Stanzas on the Rhine (excerpted from Childe Harold
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Spottlied auf Napoleons R
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Katharina von Frankreich
(Als der schwarze Prinz um sie warb)
by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)
Man sollt ihm Maine und Anjou
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Solitude
by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest, who can unconcern
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Vita Nuova
by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I stood by the unvintageable sea
Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray,
The long red fires of the dying day
Burned in the west; the wind piped drearily;
And to the land the clamorous gulls did flee:
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Give Me a Lass with a Lump of Land
by Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
Gi
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Autumn Song
by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Now
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Indian Summer
by John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
No more the battle or the chase
The phantom tribes pursue,
But each in its accustomed place
The Autumn hails anew:
And still from solemn councils set
On every hill and plain,
The smoke of many a calumet
Ascends to heaven again.
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Mortality
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887)
Ye dainty mosses, lichens gray,
Pressed each to each in tender fold,
And peacefully thus, day by day,
Returning to their mould;
Brown leaves, that with aerial grace
Slip from your branch like birds a-wing,
Each leaving in the appointed place
Its bud of future [...]
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Die Lorelei
by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Ich wei
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