The offence
which the remark has caused is due, no doubt, to
injudicious
use of the
word "hero.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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much-wrong'd
Montrose!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where, group'd in one rich form, the
beauties
rare,
Which long their magic influence o'er me shed?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Each of these blue
bottles
contained
a Blue-Bottle-Fly; and all these interesting animals live
continually together in the most copious and rural harmony: nor perhaps in
many parts of the world is such perfect and abject happiness to be found.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Which the
primordials
ought nowise to do.
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cui non dictus Hylas puer et Latonia Delos
Hippodameque
umeroque Pelops insignis eburno,
acer equis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Why did you not constrain my lady
Before desire took me
completely?
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Troubador Verse |
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"Dear, I had almost arrived when I saw, by good fortune, your uncle
Standing
right there by the vines, looking now this way, now that.
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you are
piddling
away still!
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Aristophanes |
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The stream, adown its hazelly path,
Was rushing by the ruin'd wa's,
Hasting to join the
sweeping
Nith,
Whase distant roaring swells and fa's.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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(Turns,
dropping
fan and
raising eyebrows.
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Kipling - Poems |
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les villages eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos terribles bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a
consacre
mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then swam over ocean Ecgtheow's son
lonely and sorrowful, seeking his land,
where Hygd made him offer of hoard and realm,
rings and royal-seat, reckoning naught
the
strength
of her son to save their kingdom
from hostile hordes, after Hygelac's death.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And Sir
Philotus
too!
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Shakespeare |
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_("Oh,
regardez
le ciel!
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Hugo - Poems |
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In the 'Evening Walk' the following lines occur--
The dog, loud barking, 'mid the glittering rocks,
Hunts, where his master points, the
intercepted
flocks.
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William Wordsworth |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lamia, regal drest,
Silently paced about, and as she went,
In pale contented sort of discontent,
Mission'd her viewless servants to enrich
The fretted
splendour
of each nook and niche.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And whisperings are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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blake-poems |
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"We have seen many a jewel-glimmering throne;
And bowed to Idols when wild horns were blown
In palaces whose faery pomp and gleam
To your rich men would be a ruinous dream;
"And robes that were a madness to the eyes;
Women whose teeth and nails were stained with dyes;
Wise
jugglers
round whose neck the serpent winds--"
V.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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His period of mental
production
was not brief nor barren.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This is the time of his dream, as sacred as the days
of early spring before wind and rain and light have touched the fruits
of the fields, when there is a tense bleak silence over the whole of
nature, in which is wrapped the
strength
of storms and the glow of the
summer's sun.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_Dublin
University
Magazine_
SWEET SISTER.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other
American
magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Just
When I had dealt with their front rank, the Germans
Repulsed
us utterly.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hence I will excite thir minds
With more desire to know, and to reject
Envious commands,
invented
with designe
To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt
Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,
They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?
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Milton |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in
sprightly
dance.
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Golden Treasury |
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I dare say I have
scarcely
touched upon the secret of Mr.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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How sweet the smiles of
taintless
infancy.
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Shelley |
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If ye behold
Or seek it with a love remiss and lax,
This cornice after just
repenting
lays
Its penal torment on ye.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But this true course is not
embraced
by many:
By many!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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'And he to whom she told her sins, or what
Her all but utter
whiteness
held for sin,
A man wellnigh a hundred winters old,
Spake often with her of the Holy Grail,
A legend handed down through five or six,
And each of these a hundred winters old,
From our Lord's time.
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Tennyson |
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III
And now--methinks I gaze upon thee now,
As on a serpent in his agonies
Awestricken Indians; what time laid low
And
crushing
the thick fragrant reeds he lies,
When the new year warm breathed on the earth,
Waiting to light him with his purple skies,
Calls to him by the fountain to uprise.
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Tennyson |
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Thus, too, those
Birdless
places must up-send
An essence bearing death to winged things,
Which from the earth rises into the breezes
To poison part of skiey space, and when
Thither the winged is on pennons borne,
There, seized by the unseen poison, 'tis ensnared,
And from the horizontal of its flight
Drops to the spot whence sprang the effluvium.
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Lucretius |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Men of the Twenty-first
Moon, slow rising, over the
trembling
sea-rim
Mother and child!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--I was half glad,
But my poor mistress went distract and mad,
When the boar tusk'd him: so away she flew
To Jove's high throne, and by her plainings drew
Immortal
tear-drops down the thunderer's beard;
Whereon, it was decreed he should be rear'd
Each summer time to life.
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Keats |
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Nichts
Abgeschmackters
find ich auf der Welt
Als einen Teufel, der verzweifelt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;
When
sometime
lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded, to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate--
That Time will come and take my love away.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ever alert
More evil from the
wretched
to avert,
Those hapless ones who 'neath Heaven's vault at night
Raise suppliant hands.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Would'st thou haue that
Which thou esteem'st the
Ornament
of Life,
And liue a Coward in thine owne Esteeme?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no
kindness
is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our chearful faith that all which we behold
Is full of blessings.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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used on or associated in any way with an
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In
universal
licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A singular geranium.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yes, he was brave, most brave, with
laughter
on his lips,
The braver for his fear!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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CHORUS: His
manacles
remark him; there he sits.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In his French
editions
of this essay, he has made various
alterations, at different times, in the article on Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It
has some
resemblance
to the conclusion of Cicero's Dialogue DE NATURA
DEORUM.
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Tacitus |
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(he said) my courage bids me meet
This high achievement, and explore the fleet:
But first exalt thy sceptre to the skies,
And swear to grant me the demanded prize;
The
immortal
coursers, and the glittering car,
That bear Pelides through the ranks of war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Who gathers all things mortal
With cold
immortal
hands.
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Keats |
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Peut-on illuminer un ciel
bourbeux
et noir?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
scholars
everywhere call this clever,
But none have yet become weavers ever.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike th'
inevitable
hour:--
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Golden Treasury |
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Or, turning to the Vatican, go see
Laocoon's torture
dignifying
pain--
A father's love and mortal's agony
With an immortal's patience blending:--Vain
The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain
And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp,
The old man's clench; the long envenomed chain
Rivets the living links,--the enormous asp
Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
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Virgil
and others, however, make them share
immortality
by turns.
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Their flocks are grazing on the Mound
Of him who felt the Dardan's arrow:
That mighty heap of gathered ground
Which Ammon's son ran proudly round,[154]
By nations raised, by monarchs crowned, 530
Is now a lone and
nameless
barrow!
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Byron |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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That for his love refused deitie;
Such were the labours of his Lady meeke,
Still seeking him, that from her still did flie;
Then
furthest
from her hope, when most she weened nie.
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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And sweet the hops upon the Kentish leas,
And sweet the wind that lifts the new-mown hay,
And sweet the fretful swarms of grumbling bees
That round and round the linden blossoms play;
And sweet the heifer breathing in the stall,
And the green
bursting
figs that hang upon the red-brick wall,
And sweet to hear the cuckoo mock the spring
While the last violet loiters by the well,
And sweet to hear the shepherd Daphnis sing
The song of Linus through a sunny dell
Of warm Arcadia where the corn is gold
And the slight lithe-limbed reapers dance about the wattled fold.
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"
"Not so," said Boston, "good my lord,
We pay your governors here
Abundant
for their bed and board,
Six thousand pounds a year.
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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III
"Those who our grandsires be
Lie here
embraced
by deeper death than we;
Nor shape nor thought of theirs canst thou descry
With keenest backward eye.
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Through dream and vision did she sink,
Delighted
all the while to think
That, on those lonesome floods,
And green savannahs, she should share
His board with lawful joy, and bear
His name in the wild woods.
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Golden Treasury |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son,
tormented
by the shirt of Nessus immolated himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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CHANCE so
arranges
ev'ry thing around
ALL good, or ALL that's bad is solely found;
When favours flow the numbers are so great,
That ev'ry wish upon us seems to wait;
But, if disposed, misfortunes to bestow;
No ills forgot: each poignant pang we know.
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La Fontaine |
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi
throbbing
waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When March is
scarcely
here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.
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Or des vergers fleuris se figeaient en arriere
Les petales tombes des cerisiers de mai
Sont les ongles de celle que j'ai tant aimee
Les petales fleuris sont comme ses paupieres
Sur le chemin du bord du fleuve lentement
Un ours un singe un chien menes par des tziganes
Suivaient une roulotte trainee par un ane
Tandis que s'eloignait dans les vignes rhenanes
Sur un fifre lointain un air de regiment
Le mai le joli mai a pare les ruines
De lierre de vigne vierge et de rosiers
Le vent du Rhin secoue sur le bord les osiers
Et les roseaux jaseurs et les fleurs nues des vignes
La synagogue
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren
Coiffes de feutres verts le matin du sabbat
Vont a la synagogue en longeant le Rhin
Et les coteaux ou les vignes rougissent la-bas
Ils se disputent et crient des choses qu'on ose a peine traduire
Batard concu pendant les regles ou Que le diable entre dans ton
pere
Le vieux Rhin souleve sa face ruisselante et se detourne pour
sourire
Ottomar Scholem et Abraham Loeweren sont en colere
Parce que pendant le sabbat on ne doit pas fumer
Tandis que les chretiens passent avec des cigares allumes
Et parce qu'Ottomar et Abraham aiment tous deux
Lia aux yeux de brebis et dont le ventre avance un peu
Pourtant tout a l'heure dans la synagogue l'un apres l'autre
Ils baiseront la thora en soulevant leur beau chapeau
Parmi les feuillards de la fete des cabanes
Ottomar en chantant sourira a Abraham
Ils dechanteront sans mesure et les voix graves des hommes
Feront gemir un Leviathan au fond du Rhin comme une voix d'automne
Et dans la synagogue pleine de chapeaux on agitera les loulabim
Hanoten ne Kamoth bagoim tholahoth baleoumim
Les cloches
Mon beau tzigane mon amant
Ecoute les cloches qui sonnent
Nous nous aimions eperdument
Croyant n'etre vus de personne
Mais nous etions bien mal caches
Toutes les cloches a la ronde
Nous ont vus du haut des clochers
Et le disent a tout le monde
Demain Cyprien et Henri
Marie Ursule et Catherine
La boulangere et son mari
Et puis Gertrude ma cousine
Souriront quand je passerai
Je ne saurai plus ou me mettre
Tu seras loin Je pleurerai
J'en mourrai peut-etre
La Loreley
A Jean Seve
A Bacharach il y avait une sorciere blonde
Qui laissait mourir d'amour tous les hommes a la ronde
Devant son tribunal l'eveque la fit citer
D'avance il l'absolvit a cause de sa beaute
O belle Loreley aux yeux pleins de pierreries
De quel magicien tiens-tu ta sorcellerie
Je suis lasse de vivre et mes yeux sont maudits
Ceux qui m'ont regardee eveque en ont peri
Mes yeux ce sont des flammes et non des pierreries
Jetez jetez aux flammes cette sorcellerie
Je flambe dans ces flammes O belle Loreley
Qu'un autre te condamne tu m'as ensorcele
Eveque vous riez Priez plutot pour moi la Vierge
Faites-moi donc mourir et que Dieu vous protege
Mon amant est parti pour un pays lointain
Faites-moi donc mourir puisque je n'aime rien
Mon coeur me fait si mal il faut bien que je meure
Si je me regardais il faudrait que j'en meure
Mon coeur me fait si mal depuis qu'il n'est plus la
Mon coeur me fit si mal du jour ou il s'en alla
L'eveque fit venir trois chevaliers avec leurs lances
Menez jusqu'au couvent cette femme en demence
Va t'en Lore en folie va Lore aux yeux tremblants
Tu seras une nonne vetue de noir et blanc
Puis ils s'en allerent sur la route tous les quatre
La Loreley les
implorait
et ses yeux brillaient comme des astres
Chevaliers laissez-moi monter sur ce rocher si haut
Pour voir une fois encore mon beau chateau
Pour me mirer une fois encore dans le fleuve
Puis j'irai au couvent des vierges et des veuves
La-haut le vent tordait ses cheveux deroules
Les chevaliers criaient Loreley Loreley
Tout la-bas sur le Rhin s'en vient une nacelle
Et mon amant s'y tient il m'a vue il m'appelle
Mon coeur devient si doux c'est mon amant qui vient
Elle se penche alors et tombe dans le Rhin
Pour avoir vu dans l'eau la belle Loreley
Ses yeux couleur du Rhin ses cheveux de soleil
Schinderhannes
Dans la foret avec sa bande
Schinderhannes s'est desarme
Le brigand pres de sa brigande
Hennit d'amour au joli mai
Benzel accroupi lit la Bible
Sans voir que son chapeau pointu
A plume d'aigle sert de cible
A Jacob Born le mal foutu
Juliette Blaesius qui rote
Fait semblant d'avoir le hoquet
Hannes pousse une fausse note
Quand Schulz vient portant un baquet
Et s'ecrie en versant des larmes
Baquet plein de vin parfume
Viennent aujourd'hui les gendarmes
Nous aurons bu le vin de mai
Allons Julia la mam'zelle
Bois avec nous ce clair bouillon
D'herbes et de vin de Moselle
Prosit Bandit en cotillon
Cette brigande est bientot soule
Et veut Hannes qui n'en veut pas
Pas d'amour maintenant ma poule
Sers-nous un bon petit repas
Il faut ce soir que j'assassine
Ce riche juif au bord du Rhin
Au clair des torches de resine
La fleur de mai c'est le florin
On mange alors toute la bande
Pete et rit pendant le diner
Puis s'attendrit a l'allemande
Avant d'aller assassiner
Rhenane d'automne
A Toussaint-Luca
Les enfants des morts vont jouer
Dans le cimetiere
Martin Gertrude Hans et Henri
Nul coq n'a chante aujourd'hui
Kikiriki
Les vieilles femmes
Tout en pleurant cheminent
Et les bons anes
Braillent hi han et se mettent a brouter les fleurs
Des couronnes mortuaires
C'est le jour des morts et de toutes leurs ames
Les enfants et les vieilles femmes
Allument des bougies et des cierges
Sur chaque tombe catholique
Les voiles des vieilles
Les nuages du ciel
Sont comme des barbes de biques
L'air tremble de flammes et de prieres
Le cimetiere est un beau jardin
Plein de saules gris et de romarins
Il vous vient souvent des amis qu'on enterre
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Tear--
tear us an altar,
tug at the cliff-boulders,
pile them with the rough stones--
we no longer
sleep in the wind,
propitiate
us.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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que j'en ai suivi, de ces petites
vieilles!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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In justice now thou'lt reign; and I alone
Am
answerable
for all to God.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So to the laws at large I write my name; [Subscribes]
And he that breaks them in the least degree
Stands in
attainder
of eternal shame.
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Shakespeare |
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Let your Highnesse
Command vpon me, to the which my duties
Are with a most
indissoluble
tye
For euer knit
Macb.
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[60] Nero was
meditating
an Ethiopian campaign when the revolt
of Vindex broke out.
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It is, of course, own cousin of
the German _welken_, but I have never come upon it in literary use, and
my own books of
reference
give me faint help.
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Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
Over the carnage rose
prophetic
a voice,
Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
Those who love each other shall become invincible,
They shall yet make Columbia victorious.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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s decline had they
executed
Bao and Da midway.
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It took the hall door for the novelty,
And set off briskly for so slow a thing,
Still going every which way in the joints, though,
So that it looked like
lightning
or a scribble,
From the slap I had just now given its hand.
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Spain,
Who hated all trouble and pain;
So he sate on a chair with his feet in the air,
That
umbrageous
Old Person of Spain.
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It is a
fearsome
state of things--
Each day an execution.
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Make way, from wave-bound verge to verge
Of all our land, that this great multitude
With lamentation proud albeit subdued,
Deep murmuring like the ocean's mighty surge,
May pass beneath the heavens'
triumphal
arch!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I am far more of an
individualist
than I ever was.
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[Illustration:
Manypeeplia
Upsidownia.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And, lastly, why, with
devastating
bolt
Shakes he asunder holy shrines of gods
And his own thrones of splendour, and to-breaks
The well-wrought idols of divinities,
And robs of glory his own images
By wound of violence?
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"
Previous
European statements about
Chinese prosody should be accepted with great caution.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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We have the fullest
accounts
of his childhood, and the
details that might with another be set down as chronicles of the
nursery will be seen to have their importance in the case of this boy
who set himself consciously to be famous when he was eight, wrote
fine imaginative verse before he was thirteen, and killed himself aged
seventeen and nine months.
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