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Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense To a discerning Eye Much Sense - the starkest Madness Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail Assent - and you are sane Demur - youre straightway dangerous And handled with a Chain -
My Lady
Dante Alighieri
All My Thoughts
Dante Alighieri
Dying to Love
Rumi
Die! Die!
Die in this love!
If you die in this love
your soul will be renewed
Die! Die!
Dont fear the death
of that which is known
If you die to the temporal
you will become timeless
Die! Die!
Cut off those chains
that hold you prisoner
to the world of attachment
Die! Die!
Die to the deathless
and you will be eternal
Die! Die!
and come out of this cloud
When you leave the cloud
you will be in the effulgent moon
Die! Die!
Die to the din and the noise
of mundane concerns
In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life.
Sonnet N64
William Shakespeare
Sonnet N65
William Shakespeare
Sonnet N57
William Shakespeare
Sonnet N97
William Shakespeare
The Lamb
William Blake
Darkness
Lord Byron
Snake Eyes
Amiri Baraka
Aunt Helen
T.S. Eliot
Geronition
T.S. Eliot
Geronition
Geronition
Geronition
Geronition
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
Body of a Woman
Pablo Neruda
and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to
the sky.
You are here. Oh you do not run away.
You will answer me to the last cry.
Cling to me as though you were frightened.
Even so, at one time a strange shadow ran through your
eyes.
Now, now too, little one, you bring me honey suckle,
and even your breasts smell of it.
While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies
I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.
How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all
running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing
our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwind in turning fans.
My words rained over you, stroking you.
If I Were Loved
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos-Eaters
Choric Song
There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dews on still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Here are cool mosses deep,
And thro' the moss the ivies creep,
And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,
And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?
All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown:
Nor ever fold our wings,
And cease from wanderings,
Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm;
Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
"There is no joy but calm!
Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?
The Lotos-Eaters
The Lotos-Eaters
The Lotos-Eaters
The Lotos-Eaters
.The Lotos-Eaters
The Lotos-Eaters
Ode on Melancholy
John Keats
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale