The tasteof rain—Why kneel?
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The splendour falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in glory.Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,Blow,…
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing Where the starlike sea gulls soar;The sun was keen and the foam was blowing High on the rocky shore.But now in…
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,And so do I;When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,And nestlings fly;And the little brown nightingale bills his best,And they sit outside at ‘The Traveller’s…
I What’s become of WaringSince he gave us all the slip,Chose land-travel or seafaring,Boots and chest, or staff and scrip,Rather than pace up and downAny longer London-town? Who’d have guessed…
My spirit wails for water, water now! My tongue is aching dry, my throat is hot For water, fresh rain shaken from a bough, Or dawn dews heavy in some…
Beneath this slabJohn Brown is stowed.He watched the adsAnd not the road.
White with daisies and red with sorrel And empty, empty under the sky!—Life is a quest and love a quarrel— Here is a place for me to lie. Daisies spring from ******…
By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair: But all night as the moon so changeth she; Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy,And subtle serpents gliding in her hair.By day she wooes…
Back of my back, they talk of me, Gabble and honk and hiss;Let them batten, and let them be– Me, I can sing them this: “Better to shiver beneath the stars, Head on…
Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,Its summer blossoms…
Perhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.To learn to be silentlike the oak and the linden of the fable.To learn to see.Your glance scattered seeds.It planted a…
Give me truths,For I am weary of the surfaces,And die of inanition. If I knewOnly the herbs and simples of the wood,Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain, and pimpernel,Blue-vetch, and trillium, hawkweed,…
How I wonder what you’re at!’You know the song, perhaps?” “I’ve heard something like it,” said Alice. “It goes on, you know,” the Hatter continued,“in this way: — — ‘Up…
The black unicorn is greedy. The black unicorn is impatient. ‘The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symboland takenthrough a cold country where mist painted mockeries of my…
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:“Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!”Then sware…
I shall gather myself into myself again,I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ballWhere I can see the moon and…
‘Tryna get to sunny Californy’ –Boom. It’s the awful raincoatmaking me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot in a rueful coat, how can they understand my damp…
When I set out for Lyonnesse,A hundred miles away,The rime was on the spray,And starlight lit my lonesomenessWhen I set out for LyonnesseA hundred miles away. What would bechance at…
At first you’ll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of the hills that softly flow Gracefully falling down a shining…
Oh my black soul! now art thou summonedBy sickness, death’s herald, and champion;Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath doneTreason, and durst not turn to whence he is fled;Or…
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow:What are brief? today and tomorrow:What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:What are deep ? the ocean and truth.
I. Let’s contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep:All be as before, Love, —Only sleep! II. What so wild as words are? I and thouIn debate, as birds are, Hawk on bough! III. See…
One way to be very happy is to be very richFor then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch.And yet at the same time People…
