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Taedium Vitae
2023-12-06Taedium VitaeTo stab my youth with desperate knives, to wearThis paltry age's gaudy livery,To let each base hand filch my treasury,To mesh my soul...
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From Spring Days To Winter (For Music)
2023-12-06From Spring Days To Winter (For Music)In the glad springtime when leaves were green,O merrily the throstle sings!I sought, amid the tangled sheen,Love...
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Tristitiae
2023-12-06TristitiaeO well for him who lives at easeWith garnered gold in wide domain,Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,The crashing down of forest trees.O we...
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The True Knowledge
2023-12-06The True KnowledgeThou knowest all; I seek in vainWhat lands to till or sow with seed -The land is black with briar and weed,Nor cares for falling tea...
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Under The Balcony
2023-12-06Under The BalconyO beautiful star with the crimson mouth!O moon with the brows of gold!Rise up, rise up, from the odorous south!And light for my love ...
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The Harlot's House
2023-12-06The Harlot's HouseWe caught the tread of dancing feet,We loitered down the moonlit street,And stopped beneath the harlot's house.Inside, above...
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With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates'
2023-12-06With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates'Go, little book,To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl,Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl:An...
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Roses And Rue
2023-12-06Roses And Rue(To L. L.)Could we dig up this long-buried treasure,Were it worth the pleasure,We never could learn love's song,We are parted too lon...
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Desespoir
2023-12-06DesespoirThe seasons send their ruin as they go,For in the spring the narciss shows its headNor withers till the rose has flamed to red,And in the aut...
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The Sphinx
2023-12-06The Sphinx(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration)In a dim corner of my room for longer thanmy fancy thinksA beautiful and silent Sphinx has...