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La Conscience
© Victor Marie Hugo
Lorsque avec ses enfants vêtus de peaux de bêtes,Echevelé, livide au milieu des tempêtes,Caïn se fut enfui de devant Jéhovah,Comme le soir tombait, l'homme sombre arrivaAu bas d'une montagne en une grande plaine;Sa femme fatiguée et ses fils hors d'haleineLui dirent: "Couchons-nous sur la terre, et dormons
Ecrit sur la vitre d'une fenêtre Flamande
© Victor Marie Hugo
J'aime le carillon dans tes cités antiques,O vieux pays gardien de tes mœurs domestiques,Noble Flandre où le nord se réchauffe engourdiAu soleil de Castille et s'accouple au midi!Le carillon, c'est l'heure inattendue et folleQue l'œil croit voir, vêtue en danseuse espagnole,Apparaître soudain par le trou vif et clairQue ferait en s'ouvrant une porte de l'air
Demain, dès l'aube
© Victor Marie Hugo
Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne,Je partirai
The Wood-mouse
© Howitt Mary
D' ye know the little Wood-Mouse, That pretty little thing,That sits among the forest leaves, Beside the forest spring?
The Sparrow's Nest
© Howitt Mary
Nay, only look what I have found!A Sparrow's nest upon the ground;A Sparrow's nest as you may see,Blown out of yonder old elm tree.
The Fossil Elephant
© Howitt Mary
The earth is old! Six thousand years, Are gone since I had birth;In the forests of the olden time, And the solitudes of earth.
Unmanifest Destiny
© Hovey Richard
To what new fates, my country, far And unforeseen of foe or friend,Beneath what unexpected star, Compelled to what unchosen end,
America
© Hovey Richard
We came to birth in battle; when we pass,It shall be to the thunder of the drums
Stone, Steel, Dominions Pass (XXIV)
© Alfred Edward Housman
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder.So leave alone the grass That I am under.All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever;Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
A Shropshire Lad LXII: "Terence, this is stupid stuff
© Alfred Edward Housman
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:You eat your victuals fast enough;There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,To see the rate you drink your beer
Here Dead Lie We because We did not Choose (XXXVI)
© Alfred Edward Housman
Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung.Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.
Absence, Hear thou my Protestation
© John Moses Hoskyns
Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance and length:Do what thou canst for alteration; For hearts of truest mettle Absence doth join, and time doth settle.
Three Kings of Orient
© Hopkins Jr. John Henry
We Three Kings of Orient are,Bearing gifts we traverse afar, Field and fountain, Moor and mountain,Following yonder Star.
The Wreck of the Deutschland (Dec. 6, 7, 1875)
© Gerard Manley Hopkins
[[A-text]]to the happy memory of five Francisan nuns,exiles by the Falck Laws, drowned betweenmidnight & morning of December 7 [[1875]].
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
© Gerard Manley Hopkins
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows
flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-Built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs
they throng; they glitter in marches.Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash,
wherever an elm arches,Shivelights and shadowtackle ín long
