February 2012
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I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal...
– Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion (1804), William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827)
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November 2011
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Lassare il velo o per sole o per ombra,
Donna, non vi vid’io
poi che in...
– I have not seen you, lady, leave off your veil in sun or shadow, since you knew that great desire in myself that all other wishes in the heart desert me. While I held the lovely thoughts concealed, that make the mind desire death, I saw your face adorned with pity: but when Love made you wary of...
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October 2011
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I know that all beneath the moon decays,
And what by mortals in this world is...
– The first part, II. in Poems (1616), William Drummond of Hawthornden (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649)
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to...
– On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday also known as Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher (1849), Walter Savage Landon (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864)
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The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little...
– A Modest Love also known as Love is Love, Sir Edward Dyer (October 1543 – May 1607)
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XXI
“As the same law that moulds a planet, rounds
A drop of dew, so the...
– A Vision of Poesy (1860), Henry Timrod (December 8, 1828 - October 7, 1867)
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He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday...
– Funeral Blues, Song IX/ From Two Songs for Hedli Anderson (1936/1939), W.H.Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973)
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