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The Bait

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove…
By John Donne
Poetry

Cologne Cathedral

The little white prayers
Of Elspeth Fry
Float up the arches
Into the sky. A…
By Frances Shaw
Poetry

“Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven”

Oh, the burden, the burden of love ungiven,
The weight of laughter unshed,
Oh, heavy…
By Grace Fallow Norton
Poetry

Morning

I went out on an April morning
All alone, for my heart was high.
I…
By Sara Teasdale
Poetry

Mark Antony

Mystical grammar of amorous glances;
Feeling of pulses, the physic of love;
Rhetorical courtings and…
By John Cleveland
Poetry

Muted Tones

Calm in the half-light
Cast by the high branches
Let the deep quiet
Reach into…
By Paul Verlaine
Poetry

Her Eyes

Pretty twinkling starry eyes,
How did Nature first devise
Such a sparkling in your sight…
By Nicholas Breton
Poetry

Storm

Storm,
Wild one,
Take me in your whirl,
In your giddy reel,
In your shot-like…
By Max Michelson
Poetry

Without and Within

If every man’s internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity…
By Pietro Metastasio
Old Woman and Boy with Candles by Peter Paul Rubens c. 1616 - 1617
Poetry

The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXI

Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
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