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Renée Crevel
(1900-1935)
Nuit
Doucement pour dormir à l’ombre de l’oubli
ce soir
je tuerai les rôdeurs
silencieux danseurs
de la nuit
et dont les pieds de velours noir
sont un supplice à ma chair nue
un supplice doux comme l’aile des chauves-souris
et subtil à porter l’effroi
dans les coins où la peau se fait craintive, émue
pour mieux aimer, pour avoir peur
d’un autre corps et du froid.
Mais quel fleuve pour fuir ce soir ô ma raison ?
C’est l’heure des mauvais garçons
L’heure des mauvais voyous.
Deux grands yeux d’ombre dans la nuit
seraient pour moi si doux, si doux.
Prisonnier des tristes saisons
Je suis seul, un beau crime à lui
là-bas, là-bas à l’horizon
quelque serpent peut-être et glacé de n’aimer point.
Mais où coule, où coule au loin
Le fleuve dont on a besoin
pour fuir ce soir la raison ?
Sur les berges vont les filles
leurs yeux sont las, leurs cheveux brillent.
Je ne sais rien dire à ces filles
dont ils sont
les mauvais garçons
dont ils sont
les fiers maquignons.
Je suis seul, un beau crime à lui.
Deux grands yeux d’ombre dans la nuit
seraient pour moi si doux, si doux.
C’est l’heure des mauvais voyous.
Renée Crevel poetry
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William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
THE SONNETS
118
Like as to make our appetite more keen
With eager compounds we our palate urge,
As to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.
Even so being full of your ne’er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
And sick of welfare found a kind of meetness,
To be diseased ere that there was true needing.
Thus policy in love t’ anticipate
The ills that were not, grew to faults assured,
And brought to medicine a healthful state
Which rank of goodness would by ill be cured.
But thence I learn and find the lesson true,
Drugs poison him that so feil sick of you.
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1 MARCH 2012
WORLD BOOK DAY
World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.
This is the 15th year there’s been a World Book Day, and on 1st March children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading. Very loudly and very happily. The main aim of World Book Day in the UK and Ireland is to encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and reading by providing them with the opportunity to have a book of their own. That’s why we will be sending schools (including those nurseries and secondary schools that have specially registered to participate), packs of Book Tokens and age-ranged World Book Day Resource Packs (age-ranged into Nursery/Pre-School, Primary and Secondary) full of ideas and activities, display material and more information about how to get involved in World Book Day.
More information on website World Book Day
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