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Words
2023-12-06I had this thought a while ago, ‘My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land.‘ And I grew we...
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No Second Troy
2023-12-06Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the lit...
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Reconciliation
2023-12-06Some may have blamed you that you took away The verses that could move them on the day When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind With...
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King and No King
2023-12-06‘Would it were anything but merely voice!’ The No King cried who after that was King, Because he had not heard of anything That balanced w...
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Peace
2023-12-06Ah, that Time could touch a form That could show what Homer‘s age Bred to be a hero‘s wage. ‘Were not all her life but storm, Would ...
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Against Unworthy Praise
2023-12-06O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What‘s not for their applause, Being for a woman‘s sake. Enough if the work has...
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A Drinking Song
2023-12-06Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That‘s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my m...
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The Coming of Wisdom with Time
2023-12-06Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the t...
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The Mask
2023-12-06‘Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes.‘ ‘O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet ...
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Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
2023-12-06How should the world be luckier if this house, Where passion and precision have been one Time out of mind, became too ruinous To breed the lidless eye...