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My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars. Your world has broken upon me like a flood. The flowers of your garden blossom in my body. The joy of life that is everywhere b...
Tell me if this be all true, my lover, t… When these eyes flash their lightning th… Is it true that my lips are sweet like t… Do the memories of vanished months of M… Does the earth, like a harp, shiver into…
I long to speak the deepest words I hav… That is why I laugh at myself and shatt… I make light of my pain, afraid you shou… I long to tell you the truest words I h… That is why I disguise them in untruth,…
Things throng and laugh loud in the sky;… and whirl like children. Man’s mind is a… thoughts long to be the playmates of thi… Our dreams, drifting in the stream of th… arms to clutch the earth, —their efforts…
You walked by the riverside path with th… Why did you swiftly turn your face and p… That gleaming look from the dark came up… It came to me like the bird of the eveni… You are hidden as a star behind the hill…
Leave this chanting and singing and tell… Whom dost thou worship in this lonely da… Open thine eyes and see thy God is not… He is there where the tiller is tilling… and where the pathmaker is breaking ston…
Music is silenced, the dark descending s… Has stripped unending skies of all compa… Weariness grips your limbs and within th… Dumbly ring the bells of hugely gatherin… Still, O bird, O sightless bird,
I remember a day in my childhood I floa… It was a wet day of July; I was alone a… I floated my paper boat in the ditch. Suddenly the storm clouds thickened, win… Rills of muddy water rushed and swelled…
The workman and his wife from the west country are busy digging to make bricks for the kiln. Their little daughter goes to the landing-place by the river; there she has no end of scouri...
Peace, my heart, let the time for the pa… Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into… Let the flight through the sky end in th… Let the last touch of your hands be gent…
Free me from the bonds of your sweetness… This mist of heavy incense stifles my he… Open the doors, make room for the mornin… I am lost in you, wrapped in the folds o… Free me from your spells, and give me ba…
It is written in the book that Man, whe… noisy world, to go to the forest seclusi… that the forest hermitage is only for th… birthplace of flowers and the haunt of b… hooks are waiting there for the thrill o…
When the creation was new and all the st… splendor, the gods held their assembly i… `Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy… But one cried of a sudden ——`It seems that somewhere there is a br…
I WANT TO give you something, my chil… Our lives will be carried apart, and our… But I am not so foolish as to hope that… Young is your life, your path long, and… You have your play and your playmates.…
“Trust love even if it brings sorrow.… “Ah no, my friend, your words are dark,… “The heart is only for giving away with… “Ah no, my friend, your words are dark,… “Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while…