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| 5131. | Landscapes by Andree Chedid | | Behind faces and gestures
We remain mute
And spoken words heavy
With what we ignore or keep silent
Betray us
I dare not speak for mankind
I kn... |
| 5132. | The Planter's Daughter by Austin Clarke | | When night stirred at sea,
An the fire brought a crowd in
They say that her beauty
Was music in mouth
And few in the candlelight
Thought her too ... |
| 5133. | A Supplication by Abraham Cowley | | Awake, awake, my Lyre!
And tell thy silent master's humble tale
In sounds that may prevail;
Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:
Though so exalted... |
| 5134. | A Poem by Regina Derieva | | A poem—
is just one more
scrap of paper
that has sailed off the table
in a bottle
with a cry for help.... |
| 5135. | Amor Profanus by Ernest Dowson | | Beyond the pale of memory,
In some mysterious dusky grove;
A place of shadows utterly,
Where never coos the turtle-dove,
A world forgotten of the ... |
| 5137. | In Tempore Senectutis by Ernest Dowson | | When I am old,
And sadly steal apart,
Into the dark and cold,
Friend of my heart!
Remember, if you can,
Not him who lingers, but that other man,
... |
| 5138. | Nuns Of The Perpetual Adoration by Ernest Dowson | | Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls,
These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray:
And it is one with them when evening falls,
... |
| 5139. | Weep no more by John Fletcher | | WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
Sorrow calls no time that 's gone:
Violets pluck'd, the sweetest rain
Makes not fresh nor grow again.
Trim thy ... |
| 5140. | Sleep by John Fletcher | | COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel ... |
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