Why meet we on the bridge of Time to
'change one greeting and to part?
-Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890),
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yazdi, I
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Elfland
(Hawaii)
O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. -Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), The Splendor Falls |
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Kiss in the Night
(New Orleans)
"Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again! Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live! And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive, Now though art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais! I would give All that I am, to be as though now art:-- But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart. -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais |
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Lost Youth
Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), My Lost Youth |
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Gate
(San Francisco)
here I opened wide the door;-- Darkness there, and nothing more. -Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Raven |
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Veiled Destinies
(San Francisco)
And others came. Desires and Adorations; Wingèd Persuasions, and veiled Destinies; -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais |
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Gate
(San Francisco)
It lies in Heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge. -Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), The Blessed Damozel |
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