Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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I must confess that the Emperor
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surprising
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_First Pocket Edition June_ 1907
_Reprinted
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CONTENTS
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The Merovingian or
Frankish
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Since then no
armistice
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's
lordliest
pageants!
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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_al-bi_,
compound
verb, 189 n.
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Explain the
allegory
in ix.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What a storm of
emotions
keen
Raged round him and of balked desire!
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Very far, very far, right at the
furthest
end of the dome of
heaven.
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Aristophanes |
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Roused by the hounds' and hunters' mingling cries,
The savage from his leafy shelter flies;
With fiery glare his
sanguine
eye-balls shine,
And bristles high impale his horrid chine.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Baudelaire habitait dans l'ile Saint-Louis, sur le quai d'Anjou, en ce
vieil et triste hotel Pimodan plein de
souvenirs
somptueux et
nostalgiques.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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THE TALKING OAK
First published in 1842, and republished in all subsequent
editions
with
only two slight alterations: in line 113 a mere variant in spelling, and
in line 185, where in place of the present reading the editions between
1842 and 1848 read, "For, ah!
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I have no
objection
to lose the
money, but I will not have any such profile in my possession.
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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And so the Three Kings rode into the West,
Through the dusk of night, over hill and dell,
And
sometimes
they nodded with beard on breast
And sometimes talked, as they paused to rest,
With the people they met at some wayside well.
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Longfellow |
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Still through the ivy flits the bee
Where Amaryllis lies in state;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Wilde - Poems |
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LVII
When she in other writing had displaid
How she had freed that passage from the foe,
To
mournful
Flordelice the martial maid,
She that still held her weeping visage low,
Turned her, and courteously that lady prayed
To tell her whither she designed to go.
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A fountain tosses itself up at
the blue sky, and through the spattered water in the basin he can see
copper carp, lazily
floating
among cold leaves.
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& his
deciples
in-to al ?
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Neighbor East, come over West;
Pledge me in good wine and words
While I count my hundred herds,
Sum the substance of my Past
From the first unto the last,
Chanting
o'er the generous brim
Cloudy memories yet more dim,
Ghostly rhymes of Norsemen pale
Staring by old Bjoerne's sail,
Strains more noble of that night
Worn Columbus saw his Light,
Psalms of still more heavenly tone,
How the Mayflower tossed alone,
Olden tale and later song
Of the Patriot's love and wrong,
Grandsire's ballad, nurse's hymn --
Chanting o'er the sparkling brim
Till I shall from first to last
Sum the substance of my Past.
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[Sidenote D: Through many a mire he goes, that he may
celebrate
the birth
of Christ.
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And layeth oer the hylls a muddie soft;
So Harold ranne upon his
Normanne
foes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It is
mentioned
in Fletcher's _Wild Goose Chase_ 2.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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LXXXII
Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon,
With purple shadows on the silver grass,
And the warm south-wind on the curving sea,
While we two, lovers past all turmoil now,
Watch from the window the white sails come in, 5
Bearing what unknown
ventures
safe to port!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--for thee I gave,
And thy
inebriating
wave
Full many a foolish prank brought forth;
And oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Confused with
_caract_
= Character.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[And fixed as yonder orb divine,
That saw thy
bannered
blaze unfurled,
Shall thy proud stars resplendent shine,
The guard and glory of the world.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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They were
published
separately in 1635.
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Byron |
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Here, instead of hard realism with all its hideous details, the
more
picturesque
beliefs and traditions are used for purely imaginative
and poetical purposes.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be
satisfactorily
rendered into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In that Faery Queene I mean _Glory_ in my generall
intention: but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious
person of our soveraine the Queene, and her
kingdome
in Faery land.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'
Full heavy hung the
draggled
gown he wore;
His hair flew all awry.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He comes and hears--they let the
strongest
loose.
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John Clare |
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Not Fannius' self more
impudently
near,
When half his nose is in his Prince's ear.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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let not English women drag their flight
Fainting
beneath the burthen of their babes,
Of the sweet infants, that but yesterday
Laughed at the breast!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"If that be so," she
straight
replied,
"Each heart with each doth coincide.
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Lewis Carroll |
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He
captured
the wild mountain goats.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I am Dimitry, I
tsarevich!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your
laughter
at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We'll hear nae mair lilting at the ewe-milking;
Women and bairns are
heartless
and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning--
The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
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Golden Treasury |
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For not alone by men of dignity
Thy worship is performed and precious laud;
But by the mouths of children,
gracious
God!
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Arrived there,
That bare-head knight for dread and
dolefull
teene,
Would faine have fled, ne durst approchen neare, 305
But th' other forst him stay, and comforted in feare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But, if Persuasion's grace be sacred to thee,
Soft in the
soothing
accents of my tongue,
Tarry, I pray thee; yet, if go thou wilt,
Not rightfully wilt thou on this my town
Sway down the scale that beareth wrath and teen
Or wasting plague upon this folk.
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Aeschylus |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Take these too," so says she, "my child,
to be
memorials
to thee of my hands, and testify long hence the love of
Andromache wife of Hector.
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He
exercised
a
considerable influence over certain of its leaders, notably
Mirabeau and Sieyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The statue by Saint Gaudens was
unveiled
in New York in
1903.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Dans mon coeur
plaintif
est entree;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De demons, vins, folle et paree,
De mon esprit humilie
Faire ton lit et ton domaine.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Slowly, silently we wandered
From the open cottage door,
Underneath
the elm's long branches
To the pavement bending o'er;
Underneath the mossy willow
And the dying sycamore.
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Poe - 5 |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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IN EANDEM BEGINS
SU£CL£
TRANS-
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the passion of thy soul,
And seek, instead,
acquittance
from thy pangs!
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Aeschylus |
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Nay,
treacherous
image!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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I have no need, Eurymachus, of guides 440
To lead me hence, for I have eyes and ears,
The use of both my feet, and of a mind
In no respect
irrational
or wild.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Pitholeon
sends to me: "You know his Grace,
I want a patron; ask him for a place.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--Yes, a
stranger
verily!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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However, do not let me mislead you:
I am not a man in that
situation
of life, which, as your subscriber, can
be of any consequence to you, in the eyes of those to whom SITUATION OF
LIFE ALONE is the criterion of MAN.
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Robert Burns |
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TO
MISTRESS
AMY POTTER.
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Robert Herrick |
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Bourget
classified
him as
mystic, libertine, and analyst.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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II
Its boughs, which none but darers trod,
A child may step on from the sod,
And twigs that
earliest
met the dawn
Are lit the last upon the lawn.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Miss
seems very well pleased with my bardship's distinguishing her, and
after some slight qualms, which I could easily mark, she sets the
titter round at defiance, and kindly allows me to keep my hold; and
when parted by the ceremony of my
introduction
to Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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I have
no formed design in all this; but just, in the
nakedness
of my heart,
write you down a mere matter-of-fact story.
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Robert Forst |
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Ouvrez votre narine aux superbes
nausees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thus speaketh one
Ferdinand
in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Poe - 5 |
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Faltered
the column, spent with shot and sword;
Its bright hope blanched with sudden pallor;
While Hancock's trefoil bloomed in triple fame.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_It was included in the
Collected
Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the
orchards
--
And they the daffodils!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O now it seems to me it is talking to its
children!
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Whitman |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our
children
will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
And
therefore
cannot have the hearts to do it.
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Shakespeare |
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could my sighs in accents flow
So
musically
lorn,
That thou might'st catch my am'rous woe,
And cease, proud Maid!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All gone except their saint's religious hops,
Which he kept up with more than common flourish;
But these, however
satisfying
crops
For the inner man, were not enough to nourish
The body politic, which quickly drops
Reserve in such sad junctures, and turns currish; 230
So Ahmed soon got cursed for all the famine
Where'er the popular voice could edge a damn in.
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The
contrast
between
it and the cave in _Laon and Cythna_ suggests a contrast between the
mind looking outward upon men and things and the mind looking inward
upon itself, which may or may not have been in Shelley's mind, but
certainly helps, with one knows not how many other dim meanings, to
give the poem mystery and shadow.
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Yeats |
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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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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I would be heartily out of humour with myself
if I thought I were capable of having so poor a notion of the sex,
which were designed to crown the
pleasures
of society.
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Robert Burns |
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When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that
consoles
me.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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It must not be forgotten, that the
poet, who would produce any thing truly excellent in the kind, must
bid farewell to the conversation of his friends; he must renounce, not
only the
pleasures
of Rome, but also the duties of social life; he
must retire from the world; as the poets say, "to groves and grottos
every muse's son.
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Tacitus |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Here one black, mute
midsummer
night I sat
Lonely, but musing on thee, wondering where,
Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing,
And once or twice I spake thy name aloud.
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Tennyson |
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No Orphic rune, no
Thracian
scroll,
Hath magic to avert the morrow;
No healing all those medicines brave
Apollo to the Asclepiad gave;
Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl
Of man's wide sorrow.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Greedy and grim, no golden rings
he gives for his pride; the
promised
future
forgets he and spurns, with all God has sent him,
Wonder-Wielder, of wealth and fame.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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