A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
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What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,Distill’d from limbecks foul as hell within,Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,Still losing when I saw myself to win!What wretched errors hath my heart committed,Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fittedIn the distraction of this madding…
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The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock tree Has given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.
Who Makes These Changes?
Who makes these changes?I shoot an arrow right.It lands left.I ride after a deer and find myselfChased by a hog.I plot to get what I wantAnd end up in prison.I dig pits to trap othersAnd fall in. I should be suspiciousOf what I want.
One misty evening, one another’s guide,
The last wet fields and dripping hedges home.There came a moment of confusing lights,Such as according to belief in RomeWere seen of old at Memphis on the heightsBefore the fragments of a former sunCould concentrate anew and rise as one.Light was a paste of pigment in our eyes.And then there was a moon and then…
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There is a community of the spirit.Join it, and feel the delightof walking in the noisy streetand being the noise.Drink all your passion,and be a disgrace.Close both eyesto see with the other eye.
Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse by William Shakespeare
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,And found such fair assistance in my verseAs every alien pen hath got my use,And under thee their poesy disperse.Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing,And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,Have added feathers to the learnèd’s wingAnd given grace a double majesty.Yet be most…