O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONThe vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
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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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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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A louse in the locks of literature.
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Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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All things human change.
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I can’t be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
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This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
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He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
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The old order changes yielding place to new.
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If you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.
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Trust me not at all, or all in 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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
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Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
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