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- Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
- Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice…
- The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be…
- What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's…
- It seems to me that love, if fine, is essentially a discipline.
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me…
- Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided…
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
- When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have…
- And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
- I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I,…
- Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever…
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade...
- Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a…
- You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
- The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any…
- Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
- For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:…
- God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
- Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang…
- An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
- Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love…
- Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all…
- I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
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