RESERVOIR POEMS

Psalm

1

Be silent with me, as all bells are silent!

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Ingeborg Bachmann

Christmas Eve

I

Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
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Robert Browning

Of Life To Own'

1294

Of Life to own-
From Life to draw-
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Emily Dickinson

Sisina

Imaginez Diane en galant équipage,
Parcourant les forêts ou battant les halliers,
Cheveux et gorge au vent, s'enivrant de tapage,
Superbe et défiant les meilleurs cavaliers!
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Charles Baudelaire

Le Corbeau

Sérapion, abbé des onze monastères
D'Arsinoë, soumis aux trois règles austères,
Sous Valens, empereur des pays d'Orient,
Un soir, se promenait, méditant et priant,
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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

Life In Nature

Life grows not more nor less; it is but force
And only changes;
Expended here, it takes another course,
And ever ranges
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Arthur Weir

Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 09

One of the devotees of Mount Lebanon, whose piety was famed in the Arab country and his miracles well known, entered the cathedral mosque of Damascus and was performing his purificatory ablution on the edge

of a tank when his feet slipped and he fell into the reservoir but saved himself with great trouble. After the congregation had finished their prayers, one of his companions said: â??I have a difficulty.â?? He asked: â??What is it?â?? He continued: â??I remember that the sheikh walked on the surface of the African sea without his feet getting wetted and today he nearly perished in this paltry water which is not deeper than a manâ??s stature. What reason is there in this?â?? The sheikh drooped his head into the bosom of meditation and said after a long pause: â??Hast thou not heard that the prince of the world, Muhammad the chosen, upon whom be the benediction of Allah and peace, has said: I have time with Allah during which no cherubim nor inspired prophet is equal to me?â?? But he did not say that such was always the case. The time alluded to was when Gabriel or Michael inspired him whilst on other occasions he was satisfied with the society of Hafsah and Zainab. The visions of the righteous one are between brilliancy and obscurity.

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Saadi Shirazi

Once It Was The Colour Of Saying

Once it was the colour of saying
Soaked my table the uglier side of a hill
With a capsized field where a school sat still
And a black and white patch of girls grew playing;
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Dylan Thomas

Le Massacre De Mona

Or, Mona, du milieu de la mer rude et haute,
Dressait rigidement les granits de sa côte,
Qui, massifs et baignés d'écume et pleins de bruit,
Brisaient l'eau furieuse en gerbes dans la nuit,
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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

Franciscae Meae Laudes (praises Of My Francesca)

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Charles Baudelaire

Sed Non Satiata (unslakeable Lust)

Bizarre déité, brune comme les nuits,
Au parfum mélangé de musc et de havane,
Oeuvre de quelque obi, le Faust de la savane,
Sorcière au flanc d'ébène, enfant des noirs minuits,
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Charles Baudelaire

Antony Villa

Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,
With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in the gardens:
They are gentlemen and ladiesâ??theyâ??ve been â??toffsâ?? for generations,
But old Vardenâ??s been unluckyâ??lost a lot in speculations.
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Henry Lawson

À L'italie

C'est la marque et la loi du monde périssable
Que rien de grand n'assied, avec tranquillité,
Sur un faîte éternel sa fortune immuable.

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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

Le Dernier Des Maourys

C'était un soir du monde austral océanique.
Écarlate, à demi baigné des flots dormants,
Le soleil flagellait de ses rayonnements
Les longues houles d'or de la Mer Pacifique.
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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

The Johnstown Disaster, 1889

Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,
And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;
The swollen streams now empty their contents in the lake,
The waters rise to kiss the skies and walls of granite shake.
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Joseph Horatio Chant

The Task. Book Ii. The Timepiece

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
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William Cowper

The Cable Car

The Haitian effect of stars
grinds the blue firmament
like a cable car by night.
transfixing energy.
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Paul Cameron Brown

Moral Essays. Epistle Iii.[20] - To Allen Lord Bathurst

ARGUMENT.

OF THE USE OF RICHES.

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Alexander Pope

Carnival And Lent

Jungle, the cave
human reservoir & cistern ... .
quagmire and bog, but no alpine meadow,
fairest glance of goodness in
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Paul Cameron Brown

Sketch Of The First Act Of A New Romantic Drama

"And now," quoth the goddess, in accents jocose,
"Having got good materials, I'll brew such a dose
"Of Double X mischief as, mortals shall say,
"They've not known its equal for many a long day."
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Thomas Moore

Yours

The way that you make me yours is so special that I do not know how to explain it
We are so united through the things that we are doing that we can make a reservoir for the things that we are feeling deep inside and learn how to understand each other
It takes a lot to learn how to understand where we cannot pin point what the decision will make if we decide together
The way that we are so induced to focusing makes us prone to understanding why we are cursed into thinking that something is wrong
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Reatlegile Marumolwa

The Hire

"Corn's high this year," chirped the old woman, almost with a cackle. "All's the better for them to hide in," the old woman was continuing, her face a brazen mixture of distain and contempt.

"These come to the house, late model cars, too, and just wait. Lord if I knows what for," her voice trailing off, reedy, almost water besotted much as the likeness of an old boot, the colour of her wrinkled skin.

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Paul Cameron Brown