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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (3)
2023-12-06RONDEL STRENGTHEN, my Love, this castle of my heart, And with some store of pleasure give me aid, For Jealousy, with all them of his part, Strong sieg...
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (2)
2023-12-06SPRING THE year has changed his mantle cold Of wind, of rain, of bitter air； And he goes clad in cloth of gold, Of laughing suns and season fair； No b...
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1)
2023-12-06BALLADS The originals of the French folk-songs here translated are to be found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de Nerval, and in the...
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A Hymn to God the Father
2023-12-06WILT Thou forgive that sin where I begun Which was my sin though it were done before？ Wilt Thou forgive that sin through which I run And do run still ...
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Ode on Melancholy
2023-12-06NO no！ go not to Lethe neither twist Wolf's-bane tight-rooted for its poisonous wine； Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kist By nightshade ruby g...
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From the Arabic
2023-12-06MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks my love； It panted for thee like the hind at noon For the brooks my love. Thy barb whose hoofs o...
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Music when soft voices die
2023-12-06MUSIC when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory； Odours when sweet violets sicken Live within the sense they quicken； Rose leaves when the rose is d...
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The Poet's Dream
2023-12-06ON a Poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept； Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses But feeds on the aerial...
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Ode to the West Wind
2023-12-06O WILD West Wind thou breath of Autumn's being— Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fle...
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To the Moon
2023-12-06ART thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth — And...