The sense of the world is short,Long and various the report,—To love and be beloved;Men and gods have not outlearned it,And how oft soe’er they’ve turned it,‘Tis not to be…
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Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes Blown by black players upon a picnic day.…
When I am dying, let me knowThat I loved the blowing snow Although it stung like whips;That I loved all lovely thingsAnd I tried to take their stings With ***…
Star, that gives a gracious dole, What am I to choose?Oh, will it be a shriven soul, Or little buckled shoes? Shall I wish a wedding-ring, Bright and thin and round,Or plead you…
Part I On either side the river lieLong fields of barley and of rye,That clothe the wold and meet the sky;And thro’ the field the road runs by;;;; To many-tower’d…
Here is the ancient floor,Footworn and hollowed and thin,Here was the former doorWhere the dead feet walked in. She sat here in her chair,Smiling into the fire;He who played stood…
Two doves upon the selfsame branch, Two lilies on a single stem,Two butterflies upon one flower:– O happy they who look on them. Who look upon them hand in hand Flushed in the…
Canta en la ***** del pinoun pajaro detenido,tremulo, sobre su trino.Se yergue, flecha, en la rama,se desvanece entre alasy en musica se derrama.El pajaro es una astillaque canta y se…
“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles…
And how sweet a story it isWhen you hear Charley Parkertell it,Either on records or at sessions,Or at offical bits in clubs,Shots in the arm for the wallet,Gleefully he Whistled…
If you come as softlyAs the wind within the treesYou may hear what I hearSee what sorrow sees. If you come as lightlyAs threading dewI will take you gladlyNor ask…
A child need not be very cleverTo learn that “Later, dear” means “Never.”
Safe upon the solid rock the **** houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,The mist in my face,When the snows begin, and the blasts denoteI am nearing the place,The power of the night, the press of…
Batter my heart, three-personed ***; for youAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bendYour force to break, blow, burn,…
Since there is no escape, since at the end My body will be utterly destroyed,This hand I love as I have loved a friend, This body I tended, wept with…
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,Of thee, from the hill-top looking down;And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm,Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm;The sexton tolling…
The Lotos-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”In the afternoon they came unto a landIn which it…
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his ***** once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven.…
You are brief and frail and blue– Little sisters, I am, too.You are Heaven’s masterpieces– Little loves, the likeness ceases.
A bird sings the selfsame song, With never a fault in its flow,That we listened to here those longLong years ago. A pleasing marvel is howA strain of such rapturous…
Caminas adentro de ti mismo y el tenue reflejo serpeante que te conduce no es la ultima mirada de tus ojos al cerrarse ni es el sol timido…
Winter is cold-hearted, Spring is yea and nay,Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way:Summer days for me When every leaf is on its tree; When Robin’s not a beggar,;;And Jenny Wren’s a bride,And…
He thought he saw an Elephant,That practised on a fife:He looked again, and found it wasA letter from his wife.‘At length I realise,’ he said,The bitterness of Life!’ He thought…
