A Birthday My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down Hang it with vair and purple dyes Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
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Who has seen the wind Neither you nor I But when the trees bow down their heads. The wind is passing by.Christina Georgina Rossetti
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet And if thou wilt, remember And if thou wilt, forget.
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A Frog's Fate .... O rich and poor, O great and small, Such oversights beset us all. The mangled Frog abides incog, The uninteresting actual frog The hypothetic frog alone Is the one frog we dwell upon.
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Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. Oh violets for the grave of youth, And bay for those dead in their prime Give me the withered leaves I chose Before in the old time.
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The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.
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Endure Hardness A cold wind stirs the blackthorn To burgeon and to blow, Besprinkling half-green hedges With flakes and sprays of snow. Through coldness and through keenness, Dear hearts, take comfort so Somewhere or other doubtless These make the blackthorn blow.
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