That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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FRANCES DENSMORE An Unapproachable person may be exhibiting behaviors which are . . . • Tense and ... SUSAN C. YOUNG Turn to the wind, I dare you For time is but a space that is captured Live in fear or peac... F.N.COLLIER We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with ... GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better tha... ADRIENNE RICH When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. W... SARAH DESSEN To a Vase "How do I break thee? Let me count the ways. I break thee if thou a... HENRY N. BEARD Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough f... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Leisure What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and star... W.H. DAVIES And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor... 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SARA TEASDALE Bright Star Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone s... JOHN KEATS Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you... EDGAR ALLAN POE I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs. LORINE NIEDECKER He took her face in his bloody hands. 'I'll come and find you wherever you are. I'll not stop breath... MELINA MARCHETTA tell me of something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon you of... SANOBER KHAN if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from... E.E. CUMMINGS Looking back few friends had we but I've got him and he's got me. And when the golden minu... ROD MCKUEN YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curli... 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They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
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The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
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supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
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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