My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and
falsehood
not proclaim!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Caeli, tibi: nam tua nobis 5
perfecta
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Latin - Catullus |
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Our paint-box is
very
imperfectly
filled.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Diegue
How enviable, yes,
On losing strength to swiftly meet with death,
See how old age prepares for noble spirits
After long careers,
miserable
exits!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For me my
Teucrians shall
establish
a city, and Lavinia give the town her name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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]
[102] [The sixth edition of _Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage_
(1813) was
"printed by T.
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Byron |
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Count Maddalo is a Venetian
nobleman
of ancient family and of great
fortune, who, without mixing much in the society of his countrymen,
resides chiefly at his magnificent palace in that city.
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Shelley |
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Emily
Dickinson
scrutinized everything with clear-eyed frankness.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He does not
philosophize
upon the spectacle or draw a moral
from it, but he shows us how in nature beauty is ever present.
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Keats |
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Don't
precipitate
your deadly gifts yet,
Neptune: I'd prefer if nothing were granted.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thus each was borne by three, and I, at last,
The curl'd back seizing of a ram, (for one
I had reserv'd far
stateliest
of them all)
Slipp'd underneath his belly, and both hands 510
Enfolding fast in his exub'rant fleece,
Clung ceaseless to him as I lay supine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Probably
one might use either form.
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John Donne |
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LIV
His voice with
indignation
rising high
Such further deed in manhood's name forbade;
The peasant, wild in passion, made reply 480
With bitter insult and revilings sad;
Asked him in scorn what business there he had;
What kind of plunder he was hunting now;
The gallows would one day of him be glad;--
Though inward anguish damped the Sailor's brow, 485
Yet calm he seemed as thoughts so poignant would allow.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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I wrote at such speed that I might
save from a plagiarist a subject that seemed worth the keeping till
greater knowledge of the stage made an adequate
treatment
possible.
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Yeats |
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I took a little black book
To that cold, grey, damp,
smelling
church,
And I had to sit on a hard bench,
Wriggle off it to kneel down when they sang psalms,
And wriggle off it to kneel down when they prayed--
And then there was nothing to do
Except to play trains with the hymn-books.
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Imagists |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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Now
pour your cups to Jove, and call in prayer on
Anchises
our father,
setting the wine again upon the board.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Victory to him was pain,
Till he had won his enemies by love;
Had leashed the eagle and
unloosed
the dove;
Setting on war's red roll the argent seal of peace.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse
Proclaims those vaults of Acheron to be,
Though thence, he said, nor souls nor bodies fare,
But only phantom figures,
strangely
wan,
And tells how once from out those regions rose
Old Homer's ghost to him and shed salt tears
And with his words unfolded Nature's source.
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Lucretius |
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'
This poet, though he live apart,
Moved by his hospitable heart,
Sped, when I passed his sylvan fort,
To do the honors of his court,
As fits a
feathered
lord of land;
Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand,
Hopped on the bough, then, darting low,
Prints his small impress on the snow,
Shows feats of his gymnastic play,
Head downward, clinging to the spray.
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Emerson - Poems |
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8) is
perhaps
illuminated
by pp.
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John Donne |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and
friendless
39
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" And if Hafiz meant quite otherwise by a
similar language, he surely miscalculated when he devoted his Life and
Genius to so equivocal a Psalmody as, from his Day to this, has been
said and sung by any rather than
spiritual
Worshippers.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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although
my sins be grave,
Permit not, that, in this their utmost need,
Thy people suffer for their king's misdeed!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Delfica
Do you know it, Daphne, that ballad of old,
At the sycamore-foot, or beneath the white laurels,
Under myrtle or olive or trembling willows,
That song of love that
resounds
forever?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And all the miles and miles of meadowland
The spring makes golden ways,
Lead here, for here the gold
Grows brightest for our eyes,
And for our hearts
lovelier
even than love.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A salve so searching we may
scarcely
live,
A flame so fierce it seems that we must die,
An actual cautery thrust into the heart:
Nevertheless, men die not of such smart;
And shame gives back what nothing else can give,
Man to himself,--then sets him up on high.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This fatal
marriage
I both wish and fear:
I dare expect only imperfection here.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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On the top of the
Crumpetty
Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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She is so noble, of sweet welcome,
I wish to take no other lover,
She's wise, mocks not at anyone,
With beauty blessed and with valour;
And not
forgetting
courtesy;
For usage of the courteous will
Protects her from all enmity still,
And every other infamy.
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Troubador Verse |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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thy lineage shared,
And watch'd all night, all day, a
faithful
guard.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Among that band of Officers was one,
Already hinted at, [N] of other mould--
A patriot, thence rejected by the rest, 290
And with an oriental loathing spurned,
As of a
different
caste.
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William Wordsworth |
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The word is evidently connected with the verb
"leleyat" to fondle or soothe,
likewise
with our own word
"to lull.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
original
of this song may be found in Littell's Living Age,
Vol.
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Longfellow |
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I have
struggled
in vain, my decision was fruitless,
Why then do I wait?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Wherethe
good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Yet glared he
fiercely
round him, and growled in harsh, fell
tone,
"She's mine, and I will have her, I seek but for mine own:
She is my slave, born in my house, and stolen away and sold,
The year of the sore sickness, ere she was twelve hours old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The old owls might have
hallooed
if they durst,
But joy just then was up and whistled bye
A merry tune which I had known full long,
But could not to my memory wake it back,
Until the ploughman changed it to the song.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Prometheus too and Pelops' sire
In listening lose the sense of woe;
Orion
hearkens
to the lyre,
And lets the lynx and lion go.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Keats - Lamia |
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One fate the warrior and the friend shall strike,
And Troy's black sands must drink our blood alike:
Me too a
wretched
mother shall deplore,
An aged father never see me more!
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Iliad - Pope |
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And if I breed
confusion
anyway--
That makes for France.
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Tennyson |
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Thus lily, rose, grape, cherry, cream,
And
strawberry
do stir
More love, when they transfer
A weak, a soft, a broken beam;
Than if they should discover
At full their proper excellence,
Without some scene cast over,
To juggle with the sense.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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again
composed
at the sheepfold
after dinner.
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William Wordsworth |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The parting heroes mutual presents left;
A golden goblet was thy grandsire's gift;
OEneus a belt of matchless work bestowed,
That rich with Tyrian dye
refulgent
glow'd.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Through the swoon, heavy and motionless
Stifling with heat the cool morning's struggles
No water, but that which my flute pours, murmurs
To the grove
sprinkled
with melodies: and the sole breeze
Out of the twin pipes, quick to breathe
Before it scatters the sound in an arid rain,
Is unstirred by any wrinkle of the horizon,
The visible breath, artificial and serene,
Of inspiration returning to heights unseen.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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The Gods, by whose beneficence all live,
Stood in the portal;
infinite
arose
The laugh of heav'n, all looking down intent
On that shrewd project of the smith divine,
And, turning to each other, thus they said.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
Of Hope's
triumphant
keen flame-carven sword?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He is
informed
of the track which his
companions intend to pursue, and if he is unable to follow, or overtake
them, he perishes alone in the Desart; unless he should have the good
fortune to fall in with some other Tribes of Indians.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Look around:--
Earth spirits and
phantasms
hear you talk unmoved,
As if ye were red clay again and talked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in
Khorassan
in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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gegān wolde
sorhfulne
sīð, 1278; sē þe gryre-sīðas gegān dorste, _who dared
to go the ways of terror_ (to go into the combat), 1463; pret.
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Beowulf |
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'
To him the long-lived priestess thus briefly returned: 'Seed of
Anchises, most sure progeny of gods, thou seest the deep pools of
Cocytus and the Stygian marsh, by whose
divinity
the gods fear to swear
falsely.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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ede,
& his
deciples
in-to al ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I Sir: there are a crew of
wretched
Soules
That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces
The great assay of Art.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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]
SIR,
I am much
indebted
to my worthy friend, Dr.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Har: I come not Samson, to condole thy chance,
As these perhaps, yet wish it had not been,
Though for no
friendly
intent.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch,
But like a
treatment
civil,
So, spite of buffet, prayers, and calls--
Too late her friends to rally--
We, eighty strong, bore her along
Unto the Pirate Galley.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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_ Referring to the old legend that
Merlin had for father an incubus or demon, and was himself a demon of
evil, though his innate
wickedness
was driven out by baptism.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Oh, March, come right
upstairs
with me,
I have so much to tell!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Tu en es encore
Solde
[Notes sur la transcription:
On a effectue les corrections suivantes:
ombrage ombre (On paie au Pretre un toit ombrage d'une charmille)
retire <> (De s'entendre appeler garces par les petits garcons)
retire <> (Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou s'exalte et s'abaisse)
Boete Poete (Le Boete prendra le sanglot des Infames)
gravements
gravement
(Et parfois en hoquets fort gravements bouffons)
ajoute <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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