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O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!
To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?
Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!


William Shakespeare

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HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight...
ALFRED TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Return, O wanderer, now return,
And seek thy Father’s face;
Those new desires which in t...
WILLIAM BENCO COLLYER O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, h...
JOHN MILTON O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are! EDWARD LEAR Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy li...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and r...
SAROJINI NAIDU O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple Hell?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Antony:
O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See
How I convey my shame out of thine eyes WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing ...
PLUTARCH Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,
Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom<...
JOHN MILTON Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
ROBERT BURNS O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my...
DEBASISH MRIDHA TEDDY DAY POEM:
A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll ...
VIKRMN William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Romeo:
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whe...
VIKRMN If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my hea...
ALEXANDER POPE O God, what offering shall I give
To Thee, the Lord of earth and skies?
My spirit, soul, a...
JOACHIM LANGE Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What colour are your eyes?
Olly (O): blue
Madeline (M): Be more specific please
O: ...
NICOLA YOON Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;...
THOMAS MOORE Todo o colo
me faz lembrar
as tuas pernas

O côncavo macio
das tuas coxa...
MARIA TERESA HORTA O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
AMY CARMICHAEL O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
F...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched.
Through thee the rose is red; RALPH WALDO EMERSON If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;
Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; EDWARD SHILLITO As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, c...
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shal...
BASAVA 2 to 1

2 hearts 1 beat
2 lips will meet
2 birds 1 stone
2 never b alone CLARISSA CLEMENS O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them al...
OSCAR WILDE O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body...
W.B. YEATS My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)
I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)
My mann...
JUDY SCHACHNER O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
JOHN FLETCHER Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize ...
WALT WHITMAN Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o.
LANG LEAV Nothing in the world is single
All things by law divine
In one another's being mingle
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I beheld before me an animated Corse. Her countenance was long and haggard; Her cheeks and lips were...
MATTHEW LEWIS And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no...
AMY CARMICHAEL We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it
To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, t...
EURIPIDES Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
RAINER MARIA RILKE Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?"...
STEPHENIE MEYER LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? / How long shall they utter and ...
BIBLE Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.

Cro...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell
By slow Meander's marg...
JOHN MILTON E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my the...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Epitáfio /J.L.Borges (?)
Já somos a ausência que seremos.
O pó elementar que nos ignor...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my...
BIBLE Then if thou hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
Thine own particular wrongs...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You. O Positive. How many exits?"
"What?...Oh shit, did you just call me by my bloodtype?
RACHEL CAINE Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood,
Thou art the grisly terror of our age.
Wreck of all ...
JOHN HENRY MACKAY Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to ...
JESS C. SCOTT Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE Divine love"

"Don't Leave me,
ONLY
To carry my body
on my two feet
SEEMA GUPTA I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY A Second Childhood.”

When all my days are ending
And I have no song to sing,
...
G.K. CHESTERTON I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W.B. YEATS The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my ...
WALT WHITMAN Watch, O Lord,
with those who wake,
or watch or weep tonight,
and give your angels ch...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusal...
BIBLE Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?
JOHN KEATS And O
there are days
i this life,
worth life and
worth death
CHARLES DICKENS What?' I whispered, horrified. 'How can he kill a Goddess?'

'Oh, don't underestimate him.
DEEPIKA KUMAARAGURU O Space and Time and stars at strife,
How dreadful your infinity!
Shrined by your termless...
GEORGE STERLING Come away, come away, Death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulnes...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique Power

Find out what my Individual Divine
ALLAN RUFUS When We Two Parted

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
PHILIP FRENEAU I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,
I must prepar...
ROMAN PAYNE Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
And surf along the shore --
And in my heart a name
M...
CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
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...
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