We shall enjoy it
As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorrow take him!
Sappho
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And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
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Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I ...
EMILY DICKINSON He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt dis...
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He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall m...
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A WISH
Sometimes I wish
that he will live
and I will see him.
But m...
COCO J. GINGER He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass...
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What hope is here for modern rhyme
To him, who turns a musing eye
On songs, and deeds, and...
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The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ![]()
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
i...
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From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman
God has created me to do Him some definite service...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ![]()
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS God, may you need to tell him off and say FU?
This will allow to be empowered and take yo...
DARRYL STEWART ![]()
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ill see you forever
For you are a part of me
And I myself a part of thee
Inseparable i...
DAVID SEVERY Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON ![]()
Penelope
In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the...
DOROTHY PARKER it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him AMANDA LOVELACE We Have a Chance
To Save Lives
If We Don't Take It
We May Regret It
Like We Did<...
WIDAD AKREYI ![]()
There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
W.B. YEATS ![]()
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many ...
THOMAS HARDY ![]()
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow.
There was a long pause before I responded:
<...
LANG LEAV ![]()
I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV ![]()
Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I shall not dwell in the past...
I shall not dread the present...
I shall not fear the Fut...
OSCAR TREJO JR. ![]()
Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD ![]()
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
But not you, O girl, nor yet his
mother,
stretched his eyebrows so fierce with
expe...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
And my fealty to him has no beginning.
I am...
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What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience t...
ROBERT FERGUSON ![]()
Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
have killed him – you and I...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE ![]()
Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tea...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ![]()
Our freedom as free lances
advances toward its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets a...
LOUIS MACNEICE ![]()
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
Maturity
A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body g...
PHILIP LARKIN I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustlin...
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When I Am Dead, My Dearest
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ![]()
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ![]()
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY ![]()
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they si...
E.E. CUMMINGS Steven dreamed of you the very second
you died
(So the poem goes)
and you may h...
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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
A fool always finds a greater fool to ad...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ![]()
Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.
The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.
SUZANNE COLLINS ![]()
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stop!” she screamed. “Don’t hurt him.”
“Back off!” Billy shouted.
...
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As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him<...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
His name is Julian Janus Marquet, but I’m going to call him Jory.”
Both Chris and Pau...
V.C. ANDREWS ![]()
I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
COCO J. GINGER ![]()
Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. ”
“Chase him down? How? ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK ![]()
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful...
GEORGE ORWELL ![]()
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; HENRY VAN DYKE ![]()
But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and lig...
ELIZABETH GILBERT ![]()
SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN The Son of God perishes that we may not perish.
He rises that we may rise.
Tha...
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For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE I have to get off this elevator.
I can't ride with him,
Can't look at him,
Can't be...
ELANA JOHNSON ![]()
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.
A dan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE ![]()
O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Sapphic Chords
On what marble stones would you scratch your love today?
Spray it on ...
NANCY BOUTILIER ![]()
DON PEDRO
Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
BEATRICE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ![]()
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ![]()
It's asking us our names," Falkor reported.
"I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried.
"I'm F...
MICHAEL ENDE ![]()
I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON ![]()
So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one ...
OSCAR WILDE ![]()
Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand...
MICHELLE HODKIN ![]()
Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes�...
LANG LEAV ![]()
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And When his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN ![]()
She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV ![]()
Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
“...
ILONA ANDREWS Change the world, I know I won’t,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscop...
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Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of sho...
JOAQUIN MILLER Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT ![]()
My angel, - his name is Freedom,
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and w...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON ![]()
Echo’s eyes plead with me as she waits for an answer.
Stay with me.
Not here.
Not w...
KATIE MCGARRY ![]()
Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."
"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and...
SCOTT LYNCH ![]()
Since ever the world was spinning
And till the world shall end
You've your man in the begi...
L.M. MONTGOMERY ![]()
Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER ![]()
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday...
DOROTHY PARKER ![]()
A precious mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his centur...
EMILY DICKINSON ![]()
A Woman's Question
Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by t...
JOSHUA HARRIS Whoso List to Hunt
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hela...
THOMAS WYATT ![]()
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY ![]()
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Sheikh Bilal had taken
him aside the day before the wedding and spoken to him of marriage
...
ALAA AL ASWANY ![]()
In that last dance of chances
I shall partner you no more.
I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
The vai...
THOMAS WYATT ![]()
So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"
"What?"
TAHEREH MAFI I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was...
JAMESON FITZPATRICK ![]()
Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN ![]()
Saying goodbye doesn't mean
You don't love him anymore,
Nor that you no longer will.
...
JOCELYN SORIANO ![]()
Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)
“My life is but a weaving
Between my ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never com...
MOULOUD BENZADI ![]()
For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
Yes, I'm back," he said, "And look who I ran into."
Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into...
JOHN FLANAGAN
More Sappho
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
SAPPHO ![]()
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable crea...
SAPPHO ![]()
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorro...
SAPPHO ![]()
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al...
SAPPHO ![]()
The moon has set
In a bank of jet
That fringes the Western sky,
The pleiads seven
...
SAPPHO ![]()
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO ![]()
their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
SAPPHO ![]()
Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture<...
SAPPHO ![]()
You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.
SAPPHO ![]()
Οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ ἄκρο�...
SAPPHO ![]()
You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
SAPPHO ![]()
I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
SAPPHO ![]()
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die
SAPPHO ![]()
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a del...
SAPPHO ![]()
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO ![]()
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
SAPPHO ![]()
The evening star
Is the most
beautiful
of all stars
SAPPHO ![]()
Builders, raise the ceiling high,
Raise the dome into the sky,
Hear the wedding song!
Fo...
SAPPHO ![]()
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly
SAPPHO ![]()
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has ...
SAPPHO ![]()
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
SAPPHO ![]()
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO
Truth 
Heart, we will forget him!
He who has a thousand friends
A WISH
What hope is here for modern rhyme
The King beneath the mountains,
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? 
From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
When he shall die,
Penelope 
There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
Had he and I but met
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. 
Remember thee! remember thee! 
Tomorrow we shall meet, 
But not you, O girl, nor yet his
What can that faith do for him in his need? 
Where has God gone?” [the madman asked] “I shall tell you. We
Who shall tell the lady's grief
Our freedom as free lances
He was a man, take him for all in all,
Maturity
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; 
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! 
may my heart always be open to little
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.
As soon as we are born 
His name is Julian Janus Marquet, but I’m going to call him Jory.”
I HOLD
Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. ” 
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
But I love him."
SMALL THINGS
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. 
O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace! 
Love Sorrow
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
It's asking us our names," Falkor reported.
I hold it truth, with him who sings
So with curious eyes and sick surmise
Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand... 
Saving You
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
Behind him lay the gray Azores, 
My angel, - his name is Freedom, 
Echo’s eyes plead with me as she waits for an answer.
Since ever the world was spinning
Oh seek, my love, your newer way; 
A precious mouldering pleasure 't is
A Woman's Question
Out of the night that covers me, 
Out of the night that covers me, 
In that last dance of chances
So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"
Move him into the sun 
Saying goodbye doesn't mean
Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)
For me,
Yes, I'm back," he said, "And look who I ran into."
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. 
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al... 