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.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONKnowledge 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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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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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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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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Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
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