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Bouche au rire
enfantin!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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IMMEDIATELY
he ev'ry effort tried,
To get the bargain fully set aside.
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn
Or busy housewife ply her evening care:
No
children
run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
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Golden Treasury |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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Who mighte telle half the Ioye or feste
Which that the sowle of Troilus tho felte, 345
Heringe theffect of
Pandarus
biheste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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6 The brocade robe was a mark of
Zhangsun?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Over the huge and
huddling
sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bring hither my brother Antonio, -- Man, --
My injurer: night breaks the ban;
Brother, I pardon thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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King and Queen of the
Pelicans
we;
No other Birds so grand we see!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
security
of society will not depend, as it
does now, on the state of the weather.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the
conquest
of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
obstinate
bolt of a small iron door
Detained them near the gateway of the Castle.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It was a dream, the glade is tenantless,
No soft Ionian laughter moves the air,
The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness,
And from the copse left desolate and bare
Fled is young Bacchus with his revelry,
Yet still from Nuneham wood there comes that thrilling melody
So sad, that one might think a human heart
Brake in each separate note, a quality
Which music
sometimes
has, being the Art
Which is most nigh to tears and memory;
Poor mourning Philomel, what dost thou fear?
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Wilde - Poems |
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l vert folh
When flowers are in the leaves green
Can la frej' aura venta
When fresh breezes gather,
Can la verz folha s'espan
When the
greenery
unfolds
Pel doutz chan que?
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Troubador Verse |
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For a
thousand
reasons.
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He
cohabits
with the wife decreed for him,
even he formerly.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Perhaps I have
the more sympathy with them because they are
despised
by the farmer,
and occupy sterile and neglected soil.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by
moonlight
skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please,
Or let the easily persuaded eyes
Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould
Of a friend's fancy; or with head bent low
And cheek aslant see rivers flow of gold
'Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go
From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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By alone I mean without a
material
being, and my cat is a mystic companion, a spirit.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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There is a penny for thee;
remember
me in
thy prayers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What lightning bolt, you
heavens!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Never mind; we'll cure you yet, you
perverse
phenomenon.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ther was the
dougghte
Doglas slean:
The Perse never went away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He's cured the king, here he's king, abides,
And priest of the
quintessential
holy Treasure.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Through his whole body
something
ran,
A most strange something did I see;
--As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sleep is
supposed
to be,
By souls of sanity,
The shutting of the eye.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then from our waiting cannons
Leap'd forth the deadly flame,
To meet the
advancing
columns
That swift and steady came.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Adam and Eve were
expelled
from the garden lest
they should eat and live forever.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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toutes ces belles qualites
ne le
servirent
point--du moins financierement--il ignorait l'art de
monnayer son genie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The gardin was not
daungerous
490
To herberwe briddes many oon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Woe upon spouse and spouse,
Whatso of evil sway
Held her in that
distress!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Have you no mite to give away,
So the poor may eat on
Christmas
Day?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This garden extends from the house to
the river Derwent, from which it is
separated
by a wall, with a raised
terraced walk on the inner side, and nearly on a level with the top.
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William Wordsworth |
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_Weary-widdle_,
toilsome
contest of life.
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Robert Forst |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The holy sisters, some among,
The sacred dirge and
trentall
sung.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
saturnian
line falls into two _cola_ of which the first (_a_)
contains _three_, the second (_b_) _two_ accented syllables.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Et quand tu le verras sonder tout l'horizon,
Contempteur des vieux jougs, libre de toute crainte,
Tu
viendras
lui donner la Redemption sainte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Taste and talent have now descended in the Tytlers
through three generations: an
uncommon
event in families.
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Robert Forst |
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It is not only that streets and
buildings
have changed;
But steep is level and level changed to steep!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES
EXPERIENCE
COMPENSATION
POLITICS
HEROISM
CHARACTER
CULTURE
FRIENDSHIP
SPIRITUAL LAWS
BEAUTY
MANNERS
ART
UNITY
WORSHIP
PRUDENCE
NATURE
THE INFORMING SPIRIT
CIRCLES
INTELLECT
GIFTS
PROMISE
CARITAS
POWER
WEALTH
ILLUSIONS
QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS
QUATRAINS
TRANSLATIONS
APPENDIX
THE POET
FRAGMENTS ON THE POET AND THE POETIC GIFT
FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE
NATURE
LIFE
THE BOHEMIAN HYMN
GRACE
INSIGHT
PAN
MONADNOC FROM AFAR
SEPTEMBER
EROS
OCTOBER
PETER'S FIELD
MUSIC
THE WALK
COSMOS
THE MIRACLE
THE WATERFALL
WALDEN
THE ENCHANTER
WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
RICHES
PHILOSOPHER
INTELLECT
LIMITS
INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR
THE EXILE
POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD
THE BELL
THOUGHT
PRAYER
TO-DAY
FAME
THE SUMMONS
THE RIVER
GOOD HOPE
LINES TO ELLEN
SECURITY
A MOUNTAIN GRAVE
A LETTER
HYMN
SELF-RELIANCE
WRITTEN IN NAPLES
WRITTEN AT ROME
WEBSTER
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF TITLES
* * * * *
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
The
Emersons
first appeared in the north of England, but Thomas, who
landed in Massachusetts in 1638, came from Hertfordshire.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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VIII
Alors l'ame pourrie et l'ame desolee
Sentiront
ruisseler
tes maledictions.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Now--if thou let thyself be
schooled
by me--
Thou must not kick against the goad.
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Aeschylus |
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Burns's
compliments
to Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
The
Thunderer
spoke: imperial Juno mourn'd,
And, trembling, these submissive words return'd:
"By every oath that powers immortal ties,
The foodful earth and all-infolding skies;
By thy black waves, tremendous Styx!
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Iliad - Pope |
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So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy 990
Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr
Divine
displeasure
for her sake, or Death.
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Milton |
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LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And
therefore
mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ich sag dir's im
Vertrauen
nur:
Du bist doch nun einmal eine Hur,
So sei's auch eben recht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely
in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore--
Thy touch upon the palm.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sed haec prius fuere: nunc
recondita
25
Senet quiete seque dedicat tibi,
Gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I saw that one who lost her love in pain,
Who trod on thorns, who drank the
loathsome
cup;
The lost in night, in day was found again;
The fallen was lifted up.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I from my
mistress
come to you in post;
If I return, I shall be post indeed,
For she will score your fault upon my pate.
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Shakespeare |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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On her return from the drive, she hastened to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of
excitement
mingled with fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and
gleaming
hand.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Emerson - Poems |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On
passionless
absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And faith, 'tis
pleasant
till 'tis past:
The mischief is that 'twill not last.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ho,
dwellers
by the frontier trail,
Come forth and greet the bride of war!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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e
prophete
herde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
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Longfellow |
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--If
men may by no means write freely, or speak truth, but when it offends
not, why do
physicians
cure with sharp medicines, or corrosives?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers;
With all thy handmaids thank the
immortal
powers;
To every god vow hecatombs to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A barrel-organ
Rasped a
mournful
measure.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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quid loquar ut subitam sceleratis gentibus olim
imposuit Phoebus noctem
terrasque
reliquit?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The ship itself may make a better figure,
But I that sail, am neither less nor bigger,
I neither strut with every
favouring
breath,
Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But here, where murder
breathed
her bloody steam;
And here, where buzzing nations choked the ways,
And roared or murmured like a mountain-stream
Dashing or winding as its torrent strays;
Here, where the Roman million's blame or praise
Was death or life, the playthings of a crowd,
My voice sounds much--and fall the stars' faint rays
On the arena void--seats crushed, walls bowed,
And galleries, where my steps seem echoes strangely loud.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western
mystery!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Wak'd from my dream, cold horror freez'd my blood;
Fix'd as a rock, before the rock I stood;
"O fairest goddess of the ocean train,
Behold the triumph of thy proud disdain;
Yet why," I cried, "with all I wish'd decoy,
And, when exulting in the dream of joy,
A horrid
mountain
to mine arms convey!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"An
excellent
piece of nonsense.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I thenke, sith that love, of his goodnesse,
Hath thee
converted
out of wikkednesse,
That thou shalt be the beste post, I leve, 1000
Of al his lay, and most his foos to-greve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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She doth not tack from side to side--
Hither to work us weal
Withouten wind, withouten tide
She
steddies
with upright keel.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he
apprehends
wisely.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
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La Fontaine |
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