Canto LX
He past; a soul of nobler tone: My spirit loved and loves him yet, Like some poor girl whose heart is set On one whose rank exceeds...
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- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LIX
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife, My bosom-friend and half of life; As I confess it needs must be; O...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LVIII
n those sad words I took farewell: Like echoes in sepulchral halls, As drop by drop the water falls In vaults and catacombs, they...
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- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LVII
Peace; come away: the song of woe Is after all an earthly song: Peace; come away: we do him wrong To sing so wildly: let us go....
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LVI
"So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing,...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LV
The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LIV
Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LIII
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise, Who wears his manhood hale and...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LII
I cannot love thee as I ought, For love reflects the thing beloved; My words are only words, and moved Upon the topmost froth of...
sammack1126
- Oct 20, 2019
Canto LI
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side? Is there no baseness we would hide? No inner vileness that we...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto L
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLIX
From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shiver'd lance That breaks about the...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLVIII
If these brief lays, of Sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts and answers here proposed, Then these were such as...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLVII
That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLVI
We ranging down this lower track, The path we came by, thorn and flower, Is shadow'd by the growing hour, Lest life should fail in...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLV
The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that "this is...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLIV
How fares it with the happy dead? For here the man is more and more; But he forgets the days before God shut the doorways of his head....
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLIII
If Sleep and Death be truly one, And every spirit's folded bloom Thro' all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber...
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLII
I vex my heart with fancies dim: He still outstript me in the race; It was but unity of place That made me dream I rank'd with him....
sammack1126
- Oct 14, 2019
Canto XLI
Thy spirit ere our fatal loss Did ever rise from high to higher; As mounts the heavenward altar-fire, As flies the lighter thro'...
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