literary
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there came a messenger once
there came a messenger oncein august it wasearly september late in the afternoonhis horsesweat lathered and panting he rodethrough the archway to the frontdoors the heavy oak doors to our priviledgehe brought instruction for besserercharles’ armies had occupiedstuttgart it was pillaged and burnedulm was taxed into destitution and submissionwhen others of his classmates here had… Continue reading
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from denmark hamlet brought silver
from denmark hamlet brought silverspeciedalers and croninand so he paid to wear the black robeand the recognition from the towns’ folkthat he was a student hereso he paid for admissioninto these corridors of ignorance and revelationadmission to these classroomswhere both daydreams and fascinations werebrought to the tablefor me he boughtmemories of how he kneltat his… Continue reading
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instructed
instructedin my first hourhere by the danish kingto share his chamber with mehis meals and his clothing his booksi possessed nothing and hamlethe was his father’s desired sonthe student favouredby the dean of philosophyalberti who instructed himto show me the townto be a host to me Continue reading
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tomorrow
when the shadows of short boys stretchlong on the cobble stones of collegien strasse when they stretch toward the westand toward town square tomorrow early showthis erasmus the way to the market Continue reading
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he’s new to wittenberg
he’s new to wittenbergthis erasmus who arrivedyesterday in the afternoonone of a companywho sat on horsesin the street before the universityhis father an anton from torgaulast night enrolledhis son in the faculty of law Continue reading
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my father delivered me from
my father delivered me fromthose accusations that pursued me in romefrom the trials thatawaited me in my future from my refusals to recant or renounce from the tortures from my executionmine was the face of a boy thenbefore beard growth and bare as a woman’sfather starched away and chalkedthe dark of my southern complexionmy familiarity… Continue reading
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after she’d heard an ale wife’s curse
after she’d heard an ale wife’s cursehad caused a neighbor’s house to burn in an hourin which all the villagers harvested in a fieldcarolin’s grandmother began to breedthe black out of her constable cats thatpatrolled to and fro before the granaryapprehended the vagabond and robber ratstried them in a trial of playthe mouse that escaped… Continue reading
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spring was arranged on a handcart
spring was arranged on a handcartover a road ruttedby plough wheels rolledout of one of schonburg’svillages that are near neighbors to the towna young peasant’s wifepulled her cart out of winterflax spun into thread and wound around spindles and flax woven into shirts into wimples and bonnetswool woven into doublets and tunicsthe itch woven into… Continue reading
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the crown of elsinore is a wooden floor
the crown of elsinore is a wooden flooras fortinbras still wearselsinore like he wears the diademof denmark on his headand on his finger the gold bandthat weds him to the queen of norwayas he wears what he wearsto appear kingit’s those planks over which i once walkedon which for two nights i stoodwith the guardsmen… Continue reading
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once upon a dawn i wandered out of wittenberg
once upon a dawn i wandered out of wittenbergit was windless the early autumn morningnothing blew and nothing was blownthe sun still silvered the night’s dew on the sodi waited for the watchman to swing open the gatethe road there is narrow as a cartthe road that ends at schonburg’s manorhouseit passes through a peasant… Continue reading
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