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But long expectance of a bliss delay'd
Breeds anxious doubt, and tempts the sacred maid;
Then mists arising strait repel the light,
The colour'd garden lies disguis'd with night,
A pale-horn'd crescent leads a glimm'ring throng,
And groans of absence jarr within the song.

Sonnet I: I Thought Once How Theocritus

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thought once how Theocritus had sung

Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,

Don't Give A Dose To The One You Love Most

© Sheldon Allan Silverstein

Dont give a dose to the one you love most.
Give her some marmalade...give her some toast.
You can give her the willies or give her the blues.
But the dose that you give her will get back to youse.

To Whom?

© Henry Timrod

Awake upon a couch of pain,

I see a star betwixt the trees;

Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter III

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

How long they sat thus silent who shall say?
Griselda knew not. Time was far away;
She wanted courage to prepare her heart
For that last bitterest word of all, ``We part.''
And he cared naught for time. His Heaven was there,
Nor needed thought, nor speech, nor even prayer.

Going And Staying

© Thomas Hardy

The moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going.

Balloons

© Sylvia Plath

Since Christmas they have lived with us,
Guileless and clear,
Oval soul-animals,
Taking up half the space,
Moving and rubbing on the silk

Vanity of Vanities

© Michael Wigglesworth

Vain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,
Learn what thou art when thine estate is best:
A restless Wave o'th' troubled Ocean,
A Dream, a lifeless Picture finely drest:

Spirit Of Song

© Thomas Bracken

Where is thy dwelling-place? Echo of sweetness,

Seraph of tenderness, where is thy home?

The Ballad of 'Bolivar'

© Rudyard Kipling

Seven men from all the world back to Docks again,
Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain:
Give the girls another drink 'fore we sign away -
We that took the BOLIVAR out across the Bay!