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You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
And gaze upon a merrier multitude.
White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,
Feachra of the hurtling form, and him
Who is the ruler of the Western Host,
Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.


William Butler Yeats

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Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Over the boundary of time,
Hope transcends,
Desire sings,
One verse,
One song, DEBASISH MRIDHA This is where I go, when I go:

It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that a...
JODI PICOULT tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of...
SANOBER KHAN Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street,<...
SAROJINI NAIDU The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four l...
GEORGE ORWELL Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful...
GEORGE ORWELL Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has go...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER Our freedom as free lances
advances toward its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets a...
LOUIS MACNEICE ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled W.B. YEATS Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear...
T.S. ELIOT Suicide in the trenches:

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty jo...
SIEGFRIED SASSOON In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and r...
SAROJINI NAIDU Who Goes With Fergus?

Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's ...
W.B. YEATS Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker

do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER And now the measure of my song is done:
The work has reached its end; the book is mine,
...
OVID Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My ...
PABLO NERUDA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of t...
ANONYMOUS And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy la...
WILLIAM BLAKE The hour of spring was dark at last,
sensuous memories of sunlight past,
I stood alone in ...
ROMAN PAYNE Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB On Pleasure

Pleasure is a freedom-song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I went out to the hazel wood
because a fire was in my head
cut and peeled a hazel wand
W.B. YEATS No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
WENDELL BERRY To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, we...
ANDREW MARVELL A mighty monarch in the days of old
Made offer of high honour, wealth and gold,
To one who sho...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?

Because all else is temporary, while beauty...
VERA NAZARIAN Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead,
th...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Call

Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There wa...
RUPERT BROOKE Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
PHILIP FRENEAU Man is no star, but a quick coal

Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control<...
GEORGE HERBERT Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER The flowers that I left in the ground,
that I did not gather for you,
today I bring them...
LEONARD COHEN The Day is Done

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Nig...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Not to waste the spring
I threw down everything,
And ran into the open world
To sing ...
ROMAN PAYNE Lay down
Your tired & weary head my friend.
We have wept too long
Night is fallin...
JOSé N. HARRIS These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS God spreads the heavens above us like great wings
And gives a little round of deeds and days, W.B. YEATS Black for hunting through the night

For death and mourning the color's white

G...
CASSANDRA CLARE Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER The Manger of Incidentals "

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe.
...
JACK GILBERT ~Tonight's Sea~

Meet me by the sea,
Under the stars.
Where we can gaze
...
RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
an...
KING SOLOMON SON OF DAVID There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,
When the buds of April blossomed, ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The Gentle Gardener

I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way,
To leave ...
EDGAR A. GUEST No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be
Am an attendant lord one that will do
To ...
T.S. ELIOT JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME':

In the darkness of the night,
you come to me to fight.
...
NEHA YAZMIN A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The ...
MAYA ANGELOU BEWARE OF THOSE

Beware of those who are bitter,
For they will never allow you
T...
SUZY KASSEM When I look up at Heaven,
I see the souls of those who died
Beaming down at me,
Wanti...
SUZY KASSEM THOMAS
Guilty
Of mankind. I have perpetrated human nature.
My father and...
CHRISTOPHER FRY Blessed be, it's finally Spring.
In joy and delight the birds sing,
Ravished upon the en...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of d...
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make...
LEWIS CARROLL Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall s...
VERA BRITTAIN The Knowing

Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise-
comaed and woken, we lie a l...
SHARON OLDS Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.

And you land next...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my father...
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH In the ebb and flow of my life,
in years gone by, in moments now,
in currents, undertows...
ROBERT TRABOLD In the wilderness of life
Happiness is looking for you
In the jungles of dreams and desire...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI I know the journey seems so long
You feel you're walking on your own
But there has never...
JEREMY CAMP I’ll see you forever
For you are a part of me
And I myself a part of thee
Inseparable i...
DAVID SEVERY Truth

And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Verily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving
like kindred; and fo...
MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD The Sunlight on the Garden

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
W...
LOUIS MACNEICE Looking back few friends had we
but I've got him and he's got me.
And when the golden minu...
ROD MCKUEN A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sa...
HELEN STEINER RICE A poetess is not as selfish
as you assume.
After months of agonising
over her marria...
KAMAND KOJOURI He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt dis...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN THE WEATHER OF LOVE


Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
SUZY KASSEM MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins---
He is looking at my nose---that skeleton
---What...
EDMOND ROSTAND Sour Milk

You can't make it
turn sweet
again.
Once
it was an innocen...
DIANE WAKOSKI I have been
hanging here
headless
for so long
that the body has forgotten
w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .

And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī Intoxicate me with the beauty
and breath of your soul.
Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE Girl Without Hands

Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not lo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Sha...
T.S. ELIOT

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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But gr...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees --Those dying gen...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the ha...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed t...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plun...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, er...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a loo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say "all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There's more enterpriseIn walking naked.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must s...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I dri...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-f...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
La...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris, And her fat...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Whi...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ...
WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ...
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER