'Twill murmur on a
thousand
years
And flow as now it flows.
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Golden Treasury |
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Fool was I to dream
It ever could be
otherwise!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The fear of me is the
conscience
of the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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distributed
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Aeschylus |
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Over him years had no power; he was not changed, but transfigured;
He had become to her heart as one who is dead, and not absent;
Patience and abnegation of self, and
devotion
to others,
This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her.
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Longfellow |
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[Sidenote: When in the circus you
satisfied
the expectant
multitude with a triumphal largess?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XXIX
Approaching nearer and yet nearer, now
He fronts the weeping warrior, face to face,
Greets with a brother's love, and stooping low,
His neck
encircles
with a fast embrace.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"They cast me living in a dreary tomb,
Never mine eyes saw
sunlight
pierce the gloom,
Only ye, brother angels, used to sweep
Down from your heaven, and visit me in sleep.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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of Ulysses seems
Passing magnificent, and to be known
With ease for his among a
thousand
more.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_It's rais'd, to be the Raisers
instrument
and food.
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John Donne |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And if so be it happe thee
That thou thy love ther mayst see,
In siker wyse thou hir salewe, 2525
Wherwith thy colour wol transmewe,
And eke thy blood shal al to-quake,
Thyn hewe eek
chaungen
for hir sake.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hesitated so
This side the
victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE
CONTENTS
OF THIS VOLUME.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--
Our noonday path over the
sanguine
foam _505
Was beaconed,--and the glare struck the sun pale,--
By our consuming transports: the fierce light
Made all the shadows of our sails blood-red,
And every countenance blank.
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Shelley |
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Scarcely has any
modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect:
the magic, in a continuous glow saturating the
substance
of every
picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then,
beauteous
niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Countess
Cathleen must not be disturbed.
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Yeats |
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conceyued
in hys
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Two men
drinking
together where mountain flowers grow:
One cup, one cup, and again one cup.
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Li Po |
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The Kiss
I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a
stricken
bird
That cannot reach the south.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O something
ecstatic
and undemonstrable!
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Whitman |
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They objected to his way of
conducting
the services.
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Yeats |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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e
souereyne
good q{uo}d she ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So Luther thought the
Paternoster
long,
When doomed to say his beads and even-song;
But having cast his cowl, and left those laws,
Adds to Christ's prayer, the Power and Glory clause.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I remember
The first time ever Caesar put it on;
'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,
That day he
overcame
the Nervii.
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Shakespeare |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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My Lord, I have seen your
unfortunate
son
Dragged by the horses nourished by his hand.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Fathers of the City,
They sat all night and day,
For every hour some
horseman
come
With tidings of dismay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In the
evenings they often talked of Margaret--Sherman frankly and carefully,
as though in all anxiety to
describe
her as she was; and Howard with
some enthusiasm: 'She has a religious vocation,' he said once, with a
slight sigh.
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Yeats |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The order of God's creatures in
themselves is not only admirable and glorious, but eloquent: then he who
could apprehend the
consequence
of things in their truth, and utter his
apprehensions as truly, were the best writer or speaker.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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es are
Silent
petitions
?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly
because there are fit
incidents
for song which no poet has fitly
sung as yet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For great and popular
men feign
themselves
to be servants to others to make those slaves to
them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your
blandishment?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Quand, lave des odeurs du jour, le jardinet
Derriere la maison, en hiver s'illunait,
Gisant au pied d'un mur, enterre dans la marne
Et pour des visions ecrasant son oeil darne,
Il
ecoutait
grouiller les galeux espaliers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For
example an eBook of
filename
10234 would be found at:
http://www.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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(1)
Pronounced
Breedon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And yet
methinks
was ne'er in any wood,
So wild a denizen, by night or day,
As she whom thus I blame in shade and sun:
Me night's first sleep o'ercomes not, nor the dawn,
For though in mortal coil I tread the earth,
My firm and fond desire is from the stars.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Nor does this seem far from true, since his
surrender
followed
in a few days' time.
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Tacitus |
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Wherefore again, again, since seeds of things
Exist by nature, nor were wrought with hands
After a fixed pattern of one other,
They needs must flitter to and fro with shapes
In types
dissimilar
to one another.
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Lucretius |
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Thou huntest taverns while she works for life;
But
necessary
'tis for her to act,
When thou art out, or naught would be exact.
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La Fontaine |
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High in the air the tree its boughs display'd,
And o'er the dungeon cast a
dreadful
shade;
All unsustain'd between the wave and sky,
Beneath my feet the whirling billows fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers,
Unless she tapped time with her feet,
Or squeezed it with her fingers;
Her clear
unstudied
notes were sweet
As many a practised singer's.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And a gold comb, and girdle,
And
trinkets
of white silver,
And gems are in my sea-chest,
Lest poor and empty-handed
Thy lover should return.
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Sappho |
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She had expected to find the young officer there, but
she felt
relieved
to see that he was not.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There is in it a literal spell, not
acting along any logical lines, not attacking the nerves, not terrifying,
not intoxicating, but like a slow,
enveloping
mist, which blots out the
real world, and leaves us unchilled by any "airs from heaven or blasts from
hell," but in the native air of some middle region.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Even in your infancy I prophesied and
foretold
your future.
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What is my future? |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_
[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In flint and marble beats a heart,
The kind Earth takes her children's part,
The green lane is the school-boy's friend,
Low leaves his quarrel apprehend,
The fresh ground loves his top and ball,
The air rings jocund to his call,
The
brimming
brook invites a leap,
He dives the hollow, climbs the steep.
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Emerson - Poems |
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SPIRITUAL LAWS
The living Heaven thy prayers respect,
House at once and architect,
Quarrying man's
rejected
hours,
Builds therewith eternal towers;
Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;
Forging, through swart arms of Offence,
The silver seat of Innocence.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"Tell me, was Werther
authentic?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Yes, all "await the inevitable hour;"
The
downward
journey all one day must tread.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To fair and dance
parading!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Whole rocks on rocks with yron joynd surveie,
And okes with okes
entremed
disponed lie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Weniger gut würde
Roth, Grün und Blau passen; das
gemischte
Violett würde
bei dieser Auswahl schlechter werden, als das gemischte Blau
bei der ersteren.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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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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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But it is
not in such passages that what
Apollonius
did for epic abides.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And when his pockets, chafing through the case,
Wore it quite out ere others took the place,
Right loath to be of company bereft
He kept the
fragments
while a bit was left.
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John Clare |
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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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Chanson de Roland |
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Am I the envy of your
blissful
bowers?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Its
business
office is located at
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Such music (as 'tis said)
Before was never made
But when of old the sons of morning sung,
While the Creator great
His constellations set
And the well-balanced world on hinges hung;
And cast the dark
foundations
deep,
And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
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Golden Treasury |
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The harshness died
Within me, and my heart
Was caught and fluttered like the
palpitant
heart
Of a brown quail, flying
To the call of her blind sister,
And death, in the spring night.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Cunningham may be right, but the change is unnecessary if
we
consider
Manly's reproof as occasioned by Fitzdottrel's
interruption.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ei misero frater adempte mihi,
ei misero fratri
iucundum
lumen ademptum,
tecum una tota est nostra sepulta domus,
omnia tecum una perierunt gaudia nostra,
quae tuus in uita dulcis alebat amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Cucumber vines grow
entwining
about this primeval lingam,
Cracking it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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their
miseries
seem so much to please 'em,
I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Explain
yourself
my man!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis flambent aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les serpents ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre atmosphere s'eleve un theatre
Que construisit le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui
incantent
l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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In this poem he regrets that he is
obliged to go on an official journey, leaving his
mistress
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capital.
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The very metropolis of this lyric
realm was
Mitylene
of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples,
the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue
sea, Beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms
to fluency.
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And the three
faithful
Maries, overwhelmed
By this great sorrow, kneeling, praying weeping!
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They are well done to, when
Love of a man their beings like a loom
Seizes, and the loose ends of purposes
Into one
beautiful
desire weaves.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ey wollde for no need
Com to gedur in
Flesschely
ded.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh,
housewife
in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Enter_
IDENSTEIN
_and_ FRITZ _in conversation_.
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Byron |
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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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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
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Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep,
Tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-trees
Bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk
Sweat with rich amber, and the screech-owl vie
In singing with the swan: let Tityrus
Be Orpheus, Orpheus in the forest-glade,
Arion 'mid his
dolphins
on the deep.
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Where, from above, the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run:
And, as it works, th'
industrious
bee
Computes its time as well as we.
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Golden Treasury |
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quid datur a diuis felici
optatius
hora?
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Among the shrouds the seamen sit and sing,
And wanton boys on every rope do cling :
Old Neptune springs the tides, and waters lent,
(The Gods
themselves
do help the provident)
And where the deep keel on the shallow cleave?
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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