing above their voices, as they snatch
The arms that seem to fight among themselves,
Seized by their masters' anguish; dost thou hear
The clumsy terror in the camp, the men
Hasting to arm
themselves
against our God,
Ozias?
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Wilde - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I am thy father's wedded wife;
And
underneath
the spreading tree
We two will live in honesty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Cruel wretch, will you leave me
pitilessly
among the dead?
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Aristophanes |
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O Saul, come in su la propria spada
quivi parevi morto in Gelboe,
che poi non senti pioggia ne
rugiada!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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From hour to hour
We sate and sate, wondering, as if the night
Had been
ensnared
by witchcraft.
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William Wordsworth |
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had fixed his residence entirely in that city since
October, 1316, and had
appropriated
to himself the nomination to all the
vacant benefices.
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Petrarch |
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XXXI
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" And Joseph had a pair of fightin' eyes;
And his
granddad
was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise;
Then "Robert Bruce MacPherson!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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As for will and testament I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the
Countess
of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A moment he stood
balancing
with emotion,
And all but lost himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The man of firm and righteous will,
No rabble, clamorous for the wrong,
No tyrant's brow, whose frown may kill,
Can shake the strength that makes him strong:
Not winds, that chafe the sea they sway,
Nor Jove's right hand, with
lightning
red:
Should Nature's pillar'd frame give way,
That wreck would strike one fearless head.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Then he
repeated
the operation with the left.
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Poe - 5 |
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282-3) and the
_Visitation
of Essex_ 1634
(p.
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John Donne |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Murder and rapine there, and violent hand
Dipt deep in blood and plunder, in a thought,
Destroy that sumptuous and
triumphant
town,
Which of all Africk wore the royal crown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pint (Scots), three
imperial
pints.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
HE DIRECTS ALL HIS
THOUGHTS
TO HEAVEN, WHERE LAURA AWAITS AND BECKONS
HIM.
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Petrarch |
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Je laisse, a Gavarni, poete des chloroses,
Soa troupeau
gazouillant
de beautes d'hopital,
Car je ne puis trouver parmi ces pales roses
Une fleur qui ressemble a mon rouge ideal.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Great black ravens I saw flutt'ring,
Caddows black and sombre gray,
In the
enchanted
coppice strutting
'Mid the adders on the way.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To-day the woods are trembling through and through
With
shimmering
forms, that flash before my view,
Then melt in green as dawn-stars melt in blue.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" Then Maclean 'gan slowly
to kneel
With never a word, till
presently
downward he jerked to the earth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Quod mare conceptum
spumantibus
expuit undis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
A clatter of hoofs was heard, and Orde looked up with vexation, but his
brow cleared as a
horseman
halted under the porch.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I have also
been told that when this town was settled they laid out a street four
rods wide, but at a
subsequent
meeting of the proprietors one rose and
remarked, "We have plenty of land, why not make the street eight rods
wide?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Reiver's hands, he
appreciated
the change.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Even then Cassandra opens her lips to the coming
doom, lips at a god's bidding never
believed
by the Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen--
Just as a nursemaid might,
playfully
up to her bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Canynge was ordained _Acolythe_ by Bishop Carpenter on
19 September 1467, and
received
the higher orders of _Sub-deacon,
Deacon_, and _Priest_, on the 12th of March, 1467, O.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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SAS}
Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the furnaces with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala
incircle
round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the mountains in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a revision was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yea, and in me
insolent
groweth my love;
For if the wheels of the careering world
Brake, felley and spoke, that, pitching on the road,
It spilt the driving godhead from his seat,
And the unreined team of hours riskily dragg'd
Their crippled duty,--if in that lurching world
Like jarred glass my power shattered about me,
And I were a head unking'd, 'twere but a game,
So I were left possessing thee, and that
Escape from Heaven, the beauty that goes with thee.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
THIS, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their
strength
against
the shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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-- As morn by morn I rise with fresh delight,
Time through my
casement
cheerily doth call
`Nature is new, 'tis birthday every day,
Come feast with me, let no man say me nay,
Whate'er befall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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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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Will't please your
Mightiness
to wash your hands?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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His welcome is universal--the flow of beauty is not more welcome or
universal
than he is;
The person he favours by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
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Whitman |
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298_;
_Recollections
of the Life of Lord Byron_, i.
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Byron |
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Thy sire and I were one; nor varied aught
In public sentence, or in private thought;
Alike to council or the assembly came,
With equal souls, and
sentiments
the same.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who
threatens
he will toss to Hell
The luckless Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"Taking Three as the subject to reason about--
A convenient number to state--
We add Seven, and Ten, and then
multiply
out
By One Thousand diminished by Eight.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
It is all a blood-feud between chieftains, in which Orestes,
after seven years,
succeeds
in slaying his foe Aegisthus, who had killed
his father.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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II
A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,
A stifled, drowsy,
unimpassioned
grief,
Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear--
O Lady!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Cum puero bello praeconem qui videt esse,
Quid credat, nisi se vendere
discupere?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Since every one, hath every one, one shade,
And you but one, can every shadow lend:
Describe
Adonis and the counterfeit,
Is poorly imitated after you,
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear,
And you in every blessed shape we know.
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The Foundation's EIN or federal tax
identification
number is
64-6221541.
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Stephen Crane |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Verily, the white
Will rise more readily, is sooner born
Out of no colour, than of black or aught
Which stands in hostile
opposition
thus.
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Lucretius |
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leaving the
cheerful
day, 110
Arriv'st thou to behold the dead, and this
Unpleasant land?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lysander
riddles very prettily.
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Shakespeare |
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"Let the prairie-dogs an'
Blackmouth
bark,"
Said our folks.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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First, I
maintain
that justice has no existence.
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Aristophanes |
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How
Democracy
with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown
through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then a silence suffuses the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the
children
no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they
themselves
are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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V
SAPPHO
SAPPHO
I
MIDNIGHT, and in the darkness not a sound,
So, with hushed breathing, sleeps the autumn night;
Only the white
immortal
stars shall know,
Here in the house with the low-lintelled door,
How, for the last time, I have lit the lamp.
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Sara Teasdale |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements
exprimaient
les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux crapauds que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now all that faith, so free from care, hath vanished,
Now in the short respite I haste and gather
Of all remaining, binding leaf and blossoms;
Half withered marvels of my
sorrowed
hand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of celestial journeys,
Ye sang of the
glorious
dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Note: This poem is a consequence of the two
previous
poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For captured
peasants
or for captured kings
Such words would have the right big sound.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Her
forehead
is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her eye unto the summer dew
The likest I have known.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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