But yet let me lament
with tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts [...]
that our stars, irreconcilable, should divide
our equalness to this.
William Shakespeare
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GARETH ROBERTS This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pai...
OMAR KHAYYáM We should not shed tears
That is a surrender of the body to the heart
It is only proof
TITE KUBO The mind-is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let g...
ROBERT FROST Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE The More Loving One
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
W.H. AUDEN Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is...
HENRY FIELDING Time machine to the past
Step back a few years
Old feelings, like Lazarus
Suddenly re...
JUSTIN WETCH An angel for some,
a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH And now the measure of my song is done:
The work has reached its end; the book is mine,
...
OVID Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly ...
ALFRED TENNYSON With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.<...
LAURENCE ROBERT BINYON Then, only then
would she realize that the life
that she created will extinguish with A.P. SWEET We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL ~Tonight's Sea~
Meet me by the sea,
Under the stars.
Where we can gaze
...
RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we...
MUNIA KHAN The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we li...
T.S. ELIOT Millions cheer the warrior
spilling blood across the ring
while the one who stands for pea...
ABERJHANI Ah, youth!
It was a beautiful night...
The moon was out of orbit.
The stars were awry...
ROMAN PAYNE Why we love with close hearts
Why we love with souls apart
Let the love flow from hearts ...
MEGHA KHARE O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON Marry me, Rachel.'
'Not yet.'
'Tomorrow, Rachel. Marry me.'
'Maybe ...
EMMA RICHLER And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,
And as each blow was paid with Blood,
Y...
THOMAS MERTON Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as...
AESCHYLUS William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts...
A.P. SWEET We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
LEIF ENGER This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI Let me assure you, the struggle is real.
I clicked my tongue, ready to fire back a snarky...
ANNIE ARCANE Maybe our bodies
are just hearts
with legs
and that’s why we’re so quick
MARISA DONNELLY This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes cha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Teach me, Father, how to go
Softly as the grasses grow;
Hush my soul to meet the shock
Of t...
EDWIN MARKHAM So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA The flowers that I left in the ground,
that I did not gather for you,
today I bring them...
LEONARD COHEN I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO I left smiles on your wordless lips
The night roads- dismal and narrow,
dream’s path rem...
MUNIA KHAN The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permea...
KAMAND KOJOURI The Weight of One Feather"
Given.
Many fear death
Because they already SUZY KASSEM The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea
My galley cha...
THOMAS WYATT Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead! ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words
Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON 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 Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tep...
BETTIE SHARPE And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our ...
BRYONIE WISE I remember our childhood days
when life was easy
and math problems hard.
Mom would he...
KAMAND KOJOURI To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No
Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the s...
W.B. YEATS Into the wind we vary,
Our hearts free of youth,
Mold me into envy,
If I can’t have...
ADRIANNA STEPIANO In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come w...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI What We Want
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
LINDA PASTAN Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
God, if you wish for our lo...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget pro...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our soul...
ABERJHANI When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,
Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart ANNA SEWARD My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my...
MUNIA KHAN I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,
and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was blee...
PABLO NERUDA Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The earth may ring, from shore to shore,
With echoes of a glorious name,
But he, whose loss ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:...
ROBERT BROWNING Heartland
Now that we’ve given our hearts away
With the bric-a-brac, we want them...
LISEL MUELLER Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
E F J VON MUNCH-BELLINGHAUSEN Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!
JOHN KEATS Heart’s blood and bitter pain belong to love,
And tales of problems no one can remove;
C...
فرید الدین عطار The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, t...
WAYLON H. LEWIS Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much
In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much
In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heave...
EMILY BRONTë There are too many tears in my eyes!
The fires of Hell are no more than sparks of fire
as ...
OMAR KHAYYáM Some day we will try
To do as many things as are possible
And perhaps we shall succeed at ...
JOHN ASHBERY She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My ears hurt as if being tugged upon by pliers—yet I welcome the pain, as it heralds the completio...
HORTON DEAKINS O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of.
The Bloody-Nine...
JOE ABERCROMBIE Not because we think that it's still about to happen,
thus makes our future life as though yet...
TOBA BETA Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.”
“If you ...
DEREK LANDY Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
SONIA SANCHEZ He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”
“And this is exactly what I mean.”<...
DEREK LANDY I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve:
And all my sowre-sweet dayes
I w...
GEORGE HERBERT He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road. HOMER
There are hermit so...
SAM WALTER FOSS If I tear the sun from the sky and bring all the stars cascading down, would that line of your lips ...
HUBERT MARTIN My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my father...
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to...
RAMON RAVENSWOOD Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
DANTE ALIGHIERI Let us go where skins are rainbows
Enhanced by every hue.
Where genders are clouds KAMAND KOJOURI On the edge of a laughing teacup
Did Kubla Kat decree
The the corn fritter festooned with ...
FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marria...
KAMAND KOJOURI Let's burn our masks at midnight
and as flickering flames ascend,
under the witness of sta...
JOHN MARK GREEN Hearts In Me
If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes
Then surely I’ll be int...
JAY WOODMAN On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way,
Down this still stream we took our meadowy way,
A...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an...
BRANDON SANDERSON THE "SON" ALWAYS SHINES
We speak of the weather everyday. Is it going to be cloudy and ov...
PAZARIA SMITH Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT i made myself a snowball
As perfect as can be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet,
And le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Our Cross
Our little circle hides in the mind,
It's difficult to miss but hard to fi...
SHANNON L. ALDER
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To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE