Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee Or quiet sea-flower moulded by the sea, Or simplest growth of meadow-sweet or sorrel.
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I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.Algernon Charles Swinburne
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the winds feet shine along the sea.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His days work and his nights work are undone And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
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