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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.

Bayard Taylor

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Experience Heart Men
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Blood Fire Heart
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Ashes Death Green
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Moon Night Stars
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer

To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.

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