All on that
charming
coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia,--ginia, O:
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And whenever the old man paused, a gleam
From the bowl of his pipe would awhile illume
The silent group in the twilight gloom,
And
thoughtful
faces, as in a dream;
And for a moment one might mark
What had been hidden by the dark,
That the head of the maiden lay at rest,
Tenderly, on the young man's breast!
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Hippolyte
Madame, my
feelings
are not as base as that.
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
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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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Thou'lt suffer, dearest, but before,
Hope with her
fascinating
power
To dire contentment shall give birth
And thou shalt taste the joys of earth.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Sur les cranes, la neige applique un blanc chapeau:
Le corbeau fait panache a ces tetes felees,
Un morceau de chair tremble a leur maigre menton:
On dirait,
tournoyant
dans les sombres melees,
Des preux, raides, heurtant armures de carton.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And, when I pause, still groves among,
(Such
loveliness
is mine) a throng
Of nightingales awake and strain
Their souls into a quivering song.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Donne's mistress:--
--------------"Her pure and
eloquent
blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one would almost say her body thought.
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Robert Burns |
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Arous'd from this sad mood
By one, who at a distance loud halloo'd,
Uplifting his strong bow into the air,
Many might after
brighter
visions stare:
After the Argonauts, in blind amaze
Tossing about on Neptune's restless ways,
Until, from the horizon's vaulted side,
There shot a golden splendour far and wide, 350
Spangling those million poutings of the brine
With quivering ore: 'twas even an awful shine
From the exaltation of Apollo's bow;
A heavenly beacon in their dreary woe.
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Keats |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet since this bittersweet ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault, rejecting the allure,
It will bring peace to your
troubled
mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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L'EXAMEN DE MINUIT
La pendule, sonnant minuit,
Ironiquement nous engage
A nous
rappeler
quel usage
Nous fimes du jour qui s'enfuit:
--Aujourd'hui, date fatidique,
Vendredi, treize, nous avons,
Malgre tout ce que nous savons,
Mene le train d'un heretique.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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130
There shall ye find grazing the flocks and herds
Of the all-seeing and all-hearing Sun,
Which, if
attentive
to thy safe return,
Thou leave unharm'd, though after num'rous woes,
Ye may at length arrive in Ithaca.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Despiteful and
intolerable
wrongs!
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Shakespeare |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Yes; yes; my heart's
elected!
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Longfellow |
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Over the pallid margin of dim seas breaking,
Over the thickening in the
darkness
that is land,
They fly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O'er high deep seas in speedy ship his voyage Atys sped
Until he trod the Phrygian grove with hurried eager tread
And as the gloomy tree-shorn stead, the she-god's home, he sought
There sorely stung with fiery ire and madman's vaguing thought,
Share he with
sharpened
flint the freight wherewith his form was fraught.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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, _throne_,
figuratively
for _rule_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
At the sweet sounds of comfort
straight
I turn'd;
And, in the saintly eyes what love was seen,
I leave in silence here: nor through distrust
Of my words only, but that to such bliss
The mind remounts not without aid.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'Tis known that he was Vishnevetsky's servant;
That to a ghostly father on a bed
Of sickness he
disclosed
himself; possessed
Of this strange secret, his proud master nursed him,
From his sick bed upraised him, and straightway
Took him to Sigismund.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Oh, many a crown shall sink in war's turmoil,
And many a new republic light the sky,
Fleets sweep the ocean, nations till the soil,
Genius be born and
generations
die.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
"Isn't--isn't there
anything
I could do for you, then?
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Kipling - Poems |
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<
truovi nel tuo
arbitrio
tanta cera
quant' e mestiere infino al sommo smalto>>,
comincio ella, <
di Val di Magra o di parte vicina
sai, dillo a me, che gia grande la era.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You know my
national
prejudices.
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Robert Forst |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But, whilst none have scrupled to admit necessity as influencing matter,
many have
disputed
its dominion over mind.
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Shelley |
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"
_Dublin
University
Magazine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thy very form I see,
Like some grim raven, perched upon the slain,
Exulting o'er the crime, aloud, in
tuneless
strain!
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Aeschylus |
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My retainer was so astounded by the turn affairs had taken that he did
not address a single
question
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No
troubled
thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn, nor screaming fife,
At dawn shall call to arms.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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XIX
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With
thunderous
blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
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Stephen Crane |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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e
forwarde
that we fest in ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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This translation or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments,
excluding
things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" The lessons of the pulpit he
enforced by the
persuasive
eloquence of a devoted
life.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Fervent love
And lively hope with violence assail
The kingdom of the heavens, and overcome
The will of the Most high; not in such sort
As man prevails o'er man; but
conquers
it,
Because 't is willing to be conquer'd, still,
Though conquer'd, by its mercy conquering.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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though the debts were debts of honour, and the
creditor
a
lady, I have put off and put off even the very acknowledgment of the
obligation, until you must indeed be the very angel I take you for, if
you can forgive me.
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Robert Forst |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est
variable
aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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* * * * *
EXTRACT FROM THE
CONCLUSION
OF A POEM, COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF
LEAVING SCHOOL
Composed 1786.
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William Wordsworth |
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for
resou{n}
is she
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Chambers, while wisely refusing to do this, and
adopting the
editions
as the basis of his text, had made frequent
reference to the manuscripts and adopted corrections from them.
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John Donne |
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Give much, and then to each one
something
passes,
And each one leaves the house with happy heart.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
| Guess: |
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Appoloinaire |
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To build, to plant,
whatever
you intend,
To rear the column, or the arch to bend,
To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot;
In all, let Nature never be forgot.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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" He made, in
addition to Prince Arthur's armor and weapons, the Round Table for one
hundred and fifty knights at Carduel, the magic fountain of love, and built
Stonehenge on
Salisbury
Plain.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le fremissement d'un immense baiser:
--Le Monde a soif d'amour: tu
viendras
l'apaiser.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In the Deroy portrait he wears a beard; he is there what Catulle
Mendes nicknamed him: "His Excellence,
Monseigneur
Brummel!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In a cottaged vale She dwells,
Listening
to the Sabbath bells!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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The _mise-en-scene_ is
borrowed
from earlier times.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne
Elstryds
bones.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Huebsch 1918
Dreams Out of
Darkness
B.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suff'ring, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would not
understand
it.
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Shakespeare |
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She's torn from her bed by
sorrowful
unquiet.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect
Some frail memorial still erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and shapeless
sculpture
deck'd,
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
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Golden Treasury |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Give us a name to move the heart
With the
strength
that noble griefs impart,
A name that speaks of the blood outpoured
To save mankind from the sway of the sword,--
A name that calls on the world to share
In the burden of sacrificial strife
Where the cause at stake is the world's free life
And the rule of the people everywhere,--
A name like a vow, a name like a prayer.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Wilkin, a
discreet, sensible,
ingenious
man.
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Robert Burns |
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Gomme and Marshall
2 East 29th Street New York
POEMS
"Love and nature, life, and b ts of the Orient
diversify
these panes; the songs are tuneful, often spiritual, always melodic and pleasing.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--Mais
pourquoi
pleure-t-elle?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Some army poet therein may
Have smuggled his
flagitious
lay.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ADMETUS (_his
composure
a little shaken_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her
imperial
round,
Show them this meek apparelled thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be crowned!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Lewis Carroll |
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was one of the military
classics
and refers to Guo Ziyi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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80
Go, slash thy flank with lashing tail and sense the strokes of thee,
Make the whole
mountain
to thy roar sound and resound again,
And fiercely toss thy brawny neck that bears the tawny mane!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The column, cloth'd with verrey, still was seen
Unshaken: the
Sacchetti
still were great,
Giouchi, Sifanti, Galli and Barucci,
With them who blush to hear the bushel nam'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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tu centum aut pluris inter dominabere nymphas:
nam centum aut plures flumina nostra tenent;
ne me sperne, precor, tantum, Troiana propago:
munera promissis
uberiora
feres.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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NOTES
Of the many verses from time to time
ascribed
to the pen of Edgar Poe,
and not included among his known writings, the lines entitled "Alone"
have the chief claim to our notice.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Joss seizes her and holds her head
Supporting her beneath her arms, in his;
And then he dared to plant a
monstrous
kiss
Upon her rosy lips,--while Zeno bent
Before the massive chair, and with intent
Her robe disordered as he raised her feet;
Her dainty ankles thus their gaze to meet.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"--
"And dost thou
forgive?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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60
Thy virtue makes not vice of mine,
Unlike, but none the less divine;
Thy toil adorns, not chides, my play;
Nature of sameness is so chary,
With such wild whim the freakish fairy
Picks
presents
for the christening-day.
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James Russell Lowell |
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There's many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine;
There's
Margaret
and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline:
But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say,
So I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
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Tennyson |
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Let us on, by this
tremulous
light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Elvire
No, I
portrayed
indifference to either
Raising or lowering the hopes of neither,
Your eyes neither too gentle nor severe,
Until your father's choice be made clear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Oh may he glean my lips delights unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The
oleanders
"mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--and wheresoe'er you go,
My Galatea, think of me:
Let
lefthand
pie and roving crow
Still leave you free.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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