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Translations from the medieval text including the material used by Carl Orff in his scenic cantata.

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‘O Fortuna’ – CB17 O Fortuna ‘Fortune plango vulnera – CB16 From Fortune’s wound I’m weeping where ‘Veris leta facies’ – CB138 Now the happy face of spring ‘Omnia sol temperat’ – CB136 Sunlight warms all the fields ‘Ecce gratum’ – CB143 Now, the pleasing ‘Floret silva nobilis’ – CB149 The lordly woods are all ablaze ‘Chramer, gip die varwe mier’ - From CB16* Pedlar, give to me some rouge ‘Swaz hie gat umbe’ - CB167a Those who are dancing ‘Chume, chume, geselle min’ - CB 174a Come, come, oh love of mine, ‘Uvere div werlt alle min’ – CB145a Were the whole world mine ‘Estuans intrinsicus’ – CB191 Burning, here inside, ‘Olim lacus colueram’ – CB 130 Once the lakes I swam upon, ‘Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis’ – CB222 The Abbot of Cockaigne I am, and this ‘In taberna quando sumus’ – CB196 When we’re in the tavern there, ‘Amor volat undique’ – CB87 Love rules all things, ‘Doleo, quod nimium’ – CB118 I mourn the vast extent ‘Stetit Puella’ – CB177 And there the girl stood, ‘O mi dilectissima!’ – CB180 Oh, all my supreme delight! ‘Si puer cum puellula’ – CB183 If a lad and his sweet lover ‘Veni, veni, veni...

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A selection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire including poems from Alcools, Vitam Impendere Amori, and The Bestiary complete with the Raoul Dufy woodcuts....

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The Mirabeau Bridge Twilight Clotilde The White Snow The Farewell Acrobats The Bells The Gypsy The Sign One Evening Moonlight Autumn Ill Hotels Hunting Horns Vitam Impendere Amori The Bestiary: or Orpheus’s Procession Apollinaire’s Notes to the Bestiary Index of First Lines...

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Poems by Jan De Raeymaeker

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Grave talk ------------ Don't talk of graves at your tender age Not until your rickety rack is a trembling wreck Till your white-film eyes are all but blind And your toothless head is utterly deaf Until each day blinks and the world is a ghost Till you're grimly emaciated, decrepitly thin Mind overthrown, no recollection of anything Wait until the wake’s wet tears have tried to dry Till living memory is pickled in uisce beatha All pain shrieked out to a hellish banshee rattle Don't talk to me of graves until you're long gone Till clods are covering your coffin-wearing bones And a lyre plucked to softly lament your soul Until the headstone has reached weak anonymity Till its lichen-eaten rock cracks and drops Lengths of grass coiling tight in a strangling coif Don't talk to me of graves at my slender age ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Doubt 5 Dark-sheen skin 6 Rebuke 7 Bird Bomb 8 Oak leaf 9 Grave talk 10 Tempest 11 The vagabond 12 Split-ends 13 Mince 14 Canvas 15 Delivery Mick 16 Dessert? 17 Dublin 18 Immigrating 19 John, 93 20 Leeuwstraat lady 21 A (close) Green 22 Type 24 Bath 25 November, the beat 26 Man molests Molly 28 Met Winter 29 Lights out 30 Opening wine 31 Setting sights 32 A Luas cums into the Green 33 Chimney-pot puff 34 Malin head 35 Hunting happiness 36 The joke 37 Mundane tourist 38 B&B 39 Street dance 40 Stephens Green 41 T...

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From collections preceding The Gypsy Ballads.

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Weather Vane New Songs The Footsteps of la Siguiriya Cellar Song Juan Breva Earth Berceuse for a Mirror sleeping Variation (From Remansos) Running Towards River Bend Flash of Light Madrigals The Garden Print of the Garden II Song of the Boy with Seven Hearts The Dune Schematic Nocturne Little Song of Seville Adelina Walking By Lover Venus Two Moons of Evening Lucía Martínez Little Song of First Desire Prelude Index of First Lines...

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Twenty-Four Poems in verse translation.

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In Paris ‘I know the truth! Renounce all others!’ ‘Why such tenderness?’ ‘Here, in my Moscow – cupolas gleaming!’ Insomnia (4) ‘To kiss the brow – eases anxiety.’ Psyche Dying, I’ll not say: ‘I was’. ‘Enraptured, and enraptured,’ ‘Go, find yourself naïve lovers, they’ Wires (1) ‘What shall I do, a stepchild and blind,’ Dialogue between Hamlet and his Conscience ‘You who loved me with the falsity’ Attempted Jealousy To Boris Pasternak Conversation with a Genius ‘Cut veins: irrecoverably’ Homesickness Elderberry ‘Thinking of something, carelessly,’ ‘When I watch the flight of leaves,’ ‘Walking, you’re just like me,’ ‘For my poems, written so young,’ Index by First Line...

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An experimental narrative of one individuals' subconscious. Beginning while the protagonist sleeps; the initial episodes trace his actions/perceptions subsequent to his awaking and walking upon a beach, at which point he once again falls asleep. The remainder of the novel is a narration of his subconscious imagination....

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Episodes I-X: Episode I- 2 Episode II- 5 Episode III- 8 Episode IV- 28 Episode V- 48 Episode VI- 51 Episode VII- 55 Episode VIII- 61 Episode IX- 63 Episode X- 66...

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The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy, and the origins of Rome.

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Book I The Trojans Reach Carthage Book II The Fall of Troy Book III The Trojans Sail for Italy Book IV The Tragedy of Dido Book V The Funeral Games Book VI The Visit to the Underworld Book VII War in Latium Book VIII The Site of Rome Book IX The Siege Book X The Relief and Battle Book XI Councils of War Book XII The Death of Turnus...

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Twenty-five poems of Paul Celan.

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Your Hand Corona Death-Fugue Count The Almonds In Front of a Candle There Was Earth With Every Thought Ice, Eden Psalm Alchemical Mandorla Afternoon Of Circus And Citadel To Stand in the Shadow When You Lie On my Right I Can Still See You Illegibility Whorish Other-When I Hear With the Voice Stuttered-Over-Again World Only When Little Night The Trumpet-Part The Poles Index of First Lines...

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His Lyrics in Greek Meters in four books in a new English translation.

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The Satires Satires: Book I Satire I - On Discontent Satires: Book I Satire II – On Extremism Satires: Book I Satire III – On Tolerance Satires: Book I Satire IV – A Defence of Satire Satires: Book I Satire V – Journey to Brundisium Satires: Book I Satire VI – On Ambition Satires: Book I Satire VII – A Battle of Wits Satires: Book I Satire VIII – Priapus and the Witches Satires: Book I Satire IX – A Nuisance Satires: Book I Satire X – On Satire Satires: Book II Satire I – On Satire Again Satires: Book II Satire II – The Simple Life Satires: Book II Satire III – On Human Folly Satires: Book II Satire IV – The Art of Good Living Satires: Book II Satire V – Legacy Hunting Satires: Book II Satire VI – Town versus Country Satires: Book II Satire VII – Of Spiritual Freedom Satires: Book II Satire VIII – A Dinner Party The Epistles Epistles: Book I Epistle I – Introduction – To Maecenas Epistles: Book I Epistle II – Of Right Living – To Lollius Maximus Epistles: Book I Epistle III – Pursue Philosopy – To Julius Florius Epistles: Book I Epistle IV – Carpe Diem – To Albius Tibullus Epistles: Book I Epistle V – A Dinn...

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...A cycle of poems of yes and no, rumors of life dancing on this islet sphere riding the blind career of outward motion. These rhymes are threnodies and hosannas among nurseries and crypts, hummings to fright hants habiting dingy trails through a wilderness, attempts to stay awhile this side the lichgate by becoming a gossip for the ineffable. They are a literary aesthetic concerning the quicksilver bric-a-brac on the shelves of this what-not of becoming, a naming of smoke, a grasping at echoes, that I might hide in posterity's pocket another day, another night, beyond the terrible hunger of the past's insatiable forgetting. They are wild habits of reluctance. ...

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Poetry about child abuse, domestic violence and the cover up of these by social workers and police and the secret family court.

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in all my life i never expected what happened next pray that you and your children are never subject to social workers ..................................... Introduction Specific to Book2 of the series. Should we discuss tragedy and the bad things that do happen in life ? No, we should not dwell on it or make it our entertainment. Yes, we should know it, how it occurred and how we can prevent it. My life has had such profound joys and beauty, that part of me says it is only natural that life should also have had the dark side in all of its menace........... and so the menace came....

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Item Title 1 General Introduction 2 Introduction to Book 2 3 Index Warning. Abuse & Violence On Children by their Mother On Children and adults by Social Workers Beware of triggering. Note Poem numbers start from where they stopped in the last book in this series. Poem123 My Little Boy Is Taught To Fear His Mum Again. Poem124 My Little Boy Is Assaulted By His Mum Again Poem125 Ken’s Slime In Your Pants Poem126 Ken’s Triumph. Poem127 Protecting My Children Poem128 Don’t Hate The Child Poem129 How A Toxic Mother Poisons Her Child. Poem130 SS Only Tick Boxes Poem131 Abusive Authorities Poem132 Abusive Authorities 2. Poem133 A Policeman Assumes Poem134 Agitated: Should the victim be agitated ? Poem135 Golf Ball Stories Poem136 Fear For My Children Poem137 I Despair Without My Children Poem138 Callous Cankers Of Mankind Poem139 Fretting For My Children Poem140 The Struggle With Suicide Poem141 The First Judgement Poem142 The Sentencing Poem143 Probation The ...

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An extensive selection of his major poems.

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‘One time more, my love, the net of light extinguishes’ The Wide Ocean ‘Unclothed, you are true, like one of your hands’ Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks ‘The light that climbs from your feet to your hair,’ ‘Leave me a place underground,’ ‘I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, topaz,’ ‘Lost in the woods I snapped off a dark branch’ ‘March days return with their covert light’ Poetry ‘Who ever desired each other as we do?’ Enigmas Ode to a Naked Beauty ‘In the wave-strike over unquiet stones’ ‘I can write the saddest lines tonight’ ‘Leaning into the afternoon’ The Eighth of September ‘Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.’ ‘Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,’ ‘The tree is here, still, in pure stone’ Your hands Enigma with Flower ‘I like you calm, as if you were absent’ ‘Tie your heart at night to mine, love,’ ‘You will recall the gorge of capricious waters’ ‘Oh love, oh mad light-beam, threat of violet’ ‘For you to hear me....’ El Lago de los Cisnes ‘From the archipelago you have hair of larch fibres,’ ‘The little girl made of timber didn’t arrive by walking:’ Walking Around ‘No...

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Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale.

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I Recall Your Smile To Rest In The Shade Evil, I’ve Often Encountered The Hope Even Of Seeing You Again Happiness Is Achieved Walking Thus To Rest In The Shade Perhaps One Morning Walking Day And Night The House By The Sea Another Effect Of The Moon Fresh Stanzas Near Vienna The Well Bagni di Lucca The Repertoire Dora Markus The Shadow Of The Magnolia Hitlerian Spring News From Mount Amiata Little Testament Index of First Lines...

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Selected Poems from the French early to mid-20th century including poems by Apollinaire, Supervielle, Breton, Tzara, Eluard, Artaud, Aragon, Desnos, Prévert, Ponge, Char, and others....

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Introduction Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Autumn Crocuses (Les colchiques) Merlin and the Old Crone (Merlin et la vieille femme) Autumn (Automne) Diseased Autumn (Automne malade) Engagements (Les fiançailles) Always (Toujours) Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) The Wake (Le sillage) High Seas (Haute mer) I Dream of You… (Je vous rêve…) You Disappear (Vous disparaissez) Regretting the Earth (Le regret de la terre) Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) Orion Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) Nomad (Nomade) Corridor (Couloir) Live, Flesh (Chair vivre) Pierre-Jean Jouve (1887-1976) To Himself (A soi-même) We Have Astonished… (Nous avons étonne…) André Breton (1896-1966) Free Union (L’Union libre) Vigilance (Vigilence) No Proof (Non-lieu) On the Road to San Romano (Sur la route de San Romano) Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) Sports Goods (Articles de sport) Life-Saving Medal (Médaille de sauvetage) Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) The Death of Apollinaire (La Mort de Guillaume Apollinaire) Way (Voie) Volt (Volt) Poem for a Dress (Poème pour une robe de Madame Sonia Delaunay) Paul Eluard (1895-1952) ‘The arc of your eyes…’ (La...

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From L'Olive augmentée, Les Regrets, and others.

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Translator’s Introduction D'un vanneur de blé aux vents To you, fleeting things, ‘La nuit froide et sombre’ The night cold and sombre ‘Quand ton col de couleur rose’ When your neck like a rose Sonnets from L’Olive augmentée ‘Je ne quiers pas la fameuse couronne,’ For that famous crown I feel no longing, ‘D'amour, de grace, et de haulte valeur’ With love, with grace and with noble value ‘Loyre fameux, qui ta petite source’ Famed Loire, who swell your little source ‘Me soit amour ou rude, ou favorable,’ Whether love is harsh to me or favourable, ‘Or’ que la nuit son char etoilé guide’ Now that Night her starry chariot plies, ‘Que n’es-tu las (mon desir) de tant suyvre’ Are you not weary (my desire) of following, ‘Déjà la nuit en son parc amassoit’ Already night has gathered in her train ‘Dieu qui reçois en ton giron humide’ River-god who receives in your humid flow, ‘Ny par les bois les Driades courantes,’ Not Dryads running lightly through the trees, ‘S'il a dict vray, seiche pour moy l'ombrage’ If he spoke true, then parch for me the shade ‘Esprit divin, que la troupe honnorée,’ Spirit divine, whom the h...

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All these poems and drawings are royalty free and can be copied used printed and distributed, scrawled on walls, danced to and generally treated as if they were something to be enjoyed rather than just scary poetry....

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The complete poems of Tibullus and of Sulpicia, the only known woman whose writings are preserved to this day.

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Tibullus Book I: Delia I. The True Life II. A Plea to Delia III. Illness In Phaecia IV The Love of Boys V The Separation VI Faithlessness VII Messalla’s Triumph VIII Marathus In Love With Pholoe IX Treacherous Love X Make Peace Not War Tibullus Book II: Nemesis I The Country Festival (The Ambarvalia) II Cornutus’s Birthday III Nemesis In The Country IV Her Greed V Messalinus As Custodian of the Sybilline Books VI Love’s Compulsion Sulpicia’s Garland I Sulpicia on the First of March II Cerinthus Hunting III A Prayer For Sulpicia In Her Illness IV Cerinthus’s Birthday V Sulpicia’s Birthday Sulpicia’s Verses I Love Proclaimed II The Hateful Journey III The Journey Abandoned IV Her Reproach V In Sickness VI Her Apology Index of First Lines...

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Seventy-three poems in translation.

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Resignation Nevermore After Three Years Wish Lassitude My Familiar Dream Parisian Sketch Twilight of a Mystical Evening Dusk The Nightingale Woman And Cat Song Of The Artless Ones Serenade Claire De LunePantomime Out Walking The Innocents Her Retinue The Sea-Shells Puppets Cythera Aboard The Faun Mandoline To Clymène Columbine Cupid Overthrown Muted Sentimental Conversation In Her Dress…. Before You Leave, Pale… The Moon, White… A Saint In His Aureole…. Home, The Lamp’s Circumscribed Glow I Was Almost Afraid…. The Noise From Bars…. Is It Not So?…. It’s Languorous Ecstasy It Rains In My Heart… You See We Need… The Piano Kissed… Oh Sad, Sad… Through Interminable Land… The Shadow of Trees… Walcourt Charleroi Brussels: Wooden Horses Mechelen I See You, Still… Green Spleen A Poor Young Shepherd Streets – Dansons La Gigue! Streets – O La Rivière Dans La Rue! Beauty Of Women…. No. It was Gallican…. Hear The Sweetest Song…. I Came, Calm, An Orphan…. The Sky’s Above The Roof…. Sadness, The Bodily Weariness… Pierrot Poetic Art Languor Circumspection To Madame X… Parsifal Evening...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Voiceless Banners Blowing Purify Your Mind Beautiful Attachment Baths All The Creatures Golden Grass Intricate Structure, Strange Lives Not Easy, Not Careless Kyoto Three Ways For the Spirit Moonlit Walk It’s A Long Time Now Every CreatureCultivars How Do You Climb? The Opposite of Deadly Going Quietly, Harming Nothing The Colour Blue Whose Idea Were Cities? Big Snow Mountain Ten Billion Splinters Fragile By Starlight Dancing in the Eye of Night Seeing It Near Benares (Or Elsewhere) What Are You Saying? Before the Felling It Freely Works Without Us Matter Is Spirit: Both Are Process Our Power Is Silence Not Platonist Rehearse Infinity No Fuss, No Claims The Reverse Side In Flight Low Slopes There’s a Way Near Conjunction Inanimate: Not Dead This Afternoon Tryst. The City Mad Clouds Infinitely Free The Island Ice-Burning Perverse Thoughts About Communication Every New Freedom. Where We Are Going The Warm Eye of Deer All Gone, Weak Each of Us Fails in Our Own Way Not All Articulate, or All-Flowing Sound-Waves in the Night Delight is Best Letting the Objects Breathe Is It Poetry? ...

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The poems of the Canti below are complete but not in their originally published order. I have taken the liberty of re-arranging them into four groups, Personal (Poems 1-11), Philosophical (12-24), ‘Romantic’ (25-34), and Political (35-41). These categories are not exact, as Leopardi frequently blends elements together in the one poem, but they may help the reader, as they helped me, to adjust to his variations in style. The original published position of each poem is given in Roman numerals in the brackets following the poem’s title....

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1. To Silvia (XXI) 2. The Infinite (XII) 3. The Evening Of The Holiday (XIII) 4. To the Moon (XIV) 5. Saturday Night In The Village (XXV) 6. To Himself (XXVIII) 7. Night-Song Of A Wandering Shepherd of Asia (XXIII) 8. First Love (X) 9. The Solitary Bird (XI) 10. Imitation (XXXV) 11. Scherzo (XXXVI) 12. Moon-Set (XXXII) 13. Wild Broom (XXXIV) 14. The Calm After The Storm (XXIV) 15. Masterful Thought (XXVI) 16. Love And Death (XXVII) 17. Bas-Relief On An Ancient Tomb (XXX) 18. On A Lovely Lady’s Image (XXX1) 19. To Spring (or Of The Ancient Myths) (VII) 20. Hymn To The Patriarchs (VIII) 21. Sappho’s Last Song (IX) 22. To Count Carlo Pepoli (XIX) 23. Fragment (From Simonides I: XL) 24. Fragment (From Simonides II:XLI) 25. The Dream (XV) 26. The Solitary Life (XVI) 27. To His Lady (XVIII) 28. Memories (XXII) 29. The Re-awakening (Il Risorgimento: XX) 30. Consalvo (XVII) 31. Aspasia (XXIX) 32. Fragment (Alcetas and Melissus: XXXVII) 33. Fragment (Separation: XXXVIII) 34. Fragment (Turned to Stone: XXXIX) 35. To Italy (I) 36. On the Proposed Dante Monument in Florence (II) 37. To Angelo Mai (III) 38. F...

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A selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's essential poems. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher. His Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798 with co-author William Wordsworth, marked the beginning for all intents and purposes of English Romanticism and included “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Other notable poems include "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," “Christabel” and “Kubla Khan.” Volume 2 in The Reader's Library Series, ISBN: 978-1-932023-44-2. https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then rea...

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Contents Introduction Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon A Mathematical Problem To the Rev. George Coleridge I II III IV Sonnet: On Quitting School for College Sonnet: To the River Otter On a Discovery Made Too Late The Eolian Harp Lines in the Manner of Spenser Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796 Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son Sonnet: To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Argument Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogue Frost at Midnight Kubla Khan Fears in Solitude The Nightingale The Wanderings of Cain Prefatory Note The Wanderings of Cain The Devil's Thoughts I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII Christabel Preface Part I Part II Dejection: An Ode [Written April 4, 1802] I II III IV V VI VII VIII The Language of Birds T...

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A collection of short prose essays.

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CULTURAL NEWS1 (short prose poem) I queue up at the entry of art. queue for meat, queue for bread (Hurraaah Hurrah How fine is our life!) And I watch how someone builds their tomb in eternity. We beseech you to sit down each as far as possible in literature, we are announced by the hoarse interphone. -No, thanks. I prefer standing up, I find myself answering unquestioned. -But do come, please, come. the poetry is waiting for you - says the interphone, then to me: -Enough, there is no place left, get out....

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About Florentin Smarandache again, by Ion Rotaru 5 Introduction to the Kingdom of Error 9 A few features of the NonExistentialism 10 A common 13 Cultural actuality (short prose - poem) 14 How not to ascend to the High NonSociety 15 News 19 Portrait 20 1st letter of Uncle Vasile the political refugee 21 2nd letter of Uncle Vasile the political refugee 23 3rd letter 25 The letter of Mircea the King-size 26 Leitmotif (short prose without action, without conflict, without subject) 27 Hopes 30 Recollections of which I don’t wish to remember 33 Defect writings (short prose - essay) 35 Introduction in Gibberish 38 Curriculum Vitae 49 The typewriter 50 Landscape with dreams 51 The heroic day of an ordinary man 53 Savu of Lentza 56 Gallant affairs 58 Little history of love (critique short prose) 60 Divorce 62 Uncle Gheorghe’s amazing deeds 64 Genealogy 67 At the swimming place 69 Characterize the character Vitoria Lipan in the novel “The hatchet” 70 RRS 73 Cupboard-which-can-hold-many-people-and-runs-alone-on-railways 74 Shakespeare Alexandru and Beethoven Nicolae 75 Diploma (juridical short prose) 77 Ahmed...

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A meticulously edited edition of John Keats’ verse collecting all of his poems sans his two long verse plays. Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795. He dedicated his short life to the creation of poetry characterized by its sensuous and vivid imagery, classical themes, technical mastery and sincere and authentic emotional tenor. He died tragically young in 1821 of tuberculosis, a disease that had plagued his life since he took a walking tour of the Lake District in 1818. Volume 5 in The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-47-3 https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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Ode to a Nightingale I My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,     But being too happy in thine happiness,—         That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,             In some melodious plot     Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,         Singest of summer in full-throated ease.   II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been     Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green,     Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South,     Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,         With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,             And purple-stained mouth;     That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,         And with thee fade away into the forest dim:   III Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget     What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret     Here, where men sit and hear each ...

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Contents Introduction Imitation of Spencer On Peace On Death Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’ Restoration, on Hearing Bells Ringing Song: Stay, Ruby Breasted Warbler, Stay Fill for Me a Brimming Bowl As from the Darkening Gloom a Silver Dove To Lord Byron To Chatterton Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison To Hope Ode to Apollo To Some Ladies On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies To Emma Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain Sonnet to Solitude Epistle to George Felton Mathew To —— (Had I a Man's Fair Form...) To —— (Hadst Thou Liv'd in Days of Old...) I Am As Brisk Women, Wine, and Snuff Specimen of an Induction to a Poem Calidore To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's Eve To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses Happy Is England! I Could Be Content To My Brother George Epistle to My Brother George Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time! On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp’ring Here and There On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hou...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Sweetly in the Silence For – March Wind Cascades Life The Being Part Discipline Barely Respite Out West One Mind Making Small-Scale Communion Covenant Nothing but Love Encounter Poetry, Charity White Mare Too Many People Age of Images Climbing in Spirit on Endless Hills Thoughts of Genji Entanglment Dream Little Words for Tao Ch’ien Sleeping Nowhere Wavering The Only One Viewing Burne-Jones’ Perseus Series No More Keep It Fluid Scale Scrap-Yard Diatribe In the Gallery Dimensionless A High Singing East-West, All Over Earth Murasaki Small Hours Mysterious Minds Of Light But Your Reality Star-Flower Self-Admonition Subterranean Rivers Out Over Strangest Flower Fecit Deep in the Long Grass Lullaby The Joy-Givers How Wholly How Little Time Is Plants and Stone Altitude Simple Fires Coitu True Notes Deer Trails White Bamboo I White Bamboo II Not For Sale Celebrate Considering Tao for Beginners Delta Only One The Task of Art Mountain Sighing Sign for the Human Race A Toast to Monsieur Mallarmé Solitude, My Beauty Dark Main ‘In the interstices of your spirit’ Intimacie...

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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which left him deformed and of small stature never growing past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope flourished in English society and was likely its first professional literary writer having garnered significant income from the sales of books to the public as opposed to traditional patronages, capitalizing mostly on his excellent translations of Homer and an edited edition of Shakespeare. A close friend of Jonathan Swift in their famous Scriblerus Club, he was quite famous in his time, and while his reputation declined in the 19th century, he is now considered the most canonical poet of his era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most...

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from "Essay on Criticism" “Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But of the two less dangerous is th’ offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense: Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.     ’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic’s share; Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their wit, ’tis true, But are not Critics to their judgment too? “    Yet if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sens...

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Introduction Ode on Solitude A Paraphrase (On Thomas à Kempis) To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio The First Book of Statius’s Thebais Imitation of Chaucer Imitation of Spenser: The Alley Imitation of Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Imitation of Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design Imitation of Abraham Cowley: The Garden Imitation of Abraham Cowley: Weeping Imitation of Earl of Rochester: On Silence Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Artemisia Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Phryne Imitation of Dr. Swift: The Happy Life of a Country Parson Pastorals I. Spring; or, Damon II. Summer; or, Alexis III. Autumn; or, Hylas and Ægon IV. Winter; or, Daphne Windsor Forest Paraphrases from Chaucer January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale The Wife of Bath The Temple of Fame Translations from Ovid Sappho to Phaon The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona An Essay on Criticism Part I Part II Part III Ode for Music on St. Cecilia’s Day Argus The Balance of Europe The Translator On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Opera-Singer Epistle to Mrs. Blount, with the Works of Voiture Adriani Morientis Ad Animam Epistle to M...

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course of his life expanding and rewriting it until the year of his death, appeared in 1855. This volume represents the final edition, commonly referred to as the “deathbed” edition, and comes with a prefatory note from Whitman asserting that this is the version he most considered full and complete. While it was a commercial and critical failure during Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES OF GRASS takes the individual and a young American democracy as its themes and illustrates them with a long-lined cadence Whitman coined his “barbaric yawp” along with all the details that constitute them, a few ...

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O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;                     Here Captain! dear father!                          This arm beneath your head!                               It is some dream that on the deck,                                    You’ve fallen cold and dead.   My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed...

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Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd O Hymen! O Hymenee! I Am He that Aches with Love Native Moments Once I Pass'd through a Populous City I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ Facing West from California's Shores As Adam Early in the Morning CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For Y...