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Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorou...
poem by William Shakespeare
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
with...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before

The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wal...
poem by John Milton
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness....
quote by D. H. Lawrence
We pledged our hearts, my love and I,
I in my arms the maiden clasping;
I could not tell the reaso...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above,
On earth ere twilight reigns:
Ere fear may feel the chill t...
poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward,
strong beyond the garden-wall!
Butterfly, why do you settle o...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
and the horse looks at him in silence.
...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
We are a liars, because
the truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
whereas letters are fixed,
...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It sai...
poem by Lewis Carroll
Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, ...
poem by William Shakespeare
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,...
poem by Lewis Carroll
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear pres...
poem by Thomas Hardy
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue,
Could scarcely cr...
poem by William Blake
We are getting to the end of visioning
The impossible within this universe,
Such as that better wh...
poem by Thomas Hardy
Since I lost you I am silence-haunted,
Sounds wave their little wings
A moment, then in weariness...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
NOW sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
...
poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
As night hath stars, more rare than ships
In ocean, faint from pole to pole,
So all the wonder of ...
poem by Aleister Crowley
"SISTER, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head."
Thus the prudent brother sai...
poem by Lewis Carroll
O sweet To-morrow! -
After to-day
There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
...
poem by Thomas Hardy
What blest examples do I find
Writ in the Word of Truth
Of children that began to mind
Religion i...
poem by Isaac Watts
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That tak...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind,
W...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so ...
poem by William Shakespeare
IF childhood were not in the world,
But only men and women grown;
No baby-locks in tendrils cu...
poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.

...
poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You know what it is to be born alone,
Baby tortoise!
The first day to heave your feet little by li...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that wh...
poem by William Shakespeare
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path,
Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath,
Because a ...
poem by Rudyard Kipling
Kill off mankind,
And give the Earth a chance!
Nature might find
In her inheritance
The seedling...
poem by Aleister Crowley
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it...
poem by William Blake
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
O, but with m...
poem by William Shakespeare
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul...
poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath,
Love is a sword that cuts its sheath,
And thro' the clefts...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope,
With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere,
Hope from ...
poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind;
They have taught you to see
Only a mean arithme...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
How I wonder what you're at!'You know the song, perhaps?" "I've heard something like it,&q...
poem by Lewis Carroll
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was bu...
poem by William Shakespeare
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun
Restored our Earth to joy,
Have you departed, every one,
And le...
poem by Emily Jane Bronte
Reject me not if I should say to you
I do forget the sounding of your voice,
I do forget your ey...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
... Finally, what is Reason ? You have often asked me ; and this is my
answer :--

Whene'er the m...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one? -- planting rue?"
-- "No: yesterd...
poem by Thomas Hardy
I

That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers,
And the blue eye
Dear and dewy,
And that infantine fres...
poem by Robert Browning
Change in a trice the lilies and languors of virtue for the raptures and roses of vice....
quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The stream with languid murmur creeps,
In Lumin's flowery vale:
Beneath the dew the Lily weeps
Sl...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Husband, husband, cease your strife,
Nor longer idly rave, Sir;
Tho' I am your wedded wife...
poem by Robert Burns
WHO is Silvia? What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The ...
poem by William Shakespeare
Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us bo...
poem by Robert Browning
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