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“Love was so subtilly catch'd, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder then to get:
And ought not be prophan'd on either part,
For though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by art.”
― The Complete English Poems
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder then to get:
And ought not be prophan'd on either part,
For though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by art.”
― The Complete English Poems
“The day breaks not: it is my heart.”
― The Complete English Poems
― The Complete English Poems
“Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?”
― The Complete English Poems
― The Complete English Poems
“Between my shoulders, my full and golden soul takes wing. The April sky turns my eyes indigo.”
― The Selected Poems
― The Selected Poems
“Summer"
Be of this brightness dyed
Whose unrecking fever
Flings gold before it goes
Into voids finally
That have no measure.
Bird-sleep moonset,
Island after island,
Be of their hush
On this tide that balance
A time, for a time.
Islands are not forever,
Nor this light again,
Tide-set, brief summer,
Be of their secret
That fears no other.”
― Migration: New and Selected Poems
Be of this brightness dyed
Whose unrecking fever
Flings gold before it goes
Into voids finally
That have no measure.
Bird-sleep moonset,
Island after island,
Be of their hush
On this tide that balance
A time, for a time.
Islands are not forever,
Nor this light again,
Tide-set, brief summer,
Be of their secret
That fears no other.”
― Migration: New and Selected Poems
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