Love’s Usury (John Donne Poems)
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead, ...
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name, So in a voice, so in ...
He is stark mad, who ever says, That he hath been in love an hour, Yet not that love so ...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere -- And even when the Snow ...
Experiment escorts us last -- His pungent company Will not allow an Axiom An Opportunity (Emily Dickinson)
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
When was the beginning, in the fertilising, in the flower, or was it deeper, in the earth beneath? No end ...
They'll always tell a story those obscure mementos stacked on dusty shelves, demure and silent like the other gaudy tributes ...
It was my life in fast review, initially at double speed until I learned which functions scrolled the images on ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
I suppose you could call me heartless as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn, the damp wood too ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
"You are old, Father william," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly ...
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
If you have nothing to say keep silent let Ezra Pound speak from the shadows the splendid old man from ...
God give the yellow man an easy breeze at blossom time. Grant his eager, slanting eyes to cover every land ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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