Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
ALFRED LORD TENNYSONI 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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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk through my garden forever.
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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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A still small voice spake unto me, ‘Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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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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Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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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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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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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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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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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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Silence, beautiful voice.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
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