Maybe you'll remember that razor-faced man
who slipped out from the dark like a blade
and - before we realized - knew what was there:
he saw the smoke and concluded fire.

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© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers dont finally meet somewhere
Theyre in each other all along.

The Mad Lover

© Alexander Brome

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,

This many and many a year;

On the death of that most excellent lady,

© Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

(Español)
Mueran contigo, Laura, pues moriste,
los afectos que en vano te desean,
los ojos a quien privas de que vean
hermosa luz que a un tiempo concediste.

A Walk By Moonlight

© Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

I had been out to see a friend
With whom I others saw:
Like minds to like minds ever tend -
An universal law.

The Ballad of the Cars

© Rudyard Kipling

"Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup,"
The kneeling doctor said.
And syne he bade them take him up,
For he saw that the man was dead.

The Princes' Quest - Part the Seventh

© William Watson

But Sleep, who makes a mist about the sense,

Doth ope the eyelids of the soul, and thence

Love, Love

What is the glory far above
All else in human life?
Love! Love!
There is no form in which the fire

What incommunicable presence clings
To this grey church and willowy twilight stream?
Am I the dupe of some delusive dream?
Or, like faint fluid phosphorent rings
On refluent seas, doth Shakespeare's spirit gleam
Pervasive round these old familiar things?

Before March

THE gull's image and the gull

Meet upon the water

The Symphony

© Alfred Noyes

Wonder in happy eyes
Fades, fades away:
And the angel-coloured skies
Whisper farewell.

At The Play

© Virna Sheard

Van Dyke beard and broidered ruff silently confess
That he lived--and loved perchance--in days of Good Queen Bess.
(Laces fine and linen sheer, curled and perfumed hair
Well became those gentlemen of gay, insouciant air.)