Love And Desire Quotes by Ernest Dowson

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“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a…

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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara!…

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“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long; I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. I cried for madder music…

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Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses…

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“Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild; But there, beside the altar, there, is rest. -from "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration”

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“I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.”

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I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

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They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

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“Say, doth she weep for very wantonness? Or is it that she dimly doth foresee Across her youth the joys grow less and less…

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“AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little,…

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