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Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Brain Drive Heaven Myself Reason
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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Bright Lost Sweet
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Close Forget Heart Love True
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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Discover Emotion Flame Illusion Leadership Love Marriage Ourselves Truth
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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Delicious Light Plant Roam Sun Wake Up
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
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Awake Heart Thorn Touch
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

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