#English #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Alas, that words like these should… Behold, the Boulevard mocks, and… Let us away and purge our melancho… With the last laughter at the Amb… Here all is real. Here glory’s se…
If I forget thee! How shall I fo… Sword of the mighty! Prince and L… Captive I bind me To the spears that blind me, Rage in my heart and love for ever…
Away! Away! Away with her, young… Away with her in haste lest dawn s… If that her kinsmen should thy dee… Ill might it fare with thee for he… Away with her to thine own palace…
Ho, ye that thirst beside the runn… Love is a running stream, whose wa… Upon the earth, and who would drin… Must bend him earthwards. There w… Who lay upon his belly in the mire
Not so my little sponsor. She, wi… Proudly unconscious of my fool’s d… Talked volubly to all and scorned… While Madame Blanche herself, no… Smiled us a welcome, and with upra…
Fools! must we ever quarrel with o… Too late Reading the worth of what we did d… And wise At the journey’s end to weep it sc…
O fool! O false! I have abandoned… And sold my wealth for metal of ba… O frail disciple of a fair creed g… For human hope when all the world… What was my profit? Freedom of th…
THE RELIGION OF LOVE So thou but love me, dear, with th… What care I for the rest, for goo… What for the peace of soul good de… What for the tears unholy dreams d…
I followed dumb and shrinking like… Close in her shadow from the women… Yet ruthlessly betrayed for my che… From head to foot in the tall pier… My vagabond attire, my coat all ra…
Rather I hold with those that tel… That they, who had made proof of t… Were joined no less with honour in… By Holy Church, which binding loo… Since it is written that 'twixt ma…
Care killed a cat, and I have car… Which vex me nightly and disturb m… The things I love have all grown… The things that loved me are estra… I have a house most fair, but tena…
Hush, gentle stranger. Here lies… In the tall grass whom we must not… For see, the wildest winds hush he… Silence for her and not a leaf is… Lest she should wake and find hers…
I saw one rushing madly in pursuit Of Liberty. With frenzied steps h… Old laws and customs with disdainf… He spurned beneath him in a mire o… He stood before the wondering worl…
Dare all things for Love’s sake,… Of Fate ask nothing, rather by yo… Rebuke it for its niggard ways unb… And trust to Love to shield you i… Remember in the shade of the new y…
There are two voices with me in th… Easing my grief. The God of Isra… ‘I am the Lord thy God which vanq… See that thou walk unswerving in m… So shall thy enemies thy footstool…