Au Lecteur
by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
La sottise, l
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To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
by Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
Uncessant Minutes, whilst you move you tell
The time that tells our life, which though it run
Never so fast or far, your new begun
Short steps shall overtake; for though life well
May scape his own Account, it shall not yours,
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love;
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
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A Ballad of Death
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
(because today
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A Ballad of Life
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers,
Full of sweet trees and colour of glad grass,
In midst whereof there was
A lady clothed like summer with sweet hours.
Her beauty, fervent as a fiery moon,
Made my blood burn and [...]
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Song
by Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)
All my heart is stirring lightly
Like dim violets winter-bound,
Quickening as they feel the brightly
Glowing sunlight underground.
Yea, this drear and silent bosom,
Hushed as snow-hid grove but now,
Breaketh into leaf and blossom
Like a gleaming vernal bough.
Oh the singing, [...]
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Love (I)
by George Herbert (1593-1633)
Immortall love, authour of this great frame,
Sprung from that beautie which can never fade;
How hath man parcel
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A House
by John Squire (1882-1958)
Now very quietly, and rather mournfully,
In clouds of hyacinth the sun retires,
And all the stubble-fields that were so warm to him
Keep but in memory their borrowed fires.
And I, the traveller, break, still unsatisfied,
From that faint exquisite celestial strand,
And turn and see again [...]
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