Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
XLIX “Three times the shape of my dear mother came, Pale, sad, dismayed, to warn me in my, Alas, how far from the same Whose eyes shone erst like Titan’s glorious beam: `Daughter,’ she says, `fly, fly, behold thy dame Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame, Who poison gainst thy harmless life provides:’ This […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
XXXIII Thus passed she, praised, wished, and wondered at, Among the troops who there encamped lay, She smiled for, but well dissembled that, Her greedy eye chose out her wished prey; On all her gestures seeming sat, Toward the imperial tent she asked the way: With that she met a bold and lovesome knight, Lord […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
THE ARGUMENT. Satan his fiends and assembleth all, And sends them forth to work the Christians woe, False Hidraort their aid from hell doth call, And sends Armida to entrap his foe: She tells her birth, her fortune, and her fall, Asks aid, allures and wins the worthies so That they consent her enterprise to […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
LXI “Presages, ah too true:” with that a space He sighed for grief, then said, “Fain would I know The man in red, with such a knightly grace, A worthy lord he seemeth by his show, How like to Godfrey looks he in the face, How like in person! but some-deal more low.” “Baldwin,” quoth […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
XLVI Three times he strove to view Heaven’s golden ray, And raised him on his feeble elbow thrice, And thrice he tumbled on the lowly lay, And three times closed again his dying eyes, He speaks no word, yet makes his signs to pray; He sighs, he faints, he groans, and then he dies; Argantes […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
XXXI The villain flies, he, full of rage and ire, Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both, But yet to follow them showed no desire, To stray so far she would perchance be loth, But quickly turned her, fierce as flaming fire, And on her foes wreaked her anger wroth, On every side she […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
LXXXVI “But if our sins us of his help deprive, Of his high justice let no mercy fall; Yet should our deaths us some contentment give, To die, where Christ received his burial, So might we die, not envying them that live; So would we die, not unrevenged all: Nor Turks, nor Christians, if we […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
LXVI “True labour in the vineyard of thy Lord, Ere prime thou hast the imposed day-work done, What armies conquered, perished with thy sword? What cities sacked? what kingdoms hast thou won? All ears are mazed while tongues thine acts record, Hands quake for fear, all feet for dread do run, And though no realms […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
XLVI “Sir King,” quoth she, “my name Clorinda hight, My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now, I come to try my wonted power and might, And will defend this land, this town, and you, All hard assays esteem I eath and light, Great acts I reach to, to small things I bow, To […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
XXXI Thus spake the nymph, yet spake but to the wind, She could not alter his well-settled thought; O miracle! O strife of wondrous kind! Where love and virtue such contention wrought, Where death the victor had for meed assigned; Their own neglect, each other’s safety sought; But thus the king was more provoked to […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
XXI It was amazement, wonder and delight, Although not love, that moved his cruel sense; “Tell on,” quoth he, “unfold the chance aright, Thy people’s lives I grant for recompense.” Then she, “Behold the faultier here in sight, This hand committed that supposed offence, I took the image, mine that fault, that fact, Mine be […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
XI But when the angry king discovered not What guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought, His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hot Against the Christians, whom he falters thought; All ruth, compassion, mercy he forgot, A staff to beat that dog he long had sought, “Let them all die,” quoth he, “kill great and small, […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
THE ARGUMENT. Ismeno conjures, but his charms are vain; Aladine will kill the Christians in his ire: Sophronia and Olindo would be slain To save the rest, the King grants their desire; Clorinda hears their fact and fortunes plain, Their pardon gets and keeps them from the fire: Argantes, when Aletes’ speeches are Despised, defies […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
LXXXVI “I see,” quoth he, “some expectation vain, In these false Christians, and some new content, Our common loss they trust will be their gain, They laugh, we weep; they joy while we lament; And more, perchance, by treason or by train, To murder us they secretly consent, Or otherwise to work us harm and […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
LXXI Aurora bright her crystal gates unbarred, And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun, When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard, And every one to rouse him fierce begun, Sweet music to each heart for war prepared, The soldiers glad by heaps to harness run; So if with drought endangered be their grain, Poor […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
XXVI “Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won, Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise, By Heaven’s mere grace, not by our prowess done: Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways, If now from that directed course we run The God of Battles thus before us lays, His loving kindness shall we lose, I doubt, And […]
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
THE ARGUMENT. God sends his angel to Tortosa down, Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He mustereth all his host, whose number known, He sends them to the fort that Sion hights; The aged tyrant Juda’s […]
Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
Io v’amo sol perchè voi siete bella, e perchè vuol mia stella, non ch’io speri da voi, dolce mio bene, altro che pene. E se talor gli occhi miei mostrate aver qualche pietate, io non spero da voi del pianger tanto altro che pianto. Nè, perchè udite i miei sospiri ardenti che per voi sprago […]
Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
Io v’amo sol perchè voi siete bella, e perchè vuol mia stella, non ch’io speri da voi, dolce mio bene, altro che pene. E se talor gli occhi miei mostrate aver qualche pietate, io non spero da voi del pianger tanto altro che pianto. Nè, perchè udite i miei sospiri ardenti che per voi sprago […]
Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
Ecco mormorar l’onde, E tremolar le fronde A l’aura mattutina, e gli arboscelli, E sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli Cantar soavemente, E rider l’Oriente; Ecco già l’alba appare, E si specchia nel mare, E rasserena il cielo, E le campagne imperla il dolce gelo, E gli alti monti indora: O bella e vaga […]
Vegetable Swallow by Tristan Tzara
Vegetable Swallow by Tristan Tzara two smiles meet towards the child-wheel of my zeal the bloody baggage of creatures made flesh in physical legends-lives the nimble stags storms cloud over rain falls under the scissors of the dark hairdresser-furiously swimming under the clashing arpeggios in the machine’s sap grass grows around with sharp eyes here […]
To Make A Dadist Poem by Tristan Tzara
To Make A Dadist Poem by Tristan Tzara Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next […]
The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
Salty nights blazed in my homeland, Vietnam, a crimson galaxy, melting. Blood and tears flooded within my tiny universe, While bombs exploded within my wailing soul. Tiny corpuscles, like aimless sailboats, On their way to find peace and freedom, Veins and arteries,like homeless cobras, Weaving from my head to my feet, seeking joy. Crimson stars, […]
The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara
The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara where we live the flowers of the clocks catch fire and the plumes encircle the brightness in the distant sulphur morning the cows lick the salt lilies my son my son let us always shuffle through the colour of the world which looks bluer than […]
Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara
Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara Art is going to sleep for a new world to be born “ART”-parrot word-replaced by DADA, PLESIOSAURUS, or handkerchief The talent THAT CAN BE LEARNED makes the poet a druggist TODAY the criticism of balances no longer challenges with resemblances Hypertrophic painters hyperaes- theticized and hypnotized by the hyacinths […]
Cinema Calendar Of The Abstract Heart; 09 by Tristan Tzara
Cinema Calendar Of The Abstract Heart; 09 by Tristan Tzara the fibres give in to your starry warmth a lamp is called green and sees carefully stepping into a season of fever the wind has swept the rivers’ magic and i’ve perforated the nerve by the clear frozen lake has snapped the sabre but the […]
time by tulip
Time is so unpredictable, Every second, can show you, Something you except at all, Life has many unseen sceans, Which we never thought, That it would come someday, But all we get is, Unexpected always, We imagined a lot, Planned a lot for everyday, But what comes on our hand, Is just running time so […]
The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
Lingering soul, I am between the classics Drowning inside each and every Sound of Music Raindrops, pitter -pattering its footprints Clusters of sound creating a “c-h-o-w” Music Some days these beats of rain control my tears Soaking in my sorrow in hers, accompanying Music Showers of drizzles precipitate, on a sunny day A dancing Rainbow […]
the secrets , we hide by tulip
Lot’s of secrets we kept inside our heart, Divulge the things hidden in our heart, So before it ruins the life you’ve made, Reveal those dark secrets, And the memories which’ll fade, The hidden stories still left untold, But once you tell them to somebody, That makes you feel good, And the questions of our […]
The Tears In Cupid’s Eyes by Tupac Shakur
I The day u chose 2 leave me u rained constantly outside In truth I swore the rain 2 be The tears in Cupid’s eyes II I ran outside 2 feel the rain and I stayed outside awhile when the rain was done along came the sun and this was Cupid’s Smile! ————— The End […]
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared. […]
said, unsaid by tulip
Life is so long to say, Sorry and thank you, Everyday we’ve something To talk about, Everyday we’ve someone to say sorry and thanks, But still their’s lots more left unsaid, From any corner of our heart, Which always used to tease us, Say it, say it now, But our ego came in front, Front […]
Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins
Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins pain used to hurt the words cut me life a knife shame filled my head at night I used to think there was no place to go i searched for a place to hide and bury my thoughts evil lurked around every corner waiting for me to uncover evil […]
Paradise On Earth! by V. Muthu Manickam
The Sun shines as gold, down the west Full moon is on the move, to rise in the east When one gets to set, The other begins to get Birds are settling, into the nest Courteous caress of the breeze, is the best! Sky is colorfully painted Many themes, this has hinted! Stars are peeping […]
Overnight at the Riverside Tower by Tu Fu
Evening colors linger on mountain paths. Out beyond this study perched over River Gate, At the cliff’s edge, frail clouds stay All night. Among waves, a lone, shuddering Moon. As cranes trail off in flight, silent, Wolves snarl over their kill. I brood on Our wars, sleepless here and, to right A relentless Heaven and […]
once i saw a old man’s shop by tulip
When I’m crossing my street, there’s an old man’s shop on the other side, Its so cold and snowy outside there, But he used to make statues everyday, And those statues attracts me always, I felt so amazed, When I’m starring those one, Without blinking my eyes for a while, And a thought comes on […]
On a Prospect of T’ai-shan by Tu Fu
How is one to describe this king of mountains? Throught the whole of Ch’i and Lu one never loses sight of its greenness. In it the Creator has concentrated all that is numinous and beautiful. Its northern and southern slopes divide the dawn from the dark. The layered clouds begin at the climber’s heaving chest, […]
Morning Rain by Tu Fu
A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light. I hear it among treetop leaves before mist Arrives. Soon it sprinkles the soil and, Windblown, follows clouds away. Deepened Colors grace thatch homes for a moment. Flocks and herds of things wild glisten Faintly. Then the scent of musk opens across Half a mountain — and […]
Moonlit Night by Tu Fu
Tonight at Fu-chou, this moon she watches Alone in our room. And my little, far-off Children, too young to understand what keeps me Away, or even remember Chang’an. By now, Her hair will be mist-scented, her jade-white Arms chilled in its clear light. When Will it find us together again, drapes drawn Open, light traced […]
Tu Fu – Tu Fu
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