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How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. <...

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Always Marry An April Girl

Praise the spells and bless the charms,

I found April in my arms.

April golden, April cloudy,

Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;

April soft in flowered languor,

Apri...

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Insomniac

There are some nights when

sleep plays coy,

aloof and disdainful.

And all the wiles

that I employ to win

its service to my side

are useless as wounded prid...

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"Faith" Is A Fine Invention

"Faith" is a fine invention

When Gentlemen can see—

But Microscopes are prudent

In an Emergency.

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Passing Time

Your skin like dawn

Mine like musk


One paints the beginning

of a certain end.


The other, the end of a

sure beginning.

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Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Fr...

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His Sorrow

We presume to know of a far better way

But our devices will falter somewhere, someday

Surely there will come a time, a time to pay

We don't care, our chosen course we shall sta...

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Passion- Ian Munywe

In Alexander the great,

welled ample passion.

To conquer,

the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte too,

son of Corsica.

A great soldier,

with a vision.

...

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Passion Possession

The glow of story doubles

As the season of

Possessed spirit bubbles.


Life too becomes meaningful

As the potter's hands

Carves passion possessed man soulful....

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Spell Of Nature Kindles Passion

From the childhood on I have been seeing the misty hill stations;

Still I have not lost its muse quite amazing to recollect in leisure times;

Green meadows and lakes the passion I hav...

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Passion (Ghazal)

Rhea! I fell in love with you at the first sight and passion

Since a week, you have become my heart's delight and passion


How I can forget all the essential parts of my life?...

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Reason And Passion Xv

And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion."


And he answered saying:


Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reaso...

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A Prayer

'Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling;

I stumble as I fare along Earth's way; keep me from falling.


Mine eyes are open but they cannot see for gloom of ...

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Life

What is our life? A play of passion,

Our mirth the music of division,

Our mother's wombs the tiring-houses be,

Where we are dressed for this short comedy.

Heaven the jud...

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The Great Fires

Love is apart from all things.

Desire and excitement are nothing beside it.

It is not the body that finds love.

What leads us there is the body.

What is not love provoke...

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A Kiss

Exiled on the isle of passion and shackled in the prison of craving. 
Bottled up emotion - screaming and shouting and searching for an escape. 
Like a dehydrated deer tracking water -Like a des...

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Flower Of Love

Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of common

clay

I had climbed the higher heights unclimbed yet, seen the fuller air, the

larger day.

<...

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A White Rose

The red rose whispers of passion,

And the white rose breathes of love;

O, the red rose is a falcon,

And the white rose is a dove.


But I send you a cream-white...

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Love

We cannot live, except thus mutually

We alternate, aware or unaware,

The reflex act of life: and when we bear

Our virtue onward most impulsively,

Most full of invocation, an...

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Sonnet 14

If thou must love me, let it be for nought

Except for love's sake only. Do not say

'I love her for her smile—her look—her way

Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought <...

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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

<...

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Love Sonnet XI


I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid ...

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Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,

Tha...

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Sonnet CXVI

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no! it is an ever...

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