I sometimes find it half a sin, to put to words the grief I feel, For words like nature, half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONA louse in the locks of literature.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
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He makes no friend who never made a foe.
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God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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