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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(19)
2023-12-06ALABASTER Like this alabaster box whose art Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, Carven with delicate dreams and wrought With many a subtle and e...
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2023-12-06ECSTASY Cover mine eyes, O my Love!Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and strongO silence my lips with a kiss, My lips tha...
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2023-12-06TO MY FAIRY FANCIES Nay, no longer I may hold you,In my spirit's soft caresses, Nor like lotus-leaves enfold youIn the tangles of my tresses. Fair...
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2023-12-06ODE TO H.H. THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD (Presented at the Ramzan Durbar) Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round ...
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2023-12-06LEILI The serpents are asleep among the poppies, The fireflies light the soundless panther's way To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,...
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2023-12-06IN THE FOREST Here, O my heart, let us burn the dear dreams that are dead, Here in this wood let us fashion a funeral pyre Of fallen white petals and ...
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2023-12-06PAST AND FUTURE THE NEW HATH COME AND NOW THE OLD RETIRES: And so the past becomes a mountain-cell, Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell In co...
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2023-12-06LIFE Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless joys that leap About your hearts like...
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2023-12-06THE POET'S LOVE-SONG In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bindThe world to my desire, and hold th...
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2023-12-06TO THE GOD OF PAIN Unwilling priestess in thy cruel fane, Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows, My tir...