"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky."
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"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
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"So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart."
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"Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart."
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"I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. ... You have been mine before, How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall - I knew it all of yore. Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, And day and night yield one delight once more"
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"Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell."
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"You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore."
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"It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived."
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"The sea hath no king but God alone."
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"Places that are empty of you are empty of life."
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"The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!"
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"Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still hurts me. Love which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet"
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"Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn."
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"If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie."
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"I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem"
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"Your eyes smile peace."
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"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."
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"Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore."
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"Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are."
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"Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass."
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