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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Experience Neighbor Virtue
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Division Known Mindset Myself
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Anand Thakur
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Love Myself Tremble
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Nature Yourself
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Mindset Myself
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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Anand Thakur
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Heart Love Shake Warning
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Fantasy Love One Liner
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Body Cushion Flow Gentle
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Anand Thakur

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

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