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If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way; For then, despite of space, I would be brought, From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. SHAKSPEARE. T…
Marian. Could you so long be absent? Robin. What a week? Was that so long? Marian. How long are lovers' weeks, Do you think, Robin, when they are asunder? Are they not pris'ners' ye…
It does much trouble me to live without you: Our loves and loving souls have been so used To one household in us. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The week passed on. It was the month of January, and very c…
. . . . . . Think but whither Now you can go; what you can do to live; How near you have barred all ports to your own succour. Except this one that here I open, love. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The mo…
Few people know how little is necessary to live. What is called or thought hardship is nothing; one unhappy feeling is worse than a thousand years of it. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. Uncertain what to…
There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till th…
Herein Shall my captivity be made my happiness; Since what I lose in freedom, I regain With interest. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. The glow of enthusiasm and gladness, thus kindled in her soul, faded sl…
Veggo pur troppo Che favola è la vita, E la favola mia non è compita. PETRARCA. The darker months of winter had passed away, and the chilly, blighting English spring begun. Towards the end of Marc…
O, where have I been all this time? How 'friended That I should lose myself thus desp'rately. And none for pity show me how I wandered! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. While it was yet too early …
As flowers beneath May's footsteps waken As stars from night's loose hair are shaken; As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall. SHELLEY. Neve…
