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... but by that time a lot of sea had rolled by and Lucette was too tired to wait. Then the night... More
... the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can’t come again,
But is for others... More
A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels. More
A queen driven from her throne, naked, in winter snows, like Elizabeth of Hungary, suffers more... More
A ship has a soul. More
Ah woe is me, woe, woe is me,
Alack and welladay!
For pity, sir, find out that... More
Ah! you can die, the world can collapse, I have lost the one I love. I must now live in this... More
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought... More
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking. More
All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms,
But just that thou... More
All your lovely words are spoken.
Once the ivory box is broken,
Beats the golden bird no... More
And I cannot find the place
Where his paw is the snare!
Little One! Oh, Little One!
I... More
And in the next instant, immediately behind them, Victor saw his former wife.
At once he... More
And the one bird singing alone to his nest,
And the one star over the tower.
I thought of... More
And though your daisies are an unwanted death,
I wade through the smell of their... More
And we can get back to that raw state
Of feeling, so long deemed
Inconsequential and... More
An’ him no more to me nor me to him
Than the wind goin’ over my hand. More
as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore
Since in a net I seek to... More
At first,
our bodies were as one.
Then
you were unloving,
but I still played the... More
Attachments and bereavements are inseparable. More
Aunt,
you know that Tree of Love,
its roots bound in long affection
and tended with... More
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the... More
Because of neglect, Son,
though well-forged
in affectionate bonds,
Love in... More
Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that... More
But it dies hard, that world;
Or, being dead,
Putrescently is pearled.... More
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me. More
But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no... More
But thou art fled
Like some frail exhalation; More
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied... More
Cependant, ce fut jadis un bel homme, de haute taille. More
Days sift down it constantly. Years. More
Dear Friend,
the canebrakes
nestled in the riverbank’s lap,
their clusters... More
Do not because this day I have grown saturnine
Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my... More
Earth in beauty dressed
Awaits returning spring.
All true love must die,
Alter at the... More
everything is lost,
everything is crossed with black,
black upon black
and worse than... More
Eyes I shall not see unless
At the door of death’s other kingdom
Where, as in... More
Eyes that last I saw in tears
Through division
Here in death’s dream kingdom
The... More
Fall not a tear, I say, one of them rates
All that is won and lost. More
Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!
Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.
A mighty... More
for it is dark,
as dark as the leathery dead
and I have lost my green Ford,
my house... More
He doesn’t want you for friends, that’s why he did it. You see, when guys have been in the... More
He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
With his name painted clearly on each:
But,... More
He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried... More
He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss, More
he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon... More
Help me to seek, for I lost it there
And if that ye have found it, ye that be here,
And... More
How shall I behold the face
Henceforth of God or Angel, earst with joy
And rapture so oft... More
Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them... More
Hymen has left me for Death;
love passes,
light passes
my hearth. More
I am so lated in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever. More
I am that same willing girl
and these two anklets
are the same two
that went to men... More
I can give the loser leave to chide. More
I had wild Jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no... More
I kiss, I clutch,
Like a daft mother, putrid
Infancy,
That can and will... More
I never lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod. More
I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That... More
I sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My... More
I was a sophomore in college when everything went down the drain. I never thought it would... More
If they have cut out your uterus
I will give you a laurel wreath
to put in its... More
If you’re going to burn, burn.
If you’re going to boil, boil
and if you’re... More
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will... More
In my garden
the winds have beaten
the ripe lilies;
in my garden, the salt
has... More
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked... More
It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had... More
It was like stepping into a negative rather than a photograph. I was overcome by the sudden... More
Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
and... More
Let the dry eyes perceive
Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
By the curve... More
Let’s shake our heads and say,
As ‘twere a knell unto our master’s fortunes,
We... More
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the... More
Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved. More
Love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender... More
many and many a day he thither went,
And never lifted up a single stone. More
Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away. More
My bangles left.
My best friends, tears,
went on forever.
My... More
My garden is run wild!
Where shall I plant anew—
For my bed, that once was covered with... More
My only crime
Was holding you too dear.
Was that the cause
You daily came less near... More
My wife, my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
O insupportable! O heavy hour!
Methinks it... More
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is... More
no one touches
me anymore. More
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss... More
O Conscience! into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which
I... More
O insupportable and touching loss! More
O that ‘twere possible,
After long grief and pain,
To find the arms of my... More
O you gods!
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
And snatch them straight away? More
O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content,
Farewell the plumèd troops... More
O, these deliberate fools, when they do choose,
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose. More
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst... More
Of course
I can remember a man
who strays from my heart
for an instant,
but when... More
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover’s tallness off to war.
Left... More
One day beside some flowers near his nose
He will be thinking, When will I look at... More
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. More
Or if, this night, happiness too is going. More
Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the... More
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is... More
Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear. More
Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed,
“Where, where in Heaven am I? But don’t tell... More
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave,... More
Since we agreed to let the road between us
Fall to disuse.... More
So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear,
Farewell remorse! All good to me is... More
So how can you lose what you’ve never owned? More

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