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reflecting like little flames in the shadow
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gently from the sky landing like a sacrament level and divine
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i never really look for anything what god throws my way comes i wake up in the morning and whichever way god turns my feet i go
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shadow and pollen atop mauve crocus petals bespeak winter's end
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every one is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
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its mouth is wide its neck is narra it has such long and lofty legs i'm glad it sits to lay its eggs
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if this book of mine fails to take a straight course it is because i am lost in a strange region i have no map
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light worships surface gently unlocking colour and stepping inside
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night is falling at dusk you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the good lord from the devil
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all manner of thing shall be well when the tongues of flame are in-folded into the crowned knot of fire
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and that old lace i think falls down less softly on priscella's gown than when i wore it
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lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring
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for every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it for every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it for every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it
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yet looks he like a king behold his eye as bright as is the eagles lightens forth controlling majesty
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but soft what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and juliet is the sun
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a living tree that i lied a giving tree that you lied shadows know everything
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the sun the hearth of affection and life pours burning love on the delighted earth
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tea does our fancy aid repress those vapours which the head invade and keeps that palace of the soul serene
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perhaps of twig so fine of twine e'en superfine her pride aspires
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evening is falling soft sounds of lonely sea and the dying of the sun
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i would swim to you to show to both my loves extreme leander-like yea dive from brim to brim
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leaves in the garden your wet aesthetics give me inspiration rain in the garden
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and suddenly the lungs full of tiny sharp aches and the air fluttering helplessly
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and this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything
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rain in the morning soft beginning of the day inviting stillness
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where once the waters of your face spun to my screws your dry ghost blows
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don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water cover me in rag and bone sympathy 'cos i don't wanna get over you
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such sheets of fire such bursts of horrid thunder such groans of roaring wind and rain
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always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors try to be better than yourself
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the cattle are grazing their heads never raising there are forty feeding like one
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the church says that the earth is flat but i know that it is round for i have seen the shadow on the moon and i have more faith in the shadow than in the church
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in this world of change nothing which comes stays and nothing which goes is lost
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music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak
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an idea like a ghost must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself
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light is a thing that cannot be reproduced but must be represented by something else by color
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when i admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon my soul expands in worship of the creator
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drifting leaves in the autumn air farewell song
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shed no tear no shed no tear the flow'r will bloom another year
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the bell strikes one we take no note of time but from its loss
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dying of the leaves forest of changing colours silence of the trees
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is fairer far in may although it fall and die that night it was the plant of flower and light
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if i could make days last forever i'd save every day like a treasure and then i would spend them with you
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she reminded me that the world was really one bee yard and the same rules work fine in both places don't be afraid as no life loving bee wants to sting you don't swat don't ever think about swatting
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you are responsible forever for what you have tamed you are responsible for your rose
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the conch of my heart repeats the jangle of foam nudged apart silverly dims
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hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable
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the bicycle the bicycle surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets
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my thought the tree would never wither was wrong
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cape hatteras national seashore north carolina a certain minor light may still leap incandescent
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bees are black with gilt surcingles buccaneers of buzz
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i would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion
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a violinist had a violin a painter his palette all i had was myself i was the instrument that i must care for
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like music in his heart his constant waking dream navigating air
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yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air
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there are so many lines killing tenderness and so many dimmed lights not whispering of love
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shadow of the shadows i live in the shadow of the shadows i live and i dream in your shadows
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the moon will develop in the sky like a pearl
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an idea is a point of departure and no more as soon as you elaborate it it becomes transformed by thought
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on a cold autumn day my heart is drenched in wine as i walk in fields of red
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a miniature flipflop found on the side of the road it would fit in the palm of my hand some toddler out there is missing one shoe
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to analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to fully understand
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in the first of the moon alls a scattering a shining
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the middle of nowhere surrounded by the crowd of mr amp mrs nobody getting ready for the bigtime holidays
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footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened
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oh god i hope it's something beautiful wonderful i shelter from the storm inside of me it's a peculiar warm
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even as fog continues to lie in the valleys so does ancient sin cling to the low places the depressions in the world consciousness
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although glad for the grain we are aware of the husk and winter closes on us like a shroud
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every place every thing every house today is celebrating today everything is bright cheerful a chimera today is the feast of spring
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fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever and we'll meet now and then when we wish in the midst of the one celebration that never can end
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the sun shines not on us but in us the rivers flow not past but through us
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falling leaves hide the path so quietly
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out-stretched for flight little wings are brushed by a hazy summer sun
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at sunset we sat you and me quietly there breathing in and out
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i pray you'll be our eyes and watch us where we go and help us to be wise in times when we don't know let this be our prayer when we lose our way
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to see the summer sky is poetry though never in a book it lie true poems flee
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in nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you
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the vision must be followed by the venture it is not enough to stare up the steps we must step up the stairs
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for all my life's sleeplesness has woven this shelter in the grove where your hand lives and flies watching over the night of the sleeping traveler
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there is no end there is no beginning there is only the passion of life
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we may run walk stumble drive or fly but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way
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light-enchanted sunflower thou who gazest ever true and tender on the sun's revolving splendour
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today she learned that fairies are naughty she used to wish to be a fairy in the woods now she know that fairies are evil and she's one of them
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unsought and unheard music falling into feeling like rain in wind
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see no evil hear no evil speak no evil
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what climbs the stair nothing that common women ponder on if you are worth my hope
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when light appears upside down and darkness obove the master is dancing
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enchained in dwindling light thoughts like grapes in winter sing summer's refrain
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stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away and yellow leaves of autumn which have no songs flutter and fall there with a sigh
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i think he'll be to rome as is the osprey to the fish who takes it by soverneignty of nature
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paris' evening a bird trapped in its charms
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a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more
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its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster yet somehow man-made
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green is a solace a promise of peace a fort against the cold
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nothing is wasted nothing is in vain the seas roll over but the rocks remain
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trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky we fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness
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i look at you and see myself under the surface
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may you have the gladness of christmas which is hope the spirit of christmas which is peace the heart of christmas which is love
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it is late in an afternoon more grey with snow to fall than white with fallen snow
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my bounty is as boundless as the sea my love as deep the more i give thee the more i have for both are infinite
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on with the dance let joy be unconfined no sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet
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