April 2012
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A Dream
Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, wildered, and forlorn, Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over many a tangle spray, All heart-broke, I heard her say: ‘Oh my children! do they cry, Do they hear their father sigh? Now they look abroad to see, Now return and weep for me. Pitying, I dropped a tear: But I saw a...
The Clod and the Pebble
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.” So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle’s feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: “Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another’s loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.”
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March 2012
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when...
– Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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Love is natural and real but not for such as you and I, my love.
– The Smiths
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