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2023-12-06NIGHTINGALE WEATHER. I'LL never be a nun, I trow, While apple bloom is white as snow, But far more fair to see; I'll never wear nun's blac...
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2023-12-06LOVE AND WISDOM. JULY, and June brought flowers and love To you, but I would none thereof, Whose heart kept all through summer time A flower of frost ...
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2023-12-06GOOD-BYE. KISS me, and say good-bye; Good-bye, there is no word to say but this, Nor any lips left for my lips to kiss, Nor any tears to shed, when th...
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2023-12-06AN OLD PRAYER. MY prayer an old prayer borroweth, Of ancient love and memory - 'Do thou farewell, till Eld and Death, That come to all men, come t...
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2023-12-06LOVE'S MIRACLE. WITH other helpless folk about the gate, The gate called Beautiful, with weary eyes That take no pleasure in the summer skies, Nor...
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2023-12-06DREAMS. HE spake not truth, however wise, who said That happy, and that hapless men in sleep Have equal fortune, fallen from care as deep As countless...
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2023-12-06FAIRY LAND. IN light of sunrise and sunsetting, The long days lingered, in forgetting That ever passion, keen to hold What may not tarry, was of old, ...
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2023-12-06TWO SONNETS OF THE SIRENS I. THE Sirens once were maidens innocent That through the water-meads with Proserpine Plucked no fire-hearted flowers, but w...
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2023-12-06A LA BELLE HELENE. AFTER RONSARD. MORE closely than the clinging vine About the wedded tree, Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine! About the heart...
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2023-12-06SYLVIE ET AURELIE. TWO loves there were, and one was born Between the sunset and the rain; Her singing voice went through the corn, Her dance was wove...