Sisyphus
in uita quoque nobis ante oculos est
qui petere a populo fascis saeuasque securis
imbibit et semper uictus tristisque recedit.
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Him arrived,
With right-hand
gratulation
and with words
Of welcome kind, Autolycus received,
Nor less his offspring; but the mother most 520
Of his own mother clung around his neck,
Amphithea; she with many a fervent kiss
His forehead press'd, and his bright-beaming eyes.
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_8, 9, 139, 179_, 260, _279, 446_;
_Miscellaneous
Works_, ii.
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Byron |
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_Arthur Conan Doyle_
THE PASSENGERS OF A
RETARDED
SUBMERSIBLE
NOVEMBER, 1916
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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the disciple sank
With
anguished
cry .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
THREE
RECEIPTS
FOR DOMESTIC COOKERY.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Guarinus: _Sic homini
populari
arbitrio tua cana_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Farai
chansoneta
nueva
I'll make a little song that's new,
Before wind, frost, and rain come too;
My lady tests me, and would prove
How, and in just what way, I am
In love, yet despite all she may do
I'd rather be stuck here in this jam.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
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'Tis
Telephus
that you'd bewitch:
But he is of a high degree;
Bound to a lady fair and rich,
He is not free.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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WATTEAU, the carnival of illustrious hearts,
Fluttering like moths upon the wings of chance;
Bright lustres light the silk that flames and darts,
And pour down folly on the
whirling
dance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE
INVITATION
TO THE VOYAGE.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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WAITER: The
landlord
asks what you want.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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7
(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
Libertad, from the conqueress' field return'd,
I mark the new aureola around your head,
No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
With war's flames and the lambent
lightnings
playing,
And your port immovable where you stand,
With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly
crush'd beneath you,
The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his
senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much,
To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Farm hands from the
terraces
of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny Appleseed laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--should be
restored to Turnus and swell the force of the
vanquished?
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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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I was surveying for a man the other day a
single straight line one hundred and thirty-two rods long, through a
swamp at whose entrance might have been written the words which Dante
read over the entrance to the infernal regions, "Leave all hope, ye
that enter,"--that is, of ever getting out again; where at one time I
saw my employer
actually
up to his neck and swimming for his life in
his property, though it was still winter.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And the King came out with his
bodyguard
at the day's departing gleam--
And the moon rode up behind the smoke and showed the King his dream.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He is about it, the Doores are open:
And the
surfeted
Groomes doe mock their charge
With Snores.
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Tartar
prisoners
in chains!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Where are thy threats, and where thy
glorious
boast,
That propp'd alone by Priam's race should stand
Troy's sacred walls, nor need a foreign hand?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Each thought he was
thinking
of nothing but "Snark"
And the glorious work of the day;
And each tried to pretend that he did not remark
That the other was going that way.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The fisherman will be
startled
to learn that
there are but about a dozen kinds in the ponds and streams of any
inland town; and almost nothing is known of their habits.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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8 The Lord hath cast a line, so to confound
And levell _Sions_ walls unto the ground;
He drawes not back his hand, which doth oreturne
The wall, and Rampart, which
together
mourne.
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John Donne |
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Sweet is the swallow twittering on the eaves
At daybreak, when the mower whets his scythe,
And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Stretching their huge and dripping mouths across the
farmyard
gate.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
On which Violet, who was perfectly
acquainted
with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Besides, there, nightly, with
terrific
glare,
Love, jealous grown of so complete a pair,
Hover'd and buzz'd his wings, with fearful roar,
Above the lintel of their chamber door,
And down the passage cast a glow upon the floor.
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Keats - Lamia |
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For I have one I've chosen
Who gives me
strength
and joy.
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Troubador Verse |
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Or else he sat with those who watched
His anguish night and day;
Who watched him when he rose to weep,
And when he crouched to pray;
Who watched him lest himself should rob
Their
scaffold
of its prey.
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Wilde - Poems |
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In the swamp, in
secluded
recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
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Whitman |
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There is as yet no shadow in his glance,
Too cool his temples for the laurel's glow;
But later o'er those marble brows, perchance,
A rose-garden with bushes tall will grow,
And single petals one by one will fall
O'er the still mouth and break its silent thrall,
--The mouth that
trembles
with a dawning smile
As though a song were rising there the while.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'T will be thy
proudest
conquest!
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"Good
gracious!
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Kipling - Poems |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's
lightning
bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Where musing now, now
trilling
her sweet lay,
Most like what bards of heavenly spirits say,
Sits she by fame through every region sung:
My heart, which wisely unto her has clung--
More wise, if there, in absence blest, it stay!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thence Beowulf fled
through
strength
of himself and his swimming power,
though alone, and his arms were laden with thirty
coats of mail, when he came to the sea!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I ance was ty'd up like a stirk,
For civilly
swearing
and quaffing;
I ance was abused in the kirk,
Fer touzling a lass i' my daffin.
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Robert Forst |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XIX
Why did you fail to appear at the cot in the
vineyard
today, Love?
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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You they must certainly
interest, in
reminding
you of moments to which you can hardly look back
without a pleasure not the less dear from a shade of melancholy.
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Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, stood
With one strong,
vengeful
hand on either oar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He carried this so far, that an old musty
Hebrew concordance, which we had in a present from a neighbouring
priest, by mere dint of applying it, as doctors do a blistering
plaster, between his shoulders, Stitch, in a dozen pilgrimages,
acquired as much
rational
theology as the said priest had done by
forty years perusal of the pages.
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Robert Burns |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Roots and fibres, snake-like, crawling,
Out from rocky, sandy places,
Wheresoe'er we turn our faces,
Stretch enormous fingers round us,
Here to catch us, there
confound
us;
Thick, black knars to life are starting,
Polypusses'-feelers darting
At the traveller.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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org
Title: The Poetical Works of
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Vol.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I may not lean across the wicket, turning 11
As on the languorous settle 12
Silvery swallows I saw flying 13
Through the blossoms softly simmer 17
Were it much to implore thee 18
Since I be down-cast 19
See my child I'm going 20
This is just the kind of morning 21
Through the casement a noble-child saw 22
Come in the death-foreboded park, to view 25
'Neath trembling tree-tops to and fro we wander 26
Let us surround the silent pool 27
To-day we will not cross the garden-railing 27
The blue-toned
campions
and the blood-red poppies .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Samson was
destroyed
by Delilah, and David
suffered much through Bathsheba.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And as to trees the willows wear
Lopped heads as high as bushes are;
Some taller things the distance shrouds
That may be trees or stacks or clouds
Or may be nothing; still they wear
A
semblance
where there's nought to spare.
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John Clare |
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(It falls and sings through the years, but wakes
No
answering
echo of joy or pain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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FOOTNOTES
{253} The "Race" is the turbulent sea-area off the Bill of Portland,
where
contrary
tides meet.
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tombe neige
Tombe et que n'ai-je
Ma bien-aimee entre mes bras
POEME LU AU MARIAGE D'ANDRE SALMON
Le 13 juillet 1909
En voyant des drapeaux ce matin je ne me suis pas dit
Voila les riches vetements des pauvres
Ni la pudeur democratique veut me voiler sa douleur
Ni la liberte en honneur fait qu'on imite maintenant
Les feuilles o liberte vegetale o seule liberte terrestre
Ni les maisons flambent parce qu'on partira pour ne plus revenir
Ni ces mains agitees travailleront demain pour nous tous
Ni meme on a pendu ceux qui ne savaient pas profiter de la vie
Ni meme on renouvelle le monde en reprenant la Bastille
Je sais que seuls le renouvellent ceux qui sont fondes en poesie
On a pavoise Paris parce que mon ami Andre Salmon s'y marie
Nous nous sommes rencontres dans un caveau maudit
Au temps de notre jeunesse
Fumant tous deux et mal vetus attendant l'aube
Epris epris des memes paroles dont il faudra changer le sens
Trompes trompes pauvres petits et ne sachant pas encore rire
La table et les deux verres devinrent un mourant qui nous jeta le
dernier regard d'Orphee
Les verres tomberent se briserent
Et nous apprimes a rire
Nous partimes alors pelerins de la perdition
A travers les rues a travers les contrees a travers la raison
Je le revis au bord du fleuve sur lequel flottait Ophelie
Qui blanche flotte encore entre les nenuphars
Il s'en allait au milieu des Hamlets blafards
Sur la flute jouant les airs de la folie
Je le revis pres d'un moujik mourant compter les beatitudes
En admirant la neige semblable aux femmes nues
Je le revis faisant ceci ou cela en l'honneur des memes paroles
Qui changent la face des enfants et je dis toutes ces choses
Souvenir et Avenir parce que mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
Rejouissons-nous non pas parce que notre amitie a ete le fleuve
qui nous a fertilises
Terrains riverains dont l'abondance est la nourriture que tous
esperent
Ni parce que nos verres nous jettent encore une fois le regard
d'Orphee mourant
Ni parce que nous avons tant grandi que beaucoup pourraient
confondre nos yeux et les etoiles
Ni parce que les drapeaux claquent aux fenetres des citoyens qui
sont
contents
depuis cent ans d'avoir la vie et de menues choses a
defendre
Ni parce que fondes en poesie nous avons des droits sur les
paroles qui forment et defont l'Univers
Ni parce que nous pouvons pleurer sans ridicule et que nous savons
rire
Ni parce que nous fumons et buvons comme autrefois
Rejouissons-nous parce que directeur du feu et des poetes
L'amour qui emplit ainsi que la lumiere
Tout le solide espace entre les etoiles et les planetes
L'amour veut qu'aujourd'hui mon ami Andre Salmon se marie
L'ADIEU
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyere
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps brin de bruyere
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
SALOME
Pour que sourie encore une fois Jean-Baptiste
Sire je danserais mieux que les seraphins
Ma mere dites-moi pourquoi vous etes triste
En robe de comtesse a cote du Dauphin
Mon coeur battait battait tres fort a sa parole
Quand je dansais dans le fenouil en ecoutant
Et je brodais des lys sur une banderole
Destinee a flotter au bout de son baton
Et pour qui voulez-vous qu'a present je la brode
Son baton refleurit sur les bords du Jourdain
Et tous les lys quand vos soldats o roi Herode
L'emmenerent se sont fletris dans mon jardin
Venez tous avec moi la-bas sous les quinconces
Ne pleure pas o joli fou du roi
Prends cette tete au lieu de ta marotte et danse
N'y touchez pas son front ma mere est deja froid
Sire marchez devant trabants marchez derriere
Nous creuserons un trou et l'y enterrerons
Nous planterons des fleurs et danserons en rond
Jusqu'a l'heure ou j'aurai perdu ma jarretiere
Le roi sa tabatiere
L'infante son rosaire
Le cure son breviaire
LA PORTE
La porte de l'hotel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire o ma maman
D'etre cet employe pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais debarques a Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donne ce que j'avais travaille
MERLIN ET LA VIEILLE FEMME
Le soleil ce jour-la s'etalait comme un ventre
Maternel qui saignait lentement sur le ciel
La lumiere est ma mere o lumiere sanglante
Les nuages coulaient comme un flux menstruel
Au carrefour ou nulle fleur sinon la rose
Des vents mais sans epine n'a fleuri l'hiver
Merlin guettait la vie et l'eternelle cause
Qui fait mourir et puis renaitre l'univers
Une vieille sur une mule a chape verte
S'en vint suivant la berge du fleuve en aval
Et l'antique Merlin dans la plaine deserte
Se frappait la poitrine en s'ecriant Rival
O mon etre glace dont le destin m'accable
Dont ce soleil de chair grelotte veux-tu voir
Ma Memoire venir et m'aimer ma semblable
Et quel fils malheureux et beau je veux avoir
Son geste fit crouler l'orgueil des cataclysmes
Le soleil en dansant remuait son nombril
Et soudain le printemps d'amour et d'heroisme
Amena par la main un jeune jour d'avril
Les voies qui viennent de l'ouest etaient couvertes
D'ossements d'herbes drues de destins et de fleurs
Des monuments tremblants pres des charognes vertes
Quand les vents apportaient des poils et des malheurs
Laissant sa mule a petits pas s'en vint l'amante
A petits coups le vent defripait ses atours
Puis les pales amants joignant leurs mains dementes
L'entrelacs de leurs doigts fut leur seul laps d'amour
Elle balla mimant un rythme d'existence
Criant Depuis cent ans j'esperais ton appel
Les astres de ta vie influaient sur ma danse
Morgane regardait de haut du mont Gibel
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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illa (nec inuideo) fruitur meliore marito
inque capistratis
tigribus
alta sedet,
at mea despecti fugiunt conubia Thraces,
quod ferar externum praeposuisse meis,
atque aliquis 'iam nunc doctas eat' inquit 'Athenas:
armiferam Thracen qui regat, alter erit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE KING: Oh, you delicious,
fascinating
thing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Then he began abusing us and calling
us names, so I ran at him and cut his head off, and the head went on
laughing where it lay, and
presently
he caught it up in his hands and
ran out and plunged into the sea.
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Yeats |
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But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
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"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son--
Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his
imperial
throne;
His valiant peers were placed around;
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crown'd).
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Golden Treasury |
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There is no health;
Physitians
say that wee,
At best, enjoy but a neutralitie.
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John Donne |
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"One night as I did wander"
Bonnie Peggy Alison
Green grow the Rashes, O
My Jean
Robin
"Her flowing locks, the raven's wing"
"O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles"
Young Peggy
The Cure for all Care
Eliza
The Sons of Old Killie
And maun I still on Menie doat
The Farewell to the
Brethren
of St.
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Robert Forst |
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So mochel hit amended me,
That, whan I saw hir first a-morwe,
I was
warished
of al my sorwe
Of al day after, til hit were eve; 1105
Me thoghte no-thing mighte me greve,
Were my sorwes never so smerte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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" I have a song of
considerable
merit to that air.
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Robert Forst |
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"
The logic of the old rascal appeared
plausible
even to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[_Enter_ HAFI, _who
examines
the board.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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" His immediate
predecessors
had carried to the highest
refinement the art of writing in elaborate patterns of tone.
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Li Po |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It moved me by your grief to give myself
Into the pleasure of its
ravenous
love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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At this time,
Petrarch
lost his son John.
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Petrarch |
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"Is
football
playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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KATE: Oh, la, sir, you'll make me
ashamed!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
The
Countess
looked at him in silence, seemingly without comprehending
him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Zephyr returns and winter's rage restrains,
With herbs, with flowers, his blooming
progeny!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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as 'twere fain
That your paternal river's banks,
And Vatican, in
sportive
strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"When
Lachesis
hath spun the thread, the soul
Takes with her both the human and divine,
Memory, intelligence, and will, in act
Far keener than before, the other powers
Inactive all and mute.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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As when, in the early spring, 5
A
daffodil
blooms in the grass,
Golden and gracious and glad,
The solitude smiled.
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Sappho |
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e chere
adou{n}ward
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A confidant had been
employed
around,
To watch if any one were lurking found.
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La Fontaine |
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Lat this
proverbe
a lore un-to yow be;
"To late y-war, quod Beautee, whan it paste;"
And elde daunteth daunger at the laste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'88'
What is the
difference
between "discovered" and "devised"?
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Alexander Pope |
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In the Friar Bacon legend the
necromancer
delivers
an Oxford gentleman by a trick of sophistry.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"When
energising
objects men pursue,"
Then Lord knows what is writ by Lord knows who.
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Byron |
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It lay beneath the smile,
Of her whose breast, soft-bending o'er its sleep,
Lingering
upon that little lip doth keep
One pendent drop the while.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The dark wave, the plumed wave,
It meets his eager glance;
And it
sparkles
'neath the stars,
Like the glimmer of a lance--
A dark wave, a plumed wave,
On an emerald expanse.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Methinks
Some grief
unbidden
walketh at thy side.
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Aeschylus |
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Call home thy ancient
thoughts
from banishment,
And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.
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Shakespeare |
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how cold are their
caresses!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured
strychnine
in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Like Dionysus himself, they are
connected in ancient religion with the Renewal of the Earth in spring and
the
resurrection
of the dead, a point which students of the
_Alcestis_ may well remember.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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