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Monthly Archives: August 2007

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Coquetterie Posthume
by Th

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The Interpreters
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
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Days dawn on us that make amends for many
Sometimes,
When heaven and earth seem [...]

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So Thin a Veil
by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
So thin a veil divides
Us from such joy, past words,
Walking in daily life

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Complaint
by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
I have tried to remember the familiar places,

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Bitte
by Nikolaus Lenau (pseudonym of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau) (1802-1850)
Weil auf mir, du dunkles Auge,

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Upon Cupid
by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Love, like a Beggar, came to me
With Hose and Doublet torne:
His Shirt bedangling from his knee,
With Hat and Shooes out-worne.
He askt an almes; I gave him bread,
And meat too, for his need:
Of which, when he had fully fed,
He wisht [...]

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To James McNeil Whistler
by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Under a stagnant sky,
Gloom out of gloom uncoiling into gloom,
The River, jaded and forlorn,
Welters and wanders wearily

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A Hymn of Hate
by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
I hate Reformers;
They raise my blood pressure.
There are the Prohibitionists;
The Fathers of Bootlegging.
They made us what we are to-day

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Private Property
by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
All fly