Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Canto XVI

And before hell mouth; dry plainand two mountains;On the one mountain, a running form,and anotherIn the turn of the hill; in hard steelThe road like..

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Canto Xlv

With UsuraWith usura hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fittingthat design might cover their face,with usurahath no man..

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To Êáëüí (Greek Title)

Even in my dreams you have denied yourself to meAnd sent me only your handmaids.

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - Viii

Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate womanOr an ornamental death will be held to your debit,The time is come, the air heaves in torridity,The dry..

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Translations And Adaptations From Heine

FROM ‘DIE HEIMKEHR'IIs your hate, then, of such measure?Do you, truly, so detest me?Through all the world will I complainOf how you have addressed..

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Old Idea Of Choan By Rosoriu

IThe narrow streets cut into the wide highway at Choan,Dark oxen, white horses,drag on the seven coaches with outriders.The coaches are perfumed..

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - X

.Light, light of my eyes, at an exceeding late hour I was wandering,And intoxicated,and no servant was leading me,And a minute crowd of small boys..

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Homage To Quintus Septimus Florentis Christianus

I(Ex libris Graecæ)Theodorus will be pleased at my death,And .someone else will be pleased at the death of Theodoras,And yet everyone speaks evil of..

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - Vii

Me happy, night, night full of brightness;Oh couch made happy by iny long delectations;How many words talked out with abundant candles;Struggles when..

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Of Jacopo Del Sellaio

This man knew out the secret ways of love,No man could paint such things who did not know.And now she's gone, who was his Cyprian,And you are here..

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Satiemus

What if I know thy speeches word by word?And if thou knew'st I knew them wouldst thou speak?What if I know thy speeches word by word,And all the time..

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Paracelsus In Excelsis

‘Being no longer human, why should IPretend humanity or don the frail attire?Men have I known and men, but never oneWas grown so free an essence, or..

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - Vi

When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids,Moving naked over AcheronUpon the one raft, victor and conquered together,Marius and Jugurtha..

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - Ix

1The twisted rhombs ceased their clamour of accompaniment;The scorched laurel lay in the fire-dust;The moon still declined to descend out of..

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Her Monument, The Image Cut Thereon

FROM THE ITALIAN OF LEOPARDISuch wast thou,Who art nowBut buried dust and rusted skeleton.Above the bones and mire,Motionless, placed in vain,Mute..

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Marvoil

A poor clerk I, 'Arnaut the less' they call me,And because I have small mind to sitDay long, long day cooped on a stoolA-jumbling o' figures for..

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Song Of The Six Hundred M.P.'s

‘We are 'ere met togetherin this momentous hower,Ter lick th' bankers' dirty bootsan' keep the Bank in power.’We are 'ere met togetherter grind the..

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Phyllidula

Phyllidula is scrawny but amorous,Thus have the gods awarded her,That in pleasure she receives more than she can give;If she does not count this..

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Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku

The red and green kingfishersflash between the orchids and clover,One bird casts its gleam on another.Green vines hang through the high forest,They..

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Dieu! Qu'Il La Fait

FROM CHARLES D'ORLEANSGod! that mad'st her well regard her,How she is so fair and bonny;For the great charms that are upon herReady are all folks to..

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ßìýñññù (Greek Title)

Thy soulGrown delicate with satieties,Atthis.O Atthis,I long for thy lips.I long for thy narrow breasts,Thou restless, ungathered.

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M. Pom-Pom

M. Pom-POM allait en guerrePer vendere cannoniMon beau grand frèreNe peut plus voirPer vendere cannoni.M. Pom-POM est au sénatPer vendere cannoniPour..

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Horae Beatae Inscripto

How will this beauty, when I am far hence,Sweep back upon me and engulf my mind!How will these hours, when we twain are gray,Turned in their sapphire..

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - Xi

1The harsh acts of your levity!Many and many.I am hung here, a scare-crow for lovers.2Escape! There is, O Idiot, no escape,Flee if you like into..

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Prayer For His Lady’s Life

FROM PROPERTIUS, ELEGIAE, LIB. III, 26Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.So many thousand..

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