--Alone,
Have you, O Faun,
considerately
turned
From side to side when counsel-seekers came,
And now advised as shepherd, now as satyr?
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At first, they'd bear about
A skull on fire with heat, and eyeballs twain
Red with
suffusion
of blank glare.
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'Let him heed who can and will;
Enchantment fixed me here
To stand the hurts of time, until
In
mightier
chant I disappear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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As the
Sicilian
bull, that rightfully
His cries first echoed, who had shap'd its mould,
Did so rebellow, with the voice of him
Tormented, that the brazen monster seem'd
Pierc'd through with pain; thus while no way they found
Nor avenue immediate through the flame,
Into its language turn'd the dismal words:
But soon as they had won their passage forth,
Up from the point, which vibrating obey'd
Their motion at the tongue, these sounds we heard:
"O thou!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For, between the hands and before
the faces of his
sorrowing
parents, lo!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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n
They chide me that the skein I used to spin Holds not my
interest
now,
They mock me at the route.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yet there is one who never feels a fear
To whisper
pleasing
fancies in her ear;
Yet een from him she shuns a rude embrace,
And stooping holds her hands before her face,--
She even shuns and fears the bolder wind,
And holds her shawl, and often looks behind.
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John Clare |
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XXXVII
The martial damsels bid for Ulany,
And those who came with her, provide attire;
And gowns that eve are
furnished
for the three,
If meaner than their own, at least entire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Lawrence
here is formed on a grand scale.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But come--
(For ye have strength
surpassing
mine) try ye
The bow, and bring this contest to an end.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Till silver'd o'er by age my temples grow,
Where Time by slow degrees now plants his grey,
Safe shall I never be, in danger's way
While Love still points and plies his fatal bow
I fear no more his tortures and his tricks,
That he will keep me further to ensnare
Nor ope my heart, that, from without, he there
His poisonous and
ruthless
shafts may fix.
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Petrarch |
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Or if a
footstep
comes, 'tis mine
Sharp on the road or soft on grass:
Silence divides along my line
And shuts behind me as I pass.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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such refuge unto me provide--
Such
sanctuary
be mine!
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Aeschylus |
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As Appius Claudius was that day, so may his
grandson
be!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--since
conditions
vary much.
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Lucretius |
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The modern version is
compatible
with the death of the
hymns, but the survival of their issue.
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John Donne |
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Since my young days of passion--joy, or pain,
Perchance
my heart and harp have lost a string,
And both may jar: it may be, that in vain
I would essay as I have sung to sing.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the
Imperial
Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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individual
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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While suffering from "hope deferred" as to its fate,
Poe presented a copy of "Annabel Lee" to the editor of the "Southern
Literary Messenger," who published it in the
November
number of his
periodical, a month after Poe's death.
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Poe - 5 |
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Zourine always filled up my glass,
repeating that I must get
accustomed
to the service.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Who sent in secret
The brothers Bityagovsky with
Kachalov?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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e
chauntre
of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Onward from fire to fire, as from hearth to hearth in his parish,
Wandered the faithful priest, consoling and
blessing
and cheering,
Like unto shipwrecked Paul on Melita's desolate sea-shore.
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Longfellow |
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Now, Love, at length behold a
youthful
fair,
Who spurns thy rule, and, mocking all my care,
'Mid two such foes, is safe and fancy free.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The
troubled
midnight and the noon's repose.
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T.S. Eliot |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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How should I pay you,
miserable
people?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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with visage deadly sad,
That Phoebus
chearefull
face durst never vew,
And in a foule blacke pitchie mantle clad,
She findes forth comming from her darkesome mew, 175
Where she all day did hide her hated hew.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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I think that no ship of
state was ever freighted with a more
veritable
Jonah than this same
domestic institution of ours.
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James Russell Lowell |
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At all this
I was much astonished; but I had no leisure to think, for Dammit lay
particularly still, and I
concluded
that his feelings had been hurt, and
that he stood in need of my assistance.
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Poe - 5 |
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In me thou see'st the
twilight
of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Imagists |
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" A better
description
of Baudelaire does not exist
The Hamlet-motive, particularly, is one that sounded throughout the
disordered symphony of the poet's life.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
indwelling
spider ran to greet the fly,
But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew.
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Robert Forst |
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et mihi quam
scriptis
desponderat ante puellam,
coniugiis eadem pronuba dextra daret!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You yourself, defeating my powers' eclipse,
Recalling my soul, already
hovering
on my lips, 770
You revived me with your flattering advice.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Handsome
and young,
And noble too, I'll take my oath on it.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But I shall have
occasion
hereafter
to speak more fully of that class of men, called
rhetoricians.
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Tacitus |
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the work from.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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We crossed
Champlain
to Keeseville with our friends,
Thence, in strong country carts, rode up the forks
Of the Ausable stream, intent to reach
The Adirondac lakes.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Contents
Translator's note:
Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
Les Amours de Cassandre: XXXVI
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: XCIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCIII
Les Amours de Marie: VI
Les Amours de Marie: IX
Les Amours de Marie: XLIV
Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: IX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIII
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLIX
Les Odes: A Sa Maistresse
Les Odes: O Fontaine Bellerie
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Index of First Lines
Translator's note:
Most of the Classical
references
mentioned in the notes are well known, and easily found in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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Ronsard |
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XXIII
As gentle
Shepheard?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Now all that faith, so free from care, hath vanished,
Now in the short respite I haste and gather
Of all remaining, binding leaf and blossoms;
Half
withered
marvels of my sorrowed hand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and
wondrous
jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Men call me Mad, and well they may,
When, full of rage and trouble,
I burst my banks of sand and clay,
And sweep their wooden bridge away,
Like
withered
reeds or stubble.
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Longfellow |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
But a sixth replied, "Whatever we are, that we shall
continue
to
be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
He holds him with his
glittering
eye--
The wedding guest stood still
And listens like a three year's child;
The Marinere hath his will.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_"
[We owe the air of this song to one Johnny M'Gill, a fiddler of
Girvan, who
bestowed
his own name on it: and the song itself partly to
Burns and partly to some unknown minstrel.
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Robert Burns |
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Slothe moe wulde jade thee than the
roughest
daie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Then I shall be no more;
And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her enjoying, I
extinct!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O born in the time of
joyfuller
ages,
heroes, hail!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What I bring here is merely translated from his
manuscript
in the
Goethe-Schiller Archive in Weimar.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it,
is full of phantoms;
Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me;
This incredible rush and heat--this strange
ecstatic
fever of dreams, O
years!
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Whitman |
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Sidgwick
& Jackson:--"We Willed It Not" (_The Sphere_), by John
Drinkwater; "Three Hills" (London _Times_), by Everard Owen, from _Three
Hills, and Other Poems_; "The Volunteer," and "The Fallen Subaltern," by
Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, from _The Volunteer, and Other Poems_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Only mouths
widening
with a still broad smile
Of comprehension, a strange knowing leer
At white men, at their vanity and guile,
An understanding that fills one with fear.
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Rilke - Poems |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Whatever satisfies souls is true;
Prudence
entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
Itself only finally satisfies the soul,
The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson
but its own.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And, see, the farm-roof
chimneys
smoke afar,
And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"--
He is a fool,
withouten
were,
That trowith have his countre here.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_Feather'd king_ the Eagle of Jupiter,
admirably
described by Pindar in
a passage here imitated by Gray.
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Golden Treasury |
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qu'il fait doux danser quand pour vous se declare
Un mirage ou tout chante et que les vents d'horreur
Feignent d'etre le rire de la lune hilare
Et d'effrayer les fantomes avants-coureurs
J'ai fait des gestes blancs parmi les solitudes
Des lemures couraient peupler les cauchemars
Mes tournoiements exprimaient les beatitudes
Qui toutes ne sont rien qu'un pur effet de l'Art
Je n'ai jamais cueilli que la fleur d'aubepine
Aux printemps finissants qui voulaient defleurir
Quand les oiseaux de proie proclamaient leurs rapines
D'agneaux mort-nes et d'enfants-dieux qui vont mourir
Et j'ai vieilli vois-tu pendant ta vie je danse
Mais j'eusse ete tot lasse et l'aubepine en fleurs
Cet avril aurait eu la pauvre confidence
D'un corps de vieille morte en mimant la douleur
Et leurs mains s'elevaient comme un vol de colombes
Clarte sur qui la nuit fondit comme un vautour
Puis Merlin s'en alla vers l'est disant Qu'il monte
Le fils de ma Memoire egale de l'Amour
Qu'il monte de la fange ou soit une ombre d'homme
Il sera bien mon fils mon ouvrage immortel
Le front nimbe de feu sur le chemin de Rome
Il marchera tout seul en regardant le ciel
La dame qui m'attend se nomme Viviane
Et vienne le printemps des nouvelles douleurs
Couche parmi la marjolaine et les pas-d'ane
Je m'eterniserai sous l'aubepine en fleurs
SALTIMBANQUES
A Louis Dumur
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'eloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans eglises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en revant
Chaque arbre fruitier se resigne
Quand de tres loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carres
Des tambours des cerceaux dores
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quetent des sous sur leur passage
LE LARRON
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malheureux malhabile
Voleur voleur que ne demandais-tu ces fruits
Mais puisque tu as faim que tu es en exil
Il pleure il est barbare et bon pardonnez-lui
LARRON
Je confesse le vol des fruits doux des fruits murs
Mais ce n'est pas l'exil que je viens simuler
Et sachez que j'attends de moyennes tortures
Injustes si je rends tout ce que j'ai vole
VIEILLARD
Issu de l'ecume des mers comme Aphrodite
Sois docile puisque tu es beau Naufrage
Vois les sages te font des gestes socratiques
Vous parlerez d'amour quand il aura mange
CHOEUR
Maraudeur etranger malhabile et malade
Ton pere fut un sphinx et ta mere une nuit
Qui charma de lueurs Zacinthe et les Cyclades
As-tu feint d'avoir faim quand tu volas les fruits
LARRON
Possesseurs de fruits murs que dirai-je aux insultes
Ouir ta voix ligure en nenie o maman
Puisqu'ils n'eurent enfin la pubere et l'adulte
De pretexte sinon de s'aimer nuitamment
Il y avait des fruits tout ronds comme des ames
Et des amandes de pomme de pin jonchaient
Votre jardin marin ou j'ai laisse mes rames
Et mon couteau punique au pied de ce pecher
Les citrons couleur d'huile et a saveur d'eau froide
Pendaient parmi les fleurs des citronniers tordus
Les oiseaux de leur bec ont blesse vos grenades
Et presque toutes les figues etaient fendues
L'ACTEUR
Il entra dans la salle aux fresques qui figurent
L'inceste solaire et nocturne dans les nues
Assieds-toi la pour mieux ouir les voix ligures
Au son des cinyres des Lydiennes nues
Or les hommes ayant des masques de theatre
Et les femmes ayant des colliers ou pendaient
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Parlaient entre eux le langage de la Chaldee
Les autans langoureux dehors feignaient l'automne
Les convives c'etaient tant de couples d'amants
Qui dirent tour a tour Voleur je te pardonne
Recois d'abord le sel puis le pain de froment
Le brouet qui froidit sera fade a tes levres
Mais l'outre en peau de bouc maintient frais le vin blanc
Par ironie veux-tu qu'on serve un plat de feves
Ou des beignets de fleurs trempes dans du miel blond
Une femme lui dit Tu n'invoques personne
Crois-tu donc au hasard qui coule au sablier
Voleur connais-tu mieux les lois malgre les hommes
Veux-tu le talisman heureux de mon collier
Larron des fruits tourne vers moi tes yeux lyriques
Emplissez de noix la besace du heros
Il est plus noble que le paon pythagorique
Le dauphin la vipere male ou le taureau
Qui donc es-tu toi qui nous vins grace au vent scythe
Il en est tant venu par la route ou la mer
Conquerants egares qui s'eloignaient trop vite
Colonnes de clins d'yeux qui fuyaient aux eclairs
CHOEUR
Un homme begue ayant au front deux jets de flammes
Passa menant un peuple infime pour l'orgueil
De manger chaque jour les cailles et la manne
Et d'avoir vu la mer ouverte comme un oeil
Les puiseurs d'eau barbus coiffes de bandelettes
Noires et blanches contre les maux et les sorts
Revenaient de l'Euphrate et les yeux des chouettes
Attiraient quelquefois les chercheurs de tresors
Cet insecte jaseur o poete barbare
Regagnait chastement a l'heure d'y mourir
La foret precieuse aux oiseaux gemmipares
Aux
crapauds
que l'azur et les sources murirent
Un triomphe passait gemir sous l'arc-en-ciel
Avec de blemes laures debout dans les chars
Les statues suant les scurriles les agnelles
Et l'angoisse rauque des paonnes et des jars
Les veuves precedaient en egrenant des grappes
Les eveques noir reverant sans le savoir
Au triangle isocele ouvert au mors des chapes
Pallas et chantaient l'hymne a la belle mais noire
Les chevaucheurs nous jeterent dans l'avenir
Les alcancies pleines de cendre ou bien de fleurs
Nous aurons des baisers florentins sans le dire
Mais au jardin ce soir tu vins sage et voleur
Ceux de ta secte adorent-ils un signe obscene
Belphegor le soleil le silence ou le chien
Cette furtive ardeur des serpents qui s'entr'aiment
L'ACTEUR
Et le larron des fruits cria Je suis chretien
CHOEUR
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Sestiacos nunc fama sinus
pelagusque
natatum
iactet et audaci uictos delphinas ephebo!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Call the game fair,
And pay your
winners!
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Hugo - Poems |
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose
Doorways
are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
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while slow carried through the pitying crowd,
To his inward senses these words spake aloud; 1031
Written in star-light on the dark above:
_Dearest
Endymion!
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"The Jews originating from the Egyptians
deserted
Egypt through
sedition, at the same time despising the religion of the Egyptians.
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They are
here published as they were written, with very few and superficial
changes;
although
it is fair to say that the titles have been
assigned, almost invariably, by the editors.
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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FAUST:
Soll ich dir, Flammenbildung,
weichen?
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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"I have sinned," quoth he, "I have sinned, I wot"--
And the tears ran adown his old cheeks at the thought:
They dropped fast on the book, but he read on the same,
And aye was the silence where should be the NAME,--
As the
choristers
told it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Who dares forgive what none can
overlook?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The
hawthorns
here were hung with may,
But still they seem in deader green,
The sun een seems to lose its way
Nor knows the quarter it is in.
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(Grendel)
slǣpende
fræt folces Denigea fȳftȳne men, 1582.
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Tis Winter, and I love to read indoors,
When the Moon hangs her
crescent
up on high;
While on the window shutters the wind roars,
And storms like furies pass remorseless by.
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John Clare |
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LV
Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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Sappho |
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He had worked
himself up, after seven years, to a Cashier's position in a Huddersfield
Bank; and all his experience lay among the
factories
of the North.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_ A word of address, generally
equivalent
to 'fellow' or
'sir.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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With what regret from many a place we go,
Though
tenderest
bonds may bind us to it!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To the good old man
sad in heart, 'twas
heaviest
sorrow.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O
Frugality!
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Robert Burns |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the continuation is
indented
two spaces.
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213) to the days of his great success when his 'Homer'
was the talk of the town, he asserts his ignorance of all the arts of
puffery and his independence of mutual
admiration
societies.
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Alexander Pope |
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BAL DES PENDUS
Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres
paladins
du diable,
Les squelettes de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the
innocent
Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast
Lady.
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