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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
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Who talks of Plato's spindle; What set it whirling round?...
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Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep,...
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yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,...
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When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day,...
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When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place (I have no speech but symbol, the pagan speech I made...
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When the swan must fix his eye Upon a fading gleam,...
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Were you but lying cold and dead, And lights were paling out of the West,...
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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land,...
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What matter though numb nightmare ride on top And blood and mire the sensitive body stain?...
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We too had many pretty toys when young; A law indifferent to blame or praise,...
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We, too, had good attendance once, Hearers and hearteners of the work;...
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We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare;...
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We have given the world our passion, We have naught for death but toys.
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Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle.
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Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day....
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They must to keep their certainty accuse All that are different of a base intent;...
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Things thought too long can be no longer thought For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
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There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath...
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours, The sentimentalist himself; while art...
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The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change;
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the San Marco Library, Whence turbulent Italy should draw...
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work,
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So the Platonic Year Whirls out new right and wrong,...
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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills,...
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Test every work of intellect or faith And everything that your own hands have wrought,...
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That God has laid His fingers on the sky, That from those fingers glittering summer runs...
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Soldier, scholar, horseman, he, As 'twere all life's epitome. What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?
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