February 2011
11 posts
Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day by Edna St...
Pity me not because the light of day
At close of day no longer walks the sky;
Pity me not for beauties passed away
From field and thicket as the the year goes by;
Pity me not the waning of the moon,
Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea,
Nor that a man’s desire is hushed so soon,
And you no longer look with love on me.
This have I known always: Love is no more
Than the wide...
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Kissing by Peter Meinke
I remember when we used to kiss
Your eyes closed for a moment then opened as if
in wonder at the world’s sweet surprises of tongues of lips
We’d sit on the edge of the forbidden bed antici-
pation bursting with concaine Oyesyesyes
I remember when we used to kiss!
Nothing’s like touch like skin on skin
and every minute the young beginning to sip
in wonder at the...
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek...”
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld (via pinksubmergence)
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They say that hope is happiness by Lord (George...
They say that Hope is happiness;
But genuine Love must prize the past,
And Memory wakes the thoughts that bless:
They rose the first—they set the last;
And all that Memory loves the most
Was once our only Hope to be,
And all that Hope adored and lost
Hath melted into Memory.
Alas it is delusion all:
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we...
