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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Fall Love Mountain Nature
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Mindset Myself
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Anand Thakur
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Myself Strike Venom
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Alone Moon Night Pass Time
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Body Cushion Flow Gentle
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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High Man Marriage Tall
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Fantasy Love One Liner
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Fair Goodness Himself
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Anand Thakur
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
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Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

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