Hues of Spring Under a wide armed tree a lovely lady stood for her saudade lovewatching the hovering white clouds aboveLonging for her love would blossom in pinkBut her pleadings, or yearnings never came in sink A whiff of soft breeze tried to blossom her cheeks to redA flutter of butterflies strolled every bud to […]
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WHEN I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,“Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.But I was one-and-twenty,No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,“The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;‘Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd […]
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“Let us now praise famous men”–Men of little showing–For their work continueth,And their work continueth,Broad and deep continues,Greater then their knowing! Western wind and open surgeTook us from our mothers–Flung us on a naked shore(Twelve bleak houses by the shore.Seven summers by the shore! )‘Mid two hundred brothers. There we met with famous menSet in […]
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