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Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;
“So, if a tear, when thou art dying, Should haply fall from me, It is but that my soul is sighing, To go and rest with thee.”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“But, when the days of golden dreams had perished, And even Despair was powerless to destroy; Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
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“To thee the world is like a tomb, A desert’s naked shore; To us, in unimagined bloom, It brightens more and more! ‘And could we lift the veil, and give One brief glimpse to thine eye, Thou wouldst rejoice for those that live, Because they live to die.”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“The faithfull knight now grew in litle space, By hearing her, and by her sisters lore, To such perfection of all heavenly grace, That wretched world he gan for to abhore,”
― Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
― Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
Megan’s 2025 Year in Books
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100 books
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6 friends
278 books
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8 friends
507 books
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3 friends
603 books
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2 friends
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