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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When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fill the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.Algernon Charles Swinburne
But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end.
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Sleep and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet give thanks thou hast no more to live And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
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There lived a singer in France of old; By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold; There shone one woman, and none but she.
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For whom all winds are quiet as the sun, All waters as the shore.
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I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep; Of what may come hereafter; For men that sow and reap.
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